sux2 said:
Here's one I have wanted to know. Why do (some?) people only have one eye open when they first wake up and in bright light
I'd be interested to know that one, because I do the whole one-eye-open-in-bright-light thing, but I have never really looked into it.
The eye that I close is also my lazy eye, but I'm not sure if it's lazy because it doesn't get enough action due to being closed half the time, or whether I just close it because it's lazy anyway so it's the easiest way to block out half the light. I suspect it's probably the first one. I have no idea why full light through one eye is more acceptable for my brain than half light through both though.
On the ambidexterity thing, my lazy eye is my right eye, and I'm so used to using that eye for everything that I can function as normal just using that one, even down to being able to catch a ball (despite the fact that you lose depth perception). I found a while ago that if I close my left eye and only use my weak eye, I found it quite difficult to even walk down the street in a straight line, and I couldn't maintain focus for very long. Since then I've been trying to train my lazy eye and can now use it for most things, so it's definitely improving.
When my right eye stops focussing, it rolls off to the side a bit, so I get 2 images of the world that don't overlay properly. Generally when that happens the view I get from my right eye just gets ignored and I may as well not have it open. Recently though I've been working on trying to maintain them looking in different directions but watching the image from my right eye, and I discovered yesterday (after reading this thread and deciding to try it) that I can switch focus between the two eyes so I can watch each independently.
As to whether you can train your weak side, I reckon you can if you work at it, although I think you would naturally always favour one side. I found
this while I was looking around for info on the subject.
a Mad Kenpo Scientist said:
Each side of the body is controlled by opposite sides of the brain. For example, when learning a left kick, a synaptic pathway must be created or established through the right side of the brain and vice versa. No matter how you train, the left and right pathways will never be identical in function. Even though the two sides of the brain function together, they do not have identical ways of performing the same function. They may produce identical physical movement, but how the movements are produced and controlled from the brain are very different.
a Mad Kenpo Scientist said:
Most [people] have unreasonable expectations with regard to weak side performance. If we anticipate we can train the weak side to perform equally with the strong, we are mistaken. Because of how the brain works, you cannot attain the exact same degree of skill on both sides. It would be like attempting to teach yourself to write equally as well with both hands. You may achieve an acceptable level on the weak side but the strong will always be better and dominant.
Wikipedia has
this to say about left handedness.
up all night said:
ahhh wikipedia.
Who needs Popavich any more?
Rejection.
Who would have thought that I would be made obsolete by the Information Superhighway? Still, it's not the first time a guy has been superseded by electronic devices.... if only you could teach a vibrator to mow the lawn.
) humourous/interesting contribution, rather than flooding us with threads about how the usa is going to take over aus ![:\](https://bluelight.org/xf/BL_Images/Orig_Emoji/wrygrin.gif "wry grin :\")
