[mrcartmeneses]

As one of those people who is like a walking GPS (I can take you somewhere if I’ve only been there once, or I can take you to a place if I know where it is, where I am but not what’s in-between, I have a 3d map in my head and can walk a route in my mind or visualise a place and its details) I’d like to offer the following advice...

Maybe you can learn to be good at navigating. I did it by just walking round London as a kid in an age without smartphones and without parents inclined to drive me places. Public transport in my area of London was also poor and I was a teenager with no money. I also grew up navigating for my parents on road trips.

However, from what I understand, spatial memory and spatial reasoning are somewhat innate. It’s perfectly possible that you just have very poor spatial memory and poor spatial reasoning and trying to change that could be fruitless.

Test my theory by looking at something across the room from you. Would you feel OK with trying to go and pick it up without opening your eyes?

[bergenty]

I don’t think the room analogy works. I can easily find my way to something in the dark and place rooms in a house in my head but I’ve never been able to visualize anything city or town scale spatially.