Uploaded December 2016 | Updated September 2026, 1 week ago

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I couldn't think of a more eloquent name for this. I wanted to make a pun about nausea or something, but as I said, I couldn't think of one.

This is likely to also happen in the original game, but I recorded this on the Special Edition version, which isn't much different content-wise.

Triggering the glitch is not a 100% certainty and your mileage may vary with each try.

You need to have a horse and be riding it, obviously. After that, you must run up to a grounded dragon with health and/or defense low enough that the dragon can trigger its instant-kill animation where it flails you around and flings you away.

After the conditions are met, you just have to keep running up to the dragon until it does the animation. Often times it might kill you with a regular bite, a wing attack if you get too close to the sides or a breath attack, so you probably need to reload your save a few times to have this happen.

When the dragon does finally do the animation, there isn't much you can do, the game tries to position the horse in a location that seems most logical to it. If the animation finishes, you die, but if the horse gets pushed around by the dragon, it has a chance of letting you "escape" the death.

I don't know for sure if button presses affect anything, but I always kept clicking the attack button and pressing in different movement directions.

Once everything is done and the glitch occurs, there is no predicting what will happen next. You might be flung into the skies for extended periods of time or you might be launched up and then instantly dunked back into the earth. Occasionally you might also get an instance where the horse stays relatively close to the ground so it doesn't receive much fall damage. At this point the movement of the horse is unpredictable, but it seems to be more prone to "strafe" than moving straight.

Another amusing but less potent glitch can happen if you keep running your horse up to the dragon from the side. This can occasionally cause the dragon to catapult you an extreme distance away from the point you were at.