A place seen once can stay laid out clearly in your mind, while a familiar building still refuses to make sense. Your sense of direction can be impressively precise in one setting and completely absent in the next.
- guiding friends through a city you visited years ago
- taking the wrong corridor in the office where you work every day
- remembering every turn on a holiday drive but getting lost inside a shopping centre
- drawing an accurate street map and then leaving by the wrong door
Looks vs reality
The same Experience can look very different from the outside than it feels on the inside.
Inconsistent or selectively capable.
My brain thrives on novel, complex systems, not on low-stimulus, repetitive data.
Not paying attention to the 'easy stuff'.
My working memory for mundane details is full or simply not engaged. The 'interesting' map is the one that saves.
Being dramatic or exaggerating how lost you are.
Genuinely disoriented. The mental blueprint for this specific, boring place just won't load properly.
Unreliable for simple directions.
My reliability is context-dependent. I'm brilliant with a crisis map, less so with the office-to-kitchen map.
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