Look at something distant. Bring your hands (at arms length) slowly together until this object is just visible between your thumbs/pointer fingers. Now pull your hands in, watching that object, until they reach your face.

It's only been in the last few years that I've been able to determine a dominant eye. Before I would get either one.

My left eye is dominant. That surprises me because when I was young, I was cross-eyed - with the left eye moving inward. It was surgically corrected, but I can still pull my left eye in if I want to (but why would I?). I always assumed that meant my right eye was stronger. By the way, I'm also right handed - is there supposed to be any correlation between handedness and eyedness?

Right eye dominant. (And amused by the "I have no hands" option. :)

I think, if I'm interpreting the result correctly. (My right eye was the one that my hands ended up in front of.) ***While I don't know this for sure, I have good reason to believe that handedness and "eyedness" should be totally independent. The right hand is very much controlled by the left hemisphere of the brain and vice versa, while the input from each eye is split--everything from the right half of the visual field, meaning the right part of each eye's visual field, goes to the left hemisphere and vice versa. So eye dominance has to be determined by some phenomenon other than hemispheric dominance.

Right eye. I don't even have to pull my hands in to my face, it's that way with them stretched out and stays that way.

I do not have a dominant eye.
**lisashea: and yes, it's annoying when shooting.
**Perhaps you could do another survey correlating same-side vs cross-side dominance. I feel (with absolutely no data to back me up) that cross-dominance (e.g. right-handed and left-eyed) is more common than the reverse.

There is probably a preference, but I can make either eye seem dominant without much effort.

I can't make one eye more dominant than the other. If I put up two fingers, then focus on the object (lamp), I see three fingers. Or two lamps. *sigh*

I know a similar exercise, and I was JUST GOING to make a survey about it. No really! I'm afraid I couldn't make this one work.

Right eye dominant, left handed. May have to do with the fact that I have pretty crappy vision with my left eye though.

this exercise didn't really make sense to me, but i know my right eye is dominant because if you put a gun in my hand that's the eye that stays open. ***lisa: okay, okay. i'll try it tomorrow with both eyes open. ***twanger: the vision in my dominant eye is significantly worse than in my non-dominant eye.

i did this five times - if i am interpreting the results correctly, then i got 3 left dominant results and 2 right dominant results.

I'm glad you included "I have no hands".

Left. Hmmmm... it's perhaps due to this that my headaches are always at left side? Curious...

left eye

I could have told you that without the silly exercise. Right handed, right eyed, left brained. *** Lisashea, I didn't say there was a connection between them. I was telling you what I am. My brother is right handed and left eyed, it makes shooting a bow or a rifle really... well, funny looking.

I have no idea what I am doing.

This is extraordinarily difficult for me to do because my depth perception has gone all dodgy.

I didn't get the exercise- I couldn't make the leap from what I saw to which eye it ment was dominant. BUT I know that my right eye dominant from trying to use a monocular: I could look out it through my right eye w/o closing my left, but when I tried to put it up to my left eye, I couldn't "find" my left eye. I had a lot of trouble adjusting the position of the monocular so that I sw down the tube.

i dont understand the exercise. when i pull my hands in, i have one finger outside each eye. at what point are my hands supposed to become asymmetric?

Left eye, right hand, left leg.

Right eye, every time. The "dominant eye" is very important in two of my sports - target shooting and archery. You don't want to *close* the other eye, but you want to make sure you line up with the dominant eye. *** Lara: Most shooters "cover" the weak eye with a patch or even an index card stuck in the glasses, but it stays open :) *** Lorax/Milktree: I checked with a pistol instructor and it seems on average half of all people are "left eye/right handed" or "right eye/left handed" instead of "right/right" and "left/left". I wonder what determines it ... *** Atzilut: What do you mean, you've got equal dominance or you're not sure about the exercise?

Reality/Lizzie: Make a diamond between your two hands, stretching them out in front of you. MAKE THIS DIAMOND THE SIZE OF ONE EYE!!! Look at something far away through that diamond. Bring that diamond towards your face, keeping the distant object visible within the diamond. The diamond must end up over one of the eyes. The question is, is it always the same eye or sometimes a different eye? Email me at Lisa Shea if you're still stuck and I'll walk you through it.

needs to be multiple choice. it makes different eyes dominent, but I don't understand the point. it is simply a matter of which set of fingers I use(meaning if I focus on a distant object then the fingers have a translucent double image totaling 4 fingers) If I use the middle set of fingers, then neither eye is dominant (and I have managed to smear my glasses). **it still doesn't make sense.. it is simply a matter of positioning of the opening... basically if I block everything else, it is a matter of where I hold my hands.. it works for both eyes, and it still seems equal (roughly 47% for each eye with 5 or so % being that I am blocked from the object for both eyes.) apparently I am still doing it wrong.. oh well.