Thread: Activating the left brain hemisphere to attain lucidity

It always seemed to me anyway that when people would talk about left brain/right brain differences what they were really talking about was conscious/unconscious processes. So what you're saying makes a lot of sense to me.

I respond to this old thread because I think this idea of activation of the left hemisphere is very interesting.
I do not agree with the assumption that The whole right-left brain thing is vastly overrated so it can even be called a myth
Because of this book I read: 'My stroke of insight' by Jill Bolte Taylor. (Her TED talk is also interesting).
She is a (Harvard trained) brain scientist who suffered a massive stroke that damaged the left side of her brain. It took her 8 years of recovery. Now she is on a mission to learn people to balance their brain.
I cite: In My Stroke of Insight: A Brain Scientist's Personal Journey, Jill shares with us her recommendations for recovery and the insight she gained into the unique functions of the right and left hemispheres of her brain. Having lost the categorizing, organizing, describing, judging and critically analyzing skills of her left brain, along with its language centers and thus ego center, Jill’s consciousness shifted away from normal reality. In the absence of her left brain’s neural circuitry, her consciousness shifted into present moment thinking whereby she experienced herself “at one