Theme parks have a deep effect on your subconcious

[Hat-Kun]

I'm sitting here right now, just looking around the forum, and the back of my mind just won't stop telling me that I'm going around a rollercoaster at Alton Towers (UK amusement park wil plenty of good rides), just because I was there yesterday (It being 2:50 AM now, it's officially the day after I went).

It's somewhat fun, especially when I close my eyes ('cause I get the picture and full feeling of it), but the constant motion that my subconciousness is providing me is starting to irritate me slightly.  I'm fine for most of it, but occasionally I forget about it, and then I get hit with a high force of "You're moving, dude"-ness that is offputting to what I'm doing.

*Ahem*  So anyway, has anyone encountered anything like this at all?  I can imagine yes in the sense of ghost tails and wings and stuff (Right now I can feel a ghost harness over my shoulders  >.<).

Perhaps I should just go to bed and hope it does (Or doesn't) go away then.

Yeah i get that all the time after visiting theme parks!
Theres this place called wonderland over here (Just closed down) and has somthing called the space probe, basicaly it pulls you up 30 stories or somthing and drops you.
You reach terminal velocity then you slow down....very very quickly. I think its somewhere around 300 Kmph to 0 in around 5 meters.
So after going on that a few times and then comming home and trying to go to sleep, after a while with my eyes closed it feels like im falling , exact same feeling as when im on the probe, the only way i could get it to stop was openeing my eyes and remind myself that i wasnt falling. Ive found a new way though to stop that feeling, i just imagine myself on a gaint soccer field, because i cant be falling if im standing on a big soccer field!

[Hat-Kun]

Unless gravity suddenly starts coming from a diffrent direction, and then you'd fall half the length of the field (Assuming you were in the middle), before slipping off the edge of the imaginary world.

Comforting, isn't it?  ^.^

[Cesarin]

Quote (Hat-Kun @ Aug. 27 2004, 8:56 pm)

I'm sitting here right now, just looking around the forum, and the back of my mind just won't stop telling me that I'm going around a rollercoaster at Alton Towers (UK amusement park wil plenty of good rides), just because I was there yesterday (It being 2:50 AM now, it's officially the day after I went). It's somewhat fun, especially when I close my eyes ('cause I get the picture and full feeling of it), but the constant motion that my subconciousness is providing me is starting to irritate me slightly.  I'm fine for most of it, but occasionally I forget about it, and then I get hit with a high force of "You're moving, dude"-ness that is offputting to what I'm doing. *Ahem*  So anyway, has anyone encountered anything like this at all?  I can imagine yes in the sense of ghost tails and wings and stuff (Right now I can feel a ghost harness over my shoulders  >.<). Perhaps I should just go to bed and hope it does (Or doesn't) go away then.

the first time I got up to a huge rollercoaster named "MEDUSA" in six flags mexico city, I ended having the feeling of dizzines and strong feelings of up and down for an entire week
the second time .. wasnt that bad, only last 6 hours..
and it was on houston's six flags.

[Humbajoe]

I'm pretty big on theme and amusement parks, so I know exactly what you're talking about lol.

I find it to be a pretty fun feeling, generally hehe

[Sporty Fox]

I love that feeling myself  '> ,it extends the wonderful way I felt on the rides. You can really feel the same effect by spending a couple of days on a boat. After a multiday trip, the first time you close your eyes in the shower you'll find yourself swaying around.

I think it has something to do with the person's equilibrium adjusting to the rock and tumble of the rides, then having to re-adjust to normal settings.  My brother and I went to Canobe Lake, I rode the Yankee Cannonball once, he rode it all frickin' day.  He was fine for the car ride back, but had trouble making it up the stairs (all two of them) to our front door.

EDIT: Had originally thought Canobe was the latest Six Flags establishment, but I guess I got my parks crossed up.

[Otto Lupo]

Since when was it Six Flags? I work right near there and haven't seen the sign change or anything.
Anyway, the sensation never lasted more than five or ten minutes for me.