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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]I usually just pep talk myself. "Eyes on the road, find the yellow line, eyes on the road, just follow the lines".

Something like that.  Or I focus on the car in front of me.  "Just follow that car, eyes on the car"

Bridges scare me but most are over pretty quickly.  I am usually scanning for other people making mistakes that would push me off, not worried about me doing it.  But still.[/quote]

NP.  I do this too. I doubt I'll be able to drive over the Bay Bridge ever again.  The last time, I kept my eyes locked on the car ahead of me.

I get a feeling of vertigo, that the car will just veer off the bridge.  Rationally I know it won't.  And wide or low bridges are no problem at all.  But high bridges, bridges with no shoulder, it's a tilting vertigo feeling.  [/quote]

This is OP - and mine came with a weird disorienting vertigo sensation, too. I wonder if this might be sinus related? Or inner ear? Like our bodies are responding to the change in altitude with this weird and super disturbing mental imagery, but really it's responding to a change in pressure or something?[/quote]

PP here. I mentioned this to DH and he said that he's had the intrusive thoughts while driving, the call of the void.  I've never had that.  But I do get a sort of vertigo while driving over some bridges.[/quote]

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