Mostly I turn this way or that to stretch skin and see where the hair is. Shaping sideburns etc. Most of the southpaw shave was fine, but turning my head right so I could get a better view of the hair coming down from the sideburns along the back of the jawline is what used to get me. Also helps avoiding ear nibbles, though as I've gotten a better concept of blind spatial recognition with my left hand I find this a little less necessary and don't turn quite as far as I once did.

But in the beginning when it was turn far right, close right eye since all I saw was nose bridge anyway (in retrospect this may have been detrimental), then take a stab at it (almost literally) it was more problematic.

I learned about eye dominance when I learned to shoot left handed. Interestingly enough, I'm more accurate shooting lefty. Probably because it takes quite a lot of concentration to force the brain pan to focus on the sight picture out of the left eye. Especially with both eyes open.

I'm not sure the mind tricks were triggered by fear. My first shave the worst I got was razor burn, so after that I was pretty plucky about it. I think it was just the brain pan tripping over visual input from the 'wrong eye' while guiding the 'wrong hand' so close to my face. Stimulus overload, too much 'new stuff' going on at once?