Cheerful Music Could Help People Get Over Car Sickness, New Study Shows

Cheerful Music Could Help People Get Over Car Sickness, New Study Shows

Cheerful Music Could Help People Get Over Car Sickness, New Study Shows By Getty Images for Unsplash+ Listening to happy tunes helped study participants with motion sickness get over their predisposition and recover better, according to new research. Motion sickness is a common condition that happens when you’re moving while sitting still, such as riding in a car. It occurs when our eyes, inner ear and body send conflicting messages to the brain, resulting in nausea, headaches, or breaking out in a cold sweat. Now, Chinese scientists studying ways for improving the condition have published a study in the journal Frontiers in Human Neuroscience showing that playing different types of music may help people recover more effectively. Using a specially calibrated driving simulator, they induced car sickness in participants and then played different types of music while they tried to recover. Soft and joyful music produced the best recovery effects, while sad tunes were even less effective than …