• lagoon8622
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    • Hold out your arm at arm’s length
    • Make a circle with your thumb and index finger
    • Look through the circle at an object on the other side of the room
    • Now slowly bring the circle back to your eye, such that your fingers never obscure the object, and it’s always centered in the circle

    Which eye did your circle arrive at?

    !That’s your dominant eye!<

    Edit: formatting, I’m a Markdown dumbass

    • AdrianTheFrog@lemmy.world
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      15 hours ago

      That’s interesting, I can see both circles but my hand does always go to my right eye unless I force myself to look at the other. That makes sense I guess because my right eye is more focused at a distance. I wonder if that switches though when I look at something close up for a while, because my left eye is more focused then.

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      I’ve heard of this test before, and it makes no sense to me. If I focus on a distant object, I see two images of my hand, one for each eye. So I’d have to choose which one to put over the object.

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          Not at all, I perceive depth fine.

          If I focus back on my hand, the two images align, and I see both images of the background. It’s just that I’m always seeing information from both eyes.

          If anything, from my perspective it’s everyone else who I would expect to have difficulties with depth perception. You’re only perceiving one eye consciously, (In the binocular overlap region), and the other eye is just used for depth information by your subconscious, is that correct?