Re: Coincidences with Numbers and Names....Then and Now...A

On May 29, 1:26 pm, Phil C. <philsuse...@xxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
On Thu, 29 May 2008 11:24:21 GMT, my...@xxxxxxxx (cecilia) wrote:
hedl...@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx wrote:

The finders contain magnets which act as internal compasses and
transmit their readings in some way to the brain. [...]

That could explain my experience when visiting my son in Australia. [...]
My son says he gets lost very easily, yet had no problems in England.
His Australian wife had problems in England but has an excellent sense
of direction in Australia.

That could as easily be sun-orientation.

In Kuala Lumpur one June, I found I had lost what I had thought was a
quite reasonable sense of direction. Then I overheard a remark that,
although we were in the northern hemipsphere, the sun was passing to
the north at noon - suddenly my sense of direction returned.

I suffer from Directional Deficit Disorder. (I invented that term as a
joke long ago but a quick Google shows that it does now exist.) That's
my excuse, anyway. I have to make a very careful mental note of where
I'm going so I can find my way back... pub toilets, housing estates
etc etc. I once visited someone in an old fashioned psychiatric
hospital and spent a weary hour finding my way out again - hoping I
wouldn't be waylaid by some overenthusiastic staff nurse with a
hypodermic. At another hospital I found myself half way to the
mortuary before I was rescued.

I haven't got any inbuilt sun-orientation at all. I have, though, got
a general feel for where places are on a map, which seems to be a
different meaning of sense of direction. I think some people disguise
sheer geographical ignorance as lack of sense of direction.
--
Phil C.


My wife and I have both had the feeling that we've "been here before"
about a place when we know we couldn't have. I put mine down to an
ability to read maps and imagine what a place may look like; she is
hopeless with maps but has the more emotional repsonse that a place
can "feel like part of her history", as if one of her ancestors may
have knwon the place and the "memory" is in her genes. There are
probably other possibilities these days, photos in magazines, tv
programmes, etc., where we may have unknowingly picked up an image.

There is also this thing about women "getting lost" and men "taking a
scenic short cut" :-)
.

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