Oh, I see you did mention the right and left brain stuff. My husband works with stroke victims and you can tell which hemisphere they stroked on by how they act (logic or emotional impairment) and of course sometimes by which side of their body has paralysis.

I took a drawing on the right side of the brain class, holy cow! the headaches I got. We had to learn to see differently then how we are normally taught. We had to do things like draw the negative space instead of the actual chair. If you practice enough you learn to see differently and you can actually draw the chair using those methods.

I was just so amazed how my head would ache when I did this. The process was kind of like looking at those dot paintings that suddenly turn 3-D when we learn to see in that way. For some, especially artists, it comes easily (not for this non-right brain dominant artist!).

The class was extremely helpful in teaching us to not just takes constructs at face value but to see them in a different way. In a painting we might expect the light to come from a certain spot or a tree to look a certain way because we've hardwired our brain in that way. But when we looked at it differently, as we did in the drawing on the Drawing on the Right Side of the Brain class we see it more clearly.