I can usually determine my general direction of travel and estimate the time of day, generally within 2-5 minutes without referring to anything. I likely came to the latter because I have to be able to pass medications and do wound care and treatments within a specific time window as a requirement of my job.
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Time of day: Maybe 20% off.
Sense of direction: Not an issue for me, as I know where I'm going. I generally look at a map before going on a trip to an unfamiliar location.
Otto Yamamoto, is that within 2-5 minutes after not looking at the time for an hour? 6 hours?
I live in SLC area. Wasatch mountains are always in the east in SLC, smaller mountains and the lake in the west. So my sense of direction never really gets tested here, unless I'm deep in downtown. And even then, most all the streets are numbered, and you might still see the mountains.
In places like other cities' downtowns, I generally look at a map before I walk around, but I can usually get a good feel for the streets there. Google walking directions don't even work well, since tall buildings often interfere with the GPS signal.
My sense of direction is pretty good. My sense of time, however, is inconsistent. Sometimes I'm spot on, but sometimes it's easy for me to space out for what I think is 30 seconds and have 5 minutes go by.
My sense of direction is usually pretty good too. The times it's not, usually I find a familiar landmark or regain some sense of something.
My sense of time? I must look at the clock 200 times a day. 100 times I look at the clock, and 100 times I re-look at the clock because I never actually looked at the time! lol
Sense of time: +/- 30 mins or so during daylight.
Sense of direction: I've usually got a good idea of which direction I'm heading, though diagonal directions are trickier than going in a cardinal direction.
My sense of time is fairly good. While at work, I can usually gauge pretty well when it's break time :D
As for sense of direction, it is pretty easy to tell when I'm heading north or south, and not just by looking at the road signs. I just have a natural feel for it. The only time I can remember my sense of direction being thrown off was when my family was vacationing in San Diego when I was a kid. Growing up in the Milwaukee area, I was used the to "coast" being in the east, and being in San Diego and having the coast in the west made everything feel like it was backwards.
Really good. I rarely get lost, and I can tell directions pretty good as well.
My 14 year old son's sense of direction is much better.
Directions and time are fairly are easy if you follow the position of the sun in the sky. Granted it tends to migrate as the seasons change. Night can be followed in a similar way if you know what stars to look and have a lack of light pollution to see them.
Quote from: tchafe1978 on August 09, 2017, 09:46:44 AM
My sense of time is fairly good. While at work, I can usually gauge pretty well when it's break time :D
As for sense of direction, it is pretty easy to tell when I'm heading north or south, and not just by looking at the road signs. I just have a natural feel for it. The only time I can remember my sense of direction being thrown off was when my family was vacationing in San Diego when I was a kid. Growing up in the Milwaukee area, I was used the to "coast" being in the east, and being in San Diego and having the coast in the west made everything feel like it was backwards.
Funny thing, when I lived in San Diego, I had the same problem.
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Quote from: 1 on August 04, 2017, 10:11:02 AM
Time of day: Maybe 20% off.
Sense of direction: Not an issue for me, as I know where I'm going. I generally look at a map before going on a trip to an unfamiliar location.
Otto Yamamoto, is that within 2-5 minutes after not looking at the time for an hour? 6 hours?
That's usually any given time. It may be because for many years, my job is to get specific tasks: Giving medications and rendering treatments in a very specific time window.
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One time when we had guests over at our house, I looked up and said, "Oh, it's after 8:00 already?"
She asked how I knew that, was I looking at the sun?
Nope, Southwest Airlines flight inbound to Detroit City Airport (back when they still flew there).