Originally published at: https://boingboing.net/2019/03/18/humans-have-a-sixth-sense-for.html
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Well, that explains a lot, I think.
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I don’t think it does, we’re poles apart on this, frankly.
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“North UP! Dammit! NORTH UP!”
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So that’s why I’m always headed for the fridge…
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Tighten your tin foil hat, the signal with get jammed. Works for me.
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Yeah, I’m not falling for the old “Wanna see my carrot?” routine twice.
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Years ago, hiking through a caldera in New Zealand, I had this very weird sensation. I asked my geologist husband if this area could be magnetic. He said “most probably”. WTF! Never happened again.
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I don’t understand tin foil hats.
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What three times is a charm?
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“Five a day” gets you barred, OK?
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Weird. When travelling I have always been able to tell if I was sleeping in a different direction than my bed at home.
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Wonder if this varies from person to person? I get lost incredibly easily.
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Now I can trash my Waze app!
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They did check that their instruments were unaffected by magnetic fields themselves, didn’t they?
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I would like to see it tested on people from the southern hemisphere. I can usually find north, but I seem to use shadows and the sun. I wonder if Australian aboriginal people can do it? They have been living here long enough that they might have adapted to the southern field.
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I was once in a room with an unshielded MRI machine. Just being in there felt “off” - the machine exuded wrongness. I wonder if this is why.
Edit: Of course, that’s many orders of magnitude more powerful than the earth’s magnetic field. And the prevailing theory was that a magnetic field that strong induced movement internally that you couldn’t pinpoint, but that your body sensed, and that accounted for the sensation. That explanation never really sat with me, though - messing with instinctual direction-sense seems more consistent, to me, with what I felt that day
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