so fast your head spins

Dear Customer (name blocked for privacy),

The medical terminology you are looking for is:

benign paroxysmal positioning vertigo. Often medical people simply call it vertigo.

This can be caused by a number of things, not all of them involving speed.

It can be triggered by movements as simple as rolling over in bed or tipping your head back to look up. In addition to dizziness, the signs and symptoms can include loss of balance, nausea and vomiting. Symptoms can come and go, with some episodes lasting only a few seconds. However, BPPV can be present for a few days or weeks, recurring as brief episodes of movement-induced vertigo.

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I want to know what the physiological explanation of" going so fast your head spins" as it relates to speed and the focusing of you eyes. this is not what you call vertigo. what actually causes the feeling of spinning? The answer didn't relate to the car accelerating situation.

Spacial disorientation is caused by the fluid in the inner ear whether it is from spinning or suttle movements of the head during acceleration either in a car or in a plane.

Pilots frequently experience a spinning or vertigo sensation from rapid acceleration, as do race car drivers.

What happens physiologically, is that as you move forward at a fast pace, the fluid in your inner ear is pressed rearward and moves across the inner cilliary hairs of your inner ear which causes a spacial disorientation that is experienced as vertigo or spinning.

Your eyes come into play, because they are feeding your brain information about your position in relation to the ground around you. Your body is taking cues form the trees, poles, and other ground objects surrounding you in the direct line of vision and the periphery.

Your brain is saying one thing, but your inner ear is saying another.

Boxers also have a similar sensation, al beit caused by the forward and backward momentum of the head during a boxing bout. their condition is exacerbated by other actions of the brain and the cranial space. But the focus of the eyes and movement of the fluid in the inner ear canal is the same.

The whole experience involves the visual, vestibular, and proprioceptive systems. These sensory systems give the brain erroneous orientation information. This information can cause sensory illusions, which lead to spatial disorientation.

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