interesting question. your leftfrom your right what? feet? hands? shoes? i guess if we were all raised to believe our left was actually our right. . . hmm, i don't know the answer.
I must admit I have experienced this, when I look down at my feet I actually see as an impression two of the same ones. I puzzled over this for some time as it happened also with my hands. Couldn't distinguish which was which. They appeared to be the same. Possibly as I had suffered from a significant loss of propriorception control due to a stroke some time earlier this was a pseudo imagination perception problem. where by the imagination has determined that your limbs are ambidextrus and not biased. Sort of looking at your limbs without the bias of left or right. Feels wierd I must admit but it should pass as it did for me. Even now I can still easilly imagine that my left and right are the same. The key I found is to treat it as a learning experience and just assume that your brain is developing ambidextrusness and not worry to much about it.
The only solution is practice, practice, practice. The only people I've known with this problem is those who have little need of making the distinction. Since they don't use it often, it tends to become forgotten. I'll bet that many people don't know this but that's one of the main reason the Army spends so much time with close-order drills during basic training. After 8 weeks of that, you'll never get them confused again! Please Register or Log in to view the hidden image!
...LOL! Hey, wait 'til you get to be my age and you still have a difficult time with snap decisions of left n' right! Allisone, it's due mainly to the development of the two halves of your brain. My experience is that people who have that "left/right" problem exhibit artistic abilities and/or perceptions. Also many of them are "somewhat" ambitextrous. I.e., both sides of their brain have developed more fully and are somewhat in conflict. Check it out with others and you'll probably discover lots of artistic abilities in evidence. Baron Max
i think that the problem is in our past. When human beings were first created, or first appeared on the earth, they didn't differentiate between their arms as left or right- there was no need to- but life changed - people invent new equipment for surviving so they where thinking of how both hands will achieve and use all that stuff which now surrounds us also people who invented things where thinking more deeply (under the skin of their inventions) and they analised it. They had no need to rethink of how to use it as they had created it. first of all we as a recivers - should think or guess how it is working and then use it. But the problem is that we don't try to understand it, we just use it.
I don't think that's quite true. Due to the different brain centers that are in each hemisphere, humans tend to favor their right hands, which are controlled by the left hemisphere. Testing the idea out on other animals has shown it to be common among mammals. Our brains are all laid out in similar patterns. If an animal needs to do something that only requires one forefoot, it will usually be the right one.
