The power of the innertoobs (somewhat OT)

Curing cancer by a 16 year old

Wow

Good vibrations

Good vibrations

Actually listening to Unforgettable again. Nat seems to hold onto the vibrations of the notes after the word is sung. I don't think my left side musculature in the tongue region ever had the ability to vibrate before. I can only do it badly now.



It was if it was cast in stone that had no feeling. The point being my left tongue/throat is not my right/tongue throat even though that is only what I felt before.

Unforgettable

Playing with the left eye

To sleep perchance to fish

The two halves of a dolphin’s brain can sleep in shifts, “shutting down” one at a time so that the animal is always half-awake. They can truly sleep with one eye open, an essential skill for an animal that has to be constantly watching for predators and timing its breaths. 


The article brings up the point that the dolphin eyes are on thr sides of their head while mine

my eyes

are somewhat more in the middle. On occasion I get the feel that I can make the left eye dominant which in a way feels like I switched over to the left. What switches over I do not know and I don't know if I want to ask that question. But the use of myself feels different than normal.

Stolen from the comments 

"I believe I speak for the entire human race when I say, 'Holy fuck,'" said Oceanographic Institute director Dr. James Aoki, noting that the dolphin has a cranial capacity 40 percent greater than that of humans. "That's it for us monkeys." 

A lifetime of habits

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/File:Gray994.png

Looking at the thickness of the genioglossus in the image linked I see only the left muscle as the head is cut down the middle in the sagittal view. In order for the left tongue to be used to talk I suppose the muscles shape must be directed by the opposing cerebral hemisphere unless the use is a reflexive action based on the mirror muscles contraction or relaxation.

What I feel is I have two tongues where before I had one tongue. My lifetime of habits prevented me from feeling what I now suspect to be true.

Being right

In a way being right always means being one directional.

“The more social the animal—where cooperation is highly valued—the more the general population will trend toward one side,” says Abrams, an assistant professor of engineering sciences and applied mathematics at the McCormick School of Engineering and Applied Science.
“The most important factor for an efficient society is a high degree of cooperation. In humans, this has resulted in a right-handed majority.”

Why lefties are rare 


It may be in the benefit of society at the expense of the individual. I feel I think to the right and my body follows. I was trained from birth and maybe even prebirth that this was the most efficient way to fit in.

As I play with the left tongue and wonder why things aren't working out for me :)

Split mind musings

Duality of the mind 

Arthur Wigan's Book


The eminent geometricians who were employed on the trigonometrical survey of the country some years ago, did on one occasion lose their way, and were set right by a ploughman. 

NIH abstract on Athrur Wigan 

He was not satisfied with independence, however, and tried various ways of allowing for joint action by the two sides of the brain, as well as for substitution, with one side having the power to act on behalf of both in cases of disease or injury. He also considered that one hemisphere, usually the left, was generally dominant; but he did not see the two hemispheres as differently constituted. Recognition of differentiation of function between the two sides came chiefly out of the largely French discussions, in the 1820s and after, about the location--frontal or not--of 'language', and out of the work and arguments of the middle of the century. Broca's left frontal language centre became widely known, though its experimental base was weak and he himself seems to have been more interested in the fact that it was frontal (the older debate) than in its one-sidedness. Brown-Séquard did not accept Broca's findings because of his general opposition to specific locations for particular functions; but he enthusiastically revived Wigan's notions of duality, without developing them further.

I think I learned to be right handed in response to my environment mainly due to speech and communication. I feel I am playing with  left tongue that I did not know of until relatively recently. It exists as a separate entity along with left throat.  The general organization of my body is a reflection of the dominance of the right sided communication. When I relate to others by making eye contact I relate my right eye to their right eye. The left eye is out of the picture in a way. When I use my left eye to see their left eye a different person can almost emerge. My normal is left to right or the right eye has permission to cross midline and back to the right. My left eye can go to the right but it seems to stop short of going as far as it can almost  in a deference to the right eye. My left tongue has a great deal of difficulty in crossing the midline. I am wondering is the Broca area established at birth, learned, or both?

My left right perception

The title should actually be 'My perception to the left and right'. Things moving to the left while visualized with my left eye dominant seem to stimulate my left tongue more. Most of the time I spend in the right eye mode reading and seeing things usually left to right. I think I feel I connect with right eye to right eye when talking to other people. When I look for the left eye it feels foreign as I have if I do not get enough information somehow. I feel I read another person face the way I read a book or the internet. I feel left and right are more accurately described 'as to the left' and 'to the right.'