Yes, do this. Don't be shy!

You can't tell how you'll react when your mouth starts to dry out. When I got lost I forgot all about my lovely VOR and simply flew around in a flap until I gathered the courage to own up.

I even forgot about saying Pan Pan. My call was "I'm lost, can I have a radar vector please?" Asked not to go any further west, I thought fine,I'll pick a nice round heading to fly on... west.

My head was completely scrambled, I'm making all these basic errors, and d'you know where I was? I was half a mile and closing fat, dumb and happy to an active para zone with a jump in progress.

The lesson is this! If you're in a jam reach out right away. Better to burn bright red in the cockpit where no one can see than risk burning on the ground and all over the news!

It does, and even minor features in landscape will give you sufficient feel where you are, but that needs training and the capability for something a friend called "pattern recognition". Last is a fading skill, deriving a feel for position on the basis of at first sight insufficient data - thats one increasingly killed by the GPS-brain-extension (had a weekend with some young boyscouts and their orientation skills in unknown terrain are decreased to a shocking minimum - guess they won't find from home to kindergarden without GPS ...).