Tbeck wrote:I always pause for a second when someone posts about long Bridges with apprehension as an overtone.
My thought is why is riding across a bridge somehow different than riding the same distance over a road that's land based?
It's not of course, but it's all about how well one can separate their perception from what their senses are actually telling them...and some people have legit issues with vertigo that may be physiological rather than mental.
I see the same thing when others get freaked out driving through construction areas with barriers or cones and feel "boxed in"....it's still a lane, no smaller than what you normally use, you don't continuously wander all over outside the lane when you drive normally, right? So why is this a problem?
Same issue. I will admit to one moment of a twinge of that though...first time I drove over the New River Gorge bridge I think it's called, in a semi, sitting high enough to see out over the barriers...and I wasn't familiar with it, and I think it just caught me off guard...to look over and realize I was almost 900' up in the air...gave me a strange moment of some kind of disorientation or something...trying to suddenly get a grip on the scale of things...