If you are just new to this site, and to the world of the "Right Brain," let me explain a bit about it.

"Right brain" and "left brain" have become popular expressions in recent years, due in large part to Dr. Betty Edwards' book, "Drawing on the Right Side of the Brain". The title, alone, has spawned innumerable copy-cat titles, such as "Writing on the Right Side of the Brain", "Accounting on the Right Side of the Brain", and so on.

two hemisheres of the brain

Dr. Sperry, who won a Nobel Prize for his research on the two hemisheres of the brain, said that Dr. Edwards was the first person to put his theories into practice. He said that even he couldn't explain why her drawing method works, but it definitely does.

To put it very simply, the "right brain" is the more creative, emotional side, while the "left brain" is the logical, more critical side which is emphasized in everyday life in modern society. Now there is a debate about whether the brain's functions are so simply divided into "right" and "left" halves, so Dr. Edwards refers to R-mode and L-mode to reflect this.

One of the features of the L-mode is that it has symbols for everything. When a person tries to draw something, this can really interfere with correct perception. For example, if one wants to draw a flower, no matter what kind, the L-mode has it's standard flower symbol ready which it will happily insert into your drawing without bothering to look at what you wish to draw. L-mode will say to you, "Oh don't waste time looking, I already know what it looks like." In contrast, the non-verbal R-mode, will look at each petal as a unique individual and draw each millimeter exactly as it sees it, no matter how long it should take. Time means nothing to R-mode.

「脳の左側」は論理的に思考するのが得意です。そこで、あるものを観察するとき、対象となるものをゆっくり観察する代わりに、既に持っているパターン（標準となるべきもの）を当てはめようとします。

一方、「脳の右側」はもっと感情的で、創造的です。「右脳」の眼は、対象そのものを、じゅっくり観察することを助けます。下の例は「左脳」をつかったものと「右脳」を使って描いたものの例です。

Upside-down drawing:

Dr. Edwards discovered quite by accident that drawing upside down helps free us from the left brain stereotypical symbols. She was trying to teach art to a noisy, unwilling group of high school students. In desparation she cried, "Just turn this drawing upside down and copy it." Within a few minutes the class became miraculously quite, each student totally concentrated on the drawing. When the students turned their finished drawing right side up, they were very surprised at the results they had achieved.

「上下をさかさまにして描く 」というのは、エドワーズ博士が、騒がしく、先生の言うことを聞かない高校の授業で偶然に始めたことです。生徒がたちまち静かになっただけでなく、その結果は驚くべきものでした。

　

上下さかさまにして描いた絵

上下さかさまにして描いた絵

今度は普通の向きで描かせてみた

するとこんな作品となった。
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