Most of us are either left or right handed but did you know that you are also left or right eyed? Well believe it or not most humans also have a dominant eye.
If you want to find out which is your dominant eye then this is what you need to do.
Hold your arm up and place your thumb and fingers together to create a hole or circle. (Hold your arm away from your body).
Now look through this hole with both eyes at a small distant object – such as a light switch on the other side of the room. Position your hand so the object is right in the middle of the hole and keep still.
Now close one eye. Did the distant object appear to move? If so, the eye you closed is your dominant eye. If not, your open eye is the dominant eye.
Open both eyes again and realign the hole and this time close the other eye. What happened this time?
You don’t normally notice this preference because your brain usually has no problem combining the separate images from each eye into one useful picture. Sometimes it might pay more attention to one eye, then the other, depending on which is more interesting or important.
Are all right-handed people right eyed?
No, but more people are right handed than left and more people have a dominant right eye too, so most right handed people are right eyed. But there are also lots of people with cross dominance (left eye, right hand and vice versa) but most of the time it makes very little difference.
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