Are You Ambidextrous?
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Join Date: 2003-02-20 Member: 13778Members
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<div class="IPBDescription">and how do we untap our brain powers?</div> Seriously, how do we? I heard of a theory that states that if we used 100 percent of our brain we would become pure energy. Ever watch phenomenon or any other movies with super intelligent beings and wished you had some sort of power like them? I am sure we all have.
Too bad we can't surpass our average 10 percent, because of the massive energy that the brain would require. If we could, who knows what we could acomplish. Maybe I have a wrong conception on this.
I have heard of a research on the brain's hemispheres left and right halves. If you are right handed you are supose to use the left side of the brain and so forth. The left side of the brain is more logical and anylitcal and the right side of the brain is more spatial and artistic. Also if you use both sides/hands (ambidextrous) with upmost efficiency you are likely to be really intelligent. What are the genetics involved here?
This is kind of an experiement, but anyways, please answer these questions:
Left or Right side dominance:
Writing hand:
Kicking foot:
Backscratching hand:
What hand would you use holding a stick:
Cutting hand:
Left or right eye dominant:
Fork and spoon hand?
Any advantages to being right or left side dominant? do you find yourself more artistic, but terrible at math?
Here is a rundown of me:
When I was young i was left handed, but my parents made me go right handed for reasons unknown..I was a natural right handed hockey player, but my dad bought me a left handed stick so I had to learn the hard way. My grandfather bought me the wrong set of junior golf clubs and I had to learn to swing righthanded. I cut scissors with my left hand and kick with my left leg. I write with my right hand and I can right pretty well with my left hand. I shoot a pistol with the same acuracy as my right. I also use a spoon/fork with my left and use a knife with my right.
So what exactly is wrong with me? Is this going to effect my in some way?
Peace
Too bad we can't surpass our average 10 percent, because of the massive energy that the brain would require. If we could, who knows what we could acomplish. Maybe I have a wrong conception on this.
I have heard of a research on the brain's hemispheres left and right halves. If you are right handed you are supose to use the left side of the brain and so forth. The left side of the brain is more logical and anylitcal and the right side of the brain is more spatial and artistic. Also if you use both sides/hands (ambidextrous) with upmost efficiency you are likely to be really intelligent. What are the genetics involved here?
This is kind of an experiement, but anyways, please answer these questions:
Left or Right side dominance:
Writing hand:
Kicking foot:
Backscratching hand:
What hand would you use holding a stick:
Cutting hand:
Left or right eye dominant:
Fork and spoon hand?
Any advantages to being right or left side dominant? do you find yourself more artistic, but terrible at math?
Here is a rundown of me:
When I was young i was left handed, but my parents made me go right handed for reasons unknown..I was a natural right handed hockey player, but my dad bought me a left handed stick so I had to learn the hard way. My grandfather bought me the wrong set of junior golf clubs and I had to learn to swing righthanded. I cut scissors with my left hand and kick with my left leg. I write with my right hand and I can right pretty well with my left hand. I shoot a pistol with the same acuracy as my right. I also use a spoon/fork with my left and use a knife with my right.
So what exactly is wrong with me? Is this going to effect my in some way?
Peace
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I draw all the time when im bored in class or waiting in labs. I use to draw even more when i was little. Im also good in math but i suck in english :/
Well besides the fact that you die before you reach 40 ambedextrous people only have the problem of becoming a sociopath. <!--emo&;)--><img src='http://www.unknownworlds.com/forums/html/emoticons/wink.gif' border='0' style='vertical-align:middle' alt='wink.gif'><!--endemo-->
If your right brained, your artistic.
If you are born ambidextrious, you are probably left brained (although possibly both left and right brained, most people are born left brained anyway).
Note, if your born right handed and you become left handed, your brain does not shift into right-braindedness.... (DOH!)
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Imagine the horror of the world if people had 100% of their brains available to them........... The sheer horror and madness. If you want to unlock your full potential, exercise it. That's how you build brainpower.
Left ability ... is equal to 0
Probably no correlation. There's genius' out there who aren't ambidextrous, so probably no relation.
Writing hand: Left
Kicking foot: Right
Backscratching hand: Both
What hand would you use holding a stick: I play tennis with my right hand, and hold guitarr right-handedly
Cutting hand: Right
Left or right eye dominant: Left dominant
Fork and spoon hand? Left spoon/fork
And im good at math and art(or so they say). So there is seriously something wrong with me?
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I can answer some of the brain related questions raised here. I was recognized from a young age as being a true genius, a person who not only utilizes both hemispheres of the brain equally, but up to 90% of total brain tissue. You might be wondering what it is like to have access to an additional 80% of my brain. Here's how it breaks down:
Beyond the initial 10% that most people use to walk around and not run into walls, the next level of usage, from 10 to 20%, does not in itself provide additional computational power. This zone regulates primarily the administering of hormones and endorphins related to confidence, enabling a much higher than normal state of sureness about one's abilities.
People who are further able to utilize an additional ten percent, for a total of 30% total brain usage, enjoy far superior debating skills and immunity from social critique. These people are not only able to reap the benefits of increased confidence within, but can take the next step of actively engaging other minds in the act of promoting and advertising these abilities.
The number of people who can access still higher percentages of their brains is small indeed. Like the group before them, this group exhibits an incredible hardness under pressure, able to address seemingly overwhelming simultaneous social attacks on the the validity of their abilities, and relational worth to society. Like a seasoned soldier in the Delta Force, this small group group of elite thinkers can single-handedly weather an entire roomful of people challenging their abilities, all at once. The total percentage of brain usage for this group is an issue of debate, but most researchers contend the total usage approaches a staggering 75%.
The final group, of which I count myself a member, pushes the very limits of the physical human brain potential. With 100% brain usage an impossibility over sustained periods of time due to oxidation stress, this group normally averages around 90% at any given time. In addition to surpassing the abilities of all the previously mentioned groups by small percentages, this group exhibits the unique ability to exist in a semi-transient state of psychedelic, hallucinogenic narcissism. This ethereal odyssey allows the person to all but ignore the external reality while experiencing a perpetual religious experience of existential self-worship and awe, pausing only briefly to address physical necessities with overwhelming efficiency and unheard of mental processing bandwidth.
I hope that was informative. I'll be checking in from time to time if there are additional questions.
<b>Writing hand:</b> Left
<b>Kicking foot:</b> Right
<b>Backscratching hand:</b> Ambidexterous
<b>What hand would you use holding a stick:</b> Either
<b>Cutting hand:</b> Either
<b>Left or right eye dominant:</b> Either
<b>Fork and spoon hand? </b>Left
<b>Any advantages to being right or left side dominant? do you find yourself more artistic, but terrible at math?</b> Good at both? I guess I'm just that good <!--emo&:p--><img src='http://www.unknownworlds.com/forums/html/emoticons/tounge.gif' border='0' style='vertical-align:middle' alt='tounge.gif'><!--endemo-->
I can switch hands or other things at will sometimes - like I can kick a soccer ball with either foot pretty well; but in karate my right leg kicks are 150% better.
However, I do like to switch hands in the middle of a fencing bout from time to time. However, most expericed people chew me up when I do that. Scares the hell out of the n00bs though <!--emo&:)--><img src='http://www.unknownworlds.com/forums/html/emoticons/smile.gif' border='0' style='vertical-align:middle' alt='smile.gif'><!--endemo-->.
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Left side - Logic
Right side - Imagination/Emotion
I heard from a friend that left-handed people do not tend to live as long (can't verify this)
The left and right side of the brain are linked together, the dominant side controls the non-dominant side. (I don't remember what happens when the right side is dominant, but if the left side is dominant, then you can talk coherantly, write and read, perform math normally, etc...) I think you become more of a visual person.
Not always, but usually equal dominance results in erratic behavior.
Right handed people (and right eyed) are usually left brained
Left handed people (and left eyed) are (sometimes, not always) left brained
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About 19% of lefties and 3% of righties are right-brain dominant.
i thought it was 12000 PE teachers. Or was that another episode/insult.
Lister: "He told us his IQ was 6000"
Queeg: "Its not 6000, but it has a 6 in it."
Rimmer: "Then what is it"
Queeg: "6"
Holly: "Thats a poor IQ for a glass of water"
Very true. I've done the same with Kendo style fighting...play lefty defensively, then switch to righty and cream them.
That is very neato bubbleblower, I wonder what it is like to have the other 80 percent of the brain to work with simoultaneously. It reminds me of my genius friend who gets 95 percent or higher in all his high school subjects.
What is it like bubbleblower to be avantageous in many intellictual situations? Man you must get a lot of headaches from all that brain usage. What was it like during childhood? Solving crossword puzzles in 0.02 secs hey? Do you find yourself in more harmony?
/me wonders how much ol Mr. Einstein used.
If i recall correctly, scientists have been studying Einstein's brain LOL. People say that he was very dumb as a child, but only because he learned differently.
EDIT: just found this...
"Einstein didn't even use 10 percent of his brain capacity. Studies of Einstein's brain showed higher than normal amounts of a type of brain cell in a part of his brain that may have indicated he used this part extensively for abstract thought. Neurologists are still unable to connect the brain with many activities especially those involving extraordinary feats. As far as using 100 percent of the brain, no creature found has been determined to use all 100 percent of its brain capacity."
"About that "using only 10% of our brain" thing. It is to my understanding that we only use 10% at a time. We do use 100% of our brain, just not with every task we do. If we did, we couldn't function, and would be thinking of a million tasks at ones, and would be mentally uncapable of anything really."
I don't know if these statements are reliable, but I caught them, while browsing another forum.
Did you know your brain has 2 diffrent rythms? there is alpha which is like when you using logical thought and stuff like that.
Then there is beta rythm. If you play any musical instruments or anything you probably know what this is like. If you play sports and get in "the zone" that is your brain in beta rythm.
Also if you play a musical instrument if you start thinking about it and stuff you start to mess up that is because your brain is switching from beta to alpha.
Did you know your brain has 2 diffrent rythms? there is alpha which is like when you using logical thought and stuff like that.
Then there is beta rythm. If you play any musical instruments or anything you probably know what this is like. If you play sports and get in "the zone" that is your brain in beta rythm.
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In other words, when you switch from analytical thought to the conditioned response and muscle memory situations. IE, you see the "a" note, and you automatically move your bow to play that note, you don't have to think about it. IE: Muscle memory. I get this a lot of times in fencing. I Don't have to think abotu what my blade is doing. I think "parry 4" and my forearm moves to my left, and my fingers aim my tip at their left shoulder, without me thinking about it.
The trick is, learning how to harmonize the two modes of thought. IE: He lunges, so I do a conditioned parry 4, then do what feels natural to repost the attack. Between phraises of action, I think back on what just happened, and I think of different ways to deal with such a situation, then queue up the moves in my mind so that when called upon, it becomes conditioned response, not analytical thought.
Writing hand: Right side
Kicking foot: Depends on stance and which part of my motion I am in
Backscratching hand: Both, though the right stretches farther back over the shoulder, so I can clench the fingers of my two hands together when its right arm up (and over the shoulder) and touch the tips of fingers on the left arm up.
What hand would you use holding a stick: How big is the stick? Is it a bo, kendo, practice sword or a club, as some of those "sticks" are two handed weapon style. If it is a walking stick, pole or cane, I would use my right hand, but this is also dependant on if a leg needed support, that is the side I would hold it on.
Cutting hand: Right side, like cutting a steak, right?
Left or right eye dominant: Not sure about this one, how do you test it?
Fork and spoon hand? Right side, I'm sure of this one, just finished breakfast.
Any advantages to being right or left side dominant? do you find yourself more artistic, but terrible at math?
I was extremely good at math, chemics, and physics, even tutoring others in it, until I was in college calculus, then I just burned out. I draw alot, having fun with sketches of cartoons and doing draft work too. I really enjoy creative story writing and have an extremely high imagination. I find that I am a decent instinctual fighter, having not taken any lessons in any fighting style, I have on occasion taken on those who have some belt or level and what not and trounched them hugely, probably because my self-taught self defense is very dirty, which is why I've been told that even play fighting with me I am too rough, though don't tell my brother that, he is has taken some wrestling and he can turn me into a pretsel if I don't land that punch to various sore spots on the body (temple, nose, jaw, throat, sternum, kidneys, groin, lower spine, inside of limbs, and top of foot/hand) or do various choke holds. I also rarely feel embarassed, insulted, or a lack of confidence. Though, despite others telling me I am very smart or analytical by their standards, I have observed that I have terrible "luck" and "charisma", as in I seem to be consistently the one who accidently gets kicked in the balls by women during, say, soccer and then being laughed at by pretty much everyone but they won't remember my name, or invite me to social functions because of it. I find myself wishing that I wasn't as smart as others think I am (I don't see it) just so I can land jobs and go to parties that "popular" (see: charasmatic, charisma) people seem to get handed to them on a silver platter. Does anyone here know what I mean?
Finally, I am curious as to where some of you (especially bubbleblower and DumbMarine) are getting your facts for this little "study" in the discussion forums. Are their already some online documented studies into how the brain functions and how that affects those with particular brains?
Also, if you used too much of your brain, wouldn't it over heat, I mean, we're talking about electrical charges here and chemical reactions, that produces heat, and I remember reading somewhere in a survival book that you should cover up your head cause that is where you loose most of your body heat so it should be fact some how. That could easily explain how those who use around 50% to 100% of the brains computational power might hulicinate and think they are observing themselves cause they are in over heating and killing their brain, not to mention where the heck would there be enough storage space to move information around in for huge computations if you were using that much, it would be like having too little RAM and the fps on your "brain game" dropping to the low 5-10 fps, slide show time. At least, that's how I think of it, take careful note I have mentioned my silly huge imagination before. <!--emo&;)--><img src='http://www.unknownworlds.com/forums/html/emoticons/wink.gif' border='0' style='vertical-align:middle' alt='wink.gif'><!--endemo-->
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Apparently helps us humans use more than 10% of our brain..
... at one time. It's a common misunderstanding for many people that humans only use 10% of their brain total. They in fact use 100% of their brain, just not all at once. It's one of the few things I remember from my psych degree.
College was a waste of time for me (except in the hoochie dept). All I have from it is trivia... >_<
LOL, I'm starting to get concerned. People are taking what I wrote seriously, while I thought it was pretty obviously sarcastic. I was just basically making up BS showing how the more a person thinks they use more of their brain, the more they act like an as$hole.
When I was growing up I was a little on the arrogant side when I was in school. I was one of those people who had a photographic memory, and good logic skills, and generally aced everything without studying, and towards the end was getting in trouble for not showing up and yet still acing everything. As a result I started getting a little elitist, and lived my life as if school and standardized tests were a good benchmark of human worth.
That's a tragically simplistic way to look at things, and something I regret today. I alienated a lot of people that I think I could have been friends with, and became exceedingly lazy. I didn't work towards my dreams, and didn't take the right risks, thinking I had already maxed out, and that the world was going to be handed to me on a platter in exchange for my good grades and natural abilities.
Obviously there is bound to be physiological differences between people's brains in terms of which zones are stronger or weaker, and of course they are getting more sophisticated and measuring some of these things with CAT scans and such. But in terms of day-to-day life, assessing who is right or wrong, or good at something, or "the right man for the job", continues for me as an adult to be difficult. Traditional academic institutions are only good at benchmarking certain kinds of personalities- i.e, people that for whatever reason give a $hit about what they're trying to cram down their throats. It's funny, I was treated like a golden child when I got good grades, even though I was at my weakest both philosophically and intellectually when I did so. In order to benchmark something, you need reliable data, and for most of real life that data doesn't exist, because it falls into the realm of subjective psychology.
I'm not by any means attacking the intentions of this thread, as it seems genuinely curious and scientific, but since a lot of the posts brought up things like math classes and such, I felt like offering my opinion that those types of things are a poor indicator of a person's overall logical ability. I'm qualified to say that- I did more than good at it- but as I got older and started tuning out school for more philosophical reasons, it opened my eyes to the fact that a lot of other people tune it out too. Some of them may well be morons, but some of them are geniuses, struggling quietly through life with little or no appreciation or recognition.
Bubbleblower: What would you consider reliable data? I think most job employers look for experience and human character first, when it comes to a tough job like lets say, hmm, becoming an astronaut? Personally, from what my pops would always say and from what is mostly common sense, it is more important to be a good person than being the best or something like that. Tests like those IQ benchmarks IMHO don't show dope about your potential; some people can be really really bomb on those tests, but show outstanding achievements in carpentry or art, so in other words no one is terrible at everything. Another little analogy, Van Gogh wasn't another realist clone artist, who drew with Rembrandt accuracy, but his art is mostly known for the odd style and expression he put into it. What I am pointing out, which you have already "somewhat" touched on is that everyone is truly unique. In a report on millionaires that I read, almost all of them achieved sucess, because they led *simple* and hardworking lives. Some humans are gifted with higher intelligence, some are extremely artistic, but it is up to us to do what is best for our lives. Maybe you shouldn't listen to me, because I don't walk the walk.
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It's called neuroscience. You can learn it in school (along with some other sciences).
And yes, there are some websites where you can get some statistics. (Whether or not they're true, it's up to you)
Probably a lot less wrong than with the fools who made up the idea that right and left handedness plays a determining role in your life.
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