Brain?

Well, I'm presently short of ideas on what to pen down. I'm eating a chocolate now to see if that ignites something in my mind. Why chocolate, it's known to increase pleasant feelings, reduce tension. Hoping this way I can calm down and make my right brain work.

And now, what are these right and left brains?

In 1960s, an American psychobiologist Roger W Sperry has discovered that the human brain has two very different ways of thinking. One (the right brain) is visual and processes information in an intuitive and simultaneous way, looking first at the whole picture then the details. The other (the left brain) is verbal and processes information in an analytical and sequential way, looking first at the pieces then putting them together to get the whole. He was awarded Nobel prize also in 1981.

For some weird reason, our right and left brain hemispheres control the 'opposite' side of our bodies, so the right hemisphere controls our left side and processes what we see in our left eye while the left hemisphere controls the right side and processes what our right eye sees.

I've read from an article that though right-brain or non-verbal thinking is often regarded as more creative, there is no right or wrong here; it's merely two different ways of thinking. One is not better than the other, just as being right-handed is not superior to being left-handed. What's important is to be aware that there are different ways of thinking, knowing what your natural preference is, and if it's strongly verbal (left brain) rather than visual (right brain) being open to trying new approaches to make right brain work.

Hmmmm, whole chocolate is in the belly now but my right brain still seem to be sleeping...... :(