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Seems like it would. Seems like using a patch to isolate one eye sometimes would strengthen both eyes to able to work at their max independently. Thus making it so they would work together better. Would rout out any primary / dominant eye usage.

Seems doing both for the hands and eyes would activate and strengthen more of your mind. And when it was over you would be over all better at all dexterous and depth / visual.

And since we basically process all as visuals, seems that it would overall help your mind to function entirely.

Same goes with isolating ears.

Right now I've got a patch over what I was suspicious was my dominate eye, and I'm watching the area of focus go in and out of being a "blind spot". It seems my suspected dominant eye is continually trying to be the processor of what I'm actually looking at.

Seems like it would. Seems like using a patch to isolate one eye sometimes would strengthen both eyes to able to work at their max independently. Thus making it so they would work together better. Would rout out any primary / dominant eye usage. Seems doing both for the hands and eyes would activate and strengthen more of your mind. And when it was over you would be over all better at all dexterous and depth / visual. And since we basically process all as visuals, seems that it would overall help your mind to function entirely. Same goes with isolating ears. Right now I've got a patch over what I was suspicious was my dominate eye, and I'm watching the area of focus go in and out of being a "blind spot". It seems my suspected dominant eye is continually trying to be the processor of what I'm actually looking at.

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[–] • 4 pts

You already have a set of wiring. Doing what you describe for a while creates new sets of wiring that you can call on later. It doesn't make you smarter though. But my theory is that if you are prepared for something bad, then it doesn't tend to happen.

[–] • 3 pts

But my theory is that if you are prepared for something bad, then it doesn't tend to happen.

I have used this concept throughout my adult life. It's good to be prepared, but it can also be used to control what kinds of things you have to deal with in life if you strategically prepare for things you wan to avoid happening. It has served me well over the years and it does have a pretty good track record of working out.

[–] • 0 pt

This is how I think of it too. Its certainly helpful to be able to do things effectively with both hands, and doing so increases the thickness of the myelin layer sheathing the nerve wiring for that portion of the system. Imagine having two, equally good routes to get somewhere. Having that doesn't get you there twice as fast, but it means problems like losing a limb, or a stroke won't be as catastrophic.

[–] • 0 pt

I guess I kind of seeing it as you've been curling all your life with a single bar, but then you switch in some isolated curling. You find that one was depending on the other slightly without knowing. Now you've got both trained and up to the same strength. So in a way, you actually have become slightly stronger over all.

Also they say left and right sides of the brains tend to do certain things. Like the 'left' side being the artistic side. I was wondering if the left and the right hands were predominantly handled by different sides of the brain. If so you're actively more of areas in different sides of the brain that weren't before by isolated training / experience gaining. Therefore maybe, by doing more activity on that side, it's expanding it's overall abilities.

[–] • 2 pts

I started doing things with bot hands years ago in order to level out the amount of pain I suffer from widespread arthritis. Recently I got a pinched nerve in my right shoulder which affected the motor skills of the right hand. I'm right handed but was able to do most of my things left handed because of the dividing of my work loads equally between sides. I recommend this as a survival technique in case you lose ability in your dominant hand.

[–] • 1 pt

Same, my joints, ligaments etc ache with repetitive motion, so switching hands helps with that and improves coordination.

[–] • 0 pt

I tried switching my damn mouse back to right handed tonight, but it's still not cooperative. The left hand is way more accurate, which is what I need during my live radio broadcasts. It's helpful to be able to switch. Oh, I also shoot pool left handed in order to get those tough shots that people try behind their back.

[–] • 1 pt

One eye at a tome will fuck up your vision for life. My eyes move independently and that's great for making sure nothing is sneaking up on me but it is not beneficial for focusing on shit. Wheb your mom said "keep making that face and it will stay that way" she meant it

[–] • 0 pt (edited )

Well that's something to consider but I just got a patch for different reasons and I'm testing an eye that I was suspecting that was going bad. Holy fuck what's going on is really weird. Basically the lights are going out on the one eye's ability to process. It's clarity is perfectly fine, but it's use in processing is fading in and out. Like the lights are dim and pulsing on it's processing.

So if I patch the good eye only, using the 'bad' one for vision. Then the 'good' eye will continually try to process it's input into the picture, causing a cloud of darkness to go in and out. If I patch the other and only the 'good' eye is seeing, then it's a crisp image with no in and out pulsing.

So I genuinely need to train and strengthen the brain to just use the bad eye, not that the eye is visually under performing.

[–] • 0 pt

You have exotropia. Your eyes aren't locked binocularly and you have a single dominant eye you focus with. Tape the other eye shut. A patch won't do. It will strengthen the weak eye. Tape then patch it has to be kept close for it to work.

[–] • 1 pt

In a normally distributed brain, there's a motor strip and a sensory strip. The left side applies to the right side of the body and vice versa. So if you use your left hand to do stuff, you will develop the sensory and motor strips on the right side of your brain. Will this improve anything else in your brain. No. You might simply get better at using your left hand for various things. It's still not going to be as coordinated as the right side.

[–] • 1 pt

Yes. training in double swords technique was a definite benefit, and I suspect if I had pursued it early on, would of lead to ambidexterity....but I started too late in life. As is, I can throw Fei-biao equally well with right or left hand, and recently discovered the same talent with scalpels.

[–] • 0 pt

Don't know, does walking with one leg make you a better runner? I doubt it, there would be more efficient exercises you could do since their union is more valuable than dissonance.

Though there is some weird dominant brain stuff you could meddle with, look up split brain patient studies for some idea on what it could lead to.

[–] • 1 pt

I would imagine doing muscle training on one leg a time would help significantly, both physically and mentally. But mainly physically as far as the leg goes. If you could isolate 'simulating' running with just one leg I would completely imagine it would help with running with both.

But running, as with seeing etc, is a two item thing. So obviously the actual final act needs "trained" with both.

[–] • 0 pt

I don't think training separately to improve a task that uses both is worthwhile, you might as well just do more intense training with both. For martial arts or climbing however it would be worth training them separately, but that is a task where they are used separately for separate tasks. Individual eye training would be good for telescopes, being a pirate and scopes or firearms.