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I have an excellent sense of time and space, i can accurately tell how much time and distance I’ve gone without tools. Im great to bring along for a hike.
Out of interest, do you have a vague ability to tell orientation (magnetic north) with your eyes closed? Research is showing some people have magnetoreception and that it may have been more common in our human ancestors but lost to many over time.
It could explain why you’re so good at telling distance and time.
Maybe, but i live in the mountains so its always easy to tell directions.
If you’re ever bored one night, close your eyes and get a friend to rotate you around (gently and slowly) then get you to turn yourself to point where you feel north is. Do this 10 times, logging how far of you were from north and see how accurate you are from random.
You might have a hidden sense that’s incredibly rare in humans!
Close your eyes and spin around a few times?
Probably get dizzy
Hahaha no, I can assure you, people like me can get lost inside an elevator. It's easy for you to tell directions, but not everyone. I wish I could!
https://www.nature.com/articles/s41598-022-12460-6
Here's a pretty recent paper on this. I only skimmed it but boy does this seem wacky. It is in Nature, though, so I guess it's at least somewhat serious...?
I have the same thing. I'm pretty sure there's a word for this sense, but it eludes me at the moment.
whatever you and @who8mydamnoreos have, I have the opposite. I'm very good at getting lost multiple times in the same locality.
Pretty sure that's a skill too - probably confuses attackers who try to pre-empt your movements.
and you have the talent to find the silver lining in every cloud . Bravo!