Date: 22/12/2016 13:19:05
From: transition
ID: 1000310
Subject: orientation anomalies

Was very tired lastnight out the farm (did two trips yesterday), I finished up after midnight.

Second-last trough while cleaning I had an interesting experience.

I’m acccustomed to blips in orientation at night when a lack of landmarks in the visual field, but this one was harder to fix.

I’d got out of the ute (engine running/lights on) knowing which way I was going and ute was pointing, cleaned down one side of trough, then over to otherside and looked at everything and it was backwards. The trough lid’s down the north end but my internal compass said for sure it’s down the south end. (I do often do the run the opposite direction, perhaps mostly).

Somehow my brain when I went around the trough to do the otherside kept something of the image-with-orientation from the previous side I did (it hung perhaps, persisted)

I couldn’t will it back to being right (I was in a hurry and didn’t have time to study the weirdness), but it righted itself I think when got back in the ute.

So to me it seems (in retrospect) that the moment I stepped over (or around) the trough to do the otherside I didn’t change my internal orientation (compass), hence something of the perspective was 180 degrees out (I guess). Though I sensed clearly there was a correspondence problem.

Wife just saying when she wakes in her dark bedroom at night sometimes gets this. I too notice it occasionally.

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Date: 22/12/2016 13:53:48
From: podzol
ID: 1000327
Subject: re: orientation anomalies

Ghosts. 100%

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Date: 22/12/2016 15:09:42
From: Ian
ID: 1000362
Subject: re: orientation anomalies

Could be a tooma.. more likely Alzheimer’s.

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Date: 22/12/2016 15:33:26
From: Ian
ID: 1000375
Subject: re: orientation anomalies

I know what you mean by your head turning around in the dark to reorient with your internal map.

I seem to remember which cardinal direction my head was pointing in every bed I’ve ever slept in. Anyone else aware of this sort of thing? Must be important to navigating the world around oneself.

Found: The Missing Part Of Brain’s Internal Compass

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