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Re: Life for the Spatially Inept
Posted By: Sosiqui, on host 63.193.249.209
Date: Sunday, April 14, 2002, at 21:58:06
In Reply To: Re: Life for the Spatially Inept posted by Don the Monkeyman on Sunday, April 14, 2002, at 19:58:37:

> > 1) You pay little attention to landmarks but think of the route in terms of directional turns. You would be more comfortable if given directions such as "go straight ahead for a block, then turn left, then turn right, then go straight ahead again, then turn right" or "go north for a block, then turn west, then turn north, then keep going north, then go east."
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> > 2) You do it mostly by remembering visual references. You would be more comfortable with directions such as "go to the library, then turn left, then turn again after the four big trees, then keep going until you see a yellow house, then turn right where the hedge finishes." Even these instructions are easier to follow if you have been there before and can picture the route in your head.
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> This analysis was very interesting for me to read, because as I read each of these, I thought to myself, "Yeah! That's me!" The really neat thing, though, is that I can kind of explain this, and in doing so, talk about something that I think is kind of weird and cool.
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I don't know a thing about those kinds of tests, as I have never before heard of them... but as far as the two ways of direction-finding go, I use them both. I have an excellent visual memory, and an innate sense of direction which is more directional than visual that is nearly impossible to fool.

The only place I've ever found that always messes me up is a mall near here. Stupid mall.

And I can identify quite well with the 'two ways of thinking' idea... but I'm a bit sleepy, and slightly whacked by just having watched Mononoke Hime (Princess Mononoke), so I'll end here...

Sosi"Didn't Stephen say that any movie with the line 'Take back your head' has to rule? I agree! ;)"qui

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