You have a job to do.  Read through this inventory.  You may ask yourself which side of the brain you use the most.  You may finally understand why you're a nut job.  Or why you're Martha Stewart. (Except for the jail part.)  For your personal entertainment I will relate my right brain domination.

Right Brain Inventory	Left Brain Inventory
• Visual, focusing on images, patterns	• Verbal, focusing on words, symbols, numbers
• Intuitive, led by feelings	• Analytical, led by logic
• Process ideas simultaneously	• Process ideas sequentially, step by step
• 'Mind photos' used to remember things, writing things down or illustrating them helps you remember	• Words used to remember things, remember names rather than faces
• Make lateral connections from information	• Make logical deductions from information
• See the whole first, then the details	• Work up to the whole step by step, focusing on details, information organized
• Organization ends to be lacking	• Highly organized
• Free association	• Like making lists and planning
• Like to know why you're doing something or why rules exist (reasons)	• Likely to follow rules without questioning them
• No sense of time	• Good at keeping track of time
• May have trouble with spelling and finding words to express yourself	• Spelling and mathematical formula easily memorized
• Enjoy touching and feeling actual objects (sensory input)	• Enjoy observing
• Trouble prioritizing, so often late, impulsive	• Plan ahead
• Unlikely to read instruction manual before trying	• Likely read an instruction manual before trying
• Listen to how something is being said	• Listen to what is being said
• Talk with your hands	• Rarely use gestures when talking
• Likely to think you're naturally creative, but need to apply yourself to develop your potential	• Likely to believe you're not creative, need to be willing to try and take risks to develop your potential

I'm pretty good with spelling and math.  I was in the spelling bee in 2nd grade.  I think that makes me a child prodigy. That description is the only one that deviates from how dominant my right brain is.  Maybe also the touchy feely one, I love to observe just as much.
 My list loving, prioritizing husband has rubbed off on me a little, so I'm not blatantly a fly by the seat of my pants nut job. 


Alright, I know I teased with the confession part, so here it goes.

Husband: Did you remember to call in your prescription refills?
Me: Not so much.  Maybe I won't need insulin anymore.  Maybe I'm cured and that thought is easier to accept than the one that says I have to make an actual phone call.

Husband: Great, you started a new project.  Did you get to the whites today like I asked?  Did you remember that you have children and they like dinner?  Did you remember that there are dishes sitting on the counter?
*okay, he really doesn't ask me these questions cuz he's nice, but I ask them to myself when I realize what time it is.

Instructions?  I don't think so.  I'm smarter than them, or maybe too impatient.  Either way they are a bother until I realize what took me 4 hours could've taken me 15 minutes.  But what fun is that?

"The man" is always trying to put me down.  Conspiracy theories are real.  When I see someone driving a Ford truck in a movie I think, stupid commercial.

"Mom did you hear me?"  Oh yes, I heard every word, but the "I'm in another world look" is still there because I'm wondering, if I thought hard enough could I actually fly?  And when the heck did the dinosaurs live?  Before Adam and Eve? No, because there was no death until that yummy fruit was eaten.  Did they die in the flood?  But what about swimming dinosaurs?  And did God tell Noah not let those guys hitch a ride?  And, I think you lied to me about brushing your teeth cuz there is an awful lot of plaque on those guys, and now it's 4:30 so crock-pot food is out of the question, so what will I make for dinner?

As you can see, I'm pretty familiar with the right side of my brain.  And yes, I left many confessions out because I'm thinking since I put that big thing in the middle to read, and plus all that I've written so far, even I'm getting bored of myself.

What side are you on?