[MD] brain test

[ian glendinning]

You got me there Gav ... I am also right eye dominant (indeed it's
official - I wear asymmetric contact lenses).

FWIW I don't believe right-brain / left-brain differences are "new-age
rubbish" but pretty general facts .... the brain as a system is more
effective if the two halves split their roles (which role is left,
which is right is not totally fixed - like not everyone has their
heart on the left, but the general asymmetry is real). Austin and
Pinker and Sacks have a fair bit about this I seem to recall.

As you suggest, the trick - of becoming enlightened - is to learn to
become aware of the value of your other non-domnant half - remembering
to make use of it.

Ian

On 1/23/08, gav <gav_gc at yahoo.com.au> wrote:
> make an 'o' with your thumb and forefinger and look
> through it with both eyes at a friend or object. now
> close each eye, one at a time, and see which eye is
> dominant: with one eye (left/right) you will still see
> the friend/object through the 'o'. with the other eye
> open the friend/object will be way out.
>
> left eye dominant: right hemisphere dominant:
> artistic, synthetic
>
> right eye dominant: left hemisphere dominant:
> rational, analytic
>
> i'd be betting on most being right eye dominant.
>
> integrated knowledge (non-dual) is right brain, left
> eye stuff.
>
> left brain dominance may lead to these people thinking
> right brain awareness is 'new-age rubbish', cos they
> honestly don't experience it very much. for them
> knowledge = analytic knowledge.
>
> try equalising imbalances by using, for example, your
> left hand for the mouse if you are right handed or, if
> you are thick-skinned, wearing an eye-patch over the
> dominant eye.
>
> i am right eye/left brain dominant.
>
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