I realise this is a bit OT but recently I have started to get a bit of claustrophobia when driving at night. I have never suffered from claustrophobia in any other circumstance and it is worse when I have others in the car esp especially my children. I start to get really rather panicked and stressed out.
I used to enjoy driving at night but now I am thinking about avoiding it. I don't want to avoid it and currently my resolve/need is stronger than my fear.
Does this happen to anybody else and if so do you have any tips?
Thanks.
Have you had your eyes tested ?
My mate hated driving at night for years and then he had his eyes tested and got glasses, now he's fine.
Eyes tested recently and they are fine. I already wear glasses and the prescription is alright.
Can you think of anything that has changed in your life recently that might be relevant?
Is it to hot in the car ?
Try having the window open a tad this helps me .
Buy a convertible ?
Tucker makes a good point.
Only think I experienced when driving at night was a strong feeling of unreality, like I was looking close up at a TV with the road on it in a sort of compressed wide-angle type view. I then got a bit dissociated which made me start to worry that I'd stop controlling the car, and further made me think that this wouldn't matter... I'd end up pulling over frequently in a bit of a tizz.
This used to happen in the first few years of driving, then I realised that during those years my night driving would be coming back from a mate's house at 3am, and really I was just tired. Doesn't happen any more 🙂
Turn your lights on and eat more carrots
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No not too hot in the car and having the window open helps a bit.
The only thing that has changed is that I havn't been able to ride much since the end of June due to an ankle operation. I have a feeling this might be partially to blame but cant see how not riding a bike would bring this on.
I know exactly that feeling molgrips and (these days) can very quickly associate it with tiredness.