Do You Have a GPS in Your Head?

A study was done a few years back on a group of native aborigine people in Australia. These people had no technology at all & lived in the wild & were out of doors almost all the time. Because of the way they lived they had an extremely acute sense of direction. They would bring these people into a dark room without windows, blindfold them, and then spin them around numerous times in one direction and then the other. Then they would ask them to point towards a certain direction such as east or south. Despite having been blindfolded & spun around numerous times they were all 100% accurate when asked to point in a certain direction. Being blindfolded in a dark room & being spun around had no affect on their sense of direction. Many believe, as I do, that human bodies have a natural sense of direction or gps system. But natural built-in sense of direction is like a muscle. If you don't use it & exercise it every day it begins to atrophy. The more humans lose touch with nature & the more we rely on technology, the less we use our body's natural sense of direction & we slowly lose that natural ability. Another test was conducted on taxi drivers in a mid-western U. S. city who had a keen sense of direction. The accuracy of their natural sense of direction was tested & then GPS devices were put in their cabs. One year later their natural sense of direction was once again tested & it was found that it was DRASTICALLY reduced after having relied on the GPS device in their car for a year. The natural sense of direction built in the human body is slowly withering away the more we lose touch with nature & the more we continue to rely on technological gadgetry. It won't be long before it is gone completely. My advice to everyone is to throw your GPS devices away. And spend more time in nature.

Oh, I really like this post. You and me both. I have zero sense of direction. You could drop my hubby anywhere, blindfolded, spin him around, and he'd still know his directions. I'd just get dizzy.

I never get lost, I surely have a GPS in my head and this is good, because my husband is like you, he gets lost in a closet.

I used to do a lot of driving before these GPS were even thought of, and I could pretty much get myself anywhere I wanted to go.

i'm directionally impaired 'n 've a hubs such 's yers who seems to be completely in tune.

Ms Kristie ( @Novelangel ) - I always had thought I had one of those "GPS" thingies 'twixt my ears until I, somehow, got lost on City Island, New York. It has only one street. Now, I ask you...

No i'm terrible with directions by instinct, but I am very good at map reading... I get disorientated very easily, and nearly always get confused where north south east and west are, when i'm driving... like I95 north or south.... well in my head I want to go east... so i've usually got a crib sheet with me ...lol's... but funnily enough I rarely get lost on my way to somewhere..its usually when I hit towns...

I'm a lot like you, I think! We live in the country so when I go shopping in a larger town, I do okay if I stay on the outskirts. But If I ever find myself accidentally downtown, it's like the Bermuda Triangle. I drive and drive and eventually find my way out but my husband never gets lost. Glad both of us aren't geographically challenged.