Does anyone else know if they’re lying the ‘wrong’ way round?

[Roseyposeypie]

Okay, so this is going to sound weird but if I’m away from home as soon as I lie down in the bed to go to sleep I can tell if it’s positioned in a different orientation to my bed at home. For example last night I was in an Airbnb and I just knew that if I was at home the bed would be turned 90 degrees in one direction. My husband checked a compass on his phone and I was right. This isn’t a one off, it happens to me everywhere I sleep that isn’t home. It doesn’t stop me sleeping but it feels ‘wrong’. Does anyone else have this or is it just me me?

Yes, I definitely have this and have a great sense of direction too. I generally know which way is north and I'm very good at remembering where I've been and how to get back by the feel of the directions. My partner calls it my inner pigeon 🐦 I thought I might get disoriented when on holiday in the southern hemisphere but I didn't, the pigeon worked there too

How else would you sleep other than horizontally? (Assuming you're in a bed.)

This is extremely interesting! Im not aware that I have this sense but I’m going to have a think about it

I remember hearing that ‘east west sleeps best’. My bed now is exactly east west as my house is exactly north south.

I was in a hotel last night and the bed felt like it was the same way. I’m off to google earth to find out.

I was wrong. North south.

Yes, more so when I was,younger but I still struggle to sleep the first night in an unfamiliar bed and it's partly the orientation.

Googles AI says this is a thing. Experiments have shown some peoples brains respond to shifts in magnetic fields.

Also says our brains have head direction cells that track which way we are facing relative to environment.

In my teens, I rearranged my bedroom, with the bed rotated 90 degrees from its original position. For months afterwards, I woke up every morning lying sideways across the bed, so that I was oriented the same way as the bed had been before I moved it.

It's not happened since I left that house to go to university.