Do we perceive north as "uphill" ?

I believe the Ancient Egyptians regarded South as 'up'.

I have never thought of the hill thing before. When I refer to a town on the map that is north of my I call it up.

Is that why us northerners are hard work?

In my early days I used to go to school in the snow knees deep and yep it was uphill (both ways) and the school was North

It's weird, when I was younger, whenever the channel number on the cable tv box went up I thought of the number ascending to the left. Similar kind of.

i always thought coming home from a long drive seemed like going down hill,even though i knew it wasn't Same here. I think I do kind of fall into what they're talking about in the article, or something similar. It's not a conscious thought process whatever it is, that's for sure. But it does feel different somehow traveling north vs traveling south.

Is this weird or what. I think odd numbers are left and even numbers are right. I don't really think that but I'm right handed and prefer even numbers lol.

The tendancy to prefer going South may be caused by genetics. I'm interested in seeing how many of the people participating in the experiment have strong British decent in them because in Britain going North usually does mean a trip uphill. If its an American experiment then you have your answer. You've inherited some weird behaviour from us British lol. I have some other wierd urges too such as I dont like living inland as it panics me. I prefer the coast. May be the same sort of thing. The English would always ask about the weather in polite conversation because it changing could mean terrib... [More]

Well look at that. I'm a synesthetes I seem to fit the bill pretty good. Thanks Rosewin I never new that before. I had to goggle it lol

That is pretty cool actually.