May Likes TorontoMaybe I'll build one of the many jigsaw puzzles on my shelf.
For someone who can't hold an image in their head, I'm surprisingly good at visual pattern matching.
Chuckles@mayintoronto that which makes a good filter makes a poor vessel #deep
Chris Siebenmann@mayintoronto I'm not convinced I can hold an image in my head and bicycling told me I am really, startlingly good at recognizing where I've been before.
(Perhaps the height of this was going on a new route once that the group ride leader put together on the fly, then coming back later on my own and deciding to just wing the new route from memory of 'oh I recognize that corner, I turn right here'. It was worth it because it's a better way to handle one bit of the Waterfront Trail.)
@cks I can do landmarks too, but I have the spatial sense of a potato.
@mayintoronto I'm lucky enough to have a pretty good spatial sense, although bicycling may have helped me grow it. Part of my bike (and walking) navigation is remembering and knowing how the route wiggles.
Don't ask me for street names, though. I'm hopeless on those, which makes giving directions to other people somewhat challenging.
(And there are people in the bike club who are amazingly good at navigating their way around, far better than me.)