[ELI5] How does eye dominance work? Is it there something different about my non-dominant eye?

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[ELI5] How does eye dominance work? Is it there something different about my non-dominant eye?

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The eyes are the same. The difference is in the brain. The brain preferentially uses one eye for reference and the other for depth. The brain is very complex, and this is a vast over-simplification = ELI5.