History Main / TemporalSickness

* ''TheStainlessSteelRat'': This is an element of time travel in series.

* The Chrono Legionnaire unit in ''VideoGame/CommandAndConquer: Red Alert 2'' is able to teleport anywhere on the map using the TimeMachine technology invented by AlbertEinstein (i.e. it's still, technically TimeTravel, minus the "time" part). The farther the jump, the longer the unit has to spend "shifted". While in this state, the unit can't do anything but can be attacked and destroyed. Strangely, the cut scenes showing people using the Chronosphere for actual time travel has no ill effects (beyond the fact that touching someone in the past results in that person ceasing to exist).

* Both played straight and averted in ''CwensQuest''. Travelling forward in time is painful and draining, but when you go backwards it actually has the opposite effect and temporarily gives you super powers.

* Kyon from ''SuzumiyaHaruhi'' experiences this every time he (conciously) time travels with Asahina, one incident being seen in the first Episode of Haruhi 2009, where [[spoiler: they go off to help Haruhi write a Message to some random Aliens,]] turning out to [[spoiler: start off the whole Premise of the story.]] He talks about the world turning around and wanting to puke (in the novels).

* The Chrono Legionnaire unit in ''VideoGame/CommandAndConquer: Red Alert 2'' is able to teleport anywhere on the map using the TimeMachine technology invented by AlbertEinstein (i.e. it's still, technically TimeTravel, minus the "time" part). The farther the jump, the longer the unit has to spend "shifted". While in this state, the unit can't do anything but can be attacked and destroyed.

* ''Series/TimeTrax'': Darien Lambert can't return to the year 2193 until he finds and sends back ''all'' of the fugitive criminals from his time. This is because time travel requires the traveler to be injected with a drug called TXP, which is usually fatal if administered more than twice. Lambert was dosed with it when he was sent to 1993; returning to 2193 will require a second dose, after which he can never travel through time again.

* In the ''Series/StarTrekTheOriginalSeries'' episode "All Our Yesterdays", inhabitants of a planet are sent back to their past to escape their star going nova. Kirk, Spock and Bones travel without being given the treatment, [[spoiler: and will die unless they can get back in time. (excuse the pun)]]

* In MichaelMoorcock's ''Behold the Man'' the time traveler has a pretty rough voyage and emerges nauseous. That's nothing to what's about to happen to him, though.

* In MichaelCrichton's novel ''Literature/{{Timeline}}'', some characters suffer "transcription errors," which accumulate with multiple travels, causing insanity and death.

* ''SailorMoon'': When Usagi and the Outer Sailors were standing in a elevator-like time portal in the manga, Usagi suddenly starts banging on the glass and complaining that she was going to puke. She never actually does though. And of course, Haruka has to go and make fun of her.

May cause disorientation that results in someone demanding to know from passerbyers [[WhatYearIsThis what year is it.]]

* ''TheTerminator'' had Kyle Reese exhausted and disoriented after his time jump. The Terminator was a machine so it didn't suffer the same problems.
* Occurs in ''{{Primer}}'':

* ''TheTomorrowMan'' involves a blue-collar worker from the 1970s who accidentally gets jumped into the 1990s. First time through, his stomach has an unpleasant reaction.

* In the ''Series/StarTrekVoyager'' episode "Relativity", Seven becomes ill and it is stated that further time travel could kill her.
** At one point [[spoiler: it actually does kill her, a past!Seven is brought in to fill the gap]].

* TheTomorrowMan involves a blue-collar worker from the 1970s who accidentally gets jumped into the 1990s. First time through, his stomach has an unpleasant reaction.

* In MichaelCrichton's novel ''{{Timeline}}'', some characters suffer "transcription errors," which accumulate with multiple travels, causing insanity and death.

* In ''SevenDays'', Frank Parker is the only '''living''' chrononaut; his survival is attributed to his unusually high tolerance for pain.

* In seasons 4 and 5 of ''{{Lost}}'', characters who travel in time (whether physically or [[MentalTimeTravel mentally]]) suffer [[PsychicNosebleed nosebleeds]], lose their memories, and die of brain aneurysms.
* Intriguingly, ''TheSarahConnorChronicles'' has characters exhibit virtually the same ill effects post time travel as in ''ToSayNothingOfTheDog'' as cited above. John Connor even goes so far as to start referring to it by the same term, "time-lag". Makes you wonder...

* In the ''HaruhiSuzumiya'' novels people always keep their eyes closed when traveling through time. Open your eyes, and you risk seeing something so horrible that you'll end up puking for weeks.
* In Creator/ConnieWillis' book ''ToSayNothingOfTheDog'' characters routinely suffer from what is referred to as "time-lag", the effects of which usually last for several days, and consists of physical and mental disorientation; much like a more potent form of jet-lag or a hang-over. This is nicely portrayed when a nurse gives the protagonist a postcard of Oxford. When he rhapsodises over the dreaming spires she diagnoses serious time-lag. Also it allows the characters to carry the idiot ball.

* Units in ''{{Achron}}'' glow softly right after you [[TimeTravel chronoport]] them. They're perfectly functional, with the one exception being that they cannot chronoport again until the effect wears off. The effect has thus earned the nickname "rechronoport delay".
* [[spoiler:Porky]] in ''VideoGame/{{Mother 3}}'' combines this with AgeWithoutYouth[[hottip:*:Sort of.]] and ImmortalityImmorality.
* In {{Timeshift}} it is suggested that time travel may cause disorientation and even memory lost. The Beta suit does counteract some problems, but judging by the intro video motion sickness may be a concern. The player character also passes out shortly after a time jump.

* In ConnieWillis' book ''ToSayNothingOfTheDog'' characters routinely suffer from what is referred to as "time-lag", the effects of which usually last for several days, and consists of physical and mental disorientation; much like a more potent form of jet-lag or a hang-over. This is nicely portrayed when a nurse gives the protagonist a postcard of Oxford. When he rhapsodises over the dreaming spires she diagnoses serious time-lag. Also it allows the characters to carry the idiot ball.

* Units in ''{{Achron}}'' glow softly right after you [[TimeTravel chronoport]] them. They're perfectly functional, with the one exception being that if they chronoport again before the glow wears off... ''they'll be destroyed''. The effect has thus earned the nickname "rechronoport delay".

* This happens in {{Anne McCaffrey}}'s {{Pern}} books, manifesting as exhaustion and emotional instability if you exist at the same time as yourself. It's exacerbated if you [[NeverTheSelvesShallMeet go anywhere near yourself]], and if there are more than two of you at the same time it gets bad. Additionally, time travel causes issues related to both sensory deprivation and hypoxia as you travel Between. This nearly kills Lessa when she travels 400 years back in Dragonflight. Later, in All The Weyrs of Pern, they use spacesuits.