Dominant Eye

[imchristinak]

Just out of curiosity, I was wondering which eye you guys keep open and which you keep closed when taking pictures (or when you're at a shooting range or anything involving one open eye and one closed one).
I'm a righty but use my left eye when looking through the viewfinder. Found it to be confusing but was wondering what is normal for others.

 

[semicolon]

Hmm, I use my left eye when doing tasks which require just one eye, however I wouldn't call it my *dominant* eye. When I see things that are ambiguous (i.e. the pictures from my two eyes are not coherent and I see double - have I used the right terminology? ) my stronger image actually comes from my right eye. I think the reason I close my right eye is because it's more instinctive: closing the right eye comes more naturally for some reason (underdeveloped left eye muscles XD).

EDIT: I just realised: is that what you were trying to say as well?

 

[Jaico]

I think I'm like you, imchristinak. I'm right-handed, yet I tend to favour winking with my right eye, and whenever I play silent scope I always sight with my left eye...I haven't looked through a viewfinder in a camera in ages, because I have a normal digital camera, and not an SLR or anything fancy like that. I also just realized that I cannot for the life of me raise my right eyebrow without raising my left, yet I can cock my left eyebrow easily. Weird.

 

[RedLoki]

I'm left handed and left eye dominant. Playing with the Super Scope back in my childhood SNES days I remember using my left. Just like semicolon, I find it more natural to close my right eye. Closing the left feels so forceful and almost takes away from trying to focus with the right eye.

A little unrelated but I'm wondering... when people look into another persons eyes, do they tend to look at one more often than the other? I just realized I always looked at a persons right eye when talking or listening.

 

[Jah]

I try to alter between them, but seem to more naturally use the right one, (which would be consistent with dominant hand.

 

[semicolon]

I also just realized that I cannot for the life of me raise my right eyebrow without raising my left, yet I can cock my left eyebrow easily. Weird.

Same, but the other way round.

A little unrelated but I'm wondering... when people look into another persons eyes, do they tend to look at one more often than the other? I just realized I always looked at a persons right eye when talking or listening.

I don't look at their eyes at all I'm too introverted for my own good...

And I forgot to say, I'm right handed.

Brief summary:
Right hand dominant
Right eye dominant
Left eye used more than right
Can raise right eyebrow

No visible pattern there...

 

[Deckard]

I think this is totally learned. When I first started playing drums, it took a while for everything I was hearing & thinking to be coordinated independently with my limbs. When I began using the viewfinder in my camera, neither eye was better than the other, but both would leave me with blurry vision after I took the camera away from my eye. My eye muscles and brain needed to learn to adjust to these odd changes in focus and perspective. Now, it feels completely natural. It still takes a while for my eyes' focus to catch up after a shot, but I don't notice it because my brain has adjusted to it.

I have become accustomed to using my left eye in the viewfinder, but I don't think it would matter - my brain would adjust to either.

 

[RedLoki]

Same, but the other way round.



I don't look at their eyes at all I'm too introverted for my own good...

And I forgot to say, I'm right handed.

Brief summary:
Right hand dominant
Right eye dominant
Left eye used more than right
Can raise right eyebrow

No visible pattern there...

I just realized I can't raise my right eyebrow for the life of me. I've been trying for the past 15min, even holding my left down with my hand doesn't work lol.

I see a pattern with me though, left left left and left! But anything that uses two hands I tend to do it the right way; swinging a baseball bat, shoveling, etc.

I used to be the same with eye contact. I didn't notice it for the longest time because I would always give eye contact when people were talking to others, but as soon as they talked to me I'd look away instinctively. Now I just imagine I'm watching an interactive audio book. You almost have to look with a sense of apathy. It's almost funny noticing how uncomfortable most people are when holding strong eye contact.

 

[zxc]

Right handed, left eye seems to be 'dominant' (e.g. viewfinder) (agree with idea that it's learned not innate). However my right eye is slightly 'lazy' (lazy eye). Not reeeeally sure what it means, but I remember it from seeing an eye specialist years ago.

 

[EditorOne]

"I don't look at their eyes at all I'm too introverted for my own good..."

I'm OK with it until I find someone with a glass eye or a wandering eye. That's disconcerting.

I'm right-eye dominant and right handed.

For those who don't know what we're talking about:

http://www.archeryweb.com/archery/eyedom.htm

 

[Words]

I don't look at their eyes at all.

I've gotten it in the reverse. My eyes are all, in a purely observant manner, directed towards the person I'm talking to. I make it into a challenge of "arm wrestling" however, and wherein I pretend that my foe is as struggling as I am. The exaggeration makes humans feel uncomfortable, but the only choices available are concentrate or not look at all.

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Speaking of Dominant Eyes, mine is troublesome. Left-handed and right dominant eye, it makes target shooting difficult; I'm forced to having to practice which eye I should base my line of fire from, the right one.

 

[citrusbreath95]

Left eye, and right handed (If I do recall correctly)

 

[imchristinak]

seems like the majority is a right but left eye dominant. sloppy intp's.

 

[Yogi]

my right eye has always been dominant:

 

[snafupants]

The trick for finding out is putting your finger about a foot in front of your eyes and looking at an object with both eyes, with the finger between your eyes and the object. Now, leave your finger in the same place and close your right eye and then your left eye, noticing all the while where the object is in relation to having both eyes open. If the object is closer to the two eyed variety with your left eyed closed then you are right eye dominant and vice versa. Wow, made that overly complicated. Anyway, try it out: it works.

 

[EyeSeeCold]

I close my right and my left and keep the third eye open.

 

[snafupants]

I close my right and my left and keep the third eye open.

Can your third eye help you operate a vehicle?

 

[EyeSeeCold]

With my third eye, the most important place to be is where I am. Don't need to.

 

[Lostwitheal]

Right handed and left eye dominant. And I thought I was a weirdo.

Or perhaps I am a weirdo, and INTPf is just full of weirdos. Thinking about it that's probably more likely

 

[Dimensional Transition]

Right hand
Right eye

Woohoo

 

[Meer]

Right handed, right eyed, apparently.

My left eye sometimes sees colors cooler while the right eye sees them warmer. Sometimes.

 

[Dimensional Transition]

Right handed, right eyed, apparently.

My left eye sometimes sees colors cooler while the right eye sees them warmer. Sometimes.

I've found out that usually happens when I lie on my right side too.
I think it has to do with blood flow streaming more to the right than the left eye then. It also works when I lie on my left side, then my left eye sees colors warmer and the right eye colors cooler.

 

[Meer]

I really wanted to believe that my eyes were magical and special. You've ruined it for me.

If I lie face-down, will both of them see colors warmer? How would I know?

 

[snafupants]

With my third eye, the most important place to be is where I am. Don't need to.

Cut the New Age crap. Scenario: you are twenty miles from the nearest store and you desperately need food. You have been meditating for hours, yet you are still hungry. Do you A) stay in the house and starve to death? B) Drive your car to Target and pick up some grub?

 

[EyeSeeCold]

lol

C.) I would never live that far from food

Anyway I don't even have my license.

 

[dark]

I am sure glad this isn't a poll, I would fuck the results up because I have a condition that fucks my vision up. Bluntly I had a cataract in my right eye, had surgery and now have no lens in the right eye, but will hopefully get an artificial one later, long story really why they had to stop half way in.

So, Left eye dominate, for reason above. Both hands equally dominate, albeit if I use one hand for a certain task it will seem more normal then the other hand, but that doesn't keep me from the use of the other hand just as well. The hands share tasks really, each one seems proficient in its own task, and if calculated, I am sure they have an equal amount of tasks. Each hand does certain things better because that is how I trained them.

 

[snafupants]

^ Is it true that you gradually lose depth perception when reduced to one eye?

 

[dark]

^ Yep, I have no depth perception, I did up until I was 10, but it is gone now, the doctors say I will gain it back while wearing this contact but it may take a couple year. I can't watch 3d movies it just hurts my head, and the colours make the movie look like shit. I really wish I could see how everyone else sees the world. but I must admit when I first got the contact for my eye and didn't have a cataract, it was amazing, everything seemed so bright, everything seems to have a magical glow to it. It makes me think I am seeing something that isn't there, of course I wont tell the doctors, I like it. I sometimes feel I can see peoples souls, but then I realize I don't think I believe that. It is strange though, only living things give off that glow. Non-living things give off a slight glow but it seems different, of course it could just be my brain trying to understand all the new colours being brought in through that eye.

 

[Stoic Beverage]

I'm right handed, and can raise either eyebrow. Usually look at someone's left eye when I'm talking to them, and I view things with my left eye.
(I know I'm not contributing much in theory, I'm just trying to add a bit more data to the pool)

 

[Yogi]

A picture of a swan (not a falcon) is the correct way of saying my right eye is dominant:

 

[EvilScientist Trainee]

The eye of sauron has always been dominant - Until the One Ring was destroyed.

About me, I could say that I use my right eye more than my left eye. And even when I'm using both eyes to focus on something, I sense that I'm taking more info from my right than with my left eye. It may be just an impression or something.

 

[Jedi]

Right handed and left eye dominant. Apparently 2/3 people are right eye dominant. I feel special.

 

[Nibbler]

Another eye dominance test is:

1. Put a penny on the floor.
2. Put a hole-punch size hole in the center of a piece of printer/similar paper.
3. Stand upright in front of the penny.
4. Hold the paper down by your waist parallel to the floor.
5. Look at the penny through the hole.
6. Close one eye.

If the penny is still visible, then you're dominant in the open eye.
If the penny disappears, you're dominant in the closed eye.

 

[Nibbler]

I'm ambidextrous, meaning:

LEFT:
Eye
Writing dominant
Drawing dominant
Eating dominant
First step down stairs

RIGHT:
Writing ability
Drawing ability
Eating ability
Batting
Throwing
Punching
Kicking
Guitar
M-16/Firearms
Computer mouse
First step up stairs

Putting on/Changing shoes is a crap shoot. Putting them on depends a lot on which one I find first.

 

[Grattak]

i actually keep both of them open >.>

 

[crippli]

I use my right eye on the viewfinder. I thought it was because cameras are mostly made for the right eye. It will be inefficient using the left eye, as the control nobs will be obscured by most of the face.

I think right/left are just habits. When I was a kid, I used my left hand to fake my mothers signature and writing to my teacher when I needed a day or a few hours to relax on my own.

 

[Dr. Freeman]

I am very right dominant. My left eye is 20/40.