The Creative Brain

This is an art test:

• Without thinking, clasp your hands together.  Which thumb is on top? 

• Hold a straight object ( like a pencil or paint brush handle) out at arm's length, upright and lined up on an object across the room.  Using both eyes, focus on the pencil and slowly pull it toward you until it's about a foot or less from your nose.  Now close each eye, one at a time and see which eye is dominant (with your dominant eye, the pencil does not move, with the other eye, the pencil will jump over a notch).

• Do you ever pick up a book or magazine and start thumbing through it backward, using your non-dominant hand?

• Have you ever considered yourself to be ambidextrous?

Actually this isn't an art test, but a creativity test to see how well your right and left brain hemispheres work together.  If you are more of a *mixed-hander* you noticed something odd in the above tests.  Do you write with your right hand, but your left thumb, your left eye, and your left hand thumbing through magazines backward all cropped up?  There's a possible explanation why and you can read about it here.

But this is only a test.  Just for fun.  If it were real... 

My thanks to ArtsJournal: Daily Arts News for the link in this article. 

Comments

[Michele]

Hi Sue.What a great blog you have! I found it after reading about you on Subversive Stitchers. If I could make a suggestion . . . for those of us with more "mature" eyes, it would be very helpful if your text font was larger. It's hard to read the entries because the font is so small and I have to back FAR away to see it :-)