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The "alien planet" thing afflicts me even in daylight.
I've usually got a pretty good sense of direction, so one glance at the sky to locate the Sun tells me roughly where North is, and then I've got my bearings, without really having to think about it. However, on a recent trip to Europe, I was having all sorts of issues. I was okay having to think consciously about the Sun lying in the South, but I really struggled with "flipping" my subconscious compass rose.
"Okay, so we need to go East, so face the Sun to face South, and then East should be on my right... No, left! "
It seems that my knowledge that the Sun lies in the North (in the Southern hemisphere), and that you point the top of the map towards the Sun, is even more powerful than the fact that it lies in the East in the morning and in the West in the afternoon.
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