Poll: How does your brain work?

[Redlin5_v1legacy]

Thanks for actually looking here before responding to the poll.

It seems to me that I have a very right-sided brain. My brain creates stories and images quite easily and I find it child's play to do grade 12 level English assignments. I have vivid Day-Dreams and normal dreams. Whenever I'm interacting with the world as I know it, I try to imagine several other ways the world could look. Many others in my school struggle with English. Also, I tend to get inspired when I absolutely cannot record my thoughts.

Enough about how my head works though, here are the basic questions: Do you find it easy to write creative and interesting ideas? If so, do you lose your brilliant moments in the vast, thought destroying environment of life?

Most importantly:

Have you found the secret balance between being a visionary that has his/her head in the clouds of pure creativity and being a practical person surviving the world as we know it without losing that creative spark?

I would like to know these answers and I do hope you take this thread seriously. Oh, if you have any questions about where you stand: http://www.web-us.com/brain/lrbrain.html I'm on the right personally.

 

[T-Bone24]

I don't know where I stand, but every so often I just stop and think about everything. Everything's so vastly different in scale that we're both the most and least important things on the planet, and indeed the universe. Sometimes thinking hurts.

 

[Canadian Briton]

It dosen't.
OT: I try to keep myself to my set of moral rules.
And I do like creating worlds in my head, although they are filled with cliches.

 

[Sleekgiant]

Well I used to often just go with what was logical but as time has gone by I have gotten more creative in aspects of my life

 

[zombiesinc]

I recently finished an assignment in my Psychology course that focused on the brain, each hemisphere, and how they differ. I favor the left half of my brain, for all the reasons you'd read, particularly the structure, process and reality aspects. But I do believe I've managed to strengthen the right side, and that I have a (more or less) balance between the two.

 

[SnootyEnglishman]

I always have weird and creative thought's of skits and videos to make and perform however i've never written them down which really sucks because most of them are quite funny. The other more Spock half of me tend to be very logical in thought and can usually win arguments and solve hard social problems easily.

 

[zohmbee]

I have all these ideas for stories, games, movies and comics and scenes I've pictured after conversations with friends. I imagine, I create, and I will be the only one who ever gets to see it. But it's the best of both worlds; I'm creative and have a keen logical sense.

:3 I just don't talk much so people don't know I know things.

 

[Omikron009]

According to the test I'm pretty left brained, but I also use my right brain a fair bit as well. I actually came up with a rather odd explanation for how my brain works, and apparently most of my friends think exactly the same way. I can process entire "packets" of information as long as they relate to the same thing without really having to think about them. Think of these packets as zip files. However, in order to explain these thoughts to others they need to be unpacked. The way my brain processes information is very well ordered, but the way information is filtered doesn't always work very well. I'm odd.

 

[iLikeHippos]

Well, when I was practicing on a job for five days, I imagined up an entire story.
Thing is, I haven't forgotten it. Mainly because it's inspired by other games. (so you know it's a shitty one)

Anyways, I know for a fact that if you're right-handed and use it more than the left on a daily basis, you tend to work your left hemisphere out.
And vice versa...
That's why I am training to use my left hand. Want to evolve.
Now that I think of it, I use my left hand equally as much as my right when it comes to typing...

So I am mostly everything the left hemisphere have to offer. Not that it answers your poll very much.

 

[Rasputin1]

Very slowly.

 

[Cain_Zeros]

Electrochemical impulses. What? Someone had to post the nerdy smartass answer.

Edit: OK, took the test and I apparently have slight right-brain dominance.

 

[Kaltazraza]

My mind doesnt work like others, id say.
I forget what I did in class 10min after the class ends, and other times I forget anything told to me. yaay. Its like FUBAR and such, im awesome but... It goes WROAR everytime, and I fight with my own meanings.

 

[Timotei]

I try to be an innovator in everything I do, never once accepting anything less than good.

I also try to stand out, which had led to my forum behavior and my seeking of lulz.

 

[Riobux]

I try to be somewhat innovative and think about deep things generally. Let it be a story plot for a short story, or a possible new concept. Concept can be from psychological study, to sociological concept to even a product. I've been wanting to make a small book weekly which costs only 50p which contains only one story of an amateur writer, it's function would be just to entertain someone as they go to college/work or during their break. Most of each 50p would go back to the writer, which would really be the main point of the product. It not only lets people read a little story on the way to their destination or break, but it also helps propel people into the writing industry. It'd help them have a mental boost knowing they just made something like £5 just for writing a short story. Maybe if it got really famous and got a lot of financial backing, that once-a-week thing could be stepped up to even more often. Even once-a-day maybe, although it's likely fantasy thinking.

If people would be willing to buy something like that, I think it's a win-win situation of the customer and the writer. The customer gets a cheap little story to read instead of reading about how the end is near and the immigrants and yobs are going to kill us all, and the writer, as said before, gets money and a self-esteem boost.

 

[Riobux]

I try to be somewhat innovative and think about deep things generally. Let it be a story plot for a short story, or a possible new concept. Concept can be from psychological study, to sociological concept to even a product. I've been wanting to make a small book weekly which costs only 50p which contains only one story of an amateur writer, it's function would be just to entertain someone as they go to college/work or during their break. Most of each 50p would go back to the writer, which would really be the main point of the product. It not only lets people read a little story on the way to their destination or break, but it also helps propel people into the writing industry. It'd help them have a mental boost knowing they just made something like £5 just for writing a short story. Maybe if it got really famous and got a lot of financial backing, that once-a-week thing could be stepped up to even more often. Even once-a-day maybe, although it's likely fantasy thinking.

If people would be willing to buy something like that, I think it's a win-win situation of the customer and the writer. The customer gets a cheap little story to read instead of reading about how the end is near and the immigrants and yobs are going to kill us all, and the writer, as said before, gets money and a self-esteem boost.

 

[Wardnath]

Oi, Riobux, don't double post, mate.

 

[Always_Remain]

Both ways really. It varies on the situation. According to that website I use my right more though. Eh.

 

[RaphaelsRedemption]

I'm ambidextrous. I play music, can sing, am a multimedia student, loves art, writes fiction easily. I can cook, sew, paint... you name it, if its arty, I've probably done it and done it pretty well.

However.

I cannot do maths to save my life. Money is one of those things I hate. I can be crushed down by the mundane until I lose my creativity, which is horrible, because my creativity is one of my best assets. I wish I could say I have both aspects of my life in balance, but I don't. And yes, I'd love to know how to as well. I am somewhat resigned though, to having a constant battle, because as well as all my creative gifts, I got saddled with bipolar disorder, which lessens my social skills and emotional stability.

 

[blarg363]

Hmm...Well i do have quiet the imagination but i'm constantly frustrated by te fact that i can't draw and therfor can't capture these thoughts but i'm also a verry rational and calculating* person so i guess i'm like the OP in this case

*NOTE that this doesn't necessarily mean smart(i'm more the wise type)

 

[Cowabungaa]

I don't know really, fucked up I guess. I can have random spurts of superb logical thinking, sudden bursts of incredible creativity, anything really. But they're few and far between, more than often nothing happens at all. Too tired really.