Thread: Handedness

Hi everybody; I'm new here.
I've started reading about Lucid Dreams a few days ago, when I first heard about their existence.
I'm currently focusing on training my dream recall and doing random RC when awake, but I'm also trying WILD techniques (at least entering sleep paralysis).
I've personally found CANWILD very interesting, and last night I could enter SP (I think), as I suddenly stopped feeling my physical body, and bells (like church bells) started ringing 'outside' my room (like they were distant, but I could hear them very well). They were so real!
Well, after that I became excited and I awake (I checked it; it's wasn't a FA ).
I'll keep practicing.

Now, after this introduction, I have a question. I've read that handedness and brain hemispheres specialization make left-handed people have 'more powerful' imagination capabilities; does this influence the difficulty to get lucid dreams?
Could forum members please post their experiences, as for their handedness and ease of getting lucid (especially using WILD, as it looks like a good imagination helps passing through the transition phase)

Thanks in advance!

From my understanding (I use this in a journaling group I teach at work); there is evidence suggesting that using the dominant hand (whichever it is) activates one hemisphere but using the less dominant hand to write activates both hemispheres. It is suggested to use the other hand in attempts to memorize materials or to 'talk' to your subconscious mind. Try this: think of an issue/ dilemma in your life.. anything of relevance that is bothering you. Allow your dominant hand to be the problem/ the source of the problem and allow it to speak, give it a voice. Allow your non-dominant hand to be the solution and to say what you need to resolve this issue. Write/ journal these things using your dominant and non-dominant hands in the ways specified. I've had mixed results using this technique but it is really interesting, to say the least!

I don't know about left handedness meaning that you're more creative.

owlj, interesting idea. I tried it out and it does seem to influence my train of thought. I wouldn't be too quick to ascribe it to using the other hand, perhaps there is more novelty to the situation in terms of what my brain's doing, I don't know. And in any case the idea that something *should* change when using the other hand, was given to me by your post beforehand - effectively making me biased. But overall, it does feel different. EDIT: perhaps it's also because I write slower with the left hand?

What about typing on the comptuer? Both hands are used...

About handedness and lucid dreaming... gosh, no clue. Again, even if there is a correlation between more lucid dreaming and dominance of a brain hemisphere, perhaps there is no causation there. I will suspend judgement on these issues: the brain is thoroughly more complicated than I can understand.

EDIT: there is a "murphy's law" somewhat worded thus: "To every complicated problem there will be an easy to understand, simple, false solution"

I know this is a considerably old thread, but this is the first one that I found when searching about handedness. I read an article and then a case abstract that found that left-handed people are more likely to recall vivid dreams. It makes sense, since the right-hemisphere both creates dreams in REM sleep and stores them as memories, that the people who activate that hemisphere constantly are more likely to recall this.

I always wondered why I had natural recall, but I believe part of that can be attributed to my left-handedness.