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Just wondering if anyone has experience with eye patching.

There is a gentleman on the web who claims a 30 day practice of eye patching will greatly improve reading comprehension and retention by building up your corpus callosum (the part of the brain that joins the hemispheres and that is responsible for connecting words to meanings).

His basic process is to read for 5 minutes with one eye patched but both eyes open. Pay attention to how you're feeling while reading with this eye covered.

Repeat with the other eye covered. Same process for 5 minutes.

Repeat with both eyes covered (just kidding). Repeat with both eyes uncovered.

Continue cycling through these three options for at least 30 minutes/day. Do this process every day for 30 days.

He also tells you to pay careful attention to any images that arise while you're reading. Stop and check them against the material you're reading. Often times you'll find your brain "filling in gaps" in the narrative (kind of like fleshing out the descriptions in the text).

Any thoughts on whether or not this would improve the PR process? It may be that Brain Gym is just as effective in building the corpus callosum but I thought I would ask.

This is the first time I heard about it. Did you try it?

Please give me web adress of the site, which you found this info on.

Thanks!

Win Winger said that sightreading music could have the same effect, but combining the left brain analysis with the right brain attention to the feeling and nuance in the music.

NLP says eyemovements indicate the way the mindis processing the information. I guess if one eye is JUST doing the work of one hemisphere, then eye patching makes sense. if the corpus callosum is more able, then the perhaps the mind would be stronger against the limbic systems heavy emotions?

A teacher I know suggests writing with the left hand to 'increase the flexibility of the nervous system'. I reckon the secret there is the relaxed playful approach to doing something new and different, just for it's own sake. Could this be the same with eye patching. Sounds like a fun experiment.

[QUOTE]Originally posted by Jovo:
This is the first time I heard about it. Did you try it?

No, I haven't tried it. I haven't found anything around the house that seems suitable for an eye patch. It's pretty clear that you need both eyes open, so it isn't as simple as just closing one eye.

Wow, I think you can quickly try it out by covering one eye with your hand. I find it easy to read with one eye uncovered when i read with the left eye, but when I cover the other it is hard to focus in on the words! Hard to read the text! This is probably because i'm right brain dominate which means my left eye is the dominate eye. Crossed brain controlling the body remember learning this in school people? So anyways, is it suppoed to be hard when you cover your dominate eye and try to read. Note, it is only hard to read when you cover your dominate eye and KEEP IT OPEN WHILE ITS COVERED while moving it in a reading fasion across the text. But once I closed my covered eye, the text became clearer and much easier to read again. Is this normal? Heheheh sorry for if I confussed some of you.

In case some of you don't know which is your dominate eye, you can do a test. Hold your finger out in front of your eyes, extending your arm as far as it will go, use that finger to cover an object completely with the finger, then making sure you cover the object from view with BOTH eyes open, close one eye, and if the finger stays covering the object with the eye that is open then that is the dominate eye. Yet if the finger moves from view of covering the object, then that is your eye that is not dominate. I guess though some people are left and right brain dominate so I guess this might not work for them.

To use a patch, get some lensless glasses frames and wrap tape (dark of course) around one side. You'll need 2 pairs of glasses frames of course. (tape is a hassles to remove)

Well, I'm right eye dominate, but I had no problem reading the second half of this thread while alternating which eye I covered.

Note from old eye test. Don't touch the eye. Cup it.

As for left-right dominance. I've taken this test a few years back and score as close as you can to 50-50 left-right dominance. I'm also only slightly visually dominate.

And for any one else interested in personality test. I'm INTJ.

Oh, here's that dominance test I referred to. http://www.rcw.bc.ca/test/personality.html

Enjoy.