Walter Murch in In the Blink of an Eye:

A beehive can be moved two inches each night without disorienting the bees the next morning. Surprisingly, if it is moved two miles, the bees also have no problem: they are forced by the total displacement of their environment to reorient their sense of direction, which they can do easily enough. But if the hive is moved two yards, the bees will become fatally confused. The environment does not seem different to them, so they do not reorient themselves and, as a result, they will not recognise their own hive when they return from foraging, hovering instead in the empty space where the hive used to be, while the hive itself sits just two yards away.

Believe it or not, this is about film editing. Quite the exception, this is an analogy I like.