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After moving from Europe to Australia my sense of East and West was completely broken. I would exit a building and turn the wrong way all the time. Having don
by mattclarkdotnet 2y ago
After moving from Europe to Australia my sense of East and West was completely broken. I would exit a building and turn the wrong way all the time.
Having done a lot of navigation/sailing in my youth, my brain automatically was computing east/west based on the sun being in the south.
- SoftTalker 2y agoA rare disadvantage of having learned to navigate by the sun. I generally have no idea which way is east or west unless the sun is quite low in the sky, or I already know the area and just know the layout.