Are you left or right brained?

[Easydoesit]

Try this thing. It's trippy.
I can only see it going one way and cant even begin to see how it could be going the other way.. then i look away and look back and it's going the other way.
http://www.news.com.au/perthnow/story/0,21598,22492511-5005375,00.html

[J double R]

definitely right-brained. i couldnt even get it to switch.

[Lady G]

Ok Easy...I think they are messin with us!! First I saw it clockwise...then like you said when I looked away and looked back, it was going the other way!!!

[Coler]

hooee I'm dizzy - every time I looked back at the thing it had changed direction. http://scienceline.org/2007/10/29/ask-hsu-spinning-girl-right-left-brain-hemispheres/

^ bit of chat about it here

[Easydoesit]

i know G, its so weird. almost every time i look away and look back it's going another way.. but i cant even nearly figure out how to make it switch while im looking at it

[Lady G]

Yep..that was the same for me, I thought they must have it set to change direction after so long...so I'd stare at it for a bit and it wouldn't change...I'd look back to read the stuff on the side, look at the girl and she would be going the other way!!!! GAHHH, it was making me a little crazy LMAO!

[Easydoesit]

thats interesting coler

“The popular notion of an ‘emotional’ right hemisphere that contrasts sharply with a ‘rational’ left hemisphere is like a crude pencil sketch made before a full-color painting,” noted a 2005 Scientific American Mind article.

[Cheech]

I saw this last week, and although i always thought of myself more as a creative thinker, it was turning counterclockwise....

Now, I looked at it again, and once again, counter clockwise. . . . Then I read some replies, looked back, and low and behold, it's turning clockwise, and I can't get it to turn the other way anymore.


very very trippy.



***Editted to add: Just read your link, Cloer. Interesting find... Still a cool image, whether it be a representation of how we think, or a really cool opticle illusion.

[kuhliloach]

it's so creepy, how does it switch like that?

[J double R]

MG is still trying to figure out which direction he saw it spinning the first time...


classic no-brain response. ;)

[Sarge_857]

left brained, i could tell when it was switchin its direction perfectly, all you gotta do is look at the right foot.

[cam191919]

it was clockwise, then counter clockwise. i think its rigged

[bettagurl]

Well, me and two other people were looking at it, and it was doing the exact same thing for all of us.. sooo.. lol

[jm1212]

the test doesnt work...

it tells me im left brained, but im left handed :D

[Slappy*McFish]

She stopped for me. ;)

Seriously though...it was consistently turning clockwise for me.

Edit: actually after considerable concentration, I saw it spin counter-clockwise. I just had to rethink the direction she was facing while spinning around. Interesting.

[Bitsy]

The only way she spins is clockwise, I have stared at the darn thing for like 15 minutes and I don't even see how it's possible to see her spinning counterclockwise?! Anyways, interesting, although it did make me dizzy after a while, LOL!

[IceH2O]

My wife and I both were looking at it and I could see it switch pretty often but she only caught it a few times. Mostly after I said it switched directions.

[Rbishop]

to answer the thread title...yes.

[Dwarf Puffers]

Didn't change from clockwise for me, and I must say... I do love fantasy books (Legend of Drizz't, Lord of the Rings, Narnia, etc).

[duke33]

When I was reading the left brain stats, she went left. When i'd read the right brain sastats she went right. Now I can't type! lol.

[Hooked Newbie]

What if I see both directions simultaneously?

[IceH2O]

What if I see both directions simultaneously?

Means you are cross eyed.

[Hooked Newbie]

Means you are cross eyed.

I hope that's all it is.... I thought I was going flipping nuts.

[malken]

counter clockwise until I went back after a while and now it's clockwise.

[Easydoesit]

it kept switching both ways for me.. started out counter-clockwise the first time i saw it, then kept switching.
the next time i went back to the site(some hours later) it started off clockwise and then when it started switching it did it frequently.
ive taken a 'leftbrain/rightbrain' test that says im 11% left brained and 9% right brained. idk why they did it out of 20%?

[Hooked Newbie]

it kept switching both ways for me.. started out counter-clockwise the first time i saw it, then kept switching.
the next time i went back to the site(some hours later) it started off clockwise and then when it started switching it did it frequently.
ive taken a 'leftbrain/rightbrain' test that says im 11% left brained and 9% right brained. idk why they did it out of 20%?

Where'd the other 80% go?! :eek:

[Easydoesit]

Where'd the other 80% go?! :eek:
ahahahah.. so thattsssss why it was only 20%!
i would say "why didnt i think of that?" but i think it's obvious

[eeyipes]

I see her only going clockwise, can't make myself see it any other way.
Weird thing is, a couple years ago when I took a lengthy left/right brain test I scored exactly 50/50 - right in the middle. So maybe we can change over time.

It's not rigged, just an optical illusion. It's an animated gif, so I opened it up in an animated gif editing program - it's a single neverending loop that doesn't change. When you look at it frame by frame, it's easy to see the spots where your perception of the image might change the direction for you - but it doesn't replay in reverse like some here are thinking.

My 7 yr old sees her going both ways!

[judgemax]

well, i can only get her to go clockwise!! she did twitch, but she wasn't going any other way???

[Slappy*McFish]

Since she's a silhouette, our brains assume when she's facing us and facing away from us while she's spinning. The trick is to force your brain to think she is facing the opposite direction that she seems to be facing while spinning. This will change the direction she is spinning.