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I remember reading about an experiment where they gave somebody a belt which would vibrate at the north side and the subjects became very spatially aware would
by clort 5y ago
I remember reading about an experiment where they gave somebody a belt which would vibrate at the north side and the subjects became very spatially aware would never get lost. Even when they were taken at night, blindfolded and driven around for like half an hour they could point to the way home without really thinking about it.
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- oh_sigh 5y agoThis is a skill you can teach yourself through mindfulness alone. I've never been driven around blindfolded, but I can enter a building, go through a big maze of hallways, and be able to tell you which direction north is.
- ncmncm 5y agoWe probably have a magnetic sense that we lose conscious awareness of through not paying attention. There are cultures whose language grammar depends on all directions being relative to cardinal points. Even three-year-olds never get it wrong.