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Hi all,
I don't think I've ever heard of any blind person ever getting dizzy. I know I've never been dizzy a day in my life, but losts of sighted people have been dizzy. I did get dizzy once but it was self induced lol. When I was 5 years old, I use to like to sit on the floor and twirl around and around. That was fun, the twirling around part, but it wasn't fun when I stopped but the floor didn't, lol. I really hated giving that up, but I just soon realized every time I diid it, I got dizzy. So has any of you, blind folk I mean, ever gotten dizzy? I wonder if it's just a sighted thing?
wonderwoman
yes. i get dizzy everty time. i'm always twirling
Yes after drinking Absinthe and a cocktail called Envy which was also bright green
Of corse all the time! LOL!!
yah sure I do, for example when something is spinning around me, light starts to come from diferent angles and it makes me dizy, also when I have a cold I sometimes cannot even keep my own balance when walking, perhaps someone did drug me asleep, jk....
yep I always get dizzy; when I'm faint or if I twirl around on merry-go-rounds or something similar :) and/or when I consume something i shouldn't Lol
Interesting... this actually sort of connects to a conversation I had with my friend a little while ago. I was saying that a lot of sighted people (including myself) tend to get motion sick on buses and boats and even in cars unless we focus on the horizon, which of course stays stable and thus helps our brains to position ourselves in relation to the environment. Voila, less dizziness/queasiness. Now the question that I had, of course, is whether blind people didn't get sick in the first place because, well, the environment doesn't visually jerk around like crazy, or whether blind people do indeed get motion sick but can't correct it because they can't simply focus on the horizon. Personally, my friend said that he never got motion sick, but of course he's only a sample of one, and it would be interesting to hear from others.
I get dizzy sometimes when riding in cars and trains. Whenever I consentrate on the motion, I feel dizzy but when I am having fun and not noticing the motion, I don't feel it.
*sexy*
Hi, Thanks suzanne, sexy girl 86 and Lou for treating my topic with some seriousness. I've gotten car sick before, but I've never had that feeling like the floor, or whatever I was sitting on was spinning around. When my grandmother got sicck and my mom had to look after her, she couldn't take me out to eat for a long time, till after my grandmother died infact. I hadn't been outside, or in a car for months, and when I finally did get out in a car, I got sick to my stomach, but as soon as we got back in the house, it left as suddenly as it came. We started going out every friday, saturday and sunday, and gradually I got over getting car sick. I thought it was strange, but I guess if you haven't been in a car in a long time, you might have to get use to it.
wonderwoman
um, and we weren't. I was not making fun. to be honest, I was being serious WW.
Hi rdfreak, well, I guess I think of twirling around on the floor and over drinking as self induced dizziness. I was wondering more if anyone ever got dizzy from circumstances beyond their control. I know there are some disease symptoms that make you dizzy, though I can't think of any right now. I had just never heard of blind people getting dizzy from an illness. As for a cold or flu making you dizzy, I've never experiennced that, what I usually experinence is a ringing in the ears, and I feel so strange when people say, "well I've never had that. Makes me feel like an oddball.
wonderwoman
yeah OK but what does dizziness have to do with sight? .. and also if we can get dizzy by twirling round, it is likely we are capable of getting dizzy by any other means.
I have always been terribly sea sick and as I am total it is impossible, for me, to improve the situation. And as a result, even the mere mention of boats or anything nautical and I feel a horrible wave of nausea...strangely car travel doesn't have the same effect, even on twisty highland roads, that could pass for the tarmac stage in a rally...smile
I have always been terribly sea sick and as I am total it is impossible, for me, to improve the situation. And as a result, even the mere mention of boats or anything nautical and I feel a horrible wave of nausea...strangely car travel doesn't have the same effect, even on twisty highland roads, that could pass for the tarmac stage in a rally...smile
well I guess you have a point, rffreak, it's just I've never heard of blind people ever getting dizzy, but I suppose anyone can make themselves dizzy, and apologies to admin for not considering this is a health question, I guess I was more or less considering it as a question of curiosity. But I suppose if a sighted person gets dizzy, then he or she would see things spinning around them, so thats why I was wondering if it was mostly sighted people who get dizzy.
wonderwoman
I have spun for 10 minutes and i havn't, thats the most i've spun for.
Ben
well when I use to do it, it didn't take me very long to get dizzy. I was 5 years old then, and my mom says she told me to stop it, but I wouldn't listen to her. it wasn't long before I gave it up on my own, haha
wonderwoman
lol... well ringing in your ears, I think one of my friends has it when she gets a flu.... but I just feel dizy and sometimes hot, but so dizy I think I will faint.... I mean my energy gets low... my head hurts sometimes... but the dizyness is what definitely takes over....
well, I just mostly feel funny in the head when I get a bad enough flu virus or cold, and my face feels hot, even if it's not hot weather. The only thing I know that couuuuuuld cause the ringing in the ears is fluid building up behind the eardrums, but then I can't be sure. But I don't get dizzy, I mean the floor doesn't just start turning around without warning,
wonderwoman
It's not a sighted nor a blind thing. I get dizzy when I feel I'm gonna faint. My sister has gotten dizzy several times and have fainted, from the same symptom I have. One time I was at a friend's house and I was cooking something and I must've stood for a long time and I just felt faint. So I hurried and grabbed a seat, ate, then took an iron pill and I felt better like in 5 minutes.
oh my, thaaat must've been scarey michelle. It would be really scarey when that comes on you so unexpectedly. I've never felt faint, or fainted, or felt dizzy, except for that spinning around on the floor thing. I'm pretty healthy except for what I was born with.
wonderwoman
Well I have a history of anemia, which is an iron deficiency disorder in which you don't get enough iron, you get dizzy and faint. It's been with me since age 12.
I think some might think it is a sighted thing because you might see stuff spinning around you and those same might think that's waat causes it. I disagree and think it's more the motion of not being steady when you are or whenn you think you should be. Saying that I get dizzy sometimes, most times when I spin around a lot... I used to play this game with my cousin where we would run in fast circles and that made me quite dizzy. I think it also has to do with the inner ear fluid somehow since that is what is responsible for balance.
James
yes I've heard the inner ear can cause loss of balance. When I was a child, the doctors told my mom I was a nemic, and if I got cut, I bled very easily and freely, but I've never even felt weak because of it.
wonderwoman
Okay, this topic is almost two years old, but I'm bringing it back. I get kind of dizzy if I haven't eaten anything for several hours, and once, I got dizzy to the point of almost passing out in front of my private violin teacher. That was only because the room we were in didn't have any air circulating through it.
I got dizzy and so weak once, when I took this medicine for these lumps I had on my scoulp
Ugh, those side effects from medications. That's why I don't take them.
O yeah. I've felt dizzy after getting completely bloody bladdered, so I fell in to some bushes outside the sixth form house at New College Worcester, lollol, when I go on a ride like the tea cups at the theme/amusement park and everyone was spinning the turn table faster and faster and faster so you completely lose your blimming head because you feel so dizzy. I used to love twirling round and round and round on the spot, holding something like one of those helium balloons above my head, a habbit that sort of stuck from when I was about three and I just wanted to run or cycle everywhere very fast as I knew sighted children did, but they could go in any direction they liked as they could see where they were going, but I just flew round and round on the spot, my feet hardly touching the ground, or zoomed round and round our patio area on my trike and that would make me incredibly dizzy. I love that dizzy feeling. It gives me this well, really powerful feeling and this incredible burst of energy.
I used to go round in circles on my bicycle in our driveway when I was little. never been on the teacups Where are those in Disney World? We went there last summer, but there was no way in hell we could find them.
Yes blind people can get dizzy. Of course with medication side affects and things like epilepsy. When I was 14 years old I took dizzy turns because of to much medication. I stood up to go somewhere and fell at the door. And I get dizzy with the flue as well.
I remember when I was like 6 or so, I wint on a train and got up to go to the bathroom, and I had to hold on to the person's arm so I wouldn't fall over because I got dizzy! I also remember when I was performing at a revival once, I almost passed out on stage because I couldn't eat anything. I was so nurvous! so yeah, we can get dizzy!
I can become dizzy but it takes several minutes of actively trying, either by spinning around myself, or being spun. I think the dizziest I've ever been was when I was about 5 or so, my brother spun me around on the tire swing really fast for about 5 to 10 minutes. But he had to put a ton of effort into that. (well I guess I've been dizziy without spinning, but that can be blamed entirely on chemicals, IE after surgery when the anesthesia isn't out of the system yet.)
Susanne, as old as this topic is, I thought I would answer your question. The blind can orient themselves via a cane, dog or some object that isn't moving. That was one of the entended uses for the cane. Try standing in the middle of your living room with your eyes closed. Now touch a stable surface. Even when there is nothing moving, on4e can still have the sense of movement. The blood and other fluids in the body continue to move, thus creating the effect of movement.
Well, I think we're all aware that blind people can indeed get dizzy, but I wanted to weigh in with another factor. i have low blood pressure, and if I get up too fast, I get dizzy almost to the point of passing out. The other day, I was visitting my mother in the nursing home, and was sort of squatting on the floor beside her bed, as she's rather hard of hearing. I went to get up, and thank God the wall was there. I had to lean on it for awhile till I got my balance back.
Lou
Oh, yes, when the anesthesia drugs haven't quite left you, that's a horrible time. I had my appendix taken out, and the second morning, when I went to get up, (because I assumed that if i was feeling fine, I could walk okay), I stood up and had to grip the desk chair for support. Then, I tried walking, and oh my Lord. I only managed to walk about three steps and wound up on the floor half conscious. I'm definitely not going to try that again. lol Oh, and about the teacup ride, I've gone on that at a different park. not too bad
Um, yeah, I get dizzy and sick after every long parade. Barfffff!
Wow Nymphadora, I never got quite that bad of an affect. Just enough that I had to hold onto things and make sure I didn't move too fast for a few hours. But then again most chemicals don't seem to have quite as much an affect on me. And drumbCore, is that due to dehydration, nerves or what?
I guess it depends on which body part you have surgery. Body cavity, I should say.
Okay, it's been several months, so I'm bringing this board back to the top. Lack of oxygen can make you dizzy whether or not you're blind or sighted.
yep, it happens to us to. my friend asked the same question, so she starts spinning for 2 mins or so. then she found out it was true. lol
I can certainly become dizzy, however, I don't get the feeling that dizziness is as uncomfortable for me and some other blind people as it is for sighted people in general. Ever since I can remember, I have always enjoyed spinning and could spend great lengths of time doing such things as twirling around in swivel chairs without feeling sick at all. Interestingly, several other blind people that I know also enjoy this activity, which leads me to think that, possibly, either some blind people don't become quite as dizzy as their sighted counterparts or they don't necessarily associate dizziness with sickness.
I'm one of those who likes spinning in circles in my desk chair. It's ... um ... not something I'd do in school if a chair like this were available. lol