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Can dizziness occur on different axis?

Normal dizziness can be caused by rotating while upright (e.g spinning by turning rapidly while standing up or sitting on a spinning roundabout in a playground). The effect when the spinning is stopped is that the world around you seems to keep spinning horizontally relative to your body and the body tries to compensate causing funny uncontrolled movements (also, if you lie down the apparent spinning still continues horizontally relative to your body). Can the axis of the apparent spin be changed?

If you lie down on your back on a spinning roundabout facing up, will the world seem to spin in a circle in front of you? or If you lie on your side on a spinning roundabout facing forwards, will the world seem to move vertically in front of you? If so, What would your body do to compensate?

Or can the apparent movement only occur horizontally?

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Jon-Richfield says:

That dizziness is a form of motion sickness that can result from any kind of interference with your organs of balance in the internal ear. It could be movement up and down, rocking, spinning in any direction, even visual disturbances with your head kept still, such as you might see on a wrap around movie screen. Some forms of virtual reality, in which the visual reactions to your head movement are not fast enough, can notoriously cause nausea. In fact it was mentioned in a recent New Scientist, the last one of 2010, if I remember correctly.

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