I am the left brain. I am a scientist. A mathematician. I love the familiar. I categorize. I am accurate. Linear. Analytical. Strategic. I am practical. Always in control. A master of words and language. Realistic. I calculate questions and play with numbers. I am order. I am logic. I know exactly who I am.
I am the right brain. I am creativity. A free spirit. I am passion. Yearning. Sensuality. I am the sound of roaring laughter. I am taste. The feeling of sand beneath bare feet. I am movement. Vivid colors. I am the urge to paint on an empty canvas. I am boundless imagination. Art. Poetry. I sense. I feel. I am everything I wanted to be.
CAN I BE AMBRAINDEXTROUS
I’M FREAKING BOTH
Actually, everyone is both. Without both, one would suffer rather odd problems. Some people have one they favor, but most everyone can use both and most everyone does use both in their day to day lives.
To add to that, it turns out these concepts of the brain are more abstract than often expressed.
The right half is about perception and the present: it is what allows you to feel, but is simply about taking in things. It can’t exactly do much with these experiences, however.
The left half is about memory and the past and future: it is what can store information and processes, even stuff that has JUST happened, but it can’t exactly experience things in its own right.
Both halves can loosely operate and fill in for one another when one shuts out but this ability is very, very limited.
I recall a presentation by a neuroscientist who had suffered a stroke afflicting the left side of her brain, causing it to dip in and out of service. When she realized what was going on, instead of freaking out, her first reaction was ‘OH MY GOD THIS IS AWESOME, I get to actively analyze what one half of the brain actively does alone!’ (She survived.)
My science project for the 9th grade was one this. It was fantastic. I’m split in half for it.
Some other tests to consider are what side you wake up on, what foot you use to step first, and eye dominance.
If you wake on your left side, you’re physical self is left lobe dominant because of the fact that your right side is “stronger” than the left(excluding martial arts) and in a reaction to anything, your stronger side is used. In martial arts, it’s discouraged to use your stronger side because it shows more vulnerability on the weaker side.
Walking usually starts with the dominant side.
Dominant eyes usually have the better sense like catching differences, finer detail or distant objects. Moving your finger around to follow one eyes at a time and seeing how fast one eye follows usually shows dominance on x side. Timing can vary between a second or a millisecond/nanosecond. It’s really hard to tell sometimes.