"candiedbug" wrote: ... when using the Rift? I don't know if I'm confusing nausea with hunger but whenever I finish a session I have this weird need to eat.
Munchies can be a side effect of your anti-nausea "medication" (mr. doob).
I've felt something like this actually. I think it's a version of nausea actually. The weird thing for me has been, when I overdid it (spent like 4 hours test every single demo and then War Thunder on my second day) and subsequently was pretty queasy after I was also hungry while I was feeling nausea. I think they are related.
Both my Wife and I have expressed how the Rift seems to make us feel hungry. It always comes about when I get the odd bit of simulator sickness. It's like my body no longer registers it as sickness and instead thinks I am hungry.
I wonder if this follows a similar, albeit reduced intensity, physiological mechanism to the brain thinking we are poisoned explanation that we have been seeing around lately, but because we are used to the Rift our brain just thinks we are 'mildly' poisoned and so it suggests to us that we dilute whatever it is we ingested with food?
Crazy humans :lol:
“If you are willing to look at another person’s behavior toward you as a reflection of the state of their relationship with themselves rather than a statement about your value as a person, then you will, over a period of time cease to react at all.”
(~I really gotta remember this shiz~)
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"candiedbug" wrote: ... when using the Rift? I don't know if I'm confusing nausea with hunger but whenever I finish a session I have this weird need to eat.
This is off topic, but have you posted your impressions yet? Given your situation, I was curious to hear whether or not the Rift is what you hoped for and how it was working out for you.
"HappyHimitsu" wrote: I wonder if this follows a similar, albeit reduced intensity, physiological mechanism to the brain thinking we are poisoned explanation that we have been seeing around lately, but because we are used to the Rift our brain just thinks we are 'mildly' poisoned and so it suggests to us that we dilute whatever it is we ingested with food?
Yeah, I like that theory. Or that the "poison" has subsided so it's time to eat (because we may not have for a while).
"candiedbug" wrote: ... when using the Rift? I don't know if I'm confusing nausea with hunger but whenever I finish a session I have this weird need to eat.
This is off topic, but have you posted your impressions yet? Given your situation, I was curious to hear whether or not the Rift is what you hoped for and how it was working out for you.
I'm still in the process of getting my VR "legs" once I can spend a considerable amount of time in the Rift I will definitely post a review. From what I've seen so far though, while I have noticed some hints of agoraphobia, I have not felt any anxiety, could be because, for me at least, there is no sense of bodily presence in the virtual environment, maybe full body tracking via Kinect will do the trick.
