Which is your dominant eye and hand?

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I'm the only left-handed and left-eyed person on here? Strange.

I'd expect maybe the dominant eye would tend to become more myopic (and that's what things like that are, tendencies, not absolutes) because it was used more, maybe? My left eye is way worse than my right, and often between eye exams my right eye stays roughly the same and my left gets far worse.

Right-handed, left-eyed.

my left eye is the same way. I have a severe astigmatism that only has gotten worse, while my right eye is relatively normal.

I say I am right eyed because when I set my finger on a fixed point and close my left eye, my finger doesn't move.
When I close my right eye it does.

Did you do the actual test for dominance though, or are you going on the fact that your left eye is worse? It's not surprising that left-handed/left-eyed is rare, though. About 1/3 of people are left-eyed, and about 1/10 of people are left-handed. Since there is no clear relationship between handedness and eye dominance, that means that the odds of being left-handed and left-eyed are only 1/30 (I hope I did the math right- probability is not my strongest area).



I looked for sources beyond Wikipedia to corroborate this. I didn't find much, though. One site said the opposite- that the dominant eye is the better eye. The other said that the worse eye is dominant when there is more than a 1.75 diopter difference between the eyes. My difference is slight- only 0.5 diopters, so it makes sense that this wouldn't affect me.

I'm both right handed and right-eyed. I found that out when I started archery. That's still the case even with glasses that are necessary for distance.

Born left-handed (but forced to learn everything with my right hand) and I'm not sure about ocular dominance, but my right-eye seems a bit more dominate. I tend to see no difference in some of the test.

Definitely left-eyed as my right eye hardly works!

As for handedness, my parents say I always tried to use my left as a child, but my parents made me use my right. I can actually write with both hands although I use my right most of the time. If I am holding something in my right, like a phone, I will just pick up the pen & write with my left without realising until I have done it.

Right-handed and left-eyed

Right-handed & both-eyed.

Based on the simple Wikipedia test mentioned above by Belle77, I have found my right eye to be dominant. However, it is also the more near-sighted of my two eyes. So, my right eye passes both tests for dominance! (I am right-handed, by the way).

Right for eyes and hand, I always seem to see the right side of my nose.

I'm right-eyed? Am I supposed to know?

oh damn, maybe I'm left-eyed! I see my left-nose! usually

I don't have a dominant eye. I can alternate between focusing either the left or right eye, partially due alternating strabismus, reducing depth perception (I can still see some depth, just not as well as others). I used to be primarily right, but for long distances my left eye can see better.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Strabismus

Right handed, right eyed.

Right-Handed
Left-Eyed

I can actually switch which handedness I am, (I'm not just good at both.) which is a bit like being ambidextrous, but I can only use one hand for a certain function at once. I have ultrafine motor skills, in that I can contract and expand the blood, muscle, and nerve flow from certain body parts. I can tell which hand is dominant at the time by "feeling" (ESP) which hand is more "tingly" and "spindly," versus which hand is more "numb" and "fat," as well as which hemisphere has more "jolt."

I think I'm always left-eyed, though, which I think makes me dyslexic, as I'm sometimes processing words not by "reading in my head," but by looking at the word like a drawing and remembering the form.
When I stay up very very late, I enter what I call "schizophrenic mode." My digestion speeds. My darkness sense fades. My time sense fades. I read entire pages at once, and remember nothing of it because my short-term memory is in sleep mode. Jamais vu? Oui. My senses sharpen. My reflexes develop. Temporoparietojunctal malfunction FTW