TIL Like casinos, shopping malls are intentionally designed to disorient visitors. The feeling of losing track of time and geography inside a mall is called the Gruen Transfer. en.wikipedia.org Submitted by Rifletree t3_11mvpn1 on March 9, 2023 at 3:54 PM in todayilearned 136 comments 1,664
CitationNeededBadly t1_jboevpp wrote on March 10, 2023 at 2:34 PM LOL. I have a recurring dream where I'm lost in a mall. Somehow I'm always in the wrong "wing". Which never happened in real life, our mall had "the wing with the arcade" and the other one. Permalink 1
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