I hope I'm not asking too many questions; your spiral concept intrigues me. So, in your mind's eye, are you seeing the spiral from a side view, as if looking at a corkscrew from the side, or are you inside the spiral and watching it revolve and unfurl around you? Similar to your directions issue, whenever I'm told to go left or right, I have to physically look down at my hands, think about it, extend my right hand outwards, physically orient, and have to follow in the direction my hand is pointed at or I have to start all over again.
I am in the spiral, but can look back, or think about the future. Like I have swimming exercise class, Monday and Wednesday, and Pilates on Thursdays. I can see that pattern the rest of the semester, while also thinking about graduation and transfer paperwork, due before December. The driving thing is a bit more complicated. I have my license, but I make sure my boyfriend teaches me how to drive, every once in a while, so I am better at driving, than he is drunk. Most of it has to do with ideological motivations, about oil policy and global warming. I don't drive as a public service, as many more bad drivers should. I would be an early adapter of self driving cars if it was electric, and I could afford it.