In the crawl-space tunnels at the power plant, you're supposed to light the matches to find your way towards the "fresh air" coming from the exit.  I'd imagine that fresh air would be blowing the flame away from the source since it is causing a breeze, but apparently the game designers envision a match burning towards the fresh air... because that's where the oxygen is?  I'm sorry, but matches don't quite work that way spent about 5 minutes turning around and around before I realized it was the opposite way I was expecting, with the match flame pointing towards the intended direction.  Anyone else find this odd?

In reality, you would find an exit if you went where the fire pointed, or if you went the opposite way. 
 
The idea is that there is a breeze moving through the tunnel system, and the origin is where the wind is able to enter, and then the exit is where it would be escaping.  
 
Basically, if you followed the flame you would still find an exit.

I didn't think it was causing a breeze, it was more that oxygen came from that way, and only that way, fires feed on oxygen and are drawn towards a source of fuel. It isn't going to blow away from what is powering it.

Usually, there's a pressure gradient across the exit of the tunnel which pulls air from inside the tunnel to outside the tunnel. Meaning there's lower pressure outside the tunnel (because of the higher air flow) and higher pressure inside the tunnel (because of the stagnant air flow). Hence the air tends to flow from inside to outside, pulling the fire along with it.

" I didn't think it was causing a breeze, it was more that oxygen came from that way, and only that way, fires feed on oxygen and are drawn towards a source of fuel. It isn't going to blow away from what is powering it. "

That happened to me the first time too, but once I hit the dead end I realized I was supposed to follow which way the flame was pointing. It didn't really make sense to me, but I did it anyways.
 
Also, that shit with the conductors was fucking intense. I was right in the middle with one burn left before I died. I had messed up on a few, and on one I didn't realize I was supposed to press the button repeatedly instead of just holding it down (this actually messed with me a couple of other times in the game as well.) I managed to get out before I died though, and goddamn was I relieved.
 
Never before has a game made me worry so much for the characters.
 
Well... maybe except for Final Fantasy Tactics. But that's another story.

All very creative answers.  A-
 
A_Faceless_Name, see me after class.

This was confusing me too because I was imagining that if I were blowing on a match, the flame would point away from me. So I figured if air was going through that it would blow the flame the opposite way too so when I first realized I went the wrong way I didn't understand that and looked it up. I guess I am going where the flame points, which still seems odd to me even after reading a few comments.