charamei reblogged
ok well this blew my mind
This is also true with filmmakers. Western filmmakers pan their cameras mostly left to right and Iranian filmmakers do right to left.
mindfulnesspoet
Time seems such a universal concept and then I find out the different ways people perceive everything and remember “it’s all appearances to consciousness”
But the coolest part of that time-direction study, was there didn’t seem to be a consistent pattern to how aboriginal Australians arranged the images, until it was realized that the issue was where the participant was sitting, because they were consistently arranging them East to West.
Because these languages have absolute direction. They don’t use left/right, but north/south/etc.
#language#culture#I want to do personal care on someone whose native language is right to left one day#bc I want to see if we can solve the issue where I pick up the left shoe and they pick up their left foot#bc we're both working left to right#but of course we're facing one another so we've both gone for the opposite of what the other intends#it is REALLY HARD to remember to pick up the right shoe first. you would think I would be able to do it since I'm aware of this phenomenon#but nooooope