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05-03-2007, 08:08 PM
|  | Commander of the Wild Empire | | Join Date: Sep 2004 Location: Sunny Doncaster
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| | | Left Eye Dominant
I was reading Oscars post on another thread where he said he was LEFT EYE DOMINANT and it reminded me of a recent conversation I had with Cherrybee and Eeyore. It appears I am left eye dominant too. I use my left eye for my cameras' viewfinder.
Is that strange or common? I just cant imagine using my right eye. By the way, I am right handed but would also normally drink a pint with my left hand. |
05-03-2007, 08:23 PM
|  | Knight Grand Cross of the Wild Empire | | Join Date: Oct 2005 Location: Nottingham
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| | | Re: Left Eye Dominant
Interesting, I use my right with the viewfinder but I'm a full lefty in every other way. |
05-03-2007, 08:26 PM
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I'm right handed and right-eyed. I do have a friend who is right handed but left footed 
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05-03-2007, 08:30 PM
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I'm right eyed and right handed , however i can drink ambidextrously or indeed two fisted as the mood takes me 
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05-03-2007, 08:33 PM
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As one of the poor down trodden left handed, I've always used the fact I was forced to play sports, such as golf, cricket etc, right handed as the perfect excuse of why I wasn't much good at them!
Who knows, I could have played for England if only the schools had left handed cricket bats.  |
05-03-2007, 08:38 PM
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Originally Posted by Boddie  I use my left eye for my cameras' viewfinder.
Is that strange or common? I just cant imagine using my right eye. | Me too, although I'm righthanded.
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05-03-2007, 08:39 PM
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| | | Re: Left Eye Dominant
Its looking like I am NORMAL afterall.
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05-03-2007, 08:41 PM
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Not if you're like me.
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05-03-2007, 08:43 PM
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I'm rigt handed but very left eye dominant but have always used my right in the viewfinder, maybe i should change  |
05-03-2007, 08:49 PM
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| | | Re: Left Eye Dominant
I am usually right handed (I write with my right hand etc), however when playing cricket/golf I play left handed which I always found a bit strange 
But then I had a friend at school who was left handed but played cricket/golf right handed so explain that one
But I must admit I am right eye dominant and cannot imagine trying to use my left eye |
05-03-2007, 09:40 PM
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Interesting - I am right eye dominant, but left-handed (sort of). I write with my left but do almost everything else with my right (tennis, scissors, sewing, etc). I use my computer mouse in either hand (useful to counteract RSI).
I cannot imagine using the viewfinder with my left eye, though.
Jenny |
05-03-2007, 10:45 PM
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Originally Posted by jennyb Interesting - I am right eye dominant, but left-handed (sort of). I write with my left but do almost everything else with my right (tennis, scissors, sewing, etc). I use my computer mouse in either hand (useful to counteract RSI).
I cannot imagine using the viewfinder with my left eye, though.
Jenny | I am left handed and left eyed in that I use left eye to viewer. Like Jenny I sew etc right handed. Jenny, do you use your cutlery right or left handed? I suspect many left handed people were taught to do other things right handed or copied from those who where right handed. I can also write fairly legibly with my right hand due to losing the use of my left hand for a year as a girl.
jaki
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06-03-2007, 06:20 AM
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| | | Re: Left Eye Dominant
I'm right handed, right eyed, right footed and a right loon.
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06-03-2007, 07:18 AM
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| | | Re: Left Eye Dominant
I have a dominant L/eye,but will use knife and fork with either hand
I used to shoot L/handed but when asked if I had ever tried R/handed
I changed over and never looked back(I am "normally" Right handed)
I think that a lot of people are bullied into Right-handedness by schools
and parents so that they conform to the norm
Do not tell insurance companies that you are ambidexterous as you
could lose out in the unfortunate circumstance of losing a hand
A friend of mine used his camera upside-down, Left eyed, Left handed and could not use the shutter release properly otherwise
Look out for anglers cross winding a r/hand reel
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06-03-2007, 07:53 AM
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Originally Posted by Garden Carpet I am left handed and left eyed in that I use left eye to viewer. Like Jenny I sew etc right handed. Jenny, do you use your cutlery right or left handed? I suspect many left handed people were taught to do other things right handed or copied from those who where right handed. I can also write fairly legibly with my right hand due to losing the use of my left hand for a year as a girl.
jaki | Jaki, I use cutlery right-handed. We live in a mostly right-handed world and I think many left-handed people just learned to do things right-handed because there are more right-handed tools/equipment around - scissors, golf clubs, guitars, for example. It must be a real pain using left-handed scissors.
How do you thread a needle, Jaki? I hold the needle in my right hand and put the thread through with my left. I have been told that this is left-handed.
I have always had trouble with directions and I have always put this down to being left-handed (or ambidextrous). I am one of those people who has to hold a map upside down when I am travelling south I cannot reverse directions in my head.
Jenny |
06-03-2007, 08:48 AM
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I'm right handed but left footed, which used to cause problems when I ran the 100m hurdles in the very dim distant past.  I'm right eye dominant, but as my left eye doesn't see well at all I don't have much choice anyway. |
06-03-2007, 09:16 AM
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Right handed, right footed, left eye dominant - so you are not the only one. |
06-03-2007, 10:53 AM
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Originally Posted by Boddie Its looking like I am NORMAL afterall.
Damn | NORMAL you
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06-03-2007, 12:53 PM
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Originally Posted by jennyb How do you thread a needle, Jaki? I hold the needle in my right hand and put the thread through with my left. I have been told that this is left-handed.
I have always had trouble with directions and I have always put this down to being left-handed (or ambidextrous). I am one of those people who has to hold a map upside down when I am travelling south I cannot reverse directions in my head.
Jenny |
I can do it both ways Jenny but tend to favour the needle in the left threaded from the right. I dont mind which way I do things so long as I can do them I cant use left handed scissors!!
I am lucky that finding my way has never been a problem I seem to have some sort of homing device but I have been known to turn a map to see the route better.. sort of looking 'down' the road. Perfectly logical Jenny
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God made a few perfect people. The rest he made right handed!
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06-03-2007, 02:03 PM
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Isn't that supposed to be a woman thing? Having to turn maps to read them, I mean. |
06-03-2007, 02:41 PM
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I am left handed and use my right eye for the view finder, I have never had any problems with learning most things – I can remember when I was a young girl being taught to sew and knit by my Grandmother, but she called me kack handed (Northern Term I think ) because I could not learn to crotchet with the needle in my right hand, still I got there in the end. I think it confused her more than me.
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06-03-2007, 02:46 PM
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Originally Posted by Susie Isn't that supposed to be a woman thing? Having to turn maps to read them, I mean. | Oh dear, I'm obviously not a woman then. I knew there was something.... |
06-03-2007, 04:45 PM
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Originally Posted by smartie Oh dear, I'm obviously not a woman then. I knew there was something.... | It is the sensible thing to do ....like asking for directions... summat men tend not to do
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06-03-2007, 05:08 PM
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Originally Posted by Wild-Woman I'm right handed, right eyed, right footed and a right loon. |
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06-03-2007, 05:48 PM
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The right side of my body just stops me falling over sideways. No good for anything else! I'm very left handed indeed.
Like Jenny, I have great difficulty with maps.
I've even got a left-handed five-string banjo! (Can't play it!)
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