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// Operavision. / - casual synchronicity

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aaangyl

YES WE CAN HAS!

	Sun, Jan. 27th, 2008 12:16 am

// Operavision. /

This time, when we went to the opera, Hans had his new opera glasses. By "his" I mean, he brought them, and I proceeded to monopolize them all night so as to get close-ups of the ~~lead's gorgeous cleavage~~body language and acting. However, this meant I couldn't watch the translations up above. Next, I tried rotating the opera glasses to vertical and using one eye for close-ups and one eye for the big picture and translation. This worked really well, as with the correct independent eye adjustments it was almost like a TV production with two cameras and cleverly superimposed images. While doing this, I re-learned the significance of left brain and right brain. Specifically, words need to come to me through my left side, so they go into my right brain and language centers. My left ear is ALWAYS my phone ear. And, it turns out, my left eye MUST be the eye to see the translations, or my brain simply drops the information as irrelevant.

I now wish to find an Operavision device that floats comfortably before my right eye and doesn't require me to brace my arm in a funny way to allow me to more passively create the visual superimposition that made this experience so enjoyable. Please let me know if such a thing exists to your knowledge.

Tags: opera

ashley_y

Ashley

	Sun, Jan. 27th, 2008 10:16 am (UTC)

Eyes are not connected to the brain so simply. AFAIR, the left half of the field of vision of each eye matches the left half of the body in being connected to the right (non-grammatical) half of the brain. Of course that's actually the right half of each retina...

aaangyl

YES WE CAN HAS!

	Mon, Jan. 28th, 2008 02:35 am (UTC)

Okay, then, I'm not sure what's going on under the hood, but it definitely made a major difference, and that difference functioned like it involved the focus and effort required to process written language.

faerieloch

	Sun, Jan. 27th, 2008 04:41 pm (UTC)

I find I can hold something in front of my eyes longer if I keep my shoulder down and my elbow right close to my body. Or you could attach them to a handle, like lorgnettes!

aaangyl

YES WE CAN HAS!

	Mon, Jan. 28th, 2008 02:37 am (UTC)

Oooooh, sexy!

I think this one's gorgeous.

Edited at 2008-01-28 02:39 am (UTC)

anthologie
a collection of modern verse

	Sun, Jan. 27th, 2008 04:58 pm (UTC)

I looked up what you're talking about, re language centers, and found this:

http://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2004/04/040428062634.htm

From childhood until about age 25, language capacity in right-handers grows stronger in the left hemisphere of the brain. This phenomenon is usually converse to a person's "handedness", where a right-handed person holds language in the left hemisphere, and vice versa. Using functional magnetic resonance imaging (fMRI) researchers have now shown that after about age 25, language capacity "evens out" somewhat, with older adults using more of both hemispheres relative to language skills.

(Small sample size, but interesting nonetheless, and makes some sense. I looked it up because for me, language is a logic set, which would place it in the left hemisphere. Apparently that's where it starts out for most right-handers, according to this article.)

I too use the phone on my left ear, but it's because I have some odd hearing sensitivities that make most things -right- in my right ear too loud. :)

aaangyl

YES WE CAN HAS!

	Mon, Jan. 28th, 2008 02:52 am (UTC)

That's interesting, and also seems to imply I shouldn't be experiencing what I experienced, as I'm technically right-handed, though the dominance didn't really develop until 2nd grade. But it really makes a HUGE difference for me - when I had a right-ear headset at work once I got so frustrated that within a week I had the IT geek help me take it apart and make it a left-ear. My RIGHT eye and ear are actually the slightly-stronger ones, so that's probably not the reason either. I wonder what's going on if it's not a brain-side effect?

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