Feeling lost usually means you walked off the map you already knew. That was the whole point.

Disorientation is what leaving familiar ground feels like from the inside. The old map stops matching, and your first instinct is that something has gone wrong, when the mismatch is actually proof you moved. Nobody feels lost inside a routine. The confusion and the growth are the same event described from two different angles.

When it hits, resist the pull to sprint back to where the map still works. Write down what you know for certain right now, however small, and take one step from there. New maps get drawn by walking, not by standing still and worrying about the old one.