Ok I am not alone feeling like this, I think it is also stress related and has something to do with an inner ear problem aswell, I dont know how it combinates neither. I know I had big issues involving inner ear and also big issues related to stress but also stress and driving, I had 2 accidents when I was a kid ( no damage but I got lucky i guess.)
I can get that way from driving but being in a boat out on the lake used to do that sorta thing to me. I'd be in my sleeping bag and feel like I was swaying back forth all night. Even picking blackberries and I would close my eyes and see nothing but blackberries. It is sorta like when you look at a light bulb, shut your eyes, and keep seeing the light bulb. When I drive I take lots of breaks and that sorta helps. No idea what causes it or if it's common. I'd say it was inner ear but seeing the road, or in the case of berry picking seeing berries when you close your eyes, I guess it's in the brain.
The fact that I see the road when I close my eyes is not realy the same as a light bulb problem, because when a light is too strong it's actually stay printed in your vision for a short period of time , yesterday it realy felt more like intrusive thoughts, like I was still in driving mode and my brain tried to recreate this setting.
It's been a long time since I last used a boat, but I dont remember having this problem on a boat(well i didnt realy used boat a lot) But I have exactly that when I swin and then lie down, I can't lie down for like 15min and one day I did swin to much and it litteraly broke my brain for half an hour everything was turning I couldnt fix my sight on anything and vomited xD.
Driving, especially on highways and heavy city traffic always made me feel anxious.
I have to take frequent breaks and when I get to where I'm going, if I can just lay down and be quiet for
a while, but it does take a while to settle my mind and physical sensations down.
I think for myself it is a combination of anxiety induced sensations and I have Meniere's.
An inner ear problem that comes and goes. All the driving input can cause a flare up.
It can end in a day of vertigo if I over do it.
I Feel anxious and pissed a lot when I drive, I drove my parents yesterday and they didnt like it but to mee swearing at people is kinda helping me release my stress , and when I drive in city its realy the most stressfull moment, driving in hightway isnt a big deal for me since in my country its just a line that you drive ahead for hours with not a lots of people at the same time, but man in cities this is horrible, when I started to drive during lesson I could loose 1L of sweat not kidding.
Weirdly enought that reminds me of playing video game too much( the intrusive thoughts part.) , I dont think it is for the same reason but when I play to much and close my eyes or think of nothing myself I have images of the game in my head.
And to some degree it also remind me of school and study , because when I study a subject after the class my brain kinda keep studying it for half an hour usually when I come back
But the disorientation and the urge to run etc Its uncommon and Its realy weird ^^'.
I dont have that When im a passenger, but when Im a passenger I feeling that things are moving a little.
That sounds like overstimulation - it might take a while for your body and brain to reset, but it will eventually.
I slept 11H in a row and still feeling brain fog when I woke up today, but pff im feling better anyway.
