Sense of Direction

Moogles

Moogles

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Dude, I keep getting lost. My sense of direction is horrendous...if not non-existent. I'm fine around places I'm familiar with, but when I have to go out of town, I'm screwed. My parents got me some GPS thing for my birthday, but I'm too lazy to charge the bastard up. I guess I should try.

Anywho, does anyone else find themselves getting lost often?
 
Um, I don't drive yet and yes, I don't have a sense of direction. I keep telling everyone that. When people ask me where a certain street is, even though it's close to our house, it takes me a minute to fully grasp where the location really is, or sometimes I'll have no clue at all. I suck, and I'm not looking forward to driving since I'll definitely spend more time getting lost in the road and freeway. Part of the problem is that when I'm in a car, I don't pay attention to my surroundings. I tend to gaze outside the window or fall asleep. That and I have a bad memory when it comes to street names. >.<
 
I'm pretty decent with my sense of direction, I don't drive but I often find myself navigating sometimes for my friends. I do get lost occasionally though, but quite often I can find my way reletively quick.
 
I don't normally know where I'm going, I just kinda know vaguely how to get places. I've lived in the same house my entire life and I don't even know how to navigate my entire neighborhood. I feel that when I do get a driver's lisence I'm either going to get much better at navigating, or I'm going to still be horrendously bad at it. I don't pay attention that much, and I still don't know what street names correlate to which roads. It's really pathetic...
 
I slender find myself getting lost, once i have been to a place once i can remember exactly where it is and how to get there. on the other hand if it's the first time i have been there then i am lost when i first set out damn near every time. so in theory you could say it's a bit of both.
 
My sense of direction is probably one of the two things that I can ever brag about, only because it seems everyone else around me are pretty clueless as to how to get from point A to point B. I basically just logic it out when I'm someplace new and it only takes me a few seconds to figure out where the heck I am just by taking in landmarks. If I've been someplace once, I'll never forget it and can get back there by instinct. I don't memorize street names 'cause there's too many duplicates (i.e. Rose St., Fifth Avenue what? NY?)
I figure I can get back to my old neighborhood in the Philippines even though I haven't been in like 5 years.
 
My sense of direction is rather poor. I normally have no idea where I'm going and just get friends to write down directions. I drove my friend home once and then I had to text him to ask how to get home because I got lost.
 
I have a great sense of direction for the most part, but there are times when I can get lost. Like for instance, when I'm across the river, a part of the city I hardly visit. It's not terribly difficult to navigate the roads over there, even though lots of them are one ways and I always hear people complaining about them. The few ways I use in order to keep my direction are: knowing landmarks (luckily from a far distance, you can see the tall buildings in the center of the city, particularly a big pink one, the US bank tower. so i just end up driving down the road towards that one.) That, find a freeway and follow the direction or look at the S, SW, SE, N, NW, NE, blah blah blah things on the sign. Finding your way back to where you want to go is pretty easy if you know what you're doing. You don't have to know the place, but knowing certain things could definitely help you.

Like when we were in San Francisco in late June (we were driving down from Portland, where I live). The freeway was closed for construction and everyone was pissed that we had to get off. My mom suggested we go route 99 but that would've been WAY off where we needed to be, and we had a map to follow. I just told her we should go through the city, and reluctantly she allowed my brother (who was driving at the time) to do so. Within 5 minutes, even navigating down one way roads, we followed the freeway South (the way we were headed) all the way down to an on ramp that was open and were sailing back down the freeway.

And then I said, "I told you so." :3
 
I have horrible sense of direction, even in the area I live. I dread people asking me for directions because I know where the place might be but telling someone how to get there? Id end up sending them to the other side of town....

Although, I have miraculous luck when it comes to finding a place, I will just walk in a specific direction and I will generally get there, I also directed my ex to Alton towers (I had one of those route finder efforts but it was wrong for the first leg of the journey)

Oh saying that though, I used to go to my grans every weekend for yEARS AND i COULD never remember how to get there so I took the same route over soe hilly things every single farm, that housing estate was liek an ant farm. And I got lost in Spain once on the beach because I couldnt remember where my mum and dad was.....had the police out looking for me and everything

So I guess I have no sense of direction really, just sometimes I get lucky :monster:
 
Nope, I'm clueless. I don't know what's north or south, which direction certain towns are, the direction to take to get from A to B, where anything is on the map...etc.

It's quite worrying that I'm about to learn how to drive. :wacky:
 
My sense of direction is somewhat marvelous, i can travel miles (2-5) in a tipsy state go to a mates house and get wrecked then manage to stumble the same route home at 4 in the morning and get back home quicker than i gotten there.

Quite wonderful if i do say so myself.
 
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