Thread: Are most advanced lucid dreamers left-handed or ambidextrous?

I noticed this in your results also. I am ambidexterous. I used to write with my left hand, then decided it was a pain in the ass, so I switched to my right.

I now use my right hand almost exclusively to write, but I can switch if I want. When I paint with fingerpaint or charcoal (anything without a tool), I use both hands almost equally.

I have around 2-3 lucids a week. I would rate myself an 8 at lucid dreaming. Satisfied, but still room to improve.

Don't they say though that we are all born ambidextrous but it depends on which hand we choose or are taught to use most often? If that were true it shouldn't in theory have any effect on lucid dreaming.

A while back, my friend who is a psych nurse tested me with all these brain hemisphere dominance tests. She had some strange things with eye focus and reflex tests and such. I'm sure you can find the tests online.

Posted by Idolfan
Don't they say though that we are all born ambidextrous but it depends on which hand we choose or are taught to use most often? If that were true it shouldn't in theory have any effect on lucid dreaming.

your right, if your mother wanted you right handed she would put your bottle in your right hand, if desired left handed she would put it in the left hand. you naturally are a rightly or leftly but when your a baby it can be changed very easily. it can screw you up though its best to be left alone, my uncle was orginally left handed but hes mother wanted him right handed so she did the above method, he wishes she didnt because he hunts and since hes left eyed he need to use that eye but since hes right handed now he has to use hes left hand which makes it harder. thats just a example there are other reasons its a bad idea.

I am an excellent LD'er and I am right handed. Most people seem to be also. According to the poll as of now 65.63% do =]

No one is born knowing how to write. You learn how to hold a pencil and how to write. Just learn to use your other hand. Its not that hard. Supposedly there are tests to see which side of your brain is dominant, but the problem is that the tests will give different results at different times. It depends (to a certain degree) on what part of your brain is active when the test is given. Everything else is just habitual.

What I have always wondered is if it actually changes your brain to write with your left hand or your right hand. Forget, for a second, about which is 'naturally' more dominant. If you habitually write with your left hand one week, and then switch to your right hand the next week, will your thought process change noticeably week to week? Will your writing change?

I have tried drawing with both hands, and it definitely feels different. I wonder if you should use one hand in math class, then switch to the other for your creative writing class.

If thats the case, then what does typing (with both hands) do to the process?

I am right handed, I think i'm around a 6 on the 6-10 scale.

Recall - used to be 10 when i was younger, i could recall every aspect of my dreams. Lately, however, it's a 0, I wake up and I say "What dream?"

LD - 0, haven't gotten one yet, only tested it once.

Right-handed

Right handed; 4/10 I guess.

I put down that I write right handed, but I fight, do magic, use scissors, juggle, shoot, throw a frisbee, and jerk off left handed.

Originally Posted by Draoi

I put down that I write right handed, but I fight, do magic, use scissors, juggle, shoot, throw a frisbee, and jerk off left handed.

I found that very humorous but yet freaky .

Originally Posted by Draoi

I put down that I write right handed, but I fight, do magic, use scissors, juggle, shoot, throw a frisbee, and jerk off left handed.

So, that means you can't use scissors and jerk off at the same time? Probably a good thing.

Oh yeah! Left-handed only. I rate myself a 5/10.

I'm totally right-handed and right-footed. As regards LDs, when I'm on form, I'd say I was a 7 to 8 on the scale of 1 to 10.

Ambidextrous, though I am much better with my right hand.

Probably a 5 at the moment.

I'm right handed, and I'm not sure how I would rate myself, I can have lds fairly commonly if I really put the work in, I'd say a 7.