Feels like things come towards me when i get off the running machine.

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When I'm on the running machine and have been for ten minutes or so. When I get off and go to walk around, a weird optical effect seems to happen. It feels and looks strangely like things are moving towards me, faster than they are.

I'm not sure how I can explain is. I tried to ask my personal trainer about this, but he didn't really understand. Am I completely mental? Does anyone else get this? And why does it happen? I assume it's something to do with the brain doing something that would have more of a benefit if I was running and somehow, it doesn't know the difference between me running on the machine and in real life. But I find this very strange.

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  • franz_reichelt
    10 years ago

    I can convince myself that I am on a running machine/treadmill when I'm not.

    For example, walking down the street, I can convince my own brain that I am in fact on a running machine, relatively stationary and that the scenery is generated by a massive wrap around screen.

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  • imacomputer
    12 years ago

    happens to me too.

    i thought it was the acid i used to take coming out of my system.

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  • Angel_in_a_Glass_Dress
    13 years ago

    The fluid in your ears is still going at the same pace you were running at.

    If you were running on a normal road this wouldn't happen because you would slow down and stop naturally.

    However, on the treadmill, you're stopping suddenly and completely and your body hasn't had a chance to adjust.

    Instead of stopping and getting off the treadmill, try slowing down first and coming to a more natural stop.

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  • [oozingNORMALITY]
    13 years ago

    I am in aus and we call it a treadmill too. Xx

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  • ahbicr
    13 years ago

    Body though it was running foward

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  • katiebuglahv
    13 years ago

    Zoom zoom, I just stepped off my running machine. My day=made.

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  • timebobbu
    13 years ago

    normal but call it a running negation machine

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  • deepthought33
    13 years ago

    I lol'ed at your name for a treadmill--cute. Do people call it a running machine outside the U.S.? Anyway, I thought that disorientation happened to everyone after they got off a treadmill. It sure does happen to me.

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