Do You Feel Nauseous While Using Your Phone?

No really, it happens.  You could be suffering from a real condition known as visually induced motion sickness, or Cyber Sickness.

Now you're probably thinking: you can get motion sickness from your phone?  Yep, you can.

When you give 100 percent of your attention to your screen, your brain suffers from the cognitive dissonance of seeing movement (from video, animated graphics, or simply scrolling down a page) while the rest of your body sits tight.

It's the opposite of classic motion sickness, in which your body senses it's covering ground while your eyes just see the unmoving seat rest in front of you.  And it's disorienting, particularly for women who are especially prone to all kinds of motion sickness, according to recent research.

Lucky for iPhone iOS users like myself, there's a way to reduce the special effects that trigger cyber sickness.  In the Settings app, just go to General > Accessibility > Reduce Motion, and that should help tremendously.