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Your inner ear filing a formal complaint about turbulence it didn't approve.
means Nausea and dizziness caused by the motion of flying, especially turbulence.
from A straightforward compound — 'air' plus 'sickness' — coined once air travel became common enough to need a word for it, modeled on the much older 'seasickness.' Both describe the same mismatch: your inner ear senses motion your eyes don't confirm, and your brain, confused, guesses poison and triggers nausea.
- root cause
- eyes see still cabin, ears sense motion, brain panics
- worse seat
- over the wings is statistically calmest
- same system
- shares wiring with seasickness and carsickness
- fix hack
- staring at the horizon resyncs eyes and ears