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I also have this. And I also think it's just a synthesis of many clues and I guess some people don't perform that same synthesis (my wife for example). Things l
by insilicophage 5y ago
I also have this. And I also think it's just a synthesis of many clues and I guess some people don't perform that same synthesis (my wife for example). Things like "last known direction", "position of sun", "time of day", "this side of the tree is wet but the other isn't", and probably a bit of grid neurons somewhere doing dead reckoning.
- hanoz 5y agoI also have this a bit, but when I moved from London to Sydney, my sense of it flipped, i.e. 'up' on my internal map was now South not North, from which I concluded it was not magnetic.
- saltcured 5y agoSimilarly, I had a disturbing sense of disorientation when first visiting a tropical area. It went away once I figured out that the midday sun was casting shadows south, towards the equator instead of north towards the pole. I had not been consciously reading the shadows but as soon as I accepted this fact, I no longer felt alarmed. I wasn't there long enough to really evaluate my new, localized sense of direction.