This Explains Much, But Not Everything...

Or Actually: Where the Hell Did My Creativity Go?

I just completed an online quiz to figure out if I'm still more right-brained (creative) than left-brained (analytical).  The results:

Thank you for taking the Creativity Test. The results show your brain dominance as being:

Left Brain	Right Brain
40%	60%

You are more right-brained than left-brained. The right side of your brain controls the left side of your body. In addition to being known as right-brained, you are also known as a creative thinker who uses feeling and intuition to gather information. You retain this information through the use of images and patterns. You are able to visualize the "whole" picture first, and then work backwards to put the pieces together to create the "whole" picture. Your thought process can appear quite illogical and meandering. The problem-solving techniques that you use involve free association, which is often very innovative and creative. The routes taken to arrive at your conclusions are completely opposite to what a left-brained person would be accustomed. You probably find it easy to express yourself using art, dance, or music. Some occupations usually held by a right-brained person are forest ranger, athlete, beautician, actor/actress, craftsman, and artist.

(This is from: http://www.wherecreativitygoestoschool.com/vancouver/left_right/rb_test.htm)

I did this as a result of a conversation with Noah the other day about this feeling I get every now and then that my creativity is slipping away.  I'm not sure how to describe this feeling, except that, for some reason or another, I get an anxious ping in my mind that I need to be doing something creative.  I feel lacking in the fact that I don't have a project going on.  Sure, I could probably finish the multiple cross-stitch/sewing/crochet/etc etc projects that fill the side tables and storage boxes, but I never seem to keep the same motivation I had when I started.  I'm sure by now that Noah is positive that any new project I want to take on will fizzle out just like the rest.  I'm one of those people who get super excited about trying something new, only to find that I don't have the time to finish it, or that life gets in the way, and it's left forgotten with the rest of them.

So, I read a little further into the results of the test, and I found that my most dominant right brain trait is "Fantasy".  Hmm...yeah, that sounds about right.  It coincides beautifully with my least dominant left brain trait, "Reality".  So, if this test is correct, my brain is stuck in a fantasy world.  Nice.  Can the rest of me come along, too?

Peace