If you ask a Romany, he will point just the direction, this direction is correct, but you cannot go there, because there are walls, houses and fences. A person, who does not have this mushroom picker orientation cannot go mushroom- picking, because they would get lost in the forest. What Romanies do not have is this space dividing orientation and sometimes this causes complications. Another common complication is the Roma s perception of time. Non - Roma usually perceive time in a linear fashion.
Event follows event.
This perception is caused by education. For Roma all the time is seen in present tense while non-Roma live predominantly in present or in the past. The present is only a tiny part of the Gad o s life. They experience their existence in the present only in connection with alcohol or a in dance with a beloved woman, otherwise they are still pushed to think about past and future. Roma, who live predominantly in present don t file their memories in the same way as non-Roma do.