Alright.......in going with the symetrical thing Pip's talking about, I wanted to ask this. Justin and I were talking about it the other night.
When I'm sick, one side of my body is "sicker" than the other. And it's almost always my right side (not ALWAYS, but close)
So we got to wondering....is my right side REALLY "sicker" or does it just FEEL that way because I am right brained. Your right brain controls functions and nerves on your left side, and vice versa. So since I don't use my left brain nearly as much, does that mean it's also weaker in controling pain signals for the right side of my body??
Again, am I way the frick off base here??? LoL
< =text/>_popupControl(); When I am sick it is always my left side that hurts and aches more. I really don't know why and have no explanation for it.Katie,
I'm just like you! My right side is always worse.
Check this out to see if you're left or right brain dominent...
http://www.news.com.au/dailytelegraph/story/0,22049,22535838 -5012895,00.html
I've seen this - weird!
We experimented. Both the baby and hubby see her clockwise and I see her counterclockwise.
Figures!
Pip
It actually says that most people do see her counterclockwise! I see her clockwise, and even after much concentration, can't make her change to counterclockwise.
Are your husband and daughter right or left handed, Pip? I'm a leftie, through and through. Can't do a darn thing right handed.
< =text/>_popupControl(); Does genetics determine if a person is ambidexterous? I am a rightie...Danny is a leftie...my dad was a leftie...and Danielle is ambidexterous. But Danielle's swelling is always worse for her left hand and wrist.
I don't know Liz, I always thought right and left handedness was genetic, but that ambidextrous was a learned behavior...even though I have never been able to learn it.Actually Ambidextrous people use both sides of their brain mostly at the same time. She can probably reason herself out of a hissy fit, and is creative, but very step by step about it. Am I right?
I am Ambidextrous, and so is DS. I can actually make the girl switch back and forth. Yep, using both sides of my brain.....drives my hubby crazy if we are in a heated debate, and I can stop and say...oh...I see the logic in that. He calls them whiplash moments.
Edited 'cause I forgot to answer Katie's question.
I flare completely equal. If one hurts they all sing in unison!! Yep, probably the right brain/left brain connected crap!
I have been in a flare for 1.5 years and it is all on my right side.
Oh, ouch Poof! Sorry!
I'm right handed but think I was originally left until the nun's got a hold of me. And oddly, during my adverse reaction/stroke thingy, I went back to left handed, then ambi, then eventually back to right.
My brain is toast.
There was a post on AF that said if you concentrate on the dancer when she's pointing all the way left you can get her to turn back the other way. I can't but my hubby was able to.
He and the baby are very logical - and I am not - but the descriptions seem to be backwards to what he and I see/are like.
So, I'm confused.
Pip
She is all over the place for me! LOL I am a lefty, but use both hands just about equally as well, except writing.
In some people either genetics or just the makeup of the person. They never develop a true one side verses the other, but they always use both sides of their brain usually equally...however they may develop tendencies as they grow older. If you can switch the ballerina without effort, and write and do things with both hands...you most likely use both sides of the brain almost equally.
This drives MOST teachers absolutly batty, because these are the kiddos that are moving around, or thinking of their favorite song and listening at the same time. Most teachers are very right brained and cannot understand why these kids can concentrate like this, and what to do with them because they are not the norm. These are also the kids that can look at a word problem and know the answer without really thinking it through because they can always see the visual. Their emotions always flip-flop driving the emotionally stable right brained people up a wall, because again they can access the logical part of their brains while throwing a huge fit.
I personally love these kiddos cause I am one, and I have one. They are truely unique and gifted, but you do have to keep them busy. They are also the ones who do not get stuck in puberty, but will have some very strong emotions and logic running through.
These are your:
Mathmaticians
Architects
some engineers
Authors
etc. any thing that will use the creative side as well as the logical side of the brain.
I love how the brain works, and how if people work with their brain a lot you can hit a little of both sides all of the time. For some it takes work...for others it is a gift.
Here is something to have fun....take the test, and see where you are as far as dominance, and then do some more reading....Brain stuff is facinating to me!
http://www.mtsu.edu/~studskl/hd/learn.html
My dancer twirls counterclockwise until I look away, when I look back she starts going clockwise. Back and forth she twirls both ways, so much so I thought this was a trick until I read that she doesn't change for some of you.
I definitely have ambidextrious tendencies - some things I do well with my left hand, others with my right, but I would say I am more right handed than left. It always used to drive my mother crazy when she would watch me do hand sewing, because she said I sewed backwards! My dad was left-handed and my mother was right-handed, so maybe I just got a little of both of them - or maybe it was an unconscious observation on my part, watching my dad do things one way, and my mom the other.
First when I looked at lady she was counterclockwise, then I looked again and she was clockwise. My pain is mainly on left side but when it started was on right hand. My son's pediatrician told me when he was born almost 15 years ago that you can tell what hand a baby will use by the way their hair line twirls. His twirled in a complete circle and he told me that he was amindextreous (sp?) which I too am. I do lots of things with left hand and right hand. I used to be able to write with both hands. Left was a little sloppy now both are sloppy cuz of ra. VERY INTERESTING THREAD!
PS ::::: Son is amindextreous too.
This is driving me nuts!! I can't make the dancer go the other way!! I am def right brained. I answered 16 questios right brained and 3 left brained. Apparently I am stuck. I am an art teacher, so I guess that makes sense.
I am not sure what everyone is getting at with the pain. All my life only my right side of my body has been affected by the RA. Left just a tiny bit until recently. I tend to use my left hand more, because it doesn't hurt. I noticed I can do a lot with my left hand, I think becasue I rely on it to pick up for the lack of strength in my right side. I can't say if I agree that there is a connection. Weird
This is very interesting! According to the questionaire, I am a left-brained person (16 questions to 3). I had trouble answering some of the questions because depending on the circumstance would depend on the answer. Some of the answers I do both. Make sense?OK, I am right handed. When I looked at the dancer, I saw her go clockwise, then I read the little bit on the left, and now I see her going counter-clockwise and can't get her to go back.
I definitey have more pain on the right, although that was long before RA and my RA pain seems symmetrical. I thought the pain on the right was due to my cervical disc herniations, but when you look at the MRI's, you see that it's right in the middle (it makes a cute valentine shape!), so it shouldn't really be affecting one side more than the other.
Okay, now another thing to consider - doesn't the left brain control the right side of the body, and vice versa? That's why the joke that left handers are the only ones in their right brain. . .
Warning...I think some of you are invalidating the test that I posted. It is supposed to be gut level...just boom answer the question....don't stew over it. Pretend the keyboard is on fire and to put it out you must answer all of the questions in thirty seconds or less. If I stew about it I could come out totally right brained....which....I am so far from it isn't even funny.
Karen you are right. the centers of our actions are carried across the brain. That is why someone having a stroke on the left side of the brain will always effect their right side. So, left handed people are the only ones in their right minds(my son's bf always reminds me of that. I just tell him I was in my right mind too, before I had his beautiful girlfriend!!)
Ok seriously this dancing lady is driving me nuts. I CANNOT see her going counter clockwise. My husband and I have just fought about it for an hour. I am going to go crazy trying to see the other way!!