Growing up smack dab on the east coast, my personal, internal compass never fails to tell me where EAST (& salt water) is. I think I'm connected to salt water. BUT, if you get me hundreds of miles away from salt water, my compass quits working. Yikes! I was so disoriented in PA, WV, IL, IN, TN that I couldn't tell up from down, north from south or anything else. I felt like my head was constantly spinning. That was long before GPS.