I’ve been getting headaches/slight bit of nausea since launch and only just put two and two together. I have no motion sickness with dragonriding but within half an hour of playing I seem to develop a form of headache, I’m thinking it might be a display settings issue but I’m not technical enough to try altering anything. I can’t find any other threads and such about it so I am looking for anyone with a similar issue and suggestions 
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Are you using blue light shielding? It might help.
No, how do I get that?
I suffers from headaches when I spend long time playing the game or working in front of the monitor. I use some glasses designed to help the retina fatigue.
It seems to work for me.
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I’ve found a night light option on windows 11 to combat blue light so I will try that, thanks for the advice.
May be from your spine, dunno how it’s called, back of the neck maybe, but there an area where the spine meets the skull. If I spend too much time staring into a screen that area gets affected and it gives me headaches. Best way to avoid it is to spend less time doing things that keep you static, like sitting in front of a screen and instead move about.
There are so many other things that could cause headaches but when it comes to dragon flying I think one thing that will affect some players is flying demands a lot more free looking or mouse looking, which means the screen is rotating a lot/spinning.
The dragon is big and in order to focus on a point or landing somewhere requires going in circles if you’re trying to see where to land before you have decided what you’re going to do. Also, when flying you can do a lot of just general rotation when changing direction.
I think the solution or something I would try is lowering the rotation speed or not looking around so quickly causing the screen to spin, your eyes trying to follow the environment or what you’re seeing might be disorientating.
Other than that I’m not sure but i have a strong feeling you’re not going to be the only one having some issue out of dragon flying.
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Thanks for the advice, however it is only when playing WoW that I get the headache. If I am just browsing the web/forums etc I am fine. I haven’t tried playing it outside of the dragon isles so I figured it may be the graphics there, a lot of new game graphics tend to give me headaches for some reason.
I suppose it could still be dragonriding without me realising as I was just expecting to feel horribly motion sick. Hopefully more reports come in.
Under Accessibility there are options to reduce motion sickness. That may help if it’s specifically dragon flying related.
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Already got all those set up soon as they were available! 
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So far since I switched to the “night light” I haven’t had a headache playing, so big thanks
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