I get nauseated in all sorts of vehicles ever since i was young.
My parents thought i would grow out of it, or if i travel more, i would "get used" to travelling, but i didn't.
I did find a temporary solution to it after 17: Wearing earphones and listening to music from my phone.
However, the following does not work:
1. Listening to music from the radio (must wear earphones)
2. Listening to songs i'm not familiar with (i must somehow be able to sing or hum along with it in my head)
3. People talking to me when i have my earphones on (i must focus entirely on the song, it will get worse if i'm distracted)
4. Putting them on
after the nausea has already started
And here's the weird thing, my body automatically gets motion sickness even before the journey starts.
When i was younger, it used to start on the morning due for the trip.
I would feel nauseated 1st thing when i woke up in the morning.
When i grew older, it started on the day before the trip.
And now sometimes it can even extend to a week ahead of the trip.
We're talking about any kind of trip - it can be a 2.5-hour trip back home (where i actually feel perfectly fine on the trip itself but feel like shit days beforehand), a 1-hour car-journey from Tampin to Seremban, or even 20mins to shopping mall or whatever.
I remember last year we had a company trip to Lang Tengah island, somewhere near Pulau Redang. The flight was only 1 hour.. Of course we spent another hour or more travelling to the airport first.
I remember feeling nausated and unable to sleep until like half an hour before i was supposed to leave home and nearly overslept.
When i woke up coz already late so i was busy rushing here and there so didn't feel anything until the journey to the airport.
Then it started to get worse and worse.
When we reached the airport we still had plenty of time to go but i couldn't eat breakfast, wanted to vomit all the time.
Then finally when we were queuing up to go into the plane i started having a severe stomachache, food poisoning that kind of stomachache where it churns around.. you know?
And wanted to vomit more than ever.
To the point where i nearly blacked out and had to squat down for a while.
Then made it into the plane and it. got. worse.
Really expected to throw up any second.. Even though i had stuffed earphones into ears and had my eyes closed.
Forgot to mention that i had already taken motion sickness pills earlier.
After the very long hour... We reached erm terengganu airport if i don't remember wrongly. Then i went to the toilet there and shit a bit.
Then we went out of the airport to board the van which was supposed to fetch us to erm the matou i can't remember what it's called.
Then again I stopped and squatted down on the floor midway coz was still feeling bad and wanted to throw up and couldn't really walk anymore.
But the van was already there. I asked them can i not go into the van.. Idk what i was expecting maybe to sleep at the airport for the day first lol.
But they said to just get in first.. And i did after a lot of persuading.
Then luckily one of the girls produced a plastic bag so i felt a lot safer if not better.
And then another very long trip to the matou.. And suddenly i felt it coming! And i threw up.. wind.
But then felt a lot better until we reached the matou and was waiting for the chuan. Omg what do you call it. Speedboat or something like that.
Then i was burping and burping all the wind out but couldn't really get it all out. Didn't get much better even though i was on stationary ground for over an hour.
Ok this story is getting too long but i just wanted to say i was like this throughout the trip.. It got better after the first day but worsened on our boat-trip out to marine park for snorkeling.
Coz it really took very long.. And i didn't have earphones.
And once we reached there and were already snorkeling, there were waves. And i felt so much like vomiting while bobbing around in the water but didn't want to vomit into the sea.
Aargh i'll just end this story here though.. Idk what's the point of being so detailed.
The reason why i'm even blogging about this, is because i developed a theory recently.
The main reason why i feel like this every time, it's because i feel
trapped.
And in some cases where i feel nauseated ahead, it could be because i know i'm going to be trapped? (very creative hor just repeating above statement)
Trapped in a space where there's no escaping from, anytime i need to, or even anytime soon. No time and place for me to go vomit if i need to.
Recent cases where i've been having this kind of feeling:
Case 1:
When i'm in the back seat of a 7-seat car. Coz you know.. Cannot even open door or window. The smaller the space is, the worse the feeling.
Case 2:
When there's a traffic jam. Car in front of you, car beside you, car behind you. There's no escaping from the jam, no going off from the road, no turning back home within 5 minutes. No stopping by at hotels or petrol stations.
Case 3:
In LRT / KTM. There's no getting down from the train until you reach the next stop.
Case 4:
Airplanes. You're in the air. There's no escaping from it unless you jump down from it. And if you're not in an aisle seat.. it's worse. Especially AirAsia seats coz the space really very limited.
Case 5:
Boat. It's the same case as airplanes. Especially if it's just departing (not returning). You still have the return trip to look forward to.
以此类推ok.
I mean of course there are other factors which contribute to this. Like drinking coffee, scrolling phone, empty stomach, eating too much, food poisoning etc. But these are preventable. The erm mentallity above is not.
Earphones work sometimes because when i'm focusing my mind on the rhythm and what lyrics come next, i don't have the brain capacity to feel trapped.
A full stomach (not over-full) also works coz 吃饱就会想睡, and sleeping of course has first priority in my mind.
But how do i avoid feeling like this before starting off on a journey? Especially those to and fro ones.. After making it through the "to", there's still a "fro". Which stresses me up thinking about it.
Come to think of it, stress could also be one of the reasons? Or is it actually the same thing?
Coz I can only eat small portions nowadays when i'm eating outside. I'll also seriously feel like throwing up after i've eaten a certain amount.
But if i tapao back home, i can eat a LOT.
And if eating outside, and i'm sharing with others, i can also eat more than usual. It means that if i don't actually bear the responsibility to finish a certain amount of food, i can actually finish it. Which makes no sense.
And actually the size of the food helps too. If it's a big piece of for example chicken chop, i'll be full after eating half of it. But if it's cut into bite-sized pieces (MY bite-sized pieces.. which is around 2cm in width and height), i can most probably eat faster and finish all of it.
离题 again..
So? I blogged so long to find out there's no actual solution? And what time is it now.. Yawn