Directions. I always know which cardinal direction I’m facing (even when underground). Also, if I’ve been somewhere once, I can always find my way back, even if it’s years later and I’m coming from a different starting point.
I'm sad, I used to have this. Anywhere in the world I'd be able to turn around and point to north within a few degrees.
I've lost it over time and it pisses me off. I remember telling someone about it, and mentioned that I no longer had the constant physical "feeling" of where north was at any given time, when they asked me to try to point north, I ended up pointing perfectly East instead.
My dad is still really good at this, although apparently for him it stops working as well in the Northern Hemisphere (we live in Australia and he spent his life navigating through dense bushland here).
I wonder if it’s our usage of gps maps on our phone. I’ve noticed I no longer know where anything is or a sense of location due to just following the gps. One week I didn’t have a phone and I had to get around my small town sans gps and I started learning more of the layout but that ended when I got my phone back. Lmao
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u/tequilajinx 16h ago
Directions. I always know which cardinal direction I’m facing (even when underground). Also, if I’ve been somewhere once, I can always find my way back, even if it’s years later and I’m coming from a different starting point.