Posted by Racer on April 29, 2004, at 22:08:52
In reply to Re: face experiment?, posted by noa on April 29, 2004, at 21:50:42
I have no idea where I came across it, but it was 20+ years ago, so no help there. It's simple enough, though: cover one side of a picture of your face, and then the other. If you have an imaging program on your computer, you can use that to flip the side you're looking at and make a symmetrical image of your face. The idea is that each side of your face shows something different. On mine, when I did it so long ago, one side showed an open, friendly, smiling face. The other showed a suspicious, frightened face. Something like that is pretty common, as I recall. I think it was left side controlled by your emotional right brain, right side controlled by your conscious left brain. The best I can remember is that one side -- probably the right side of your face -- shows what you want to show, what you're conscious of; the other side shows what's really going on inside you, on an unconscious level.
I don't know if it's really meaningful, but it is an interesting experience. After all this time, I still remember the shock I got when I saw that scared little half-face looking back at me. That's what I felt, but didn't know that it ever showed. The other side was the clown that I tried so hard to show everyone, what I thought everyone saw in me. It was certainly a little bit of an education...
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