# Dizziness **URL:** \ **Category:** Factual Questions\ **Created:** [March 19, 2000, 4:25am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/dizziness/8799 "2000-03-19T04:25:00Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 3\ **Page:** 1
**Author:** ![toots4fred](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/t/4491bb/32.png) [@toots4fred](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/toots4fred)\ **Post date:** [March 19, 2000, 4:25am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/dizziness/8799/1 "2000-03-19T04:25:00Z")
Is it possible to condition your body so that it is harder or impossible to make yourself dizzy? ---
**Author:** ![Steve-o](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/ecc23a/32.png) [@Steve-o](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Steve-o)\ **Post date:** [March 19, 2000, 4:54am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/dizziness/8799/2 "2000-03-19T04:54:00Z")
Yes, you can “practice” being dizzy, and make it more difficult to become dizzy. ---
**Author:** ![tomndebb](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/t/b9e5f3/32.png) [@tomndebb](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/tomndebb)\ **Post date:** [March 19, 2000, 5:05am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/dizziness/8799/3 "2000-03-19T05:05:00Z")
What sort of dizziness do you hope to overcome? High or low blood pressure dizziness? Spinning around dizziness? My memory is that dancers and skaters have a couple of techniques to allow them to avoid dizziness. (Nothing like pretending you’re a top for several seconds, then planting your nose in the arena ice.) I believe that it involves finding a “target” to look at, then “snapping” your head around to find the target on each twirl rather than allowing your head to simply spin with your body. (I’m certainly hoping a dancer/skater shows up soon to correct my impression (or tell me I’m daft.)) Military pilots are put through exercises to induce vertigo, but I don’t know whether that is to learn vertigo-defeating techniques or simply to let the pilot get used to the feeling of vertigo so that they don’t freak out during violent maneuvers. * * * Tom~