Question 2 Answer
Fact!
Motion sickness relates to your sense of
balance and equilibrium. Your sense of balance is maintained by a complex
interaction of your inner ears, eyes, skin pressure receptors, muscle and joint
sensory receptors, and the brain and spinal cord. Motion sickness can appear
when the central nervous system receives conflicting messages from these four
key bodily systems. When you read a book in a moving car, your inner ears and
skin receptors detect the motion of travel, but your eyes see only the pages of
your book.
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