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One of the most significant roles of the dominant hemisphere of our brain, in most people's cases, that would be the right hemisphere

is to represent lived experience in terms of narrative sequential

thought.

In other words, to interpret what's happening around us

and turn it into a story with ideas and labels that help us have a sense of a grasp on the world around us.

So we like to figure out what each experience, especially emotionally resonant experience in life means after we go through a difficult interpersonal event with a friend or a relationship or a family member,

we sit and we turned it into a story in our heads.

And we try to parse out what went wrong.

Of course we do the same after disturbing events in the world, whether personal such as problems in work or with friendships or problems that are far more transpersonal, like the pandemic,

national events,

local events, and so forth.

We try to make sense of experience,

largely by labeling the experiences and the constituent actors in each event, the people or the core elements of any experience, we like to label people, places, and things with black and wide categories.

This person is, or that situation is safe or dangerous,

useful or useless, and so forth.

And there's clear survival advantages accrue from the brains being able to left hemisphere,

the dominant hemisphere's ability to translate really complex experiences into good or bad ideas.

We can keep a vast array of info in our mind if we can essentially reduce lived experience to simple

categories.

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