Left Eye Dominant (Page 5): I use left eye b/c I am blind in right eye. I really have a hard time b/c I am legally blind in left eye but I still have some eyesight but dr qualifies me...

blind photographer Loc: Rock Hill, South Carolina

I use left eye b/c I am blind in right eye. I really have a hard time b/c I am legally blind in left eye but I still have some eyesight but dr qualifies me as legally blind.

Naturenut Loc: Salisbury, NC

I am left eye dominant and right handed.I also shoot well with guns or bow & arrow. I tend to leave both eyes open but can use either eye. Somehow my brain compensates so I really don't pay any attention how I see things.

Singing Swan

Ambidextrous and neither eye is dominant. The only thing I can't do well with my left hand is throw a horseshoe. Everything else, it doesn't matter. People will often ask me if I am right or left handed and I always answer...both.

Tea8 Loc: Where the wind comes sweeping down the plain.

Vi wrote:

I used to be right eye dominate until I had a stro... (show quote)

They were still training kids to go from left handed to right handed when I started preschool 18 years ago. I was well set in my ways by the time I reached preschool because my mother was a teacher. She also told them they had better not try to change me; I think that was mostly because she had tried already and I refused. So she sat across from me and I mirrored everything she did. I had another kid in my class who was changed by our teachers and he had horrible hand writing after that and told me it was because it never felt natural for him to be doing it right handed.

Riggs Loc: Central Coast Ca.

I am Right handed, left eye dominant. Seems to work well for me ergonomically, always leave smudge on LCD. For what it's worth, leave right eye open for ease.

Harlo '55 Loc: MONTANA

Left eye dominant also. Would have been totally left handed were it not for Sister Mary Raymond at St. Mary's School first grade. I write right handed and bat right but most every thing else is left sided. Anything that says "shoot" is done left handed. Rifle, bow,pool, etc. Issued an M-1 Carbine in MONTANA NG and every round of brass smacked me in the forehead just under the "bill" of my helmet. Some time it is a real handicap or more a nuisance. But, after 76 years, ya get used to it.skip

Glenn K

A fascinating thread. I'm right-handed. Shoot firearms with my right eye; cameras with the left. Opposite eye always closed. I employ the dorky snarl look with cameras but not with firearms. Am analytic but have no memory. And obviously in need of therapy.

Kenny Loc: Oregon

I, too am left-hand and and right-eye dominant. I shoot right-handed and use my right eye for the view finder. But, I golf and bat right-handed, and switch back and forth for other things -- that is until I cut my left thumb on a table saw thumb. Now, I do almost everything right handed.

maidensolo

I think this means I'm left brained in general, right?:
1. I am left eye dominant too and find it hard to use the viewfinder.
2. I started out using my left hand to write, and my mom made me change to my right hand, saying the "
world is made for right handed people".
My classroom teacher supported her wishes and made me use my left hand to learn to write.
3. I have the WoRsT handwriting I've ever seen.
4. However, I think partly due to the change, I became an extremely gifted classical pianist, and can use any hand as the dominant when playing an instrument.
5. In physical activities I am left footed dominant.
I'm creative, and not very organized.

Pilgrim Loc: Willow Grove, (SE) PA

As a lefthander, you must learn to compensate live in a righthanded world - no choice. I do 98% of what I do as a leftie. I even have a good pair of Wiss scissors that I use. I do a lot of home repairs (electric, carpentry, plumbing etc) and find sometimes that I'm forced to use righthanded tools. Someties a problem - my portable saw shoots the sawdust into my face. In the Army the rifle I used would eject shells right across my nose. Lefties will understand! The world is about 90% righties, so we have to learn to cope!
Interestingly, my wife is a rightie and BOTH of my daughters are lefties like me - unusual!
I use my right eye with my camera and keep the left eye open. And, yes, my nose leaves grease on my LCD screen but I use a protector on the LCD and change it frequently.
Lefties must learn to live in a righthanded world - suck it up!

Pilgrim Loc: Willow Grove, (SE) PA

As a lefthander, you must learn to compensate live in a righthanded world - no choice. I do 98% of what I do as a leftie. I even have a good pair of Wiss scissors that I use. I do a lot of home repairs (electric, carpentry, plumbing etc) and find sometimes that I'm forced to use righthanded tools. Someties a problem - my portable saw shoots the sawdust into my face. In the Army the rifle I used would eject shells right across my nose. Lefties will understand! The world is about 90% righties, so we have to learn to cope!
Interestingly, my wife is a rightie and BOTH of my daughters are lefties like me - unusual!
I use my right eye with my camera and keep the left eye open. And, yes, my nose leaves grease on my LCD screen but I use a protector on the LCD and change it frequently.
Lefties must learn to live in a righthanded world - suck it up!

jerryc41 Loc: Catskill Mts of NY

While we're on the right/left topic, my wife used to be a teller in a bank. Although she is right handed, she has always counted money left handed. The people in the bank had never seen anything like it.

What I mean is that she holds the pile of bills in her right hand and counts them out with her left hand. Of course, since I retired, it's not very often we have a pile of bills, and if we do, I find some photographic items I "need."

Vic. Loc: Ohio

I am right handed use my right eye can do anything with my left hand that can do with right hand except write. Do carpenter work so had to learn to use a hammer at times with left hand.

Kimberly Loc: Orlando, FL

I was taught the same thing in photography classes in college. It was a really hard habit, and still is, to keep both eyes open. It supposedly allows one to see/focus better. ???

Tea8 Loc: Where the wind comes sweeping down the plain.

maidensolo wrote:

I think this means I'm left brained in general, ri... (show quote)

If you do things with the left side of your body you are using the right side of your brain. Because you can play instruments with either side I would say that your brain developed an area in each side of your brain for playing. I believe that creativity and arts comes from the right side of the brain which makes since. If I haven't confused myself and gotten backwards the 4 years of psychology classes I have had.