[blackdog]

Middle of the night in a strange place I have always "felt" North, s e w , reliably.

As a pilot, once in air and enroute, never a clue without instruments. It most certainly is a terra firma sense for me.

[sparklite2]

I first visited Dallas at night, making an assumption on directional orientation. When I moved to the city, it was daylight and my intuited directionality was incorrect. It took me years to get straight on directions, if I ever did.