Lateralization of brain function Puns

Probable Spoilers Ahead for Charlie Kaufman's new Netflix movie i'm thinking of ending things:

My theory posits Jake and the girlfriend are visual representations of the left and right hemispheres of the brain personified. While it's greatly oversimplified and often considered Pop Psychology, there is some truth to which sides of the brain are responsible for what function. ie Logic, emotion, creativity, motor skills, etc. In the first car sequence, I started noticing the position of the camera and how very rarely both characters were on screen together. I started theorizing Lucy, (we'll call her for the sake of typing-laziness) framed in the passenger seat, is our right-hemisphere stand in and Jake is the left. Got it? Now take a look at these commonly believed laterlized brain functions:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lateralization_of_brain_function#/media/File:Brain_Lateralization.svg

As the movie progressed and we got to know the characters, and knowing Jake is the left and Lucy is the right, don't those look like their respective character traits?

Jake (Left Brain):

-Analytical thought - Very observant and educated, interested in Lucy's research paper and also knowledgeable about it. Wants to discuss the meaning of poetry. Points out the problematic use of the word "sissy". Comes up with possibly the only plausible reason a new swing-set would be in front of an abandoned house.

-Detail Oriented Perception - He seems to have perfect recall of events and places of the past, while other characters forget simple words or change stories and events.

-Ordered Sequencing - When we're with Jake most is when he is driving a car, and what's more ordered than that? you're going from Point A to Point B. He also seems to list off musicals pretty quickly.

-Rational Thought - "Chains." He explains the lambs are frozen and "what are you gonna do?"

-Verbal - Jake gets uncomfortable when Lucy retreats into her head. He always tries to initiate conversations, going so far as to insist she perform a poetry slam right there in the passenger seat.

-Cautious - He doesn't want Lucy to go in the basement.

Lucy (Right Brain)

-Intuitive Thought - She is sensing the end of things, literally. When they drive by the billboard, a voice (which we know at the end is the animated pig) says "Come... Join me."

I am currently taking a physiological psychology class and I had a guest lecturer today who talked talked about differences in function and anatomy across brain hemispheres. I noticed that all the examples that were presented in the lecture came from the observation of patients who had undergone a severing of the corpus callosum. Are there trends in lateralization seen in animal models that are similar to those seen in humans?

What lateralizations of brain functions must we know for Psych? All I can find in the KA notes is that the left temporal lobe is for auditory and linguistic processing. And of course for lateralization to occur, the corpus callosum must be used to relay sensory inputs to processing in the correct hemisphere.

There seems to be a lot written about brain lateralization, and what characteristics one side my imbue over the other. There's also a lot of work regarding dyslexia and the correlation between handedness, eyeness etc. Nothing seems set in stone on this matter, but I just wondered, anecdotally, what the experiences of other INTPs are.

I'm left eyed, right handed, left footed and right eared ... mixed dominant. From one theoretical perspective, this makes me a prime candidate for "learning disabilities", ADHD, poor langauge abilities and poor motor skills. I can't possibly rule one way or the other on the possibilitiy that I suffered/suffer with these disadvantageous characteristics, but I suspect perhaps mild symptoms, some of which, AGAIN, correlate with INTPness.

Any thoughts?

It's so fucking exhausting.

I have to set alarms for every hour because i have no concept of time.

I have to set timers so i can do normal things like brushing my teeth and doing the dishes.

Everything needs to be visible or else i forget it exists.

I always need some sort of background noise while I'm doing something.

I have to remind myself to eat and drink water.

I need a standing desk so i can work on my computer.

If I put something away i have to take a picture of it or else i forget where it is

And sooooo much more

My friends don't need to own 4 clocks in every room so theyll know time is passing I'm so fucking tired of having to find tips and tricks to do things that others do with 0 effort.

And yes i know that it's just the way my brain Is wired and i have to deal with it but sometimes i just feel like screaming and crying

For example, in 90% of right-handers, the language regions of the brain are lateralized to the left hemisphere, while in left-handers that number is closer to 70%. This would suggest some relationship, but you're still more likely to be left-lateralized for language if you're left-handed. They've recently identified more than 40 genes that may influence handedness, but I can't find anything on what causes an entire brain region to be lateralized to one side. Judging from the association, if anything I'd assume it involves some, but not all of the same genes that govern handedness. One other thing I'm not clear on - if the brain is left-lateralized for language, what's found in the corresponding region on the right hemisphere? Is it the same structures but smaller or is it specialized for something else?

Also, would you expect environmental factors during development to have as big an impact on brain structure lateralization as they do for handedness?

I know that in split brain patients the two hemispheres produce different conscious states based around their prioritization and specialization, but i was wondering whether in healthy brains people can still display signs of the respective hemisphere's dominant traits. For example would observing someone's facial expressions and emotions with your left eye (right hemisphere) while having the right closed produce a slightly better understanding and detection of those emotions than with the right eye (left hemisphere)? Would listening to music with your left ear (since the right hemisphere is better at recognizing melodies and musical chords) result in a slightly better understanding of those things? Would reading with your right eye produce slightly better understanding of the text? Or does a healthy corpus callosum completely normalize the two states of consciousness into a single one by running the input's implications through both hemispheres?

I decided to have a nice trip for New Year's Eve while my friends were partying and it was really nice and all.

Right now, I'm on the "downhill" side, the perception effects are slowly fading and OH BOIIII post-nut clarity is just 0.000001% of mid-post-trip clarity. Or is it just trip-clarity ? I'm not sure. [note added later : I totally still tripping, at least my mind is - I just don't have the full physical effects]

I had to go back home after the party and started thinking about a lot of things going around me. It felt like I never took the train in my life and I just realized I'm just a body in a steel box, with steel wheels, rolling on steel, at high speed, in an underground tunnel; I never saw it that way. I always saw it as "me, taking the train on Line A to get to work". Everything is bound to names, functions, roles. That's how our minds work. Everything is classified, all the time. "What is what" is one of the most fundamental function of the brain. As I was thinking about that, it dawned on me for the first time in my existence :

My consciousness, your consciousness, what we call "I", "myself", "self" or just "me", is nothing but a bunch of subordinate function of the brain, which is itself a part of the body.

It felt like I discovered Heliocentrism. For the first time, I didn't put my consciousness at the center of my own existence, of my being, of my reason to live and to be. I put my body, divided in subordinate functions for each organ, including the brain. And being conscious is just a subordinate part of the brain. Nothing more. I always built my existence around myself, my precious consciousness, as if everything was to be obeyed by this supreme "I" because, since my body is controlled by it, the main function of my body would be to make the world obey by materializing my will, through my body. But if you try to live your life thinking that your body is a subordinate function of your consciousness, made to please your mind : you're doing everything wrong. I've been doing everything wrong, all this time. As a consciousness, my job is to take care of the things my body can't automate.

Because while I was tripping, thinking about all those things, my legs just walked me to my house. They know the way. I don't have to think about it. My consciousness is almost completely useless to take me home, it just keeps a bunch of small operations smooth but in reality, my brain knows how to navigate the transit system without me acknowled

I’m normally a mild space cadet, but today was bad. I was driving and this asshole in front of me was going exactly the speed limit and not letting me pass. Then they started waving at me! I was like “oh someone wants me to run them off the road today-bet!” So I naturally gave them the finger. (I know, bad future mommy move but like…it’s New York lol)

All of a sudden my phone rings and it’s my husband. I forgot he got a new car (a month ago 🤦🏻‍♀️) and it was him in front of me being his normal safe driving self just waving hi to me.

I swear, every last bit of intelligence has left my brain. This baby is sucking me dry. Signing off to go sign up for defensive driving now😅.