disorientation

disorient | American Dictionary

disorient
verb[ T ]
us/dɪsˈɔr·iˌent/
to make people confused about where they are and where they are going:
It’s easy to get disoriented because all the streets look alike.

Examples of disorient

disorient
Patients have difficulty negotiating the environment, become lost in their surroundings, and spatially disoriented even within their own home.
Rather than disorienting us, such work potentially creates a clearer sense of place and belonging for both composer and listener.
Victorian reviewers, somewhat disoriented, offered a variety of explanations for these apparent technical lapses.
These passages of pastiche are interleaved with the more severe, serial music, creating abrupt and disorienting stylistic juxtapositions.
For most royalists such a settlement promised only a limp, powerless church and a disorienting religious pluralism.
These included : light-headedness, feeling ' spacey ' or disoriented (n=5), puffy face, slight swelling in the throat, increased blood pressure, and ' queasy ' stomach.
Separated from family and village, people are quickly disoriented.
The more isolated and miniscule these discussions of visions become, the more powerful and disorienting the revelations.
In addition, the dissociative effects of embedded grouping dissonance arise within a club environment that serves to disorient participants in a variety of ways.
The explanation he offers for continuing the masquerade is an analysis of the disorienting temporality of the self and the consolations of history.
My view is that medicine is not simply a little off course, but profoundly disoriented.
The fact is just that they do not utilize both forms of information when disoriented.
Even the tinny sound of a string which is not coupled to the bridge and plates of an instrument can be disorienting.
Following 1-7 days of a febrile prodrome with headache, weakness, and gastrointestinal symptoms, patients become drowsy, confused and disoriented.
This suggests that the hallucinated, delusional, disoriented, and paramnestic quality of dream cognition may be associated with inhibition of these structures during sleep.
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