21 Why does traveling make you feel so tired when you’ve just sat there for hours doing nothing?
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Why do we tend to feel tired while traveling though we are literally sitting down for the entire duration? The feeling of tiredness one experiences during traveling by train, bus or airplane is subjective and differs for every person.
However, there are certain factors that impact the comfort of a passenger while traveling. Firstly, the constant moving of the vehicle while traveling on roads tends to wear one out. This can be further fuelled by sudden jerking movements during braking, acceleration, and the quality of the roads.
Secondly, being seated in an upright position in a constrained place for a long time tends to stress out your muscles. Thirdly, dehydration is a major factor when you are traveling by airplane. The cabin pressure is changed frequently to ensure that there is adequate breathable air.
This is further fuelled by turbulence, noise, vibrations and constant movement disturbs the body’s natural rhythm. Finally, psychological factors cannot be ignored, people tend to get wary with the notion of long-distance travel. (source)
22 Why does the human mind ignore the second “the”?Image credit: Unbelievable Facts
Have you ever noticed that we tend to skip certain words and also fail to notice when there are repeating words? This occurs because humans tend to read probabilistically. While reading, we don’t look at each word, it figure it out and moves to the next word. As the human eye skims through the pages, they tend to make rapid eye movements called saccades, from one position to another.
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As we read further, the human brain tries to minimize the number of saccades it takes to reading something. The human brain tries to guess where to place the next saccade based on one’s current reading position and other alternatives that can be considered next for reading. The word “the†is very predictable, common, and short.
The word “the†is also a part of a restricted syntactic and there are no English sentences that contain “the.†The brain skips it since it is not considered to be important to the overall context of the sentence. (source)
