don't tell me it's the low prices

[nondescript spice]

i figured this was as good a place as any to ask this.

does going to wal-mart make anyone dizzy?

it doesn't happen every single time i go - maybe three times out of ten, i've never really kept count. but sometimes after i arrive i find myself incredibly light headed, like i'm about to faint. i also feel very intense pressure in my eyes. it's gotten so bad at times i had to stop and steady myself before i just fell over or something.

my dad said he has occasionally experienced the same thing before, and told me he saw something on the news about it, so others must be going through the same thing. i just wonder what causes it. i asked my doctor once, but got the "must be the low prices!" quip.

[uruseiranma]

Maybe it's the lighting. Something about lighting in large spaces like that can be a little odd.

Then again, every Walmart i've been to feels almost like i'm at Ellis Island in the 1880's.

[Crowfan]

It's happened to me too, I think it is the lighting.

[Cubey]

One time I had on my dark (prescription) sunglasses I just about went blind while in there. I don't mean it was dark, it's like my eyes had visual "static" in front of them, it was like I was in a blizzard and only had spotty vision of where I was going. I guess maybe it was just blurriness... hard to remember exactly.

Amazingly, I didn't run into anyone. I managed to get back outside to daylight and sit in my car until my eyes went back to normal. I was highly dizzy and was slightly nauseated as well from it.

There for a while in the store, I thought I had some serious medical condition going on that was about to kill me. Weird symptoms like that can happen just before something major occurs.

(Mind you, this was about 3 years ago by now... and I haven't keeled over yet.. nor has it happened again)

[nondescript spice]

weird. well, with me, like i said, it doesn't happen every single time i go into walmart. that bugs me - why would it happen some times and not other times? i've heard that about the lighting before, i think. but i know what you mean, cubey - what freaked me out is i also heard sometimes lighting can even set some people off into seizures. the dizziness and nausea are only part of it. i didn't have any blurriness, just that really intense pressure behind my eyes. very unpleasant. but hey - i've been looking for a reason to sue walmart for years; maybe this is my in.

[Triple_sSs]

I wouldn't say going into Wal-Mart bugs me all that much, but some of the people there can be pretty weird and disturbing sometimes.

If you've ever seen images from the infamous "People of Walmart" blog, you know what I mean.

[crowschmo]

Maybe they're doing mind experiments to get people to keep coming back and buy more stuff, and on some people it has the opposite effect and makes them sick.

[nondescript spice]

www.wnd.com/2008/02/57598/

^that's some info on the effects of fluorescent lighting. it's strange though - we have fluorescent lights at my office, but they don't have the same effect. i read somewhere else that some people who have the same problem wear sunglasses while in the store and that helps it a little. might try that the next time.

[crowschmo]

They should use those bulbs that mimic sunlight. Maybe people would be in better moods while shopping. Places like Wal-Mart make enough damn money to invest in healthier lighting.

[Cubey]

I just don't go to Wal-Mart anymore problem solved .. mostly.

I think I was in Lowes or Home Depot recently had almost felt I was going to have it happen again. The sunglasses are sun glare reducing lenses, so i suspect the flickering lights effect it. I can put them on and they clear my vision on a badly glaring windshield. You know, at times when the sun is just right and your windshield looks all cloudy? It totally gets rid of that.

Plus, my vision is pretty bad. I have to have prisms in my leses and that redirects light, as a normal prism does.

I use CFL at home though and don't have a problem with it though, with or without sunglasses.

[dph]

It's probably how high the lights are on those high ceilings coupled with the sky lights and the electric lights turning on and off adjusting to the natural sunlight coming through the skylights.

[Don Quixote]

Wal*Marts are insalubrious in general. If it's not the lights giving you vertigo, catching some tropical skin disease from the four hundred pound toothless cashier, or the tinnitus acquired by the chorus of unholy brats screaming at the tops of their lungs, it's the feeling that you need to bathe after you've visited one. The only time I go in there is if someone gives me a gift certificate. And even then, it's sparingly.

And I used to work at one.

[Skyroniter]

I like people. Some of my best friends are people. That said, I hate WalMart.

Our store is packed full of human beans almost any hour of the day. They are running every which way, looking at all grades of crap that poor Chinese workers lost limbs over. It makes my head swim and my belly hurt.

[Skyroniter]

May 5, 2013 12:33:27 GMT -5 Triple_sSs said:

I wouldn't say going into Wal-Mart bugs me all that much, but some of the people there can be pretty weird and disturbing sometimes.

If you've ever seen images from the infamous "People of Walmart" blog, you know what I mean.

I can wear my yoga pants there if I want!

[afriendlychicken]

I'm good in my local Wal-Mart but that happens to me when I visit Costco. It only takes about 10 minutes until I start to get eye pressure with a mild headache. I'm pretty sure it's the lighting because when I try to look up I feel dizzy but looking down I'm fine. I think it's their way to get me to buy their berry smoothie on the way out.

I also have that problem in stores that use low lighting, like Spenser's Gifts. Of course why I ever walk into there is the more important question.

I've shopped at Wal-Mart in a t-shirt with holes, shorts and slippers. So no flash photography please.