Not all people can read on trains comfortably. (Likewise, some but not all people can sleep on trains comfortably.) Therefore, Beware of Other-Optimizing is particularly relevant.
I don’t know, but I suspect this might be trainable. As a young child I used to get very nauseous reading in the back seat of cars. But since I would get bored with nothing to do, I would read until I was to nauseous to continue, and then try again once I felt better. At some point I stopped getting carsick from reading. I don’t Know that I trained this though, it’s possible I just grew out of getting carsick, all sorts of stuff changes as you get older.
I suspect it’s fairly common to become less carsick with age (it happened to me as well, and it’s not like I trained—I hadn’t read in a car for years before trying to do that again and noticed that it bothered me much less). Anyway, in my case the problem is not sickness (I don’t get sick at all when on rails), but just that I can’t concentrate very well when on a train. So I can read short stories or poetry no problem, but I usually don’t even try to read textbooks or papers.
I still get carsick when reading on buses or cars. I no longer get sick when reading on trains. I used to be truly awful to take in a car (every single car-ride I got sick).
Even now, when i do get sick… I don’t recover. I have to stop the car, wait half an hour (at least) before moving on (or eating, or anything apart from sitting on the ground feeling miserable).
I don’t know if it’s trainable… it has gotten better in the past 30-odd years… but not gone away totally.When i learned to drive—I learned how to avoid as much of the g-force-inducing movements as possible.
I always choose train-transport over other transport.
Not all people can read on trains comfortably. (Likewise, some but not all people can sleep on trains comfortably.) Therefore, Beware of Other-Optimizing is particularly relevant.
I don’t know, but I suspect this might be trainable. As a young child I used to get very nauseous reading in the back seat of cars. But since I would get bored with nothing to do, I would read until I was to nauseous to continue, and then try again once I felt better. At some point I stopped getting carsick from reading. I don’t Know that I trained this though, it’s possible I just grew out of getting carsick, all sorts of stuff changes as you get older.
I suspect it’s fairly common to become less carsick with age (it happened to me as well, and it’s not like I trained—I hadn’t read in a car for years before trying to do that again and noticed that it bothered me much less). Anyway, in my case the problem is not sickness (I don’t get sick at all when on rails), but just that I can’t concentrate very well when on a train. So I can read short stories or poetry no problem, but I usually don’t even try to read textbooks or papers.
I still get carsick when reading on buses or cars. I no longer get sick when reading on trains. I used to be truly awful to take in a car (every single car-ride I got sick).
Even now, when i do get sick… I don’t recover. I have to stop the car, wait half an hour (at least) before moving on (or eating, or anything apart from sitting on the ground feeling miserable).
I don’t know if it’s trainable… it has gotten better in the past 30-odd years… but not gone away totally.When i learned to drive—I learned how to avoid as much of the g-force-inducing movements as possible. I always choose train-transport over other transport.
but I am just one data-point.