There is no way I would ever ride orange. I am an audiologist in a medical clinic so I see dizzy patients every day. When you spin, you are displacing the fluid in your inner ear which causes you to get dizzy.
I danced for 20 years. I know about spotting and how to spot. Never got dizzy turning. None of that kept me from almost passing out on Mission Space Orange. There is no way to spot because the environment appears to NOT be spinning. It fools the brain and no dance training overcomes that because we are trained to compensate for what we see. NEVER AGAIN.I gather you don't take many ballet classes? Humans have the ability to suppress our reaction to spinning.
I also have to laugh a little, because kids I knew spun for the fun of that feeling all the time, even when they weren't on the playground. It was a kind contest actually: Kids spun until the ground felt uneven, then attempted to walk in a straight line without falling. Falling = failure and ridicule. Everyone learned to avoid falling!
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Young (ballet) dancers learn a technique called 'spotting' to avoid feeling dizzy when they spin. Essentially, they try to stare at one spot as much as possible. (Maybe a photo on the wall.)
Initially, the technique = keeping their eyes and head fixed as long as possibly while their body rotates. When they can no longer hold their head in that position, they rotate their head all the way around - as quickly as possible, without allowing their eyes to focus on anything except that one spot (the photo again).
Mid-level dancers can easily tell when another dancer is 'spotting.'
Advanced dancers' brains actually adapt, as dancers learn how to suppress this reaction in their brain, and they learn to feel less dizzy.
In theory, everyone has the ability to suppress their level of dizziness and build up a tolerance for spinning using this spotting technique.
And that is also how you tell patients to suppress dizziness. I am very aware of that. But a ballerina or an ice skater isn't going to spin as fast as the ride.I gather you don't take many ballet classes? Humans have the ability to suppress our reaction to spinning.
I also have to laugh a little, because kids I knew spun for the fun of that feeling all the time, even when they weren't on the playground. It was a kind contest actually: Kids spun until the ground felt uneven, then attempted to walk in a straight line without falling. Falling = failure and ridicule. Everyone learned to avoid falling!
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Young (ballet) dancers learn a technique called 'spotting' to avoid feeling dizzy when they spin. Essentially, they try to stare at one spot as much as possible. (Maybe a photo on the wall.)
Initially, the technique = keeping their eyes and head fixed as long as possibly while their body rotates. When they can no longer hold their head in that position, they rotate their head all the way around - as quickly as possible, without allowing their eyes to focus on anything except that one spot (the photo again).
Mid-level dancers can easily tell when another dancer is 'spotting.'
Advanced dancers' brains actually adapt, as dancers learn how to suppress this reaction in their brain, and they learn to feel less dizzy.
In theory, everyone has the ability to suppress their level of dizziness and build up a tolerance for spinning using this spotting technique.
And that is also how you tell patients to suppress dizziness. I am very aware of that. But a ballerina or an ice skater isn't going to spin as fast as the ride.
I've never ridden the orange side. I don't know that I'm particularly susceptible to motion sickness, but I've read so very many reports of people experiencing it on the ride. I've never had any problem with sickness on any ride or attraction. Mind you, I'm not claiming to be the sharpest crayon in the box, but I figure if there's some chance I might feel sick after riding it and then have to curtail my day at Epcot then I'd just be wasting all that money I paid for the trip. So I skip it rather than roll the dice. I'll ride the green side once every few years when there is need for a time filler
Orange is fun, even after a few beers.
Yes it is! Every single time.Orange is fun, even after a few beers.
Wait! That was you???Whoa there, space cowboy! I love Mission Space Orange but that just triggered a flashback to my most terrifying experience on it. Not the building dread from multiple, multiple warnings and the "are you sure, absolutely sure, that you want to go on this ride" check ins but rather watching the couple in front of me chug multiple beers before getting on the ride. There was the helpful cast member who let them know they couldn't take the drinks on the ride and pointed at the nearby garbage can but... why waste good beer? Chug, chug, chug... "Please don't end up in my line, please don't end up in my line, please don't... son of a space monkey!" Thought about sitting the round out but sometimes you have to face your fears... claustro-emetophobia specifically, in this case.
Luckily it didn't go sideways (or any ways, everyone kept their cookies in place) but definitely increased the tension of ride. They didn't look great after the ride and they totally missed their button presses... still amazed we didn't slide off the end of that cliff at the end after they missed the emergency retro-rocket thingy or whatever macguffin button press.
So, it shouldn't have to be said, but I'll say it anyways... don't drink and fly in an enclosed in a small confined space with strangers while experiencing simulated g-force through extreme spinning mechanisms. Just... don't. Please, just don't.
I would never put a 7 and 4 year old on the orange side, but that's just me. A 4 year old boy, WITH a previously unknown diagnosed heart condition, literally died on the Orange side.