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I would personally just treat whatever direction I'm facing at the time as North and go from there.
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Opposite to the east.
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What, doesn't everyone have a haptic compass belt?
Should've just put one motor on each nipple and to direct you if north is left or right.
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East? I thought you said Weast.
M for Mancy
Or just ask them which is west and they can point you towards it? Your not a compass needle lol, what is that assumption.
OK but no you know where the sun rises and sets if youre in a familiar place atleast
Do I look like the person who would get lost in a familiar place?
Actually, don't answer that.
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East is sunrise. West is sunset. The sun will also always be slightly south and even more so in the winter (unless you're in the southern hemisphere then it's slightly north).
If your local area has some kind of landmark like a big tower, or a big lake, learn where that is relative to you and use it as a reference point. For me, I live near a big lake and it's always south of me. It might be easier for you to ask yourself "which way is the lake?" instead of "which way is south?" or whatever your landmark and direction happen to be.
This is the best part about growing up in Colorado. The mountains are west. It's like having a cheat mode compass enabled all the time.
Same but reversed in the SLC area, mountains mean East. Having lived on both sides, West is definitely better
Or... the sun is south at noon. Where is the sun at noon? That's south.
You should probably mention which regions this advice is limited to, to avoid confusing people from outside those regions who see your advice and misapply it.
Lol this guy over here using the stars to navigate.
I have problems telling right from left. At least I'm the moment, if I take my time I can tell.
But I almost always know my cardinal directions
If you extend your thumb and first finger, the L shape that is the correct way around is on your left hand.
Yeah I know when I have time to think about it.
It's just when people say: 'go left here' or me throng to indicate direction in a split second that my change of getting it right reduced to 50%. My brain doesn't grok that left right isn't absolute but related to orientation.
What helped me as a kid is imagine to write. That's my left hand and than I know which is which without thinking too consciously (in case you're right handed, it's the other way around obviously).
But interesting that you know absolute directions easily. That's a cultural thing actually. I think Australian Aborigines will say things like "my western foot hurts" because it's more intuitive for them that way.
If I think for it for s second I know, I'll think about my dominant hand too (although my dominant feet is on the opposite side so I don't have a clear dominant side).
Yeah the aboriginal method seems way more intuitive to me, yet it probably won't replace the left right system anytime soon :p
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I mean their profile pic is them outdoors on a paddle board, so first impressions is yea maybe you do know cardinal directions? Anyone who spends extended time outdoors should.
All roads lead to East New Westersouth.
What have the pop band from the 80s got to do with the direction? Is there some code in their lyrics that will point her the right way?
It's easy. When you imagine south as a north being on the top then west is on the east side from it.
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how do people not orient themselves?
The birth of the GPS. Basic navigation is a dying skill, a lot of people don’t even know what to do with a map without a big blue dot showing where you are
Everytime I grt lost I just return home to get my compass and get on with my day
Legitimately, how do you? Without prior knowledge of the direction you are facing and the sun is right above you or you can't see it.
Cardinal directions have always been hard for me and I'm only now just starting to use them out of job necessity.
Left and right takes a second most of the time, ask me to look north and it's going to be a long while.
If I'm somewhere new or lost like op, it's just cruel to say "go west"
Not trying to be facetious, but you just kind of do it. I think it might be something that you just subconsciously keep track of once you really become aware of it. I remember it seeming like magic until I was maybe 15 or so, and then I had landmarks for each direction in my mental map and could figure things out in reference to them. After a bit of that, I could mostly stay oriented when traveling by land, and now it's not an issue even when I fly somewhere. I went to England for the first time last year, and I had the cardinal directions sorted probably by the time I'd walked from the train to my hotel.
Once you've got it down, you just sort of do it on autopilot.
You track you direction throughout the day. My road runs east/west. If i leave my house and turn left, I'm going west, turn right im going east, I keep this in mind as often as I can.
I also know my general area pretty well and what direction each town/city is in relative to my home, which helps me find my direction if i lost it. I also like to remember which direction each major intersection goes as that helps me keep track as well.
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East? I thought you said weast.
When you're lost, walk downhill, or downstream, until you reach the sea, or a McDonalds.
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