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Sickness (cont.)  Medical Author: Medical Editor:  How does
motion sickness affect our sense of balance?  The symptoms of
motion sickness are believed to appear when the central nervous
system receives conflicting messages from the other four systems
-- the inner ear, eyes, skin pressure receptors, and the muscle
and joint sensory receptors. For example, imagine you are riding
in an airplane during a storm, and the plane is being tossed
about by air turbulence. But your eyes do not detect all this
motion because all you see is the inside of the airplane.
Consequently, your brain receives messages that do not
coordinate with each other. You might become "air sick." Or
suppose you are sitting in the back seat of a moving car reading
a book. Your inner ears and skin receptors detect the motion of
your travel, but your eyes see only the pages of your book. You
could become "car sick."  Another