So the eye dominance test. well in this video we're going to show you how to
test eye dominance so that you can tell if your left eye dominant or right eye
dominant so let's take a look hey everyone this is dr. Joe Allen here from
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that I go over otherwise let's talk about eye dominance
so knowing eye dominance can be in a really important thing to know I know
for myself being an eye doctor I need to know the eye dominance of my patients in
order to fit specialty contact lenses for mono vision as well as getting
people ready for cataract surgery or even LASIK eye surgery but for just
about everybody else knowing eye dominance can play a critical role for a
lot of different activities if you're somebody who wants to know I dominance
for shooting whether you're shooting a rifle or a shotgun this can be really
important especially if you are cross eye dominant also if you are
somebody who maybe wants to know eye dominance for archery or if you want to
know eyed ominous for pool or billiards this also can play a critical role even
photographers will shoot better if they know their eye dominance now let's go
over a couple of different ways you can find out are you left eye dominant or
right eye dominant so my favorite way to test eye dominance is using a distant
object so wherever you are just look in the distance find something that you can
focus on here in the clinic as an example we're gonna go ahead and use the
eyeball in the eye clinic logo so while you're focusing on that distant object
with both eyes open you're gonna go ahead and make your hands into a big
triangle like you're gonna catch a football you're gonna extend your arms
and try to get that triangle to be right over that distant object then you're
gonna go ahead and make that triangle smaller and smaller over that distant
object until you can just barely focus that object right in the middle while
keeping that object focused in the middle of the triangle you can either
choose to close one eye kind of like here I can close my right eye and while
closing that eye if you can still see the object then the open eye is your
dominant eye if you end up closing your dominant eye
during this test you'll actually see that the object is no longer centered in
the middle of the triangle it's going to be off center and
the variation of the same method that I like a little bit more because it's a
little bit fun and if you're someone who can't close your eyes individually then
it's gonna work a little bit easier still keep that object in the middle of
the triangle but then slowly bring your arms back keeping your eyes open and
threading that object through the triangle eventually you'll end up
threading that distant object right up to the eye that you're more i dominant
in another way you can test eye dominance is using a plus magnifying
lens and as long as both eyes are actually corrected for distance your
doctor can use these plus lenses to hold it over just one eye at a time while
both eyes are open the eye that's more significantly blurred is the eye that is
dominant so for me if I cover my right eye here with the plus lens I can still
see out of my left eye really well so things are still relatively clear but if
I cover and plus and blur out my left eye then no things are really blurry and
it's more difficult to see there's one other method using your thumb where you
basically find that same distant object and try to eclipse it with your thumb
again both eyes open it's kind of the same principle you either close or cover
one eye and the eye that can still eclipse the object that's the eye that's
dominant most people who are right-handed are usually right eye
dominant as well just like left-handed people are usually left eye dominant as
well I'm left eye dominant and that's kind of strange that I'm left eye
dominant because I'm also right-handed we call that cross eye dominance and for
a lot of activities and sports this can make things difficult I find archery to
be very difficult for me because I can't really focus with my right eye as well
as my left eye however there has been some arguments that athletes who are
cross-eyed dominant have an advantage in that they can actually focus on the ball
or the target easier with their opposite eye because their whole bodies are
usually turned toward the opposite team as in baseball you have your body turned
toward the pitcher and you're watching the ball come toward you however they've
done statistical analysis and found that that's not necessarily true
but is it possible to not have a dominant eye the answer is yes some
people actually don't have a dominant eye both eyes work relatively really
well together however that's pretty rare and uncommon to see you can go ahead and
test these methods out for yourself and go ahead and comment in the section
below let us know what I dominate you are
are you left i dominant right i dominant or maybe neither go ahead and comment in
the section below alright everyone takes so much for
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