Why must sweet words be whispered in the left ear?

2025-11-04

Why whisper sweet nothings in the left ear?

All of this is related to human physiology.

Left ear: emotion vs. right ear: reason

The left hemisphere of the human brain controls the nerves and organs of the right side of the body.

In other words, it controls our right ear.

It is the language center

Primarily responsible for language, analysis, logic,

Algebraic thinking, understanding, and behavior

The right hemisphere of the human brain controls the nerves and organs of the left side of the body.

It controls the left ear

It is a "mute brain" without a language center.

But it has a central nervous system for receiving music.

Responsible for visual, synthetic, geometric, and artistic thinking.

In general

The left brain performs methodical logical thinking.

The right brain, on the other hand, is responsible for intuitive and sensory thinking.

Another theory is...

The left ear is closer to the heart, so it can hear the heartbeat better.

Find out if you are a left-brain dominant or right-brain dominant person.

If you see your left leg standing and your right leg rotating clockwise (from above), it indicates that you have a right-brain dominant mindset.

If you see someone standing on their right leg and rotating their left leg counterclockwise, then it indicates a left-brain type of thinking.

Hearing: Left ear > Right ear

Why whisper sweet nothings in the left ear?

It may also be related to hearing.

When you need to carefully identify a sound, you often turn your head to the right.

Point your left ear toward the source of the sound

This is because people's hearing sensitivity varies.

Soviet physiologists conducted an experiment with 10 men aged 22-25 with normal hearing and eardrums. They used various sound intensities within the range of 225-4000 Hz, which is suitable for human hearing, to repeatedly measure each man's hearing ability. All 10 men had better hearing in their left ear than in their right ear.

Why is hearing in the left ear generally stronger? Physiologists have found the answer by observing electroencephalograms (EEGs). EEGs show that the right brain has a larger amplitude than the left brain because the impulses of sound perceived by the left and right ears are transmitted through the auditory nerve to the auditory centers of the left and right hemispheres via the corpus callosum. That is, impulses from the left ear cross over to the right brain via the corpus callosum, and impulses from the right ear are transmitted to the left brain. The larger amplitude in the right brain explains why the left ear has more sensitive hearing.

Sweet talk strategy

1. To embrace you is to be richer than a king. --- *The King and the Beggar*

2. From this day forward, we will only be separated by death, never by life again. --- Yang Jiang

3. I have always been a staunch materialist, but for you, I hope there is an afterlife. --- Zhou Enlai and Deng Yingchao

4. If someone asks me the reason for my troubles, I dare not reveal your name. --- Dai Wangshu, "Troubles"

5. We loved each other for a lifetime, but a lifetime is still too short. --- Shen Congwen

6. Meeting you made me feel so low, so very low, down to the dust, but my heart was joyful. And there, a flower bloomed. --- Eileen Chang

7. Every time I think of you, a grain of sand falls from the sky, thus forming the Sahara. Every time I think of you, a drop of water falls from the sky, thus forming the Pacific Ocean. ---Sanmao

8. Don't ask me if you're in my heart, you're always in my peripheral vision. --- Yu Guangzhong

9. If you leave, I won't see you off. If you come, no matter how stormy the weather, I will come to pick you up. -- Liang Shiqiu

10. From the moment we met, you have been the star that never sets in my day and night. -- Lermontov, "Dark Eyes"

11. I probably don't have any real talent, but because I was fortunate enough to meet you, a lot of romance has sprung up in this ordinary heart.

12. I have met many people in my life, they are like fireworks between my fingers, flickering and dimming, eventually turning into ashes. But you are different, you are like the North Star, shining throughout my entire life.

13. I never pick and choose when buying clothes, even if they have some flaws, as long as they fit. It's the same with shoes and food. But you are the only exception. You are the best gift I have ever chosen in my life.

14. I've never had good luck in my life. I'm always called on by the teacher to answer questions, I always forget my umbrella when it rains, and I always choose the wrong answer when hesitating over multiple-choice questions... But until I met you, I understood that I used up all my luck in my life to meet you.

They all say that what they hear with their left ear is all sweet talk.

The love in my left ear was lost in the wind.

Heard it with my left ear: This vanished love.

This immortal legend