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Question: I have a strong sense of a "dominant" direction (often, but not always, west). This direction is self-apparent in virtually every memory or mental visualization of any location I can think of. So, for example, captain's chair on the USS enterprise "obviously" faces "east", and the library on Myst island is obviously on the north side. I'm not going to forget which direction is down, and I'm not going to forget which direction is (usually) west.
Does anyone else here have oriented spacial memories?
There are (indigenous) languages/cultures which give directions in absolute (compass) terms instead of our usual left/right/front/back terms. I'd guess that implies that memory gets tagged with that a lot. I'd also guess that some people are more naturally predisposed to deal with that. Like you.