only one thing...

which are you?

LEFT BRAIN FUNCTIONS

uses logic
detail oriented
facts rule
words and language
present and past
math and science
can comprehend
knowing
acknowledges
order/pattern perception
knows object name
reality based
forms strategies
practical
safe

RIGHT BRAIN FUNCTIONS

uses feeling
"big picture" oriented
imagination rules
symbols and images
present and future
philosophy & religion
can "get it" (i.e. meaning)
believes
appreciates
spatial perception
knows object function
fantasy based
presents possibilities
impetuous
risk taking

Actually, it is a sort of safety. For instance, the optic chiasm is in the shape of an X, and the left eye goes from lower left to upper right, leading to the right side of the brain. Opposite is true for the right. It is quicker for it to go straight, at least from what I've read in the book "Left Brain, Right Brain".  This means it'll go straight to the opposite side of the brain.  However, if you were to damage the right side of your brain, because of the fact that they pass each other, your left side of your brain actually CAN take over some functions the right side originally controlled. That is one way stroke victims can get back use of their hand, though pretty much never full use again.  Unfortunately, I don't remember much more than that since it has been about 3 or 4 years since I read the book.

know what... 90% of all people are actually controlled by the Left Side of the Brain. The Logical part...

there was experiment done in which the halves were disconnected from each other at the corpus collosum, while preserving the functions. The results were startling...

With their communications link severed, each side of the patient's brain was functioning independently. Although this did not prevent his ability to walk, talk and eat, some unexpected findings were encountered in some of the higher brain functions when each side was examined independently of the other.

The right hand and eye could name an object, such as a pencil, but the patient could not explain what it was used for. When shown to the left hand and eye, the patient could explain and demonstrate its use, but could not name it. Further studies showed that various functions of thought are physically separated and localized to a specific area on either the left or right side of the human brain. This functional map is consistent for an estimated 70 to 95 percent of us.

In essence, wee all are two people because wee are two brains. The two brains not only see the world in vastly different ways but, in our current society, the left side just "doesn't get" what the right side is all about. It tends to dismiss anything significant coming into consciousness from its "flaky" cranial twin. Sometimes two sides can actually disagree, resulting in our perception of emotional turmoil from the expressive protests of right brain.

Our conscious mind can only focus on data from one brain at a time. Wee can switch from one side to the other very quickly (with our corpus collosum intact) but that's not always the most efficient way to act and eventually ultimate authority to enter consciousness is delegated to one brain or the other. In our modern world, this battle is almost always won by the left brain.

It appears that most people will never reach their maximum potential because of compromises that have been made between these two governing bodies. Sometimes skills which the right brain can perform better are routinely handled, with less skill, by the left brain. Ideally, both brains work together in people with optimum mental ability. This coordinating ability may be the key to superior intellectual abilities. In most people, however, the left brain takes control, choosing logic, reasoning and details over imagination, holistic thinking and artistic talent.

Methods have been devised to "shut off" the left brain, allowing the right side to have its say. Creative writing courses often use this method to combat "writer's block." The logical left side is easily bored by lack of input and tends to "doze off" during such activities as meditation (repeating a mantra or word over and over) or in sensory deprivation environments. The right brain is then able to "sneak" into our consciousness, filling our minds with emotional and visual vignettes and freely associated images. All too quickly, though, the left brain will assert itself and dispense with these irrational images, asserting its Spock-like logical dominance and the right brain will have to be content to find expression in dreams.

@feiniks.  Another thing from the book I was talking about is a cool effect that happens when the corpus collosum and optic chiasm are both disconnected.  They did it with a cat, in which they taught it to do one thing in a normal environment, then they covered one eye and taught it something, and it was able to do it again.  Next, they covered the opposite eye, and it was unable to do it anymore.  This was because only the half of the brain that was related to the eye that was uncovered while learning the activity learned it.  The other half never learned anything.  In this case, the left eye now went to the left side of the brain and the right eye to the right side.  The reason I am being so vague is because I don't remember the exact activity.  Regardless, it all goes back to having a safety, which is the corpus collosum in many cases.  They were doing experiments to find out if severing the corpus collosum would do anything, and they saw absolutely no difference until this experiment.  It just so happens your body has multiple safeties, and the optic chiasm is one of them.  

Another thing is that certain body language changes depending on which side dominant a person is (often related to whether you are left or right handed, but NOT always the case).  Most people, when they are recalling, they look to the left, and when they fabricate (or lie), they look to the right.  However, people who are right brain dominant, are the opposite.  This is one small trick some psychologists use to see if a patient is trying to deceive them, however it does not always work, so it is just a small way to check.

Sparker Wrote:

feinicks Wrote:Wee all know that our nerves cross over at the some point near the spinal cord. This effects in our right side being controlled by the left part of the brain and the vice versa.

Weird, eh? Wonder why?

It's because it's the way our genetics intended to be.
can't give you a more in depth answer than that.

nyuu!!