# 'Losing your stomach' feeling **URL:** \ **Category:** Miscellaneous and Personal Stuff I Must Share\ **Created:** [March 26, 2026, 10:29pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/losing-your-stomach-feeling/1028795 "2026-03-26T22:29:39Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 7\ **Page:** 2
**Author:** ![Thumper668](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/thumper668/32/20803_2.png) [@Thumper668](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Thumper668)\ **Post date:** [March 27, 2026, 12:40pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/losing-your-stomach-feeling/1028795/21 "2026-03-27T12:40:38Z")
I have a memory of experiencing this as a child, but I can’t remember ever feeling it as an adult. I would say it’s more likely that the nervous system adapts to it. ---
**Author:** ![HoneyBadgerDC](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/honeybadgerdc/32/1033_2.png) [@HoneyBadgerDC](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/HoneyBadgerDC)\ **Post date:** [March 27, 2026, 1:40pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/losing-your-stomach-feeling/1028795/22 "2026-03-27T13:40:25Z")
I seem to remember the trampoline producing some odd stomach feeling, but I think that was more on a full stomach. ---
**Author:** ![Lucas\_Jackson](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/lucas_jackson/32/303_2.png) [@Lucas\_Jackson](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Lucas_Jackson)\ **Post date:** [March 27, 2026, 2:50pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/losing-your-stomach-feeling/1028795/23 "2026-03-27T14:50:52Z")
> [@markn\_1](#): > > That would mean that a roller coaster car is moving downward faster than an object in free fall would. Since a roller coaster is not powered, how would it do that? I think **wolfpup** got it: > [@wolfpup](#): > > a roller coaster can generate significant G forces both less than 1 G and considerably greater than 1 G, and switch between them quite rapidly. A rollercoaster is attached to the track. When moving at a great speed, and going over a hill, it does change directions (from going up to going down) faster than gravity alone would pull it. ---
**Author:** ![Thumper668](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/thumper668/32/20803_2.png) [@Thumper668](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Thumper668)\ **Post date:** [March 27, 2026, 2:53pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/losing-your-stomach-feeling/1028795/24 "2026-03-27T14:53:58Z")
> [@Lucas\_Jackson](#): > > A rollercoaster is attached to the track. When moving at a great speed, and going over a hill, it does change directions (from going up to going down) faster than gravity alone would pull it. I’m no physicist, but I think inertia is more relevant than gravity here. ---
**Author:** ![jnglmassiv](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/j/f07891/32.png) [@jnglmassiv](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/jnglmassiv)\ **Post date:** [March 27, 2026, 4:46pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/losing-your-stomach-feeling/1028795/25 "2026-03-27T16:46:17Z")
> [@Lucas\_Jackson](#): > > Your intestines and stomach are loosely suspended, so when your body quickly moves downwards, they lag slightly behind. Another example is how I sometimes hear a weird slosh sound from my tummy when I move suddenly. Usually, my core will have everything sort of held in place, as said, loosely suspended but the odd lurch with the right stomach contents leaves enough headroom (?) to splash around, audibly. ---
**Author:** ![Elmer\_J.Fudd](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/elmer_j.fudd/32/1211_2.png) [@Elmer\_J.Fudd](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Elmer_J.Fudd)\ **Post date:** [March 27, 2026, 5:56pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/losing-your-stomach-feeling/1028795/26 "2026-03-27T17:56:04Z")
> [@Thumper668](#): > > I’m no physicist, but I think inertia is more relevant than gravity here. That’s it! It’s the change from greater than normal “gravity” to none at all. Simply going from one to zero Gs doesn’t have that effect on me. ---
**Author:** ![Spice\_Weasel](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/spice_weasel/32/5435_2.png) [@Spice\_Weasel](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Spice_Weasel)\ **Post date:** [March 28, 2026, 5:44pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/losing-your-stomach-feeling/1028795/27 "2026-03-28T17:44:23Z")
> [@Lucas\_Jackson](#): > > That last (bolded) bit caught my attention. Any kind of thing like that is a product of years of evolution, right. So when, before the advent of fast moving vehicles, would a body be subjected to this sensation? You know when babies move inside the womb? That’s exactly what it felt like to me. It was the only thing about pregnancy that I enjoyed. It’s that feeling where a car goes over a dip. (I used to love roller coasters too.) [Previous page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/losing-your-stomach-feeling/1028795.md?page=1)