profiles in profiles

[rinue]

My face is still mildly distorted from last week's gum graft - green-yellow bruising, puffy jaw, unevenly flattened smile. It irritates me more than it might otherwise, because it's on the left side of my face, which is the side that looks like me. I can't say it's my "good" side, exactly; neither side is bad, and the right side is probably prettier. But it's my left profile I identify as myself when I look in the mirror. The other side, not really.

I'm left-eye dominant, so it may fundamentally be that when I look at my profile in the mirror with my left eye, I have an easier (more comfortable) time processing what I see (left side of my face). I look at photos binocularly, and don't have the same alienation from my right profile in photos.

All of this has made me wonder whether other people's preferred self-profiles align with eye dominance.