..Your description all makes sense to me except why a route would be remembered mirror imaged. If words work either way, why would the route favor a reversal?
Don't know.?ÿ Probably has something to do with the part of my brain that deals with spacial reasoning or something.
It's a little hard to describe.?ÿ I first noticed it when I was a kid and thought about the floor plan at my grandmother's house.?ÿ In my memory the floor plan is a mirror image of the way it really was.?ÿ If you really walked down the hall and turned right to the bathroom, my mind would remember turning left.?ÿ
And It's still a prevalent part of my mental function after 70 years.?ÿ One of the most common errors I make writing property descriptions is calling the NW/4 erroneously as the NE/4 because in my brain it's on the "left" of the section instead of the "right".?ÿ And to top it all off I rarely make that mistake with the SW/4.?ÿ Go figure.?ÿ Never a dull moment in between my ears.... 😉
Similar issue here. I grew up in Birmingham AL and always knew Atlanta was to the East. I??ve lived in Athens, GA (East of Atlanta)now for 20 years and while traveling on I20 ?ÿto Atlanta, I still have trouble remembering North is on my right instead of my left.
I had/have a problem with three buildings from my early days.?ÿ One was the grade school that my sister attended and I later attended for a few years.?ÿ Another was the church we attended.?ÿ The third was the high school building where my sister attended and I had the pleasure of spending one year in the building.?ÿ It still stands.
In every case,?ÿ the west wall of the building is the north wall in my mind.?ÿ That gets horribly confusing when looking out a window or door to the outside world.
I have learned to 'ignore' my mind's eye with all the mirror-flip-flop stuff by orienting myself with the compass.?ÿ If I know where north is, I'm good.?ÿ Maybe that's why I like surveying so much.
When I travel somewhere I've never been before I need to see the sun when I get there so I can "localize" my internal compass.?ÿ Once I worked in Muskogee, OK for a week.?ÿ It was late in the day and cloudy when I got there and didn't get to see the sun's path across the sky.?ÿ Muskogee (at least the old part of town) is aligned with the RR which runs N and E by about 20 some odd degrees.?ÿ I was so messed up that week I lost my truck in the hotel parking lot twice.?ÿ I also realized I couldn't get to sleep if I didn't know how my bed was oriented.
My brain has the structural integrity of a soup sandwich sometimes...
I suspect you might have problems down under.
Down here the sun is to the north.
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currently, it's been co-opted by the Q-Anon crowd.?ÿ?ÿ
I grew up in an area where the mountains were to the south...the last half of my life has been spent in an area where they are all around...it is amazing how it messes with you on a subconscious level.
I have to orient my computer so that I am facing close to North before I can work on a cad drawing. At home it's not a problem but on a jobsite it sometimes means moving a table around.
Many years ago I worked in an office building than ran almost exactly southwest to northeast.?ÿ In my head, it ran north to south.?ÿ In my co-worker in the next office's head, it ran east to west.?ÿ We quickly learned not to tell anyone to go a certain direction in the building to reach a specific office.?ÿ It was simpler to step to the door and point towards some other portal then explain to turn left or right at that point.
I was transferred TDY for a few months once and crammed into a "prairie dog farm" of office cubicles.?ÿ My main function was the creation of easement documents.?ÿ This included plotting existing easements and, with the help of field data files, making the new easements parallel existing easements in the area.
The cubicles were just large enough to place a desk against one wall.?ÿ Mine faced south and it caused me all sorts of heartache.?ÿ The simple solution was to reverse the desk and have it face north...no can do.?ÿ The pre-wired power and computer hookups were fixed in the floor and the cables weren't long enough for the 'flip'.
I pulled the desk as far as I could away from the south wall so I could sit on the south side of the desk and face north.?ÿ The trouble was that I had to actually climb over the desk to get to the chair.?ÿ I endured, it really wasn't a problem unless someone yelled 'fire'.
Since I was on TDY the office manager wasn't actually in my T.O. he had little say about my day to day activities.?ÿ Every time he would "suggest" I do something different I would tell him "I'll be gone soon enough".?ÿ The day I cleaned out my stuff he told me he was glad I was leaving.
I told him we finally agreed on something.?ÿ 😉
PS - I left the desk in its modified position.
Our downtown streets are nearly parallel and perpendicular to the river, which mostly flows SE. This is a region where most roads follow the PLSS lines.?ÿ Just like your building, people here don't always agree on the directions.
I've always seen that and have wondered if it also came out of you dark & stormy too similar to jager? I have finally matured & stick with whiskey or vodka only where possible. These days I'm just fine with a couple glasses of nice bold red for dinner too
