Fact 89: Do people actually walk round and round in circles when they're lost?
Fact 89: Do people actually walk round and round in circles when they're lost?
The short answer is yes.
The slightly longer answer is that this only tends to happen in foggy or there is a storm or interestingly if people can't see the sun or moon and if there are no navigational clues or any markers trees or any building or fix point in which to work out where you are.
The original reason which is not true do not read this and think it is true because it is not true, with that in mind the original reason for people walking around in circles when they're lost was, that one leg was stronger than the other so if your right leg is/was your stronger leg then over time you would start to walk in that direction, this is still not true don't forget that and has been proven to be false.
This is however true that research done by Max planck Institute for Biology Cybernetics (Tübingen, Germany) in 2009 found that it is actually because of our brains this was proved by volunteers who were placed in a remote part of the Sahara in Southern Tunisia or in the Bienwald Forest in south-west Germany and track by GPS (the Global positioning Satellite) to see how they walked.
The research showed that the volunteers were capable of walking in a straight line unless they couldn't see the sun or moon then they started to walk in circles this shows that the leg theory is false and it is just our brains trying to navigate without anything to use to navigate from like a tree or a building or any other visual points or light. When some other volunteers were blindfolded they were able to work out using GPS that the average diameter of the circle walked by the volunteers was 20 metres (66 feet).
*Cybernetics*
Oxford English dictionary definition of Cybernetics: "The science of communications and automatic control systems in both machines and living things."
