Are you left- or right-brained? Take the test!

It's still braeking my brain cell, I'm only seeing her go anti-clockwise and I just can't make her go clockwise. People from work are replying to my mail about this in completely random ways: some left, some right, some can, some can't. I'd like to know if the article's "most of us would see her go counter-clockwise" is right.

I find it very hard to make her go anti-clockwise, but can do it if I close my eyes, think of anti-clockwise movement then open them again.

Also, I am distracted by her tits.

I couldn't make her go the other way without scrolling down and scrolling back up.

(xp: Alba OTM)

I see her going clockwise, and I don't even understand how you could see him going to the other direction... Can someone give me a hint here?

I can ONLY see her going clockwise. Does this mean I should resign myself to my office job or resign from my office job?

"him", eh?

Come on, Dan, manboobs?

Make her go the other way? How the fuck do you do that?

BTW I can only see her going anti-clockwise.

For a split second, when I saw it the first time, it changed direction tho.

Opposite reaction: see counter-clockwise, can't even begin to imagine how you start seeing ambiguity or reversing things. Small part of brain suspects this is just revealing vast demographic gaps in ability to keep "clockwise" and "counter-clockwise" straight.

Also: sorry for shadownipple - if this is enough to turn this into a NSFW poll, please edit thread title :-(

I did the same as alba and closed my eyes and she went the other way.

WAIT WAIT I GOT IT TO SWITCH HOORAY

Hey wow, I managed to make her go anti-clockwise too! Magic!

(x-post)

Now I can't get her to go back counterclockwise

COOPERATE, CHICK

wow! how do it do that?

To switch without closing eyes, you need to think her legs going in front of her when previously you thought it was going behind. Or think of her pirouetting on the opposite foot.

Though I don't really understand how's it even possible to see her going to two different directions, so I guess the test is correct in saying I'm right-brained.

For all you newfashioned digital watch wearing youngsters:

CLOCKWISE
http://i23.tinypic.com/2ljotvq.png

ANTI-CLOCKWISE
http://i21.tinypic.com/10y3puh.png

only clockwise

Clockwise is still the default mode for me, I have to squint really hard to make her go to the other direction.

still only counter-clockwise :-/

To switch without closing eyes, you need to think her legs going in front of her when previously you thought it was going behind. Or think of her pirouetting on the opposite foot.

In practice, the former technique is much easier to achieve than the latter, I think.

DON'T SPEAK TOO SOON

People probably shouldn't vote too quickly -- the 1-minute "how the hell could it possibly go the other way" reaction can change pretty quickly. Maybe if you do some math and then look at it again.

Math? I'm leftie, I don't do maths. Or do I?

Sorry, this chick hates me and is disobedient. Refuses to change direction. :-(

Also, I'm getting mighty sick (in every way) of watching this bird.

Is there some explanation why this animation would tell which part of one's brain is dominant?

Nath, left-brained means good with maths.

Oh hahaha, yes, I do do math... and science. Croxor of shite. I'm crap at it.

(Actually, more likely -- try to perform sensitive tasks with either hands while periodically looking up at this, if it really does have to do with brain-hemisphere action.)

Yeah I was able to focus and close my eyes and make her go counterclockwise. Which is neat! It's a neat gif! Why does it have to "mean something" about my brain?

(get it clear in your head which way the lifted leg has just gone around - back or front - and just get her to repeat that side)

Actually, more likely -- try to perform sensitive tasks with either hands while periodically looking up at this

Are you talking about wanking?

dizzy

I am right-wanking. That is indisputable fact.

(Actually, more likely -- try to perform sensitive tasks with either hands while periodically looking up at this, if it really does have to do with brain-hemisphere action.)

lol wanker

(XPOST DAMMIT)

Maybe I'll have to do another poll on Friday: "what about now?"

Still widdershins.

I was listening to Confield while intensely staring at this for a few minutes, and I nearly threw up.

(I think all this has proven is that Alba and I are thinking the same way on this thread.)

I think I fancy her more when I make her go anti-clockwise. It's like I'm seeing her beauty afresh.

At first I was convinced she could only be turning clockwise, then I looked down and back up, was convinced it was actually counter-clockwise. Now I can only see her going clockwise, and I can't go back.

I want to go back!

Clockwise. Already knew I was right-brained. Can make her go the other way if I cross my eyes and look at her feet.

I was listening to New Order's Round & Round (vote in my poll!) when I first saw this, which was nice.

Oh, sorry. Poll here: You got (to) love Technique

Oh wait: she looks more awkward when she's going counter-clockwise, because her ponytail is suddenly leaning in the wrong direction.

On some official level she's REALLY going clockwise, with corresponding wind-pushing-hair action.

i always see her going anti-clockwise but can make her go the other way

how are you guys seeing her counterclockwise that is crazy talk!

nabisco xpost-- So only we immediate-clockwise people can see the truth!

how are you guys seeing her clockwise that is crazy talk!

Wait, I went back. What helps me in going back and forth is to actually trace the movement of the tip of her feet with my finger, going the direction I want to see her, while covering up her head with the rest of my hand. After tracing for about 20 seconds, remove the tracing hand, and voila!, you're in another dimension, and anyone observing you from outside your window thinks you may have gone insane.

Now Dream Attack is playing and she looks sadder anti-clockwise.

i just see her going round and round

Clockwise, was convinced the other way was impossible until I scrolled down and looked back up. Now it seems to be nearly abitrary, switches directions every time I look. Still, at first I couldn't concieve of it turning the other way, so I guess I'm rightbraned.

people in the southern hemisphere see her going the opposite direction

OMG I LOVE THIS

now i can make her change direction whenever i like

so what does that mean?

oh wait now I see her going counter-clockwise sorry!

This woman will haunt my dreams.

Unless I am actively thinking counter-clockwise, I always see her as clockwise first.

I couldn't figure out how to make it go counterclockwise at first, either, but then I scrolled back up and it did seem to be going that way. So right-brained here, I guess...

Also someone explain to me how's really moving: she's slanted, circling on her heel. IMPOSSIBLE.

I wonder if I see it differently once I delivered my baby. Maybe I'll revert back... Actually what if I don't see her move! Would that mean I'm a no-brainer?

All Minnesotans so far are right brained!

Why does she move so slowly at first and then SPEEDS UP?

There's a hidden message in this.

I'm feeling extremely nauseous. :-(

xpost Nathalie, you're right! If she was going to jump like that, she'd at least have to bend her knee...

Uh, sorry about the nausea. Go lie down on your left side. ;)

i can't make her go counter-clockwise at all, this is driving me nuts!

60-some posts and no one yes has typoed "cockwise"

counter-clockwise at first, concentrated a bit and got her going clockwise, looked at it out of corner of my eye and got her going counter-clockwise again, and then clockwise again and etc

brains they are weird

I have this sudden urge to buy mud flaps

http://imagecache2.allposters.com/images/pic/153/24-185~Mud-Flap-Girl-Posters.jpg

it's really weird, depending on when i glance at it, she can be going either way.

I am jealous of all the people who saw her counter-clockwise first you will all probably write novels one day and I never will. ;_;

Nabisco, what do you expect? She's not a great mover, now is she? Someone who's that freaky, must be an extra in Species.

Sara, should do, but I'm enthralled (-> see, leftie, good with words!)

whoa where did my post go? counter-clockwise the first time around, but everytime i scroll down and scroll back up she's changed direction.

btw you guys the left-brain/right-brain thing is really silly. It seems true that the left handles details and the right handles more spatial/abstract things, but if one half of your brain were truly dominant, it wouldn't be a personality trait, it would be a severe mental illness. Language for instance... the left half seems to (SEEMS to, no one has even proven this much) handle grammar and spelling and such, but the right brain handles tone, emphasis, volume, all the things that make speech and writing such nuanced things.

I can't make her go counter-clockwise.

but I have no depth perception, either, can't see 3-d etc. so maybe that's part of it

This is the great. Definitely easiest to get her to switch by block everything except her foot, and imagine that going round the other way and then slowly bring the whole thing back.

(xxxpost to kenan)

oh, ok - forget the left/right brain thing, it IS from the more astrology-minded section of psychology - but it's still a cool effect though (and I still can't make her go clockwise)

also A++ boobs

It'll switch back and forth several times a minute, but I can't do it intentionally. Actually it happens when I'm not concentrating that hard.

When she's going clockwise it seems I'm looking down at her from a slightly elevated viewpoint and up at her from below when she's going counter-clockwise.

For those who can't change directions, and who are using Safari on Mac OSX:

You can pause the animation by clicking and holding the scroll bar on the right side of the screen. So, scroll down to where you can't see the picture, then click and hold the scroll bar to pause the animation, and scroll up and look at it, in a paused state. If you want to see her going counter-clockwise, concentrate on her left leg being in the air, imagine the path it would follow, and unpause. If you want to see her going clockwise, instead imagine the elevated leg to be the right leg, the path it will follow, and unpause.

I am jealous of all the people who saw her counter-clockwise first you will all probably write novels one day and I never will. ;_;

But you'll paint great pictures!

the left/right brain distinction is very real, as someone who's known someone with brain cancer will tell you.

(the pause trick is most effective when the dancer is facing either directly away from you, or directly toward you, depending on your, er, orientation)

I can make her skip in either direction, it's quite fun to switch quickly between the two so she's just sort of wobbling. I think the first look was clockwise, but to be honest, I've forgotten already. Thanks, brain!

If only I had a girlfriend, I'd make her do pirouettes in the living room until I understood how this works :-)

the left/right brain distinction is very real, as someone who's known someone with brain cancer will tell you.

I'm not saying there's no difference, only that in normal brains, the two halves work together to do just about everything.

Milo, I don't have much depth perception either and I see her as counter-clock wise.

If only I had a girlfriend, I'd make her do pirouettes in the living room until I understood how this works

WANTED: Girlfriend. Mainly interested in getting her to dancing naked behind a sheet in my living room for a scientific experiment. Will pay expenses. No time wasters please.

lol

(multi-xpost to nabisco, who first mentioned this ponytail thing)

actually, I can see that her pushing her ponytail in the direction she's turning to doesn't feel right, but that still doesn't help, she keeps turning counterclockwise.

"You spin me round..." is playing in my head now. Must lie down. Must lie down.

don't you feel the baby going clockwise or counterclockwise? :-)

Well in one direction it seems like her ponytail is flowing appropriately; in the other she just looks like she's, you know, a mannequin, or something. Immobile hair and whatnot.

I find it very weird that I initially saw her going counter-clockwise, but now, every time the thread reloads and she pops up again, I see clockwise first. The hair might be relevant, really!

Nope, her head is following her ponytail.

I'm going to not look at this for a while

Or maybe you have split-brainality?

Stan, I wish the baby was going downwards.

I can't stand this girl anymore.

ha!

She's not standing. She's a mover. Urgh; hold on. Crap joke.

"When she's going clockwise it seems I'm looking down at her from a slightly elevated viewpoint and up at her from below when she's going counter-clockwise.

"

this is the best trick to make her go the other way.

Immediately clockwise, couldn't make her go any other way until I covered up the top and stared only at her feet, as recommended above.

Is it possible that I don't have a right brain hemisphere?

no

So the best way to make a girl change orientation is to stare at her feet until she swings the other way?

Weird, at first she went clockwise and I couldn't turn her to the other direction, then I managed to do it a couple of times, but now I can't do it anymore no matter how hard I try.

xxpost

j/k :-)

I feel like I'm missing something by not being able to do this though.

Completely clockwise, but by turning my head sideways and standing close to the computer I got her to switch for about a half second.

Anyway - is this the coolest optical illusion ever or what? I love this, even though I can't make it work (I fully expect to be able to without trying somewhere in the future, but at the moment: I don't even understand how the left half of the shadow below her could be going clockwise AT ALL)

Effort didn't help me get her to go counter-clockwise but then I got distracted by something else and when I looked back she had changed direction.

so strange, whenever i click on this thread she's usually going either way...what does that say about muh branez?

There's no vote option for "I see her changing direction every second and my poor brain can't make its mind up"

That's because I didn't think it was possible (I still don't believe anyone can see this going clockwise), sorry

The left half of the shadow: how can this NOT be disappearing out of the image in the counterclockwise direction?

BAN ROTATING CHICK

^^^YES
she was anti-clockwise on first glance, then i looked at her again and she was clockwise... it keeps changing.

xpost to onimo

stanM, try looking at the just her legs.

Oh snap: you mean that the opposite way, don't you? The raised foot's shadow appears when the foot should be in front going clockwise = reversals are maybe contingent on ignoring the shadow

I'm going to give up for a while & look at this again tomorrow.

(I just got the tip to only look at the shadow and I'd see her going clockwise for sure - don't think the shadow has anything to do with it, I only see that going counterclockwise as well)

this was easy

omg i got her 2 switch. the key is to look at the shadows and scroll up a little.

she's swinging back and forth easily for me.

the key is to look

yeah, I've received about 20 different tips from people who can do it, still no dice. going to bed now, cheapest way to get drunk evah

clockwise - i had to cover up most of the image and just look at her knees to get her to go the other way.

Woah - crazy! That hint actually worked for me.

i can't MAKE it go any way. It sort of flips directions by itself

my immediate reaction is clockwise and i can't imagine seeing it the other way

my parents have studied brains for more than 30 years and i recall them saying the left/right thing is bullshit

When she's going clockwise it seems I'm looking down at her from a slightly elevated viewpoint and up at her from below when she's going counter-clockwise.

Men who put women on a pedestal are revealed.

when i first clicked it was counter-clockwise and then i got her to switch to clockwise and now i can't get it back to counter-clockwise! how did that happen? if i reload the page now, it is clockwise.

xpost to gabbneb ... yeh: i think this "R U LEFT BRANED?" thing is a pretty reductive simplification at best. i'm not sure what controls the way you might perceive something like this ... ask me when i've had some more psychology lectures and i might be able to give you a better answer ;)

whatever: it's fun.

also, FWIW: after about a minute i found i could -- by closing my eyes, thinking and re-opening -- switch at will.

to begin with i had to scroll the image out of the frame, then move it slowly back in.

key to "live" switching, ie without closing my eyes: focus on the shadow.

kenan OTM about brains upthread.

now: can someone explain the animation trick?

Y'all are just trying to make me feel stupider!

whatever: it's fun.

No! It's NAUSEATING AND DEPRESSING!

GUYS SHE IS NIPPING OUT

THAT IS ALL I CAN SAY ABOUT THIS PICTURE

When the gif is slowed you can see that it basically shows her leg moves to the left and then moves back to the right - how your brain constructs that into a 'reasonable' representation of a three dimensional 'person' moving in two dimentional space is what's interesting.

I can't really do this because I was born with half a brain :(

fortunately you have the half that notices nipples.

When the gif is slowed you can see that it basically shows her leg moves to the left and then moves back to the right - how your brain constructs that into a 'reasonable' representation of a three dimensional 'person' moving in two dimentional space is what's interesting

too right ... why d'you think i've gone back to university? :)

i can see what the shadow's doing (ie flipping) but my brain gets suckered by the silhouette every time.

Well yeah or I wouldn't be able to tell where to feed my future offspring!
(haha no really that is the 'undocumented wet nurse' part of my brain.)

xp to kenan

the leg switch is pretty dope

Also someone explain to me how's really moving: she's slanted, circling on her heel. IMPOSSIBLE.

YES. so she is actually STANDING STILL and it is the camera moving around her, ie an answer of clockwise means anticlockwise and vice versa!

The ponytail thing is just a bit of wind in the room where she is standing still.

btw I used the most-extended arm to flip her rather than a leg. The key thing for me was to think "it's the LEFT arm, not the right", rather than visualising the rotation, I think.

If you pause individual frames you can see the animation is made up of images that can be viewed two ways, i.e. because there is no detail, just the silhouette, she could be looking forward or backward in any given moment. Like one of those wire-frame cuboids that you can see from two different perspectives.

I mean, the side-on silhouettes have that dual-directional property.

All the frames have that, since the facing-you vs facing-away thing must also be ambivalent for this to work.

(Actually, the purely side-on don't need ambiguity, since that's where the two aspects meet.)

yeah, I can't see it in the purely front on/back on either, since that's the same with either direction of spin. It's the 45 degrees to the left/right frames. Like this:

http://img204.imageshack.us/img204/3834/80604037ya3.jpg

If straight into the screen = North, she could be facing NW or SW in that one.

ok, i managed to make her reverse to counter-clockwise (while watching her), and I did it by looking at her head, not her feet

this thread needs a "not safe for being high" tag

i would have sex with this silhouette

if I blink at the proper rate I can get her to switch with each blink so I never have to see her face.

whoa blinking is mentalllll. i can get her to spin counter-clockwise if i start at the shadow and scroll up, but if i blink it snaps back to going clockwise

it's a metaphor for life: never blink

I saw clockwise & I could not see a way to reverse it. I isolated every section of the body and tried to make it reverse & it would not. I tried it on & off for two hours & it seemed to me that looking at the half-circle made by the shadow especially it was logically clockwise & those who saw it otherwise were mad or liars.

Suddenly I can only see it the other way round & the other way seems impossible now & I want it to go back.

I'm waiting for that to happen. So far I can only see her going clockwise and it's driving me insane.

Oh my god. Suddenly I can only see it the opposite way from what I've been saying is the only possible way all day.

xpost!!

try just looking at the feet

Whoa, now the new trick for me is to look at her shadow and concentrate on her moving the opposite direction.

My brain is boggled.

i bet if you took an mri of your brain when you're concentrating on the switch it's a big image of your brain giving you the finger

^^^^word

My new thing is to try to stop the extended foot at the 45 deg points, so it seems like she's just wagging it back and forth in front of her. Once I get that working then I can mostly choose when I let it just keep going around in the same direction.

So this is what this image is all about. I've seen it uploaded to delicious like a 100 times in the last week. That, and the "changing alphabet".

I can't make her counter-clockwise, but i did notice that she's got nipples.

I thought this was simply a matter of whether you thought about looking at her turn from the top or the bottom. OK WTF NOW SHE'S GOING THE OTHER WAY NEVER MIND

what bearing does left-handedness / right-handedness have on this?

also is this real science at all?

It certainly qualifies as weird science.

she changes direction regardless of whether i want her to or not. very dizzying.

Same here, she was going anti clock wise, and I was thinking "oh I cant see how I could make that look any dif...." then blink, suddenly she's going the other way? AND NOW I CANT FORCE IT :(

OK somehow looking at her shadow helps me flip.

I feel carsick :(

wow, that is something. i saw clockwise and it took a long, long time to figure out how to see the other way - i had to put my hand over the screen so i could only see the one foot and really, really focus on making it turn counter clockwise

This is like magic eye pictures, ow my freaking head.

what characterizes the left brain and right brain?

internal phrenology

No matter how much I look at this, it seems like she's moving in a clockwise direction. When I scroll down and hold the mouse so that it freezes when I come back up, she clearly starts moving in a clockwise direction as soon as I let go. Looking at the shadow and everything. It disturbs me a bit that there's a whole perspective on this thing that I'm missing. I just got results from a psych test that said my visual/spatial skills are seriously underdeveloped in comparison to my verbal skills (is that left vs right?) and I fear this might confirm it.

yeah... but that's pretty normal. the vast majority are strong in either direction... rare are those in the middle.
m.

Hm, by the distinctions here, though, I would have thought that I'm ultra-left-brained.

im ascared like sundar!

Now I get it.

http://koti.mbnet.fi/diablosk/itam/random/dancer2.gif

Holy shit!

(Oddly, the moment I scroll away and look back, she's going clockwise again.)

Huh. Now she's just kind of wildly switching back and forth.

what characterizes the left brain and right brain?

-- CaptainLorax, Tuesday, 9 October 2007 01:54 (3 hours ago) Link

internal phrenology

-- remy bean, Tuesday, 9 October 2007 01:55 (3 hours ago) Link

Yes, exactly. Remy otm.

This is a fun metafilter thread, packed with links.

Even better: this article about what happens to a brain when half (yes, half!) of it is removed. Short answer: it adapts.

The human brain is literally the most complicated organ... system... thing in the known universe. Literally.

This is some hilarious prank you're all playing on me, isn't it? She is clearly spinning clockwise. No amount of blinking, squinting, looking away or anything else is making it change.

Even better: this article about what happens to a brain when half (yes, half!) of it is removed.

I feel I should re-emphasize this. This is a really good article.

http://www.newyorker.com/archive/2006/07/03/060703fa_fact

Still counterclockwise & no switching at all. :-/

Now I can see her moving anticlockwise when I look at the one with the blue leg, but the original is still clockwise only.

When I opened this thread she was going anticlockwise and I couldn't make her switch. Then I went to the article and while I was skimming through the text the picture loaded there and she was going clockwise and I couldn't make her go back. I don't know if that's just because the clockwise list was so much cooler that my brain decided it needed to be a clockwise person, or because of where the article layout makes your eyes rest, or...

But still definitely mostly anticlockwise. Dammit. I wanted to be an artistic type. It's not like I'm too hot at logical things.

(I am more inclined to believe this is to do with how uneven my sight is in each eye than anything else, but still, neat picture.)

I hate it when an animated gif ruins your hopes and dreams. So sad. But it happens all the time.

I couldn't see it any other way aside from clockwise, though when I tried the feet-only method and squinted hard I could get it to go half-way anticlockwise (so instead of going in a circle she kept waving her foot about first one way then the other). It was quite a strain. With the blue leg I can see her going anticlockwise - I was trying to get that kind of mental imagery in the first place, but my mind just wouldn't accept it.

Can someone make a clockwise colored leg gif? (or is it already? It only confirms it's going counterclockwise for me)

seems like being able to switch her direction (imagining her orbiting leg as it passes the central leg as pointed-away from you instead of toward you or vice versa) would be extra-right brained/spatial.

you gotta love those lists... if you're lefty, you're reality based... if you're righty, you can "get it". lol.

m.

I kinda want all that left/right brain stuff to be true just to disagree with kenan.

Oh my god she's doing it! Look at her go!

I can make her go either way just by thinking about it - either glancing away, closing my eyes momentarily, or focussing on one spot - but it defaults to anti-clockwise when I come fresh to it from elsewhere.

(easiest cheat way to make it go otherwise for those having trouble is to scroll your screen so you can only see her legs - you shouldn't have any problem visualising which leg is crossing in front of which from there - keep that in your head and scroll up. I'm guessing this is what my brain is doing when I'm looking at the whole thing, but if it doesn't work like that, then this might help?)

I'm a total left-brainer

I kinda want all that left/right brain stuff to be true just to disagree with kenan

it's bollocks, and kenan is absolutely OTM. yes, the left and right cerebral hemispheres function in slightly different ways -- and can affect perception in some surprisingly different ones. but to reduce this to "left-brainer" and "right-brainer" as personality types is nothing more than pure pish.

and the differences in perception claimed by ILX0rs looking at this example are almost certainly nothing to do with hemispheres. i'm not confident enough to make a proclamation about this with complete certainty -- going back to university has made me substantially more circumspect, which can only be a good thing -- but i'm confident enough to, say, bet my bollocks on it.

bizarrely, i was reading a lot about such stuff this morning in the uni library. if you're not careful, i'll start posting large tranches of it here :)

I can't think of a single thing I would bet my bollocks on that I wouldn't proclaim about with complete certainty. Then again, I like my bollocks.

I've perfected it so I can get her to go anti-clockwise by glancing at the bottom left corner of the gif and clockwise by glancing at the bottom right corner. I am controlling her with my brain omg!

... by glancing at her bottom

actually, i think a more interesting division is between those who noticed the nipples and those who didn't.

More of a gaze than a glance, but yes :)

xpost there were people who didn't notice nipples? Concentrate ffs!

I can see the one with the blue leg (thanks!) go anti-clockwise. But I can't can't can't make the real one do it.

AGHHHHHHHHHH!

I am in the same boat as acentmonkey, I can only see counter clockwise with the blue leg. What is worse was that even as the question was posed I could see how the animation would result in both directions and I can play the animation anti-clockwise in my head. All means I am right brained, according to the link which is not my self image of myself.

No, no, I can make her do the anticlockwise even without the blue leg! I have bent her to my iron will.

They had a thing about hemispherectomies on the documentary series House last series. A man stopped being able to play piano.

They had a thing about hemispherectomies on the documentary series House last series. A man stopped being able to play piano

i was reading about "split-brain" patients this morning -- ie where the connecting commissures between the hemispheres were cut (a rather drastic treatment for epilepsy, IIRC) and all sorts of wacky shit ensuing. one experiment on such a patient involved displaying a picture of a horse in the left visual field (which is processed by the right hemisphere) and asking: "what would a rider put on this?"

the left hemisphere has all the verbal information for the response ... but can't do anything about it because the image hasn't reached it. the right hemisphere *can* see the horse ... but lacks the language skills to process and produce a verbal response. so the subject couldn't come up with a verbal answer ... but when they were asked to *draw* the answer, they did a saddle.

there's a lot of other similarly fascinating stuff to do with laterality, but the whole "I AM A RITE-BRANE PERSON" thing is shite.

OTM about the hemispherectomy/epilepsy. (the somewhat less drastic epilepsy surgical treatment is frontal lobotomy)

is -> was, probably. I think frontal lobotomies aren't being done anymore - at least not for epilepsy/schizophrenia

This is supposed to be clockwise, but I still can't see it :-(

http://koti.mbnet.fi/diablosk/itam/random/dancerclockwise.gif

OK, that was immediately clockwise. You are a total leftie, Stan.

And now they're all clockwise!

even the blue one?

Bugger, I looked at the blue leg, now they're back to being anti-clockwise

I think I'll just have to accept it, I'm clockwise-challenged.

Last night I saw this as counter clockwise for about 3 seconds but since then I've only been able to see each picture as clockwise no matter how hard I try!! This is sooooooo frustrating.

I can still make it go anticlockwise, even with the red line. I wonder if this makes me whole brained or schizophrenic.

http://koti.mbnet.fi/diablosk/itam/random/dancer2.gifhttp://koti.mbnet.fi/diablosk/itam/random/dancerclockwise.gif

WAU I can get them both going in opposite directions!

OK, now they're going clockwise and anti-clockwise alternately, which is quite a nice effect

They're both going clockwise!!! Are you guys really seeing go in different directions? ACK! I have no left brain.

... she's not turning round completely now but sorta sashaying to and fro

I apologise in advance...

http://i22.tinypic.com/2elbayu.gif

Like Tom, I'm finding it increasingly hard, now, to see her make a whole revolution.

HOLY SHIT!! I did it for about a second and had them going in opposite directions - the blue counterclockwise and the right clockwise but now they're both going counterclockwise!!!!

Both anti-clockwise, that red line doesn't help at all. :-(

And now she has independent nipples!

I can do it!! They're going in opposite directions again now. YAY!

Nipples clockwise

I'm starting to worry now :-(

Not only that I cannot see any clockwise direction, but also that I've been looking at this damn thing for a whole day already :-)

Stan - I can't look at either one I have to stare directly in the middle for a few seconds before they start going in opposite directions.

OK, I used to be able to make it go anti-clockwise only if I really concentrated. Now, after seeing the blue leg, I can ONLY make it go anti-clockwise. Even if I leave the thread and come back to it!

It's like those yellow dots sprint across her back.

The red line and blue legged one can still go either way. The yellow-nippled one I can't make go anti-clockwise at all.

I managed to the nipples one going anticlockwise but that means they disappear when they're meant to be facing front :/

The nipple one I can make go anticlockwise if I look to the right of the picture and watch it out of the side of my eye, because that takes the nipples out of it totally.

oh, oh, I did it! spots on her back and no shiny nipples on the front!

aw man i thought the nipples one was going to be clockwise only for sure but now i've got it anticlockwise too! and yup it's freaky.

just clockwise.

that nipple thing is tinged with genius, ledge.

I wouldn't call it my greatest achievement in life.

Did you deliberately make them jiggle a wee bit?

Or is my brain adding that in?

not deliberately. it was a bit like playing pin the tail on the donkey.

I can now make it go either way just by looking off the screen but keeping the image in my peripheral vision and imagining it going in one direction or the other. The side-by-side images dan posted are totally going in opposite directions.

This is a really neat optical illusion!

Results 1 - 10 of about 22 for "independent nipples". (0.15 seconds)

damn.

The nipple jiggle makes it look even more as though they're running across her back.

With the red leg I can get it to flip and after viewing the red leg I can get the original to finally flip and see the anti-clockwise.

This is a hoax.. a bunch of us all looked at it at the same time, and we all saw the same thing, at the same time, but it really does change directions after some time. But I guess that's just how the animated gif was done. If this was real then we "should" have seen it spinning in different directions at the same time since there were a lot of us looking as it.
Posted by: non-believer of Asia 5:17pm today

LOL

I saw her clockwise and thought there was no way she'd go the other way but then voila! Then I flipped her back to clockwise. What's my prize?

I would just like to point out that ledge is OTM on this thread.

what, "on the mammaries"?

*hi-five*

this is like those wavy signs you sometimes get outside shops.

(my answer: clockwise, and it took about 30 seconds to get her anticlockwise.)

It depends a lot on which browser you use - the animation runs a lot slower in Internet Explorer, and faster in Firefox.

http://i24.tinypic.com/a9sj85.gif
http://www.jimmijammes.com/a9sj86.gif

whoa.. now i can make her change directions almost at will, without taking my eyes off her

do you see this acetylacetate complex of Rutherfordium going clockwise or anti-clockwise?

http://blog.chemicalforums.com/blog-hexarf2007.gif

OK this was much easier once i turned animated gifs on

Having voted, I just managed to get her to go round the other way. I saw her clockwise first, but the list of right-brain characteristics doesn't seem like me at all.

Yeah, the voting options were a bit off target, I have to admit (although I still can't make her turn clockwise, so for me it's still correct) :-(

I need to change my vote too - I can get her to go clockwise and I can get them going in different directions with the erd and blue legs. Anti-clockwise by default though.

she changes direction each time i blink

just like hillary clinton.

Only with better breasts.

Oh yeah?

http://i20.tinypic.com/280qtrt.png

Needs jiggling.

NO. no, it doesn't. please. no.

Automatic thread bump. This poll is closing tomorrow.

I've decided she must be turning counterclockwise. I can "see" her turning both ways, but the shadow of the lifted foot only makes sense CCW.

Automatic thread bump. This poll's results are now in.

Well! At least their "most of us will see this counter-clockwise" (initially) assumption is wrong, even though the can/cannot change direction in this poll was probably irrelevant.

I've given up on this, if I haven't managed to see her turn clockwise after four days I probably never will :-/

Thanks for participating in the poll though, what a success! :-)

Surprised so many more people see her clockwise! But then I forgot to vote for anticlockwise (mostly, can just about make her change w/great effort, usually by closing my eyes and dragging the window so she's on the right or thinking very hard about clockwise rotation). Maybe clockwise types are less likely to remember to vote, but that is at odds with our supposedly more logical brains.

(Which I do not really believe in at all, but if someone shows me that ILX sees her mostly clockwise and, say, slashdot sees her mostly anticlockwise, then I will a) believe and b) have to shoot myself)

Uh, "maybe anticlockwise types". You see my more logical brain in action, with skills including "words and language" and "knows object name"? Yeah. Yeah, you do.

fun poll. shame about the piss-poor "science" it peddles. the perth wotsit should be ashamed of itself.

Yeah, does anyone have a link to the paper behind this?

Four months ago, it was on a page about optical illusions, without any mention of brain hemispheres:

http://www.moillusions.com/2007/06/spinning-sihouette-optical-illusion.html

(I don't know whether that means that the brain thing was added as an interpretation later or someone just took it from a scientific study and sent it to the optical illusion guys)

^^ great site ^^

I'm sorry, but this is the gayest <a href="http://www.moillusions.com/2006/07/sinking-house-illusion.html";>"illusion"</a> I've seen recently.

Fuck me.

Aye that's shite :)

I just looked at all the shimmery not-really-moving animated section and thought it was good.

Struggling with these "stereogram" ones.

Wow, I missed this. I firt see it as clockwise, but can make her go back and forth very easily. All you have to do is decide her outstretched leg is passing in front/in back of her supporting leg, and that does it. I suppose that means I have no brain at all.

Counterclockwise at first, then clockwise. Very hard to shift quickly back and forth.

in the morning: counter
in the evening: clockwise

might have something to do with this:
http://www.ilxor.com/ILX/ThreadSelectedControllerServlet?boardid=60&threadid=2955#msg190

I'm sorry, but this is the gayest <a href="http://www.moillusions.com/2006/07/sinking-house-illusion.html";;>"illusion"</a> I've seen recently.

-- Pleasant Plains, Friday, October 12, 2007 10:24 AM (3 days ago) Bookmark Link

Fuck me.

-- Pleasant Plains, Friday, October 12, 2007 10:24 AM (3 days ago) Bookmark Link

Yeah, that's not an optical illusion. That's cropping.

That's not cropping, that's a bad Monty Python background!

lolololololololol I should have come back to this thread on the 11th.

My father sees it clockwise and he's a statistician

Usually I see it clockwise still... but the shadow of the foot goes anti-clockwise and that's a fact, so I can make it switch by watching that.

Is this really a sinkin' house, away in the horizont? Hardly possible, but yet appears so.

O-oh (O-oh)
O-oh (O-oh)
O-oh (O-oh)

Swanananani (nanani, nanani, nanani)

Ay-ay! A mighty cyclone!

(Chorus: Mikael)
She moves her body like a cyclone
And she makes me wanna do it all night long
Whoo!
Going hard when they turn the spotlights on
Because she moves her body like a cyclone
Ay!
Just like a cyclone
Whoo!

She moves her body like a cyclone
And she makes me wanna do it all night long
Whoo!
Going hard when they turn the spotlights on
Because she moves her body like a cyclone
Ay!
A mighty cyclone!

(Baby Bash:)
Now look at that peppa'
On the back of that bumpa'
She aint even playin
When she's shakin that ruppa'
And oh, you aint know?
She gets lower than a muffla'
Even with her girlfriends
Show stopping with a hustla'

The way she move her body
She might see the Maserati
She wanna put it on me
Tryna show me her tsunami
She make it hard to copy
Always tight, never sloppy
And got an entourage
And her own paparazzi

Now there she go again
Ridin through the stormy weatha'
You betta button up
If you wanna go get her
Cause it is what it is

Errybody wanna love her
But when she pop it boy
You better run for cover
Ay-ay!

(Chorus)

(Baby Bash:)
(See it's a wrap) when she break them boys off a typhoon
(It's a wrap) gotta get that phatty like a boss tycoon
(It's a wrap) now hold it steady cause she make a monsoon
(It's a wrap) now you can Google, download the iTunes

See what I'm sayin
She aint playin
Yeah, she got them heads turnin
You gon' hear it clack, clack
When them heels get to burnin
Stiletto so fuego
She got her own label
And got us all doin the tornado
Ay-ay!

(Chorus)

(T-Pain:)
Ay! Ay!
Shawty got looks (and)
Shawty got class
Shawty got hips (and)
Shawty got ass
When she hit the stage
She drop it down low, like
Eer reer reer reer reer reer reer reer reer

Ay!
This is cra-ZZYYYY!
It's ama-ZINGGGG!
It must be the way of the la-DYYYY!
(Like) Eer reer reer reer reer reer reer reer reer
Oh-oh!

(Chorus)

(Outro: T-Pain)
Eer reer reer reer reer reer reer reer reer
Eer reer reer reer reer reer reer reer reer
Eer reer reer reer reer reer reer reer reer
Reer
Oh-oh!

She moves her body like a cyclone

No mention of the quiet hole in the middle, eh? Typical.

was this thread on ilx really a year ago? man time flies fast out of a monkey's ass.

so I wanted to post a complaint about left-brained people. they just don't get it, knowhaimsayin?s
Know any people who don't really know what it's like to be moved by music? or how certain notes can hit certain lifetone when performed in the right sequence? Or how angsty singers should often times be shot in the face, and complex angsty music through instrumentation can be a higher form of art - as subtle nuances go? OR how these left brained people don't even notice that there is emotion in say an instrumental track.

Know any left brainers that can't comprehend why a book or movie ended the way it did, because they lack the emotional comprehension skills (at the time) that allow us to perceive how an ending of a piece of art fits in it's 'right' place?

Shit, cuz if you do know people like this, it's like you have to constantly explain yourself. why can't they just get it.

[end rant posed in the for of a question]

now why is it that this girl is going anti-clockiwise (left-brain) for me right now (was it like that for me the first time?)... I eventually saw her spin both ways the first time I saw that image, but I think it's the initial direction that counts if it takes you at least a couple minutes to get her to spin the other way.

she's all over the place for me

that's not what she said

the fuck is this shit. when i scroll down she changes sometimes. but when i look really hard the one leg clearly passes in front of the other, so how tf can i see it both ways? argughghjfmekldsmx

a fuller explication. (may be already linked upthread, i don't know.)

thankig u, cool shit

..see the KRUNK SPiNNiNG DANCER
..see the KRUNK SPiNNiNG DANCER
..see the KRUNK SPiNNiNG DANCER
..see the KRUNK SPiNNiNG DANCER

is grady's mom zooming in or zooming out???

http://i47.photobucket.com/albums/f185/PappaWheelie/mom.gif

grady's mom is zooming hot

my mom: she's going anti-clockwise
(five seconds later)
my mom: now she's going the other way

what does that mean "centrally brained"?

http://www.shamozzle.com/Pic3ThreeInOneAll3NakedSpinningNudeDancerGirlsLeftRightBrainTestAnimation3.gif

That's head-explosingly great, that.

my mom: she's going anti-clockwise
(five seconds later)
my mom: now she's going the other way

what does that mean "centrally brained"?

― Fran Dreschantino (tron), Saturday, January 10, 2009 7:11 AM (11 hours ago) Bookmark

generally brained

I didn't see this before, but I am totally left-brained, I can not get her to go the other way...

Except when there is three of them! Then they are all over the place.

I never saw a picture in a magic eye painting either!

cover up the legs and see which way they go

Oh! they go clockwise when you do that.

dudes dudes if you focus on only two of the three spinny girls it looks like they are spinning in opposite directions! sometimes.

i can still only see it clockwise. :( apart from on that third one up there! i should surely be able to do it now! but no.

http://29.media.tumblr.com/tumblr_l4fsx6OJUZ1qzx8f2o1_500.gif

left to right. what does that mean?

although dancer at the top is going right-to left.

lols.

My hypothesis is that the cat is MAGIC and FLOATY and EXTRA AWESOME.

Btw, it's really super easy for me now to change the direction that either the cat or the dancer is spinning. I barely have to take my eyes off the image. I think my brain has caught on to this particular trick.

the cat is really hypnotic

Fuck yeah it is, it's a MAGIC CAT.

Clockwise. I can just about make the dancer go the other way (if I look to the side of the image instead of right at her she sometimes starts going anticlockwise and carries on when I look back at her) but I can't make the cat go the other way.

Usually I see her going clockwise, but have been coding for three hours and now it's really difficult to not see the dancer going counter-clockwise. Perhaps all the left-brain action of coding makes it dominant? Freaky.

cat is anti-clockwise, dancer is still -clockwise. I still can't change the dancer to anti-clockwise without looking at the illustrative examples Tipsy posted upthread, and then I get stuck on it until I look at the clockwise illustration again. :'(

http://29.media.tumblr.com/tumblr_l4fsx6OJUZ1qzx8f2o1_500.gif
http://29.media.tumblr.com/tumblr_l4fsx6OJUZ1qzx8f2o1_500.gif
http://29.media.tumblr.com/tumblr_l4fsx6OJUZ1qzx8f2o1_500.gif

xp to stet:

Not freaky at all, though. Practice a bit at changing the direction of the image, and it gets easier and easier to do. In fact it gets so easy that I can blink and the direction changes, without any concentration at all. That don't mean I'm Super Bi-hemispheric Man any more than it means anyone else has a dominant half of their brain.

And still, that is a floating cat. Who cares what direction it spins?

i just watched the cat spin for 4 relaxing minutes

http://content.ytmnd.com/content/d/7/5/d75e0a3c24bd2f25621b7ebe6036242c.gif

^ that one's going counter-clockwise

clockwise for me.

iirc right-brained is meant to mean "moar creative/intuitive/___________" right?

which is why ilxors voted for it, to cheer themselves up

coz there is NO FRICKIN WAY that chick is going round clockwise

Last one is clockwise and telling me to kill my parents.

there is no such thing as left-brained/right-brained

Girl and cats going clockwise.

that's what dreams are made of

I can make them spin either way, at will.

Also... INTP. Still. But the margin for T/F gets narrower each time I take it.

Clockwise and clockwise.

why is one of the books on the bookshelf flickering? is it trying to tell me to kill my parents?

WTF? Now it's anti-clockwise and anti-clockwise!

yeah, this thing is bugging me out a bit. I opened it earlier & it was ^ now it is the opposite. Try as I might, I can't *unsee* it either way. Either this is a clever internet joek or I am some sort of schizoid

I can't get them to switch direction "manually" either. Just now I opened this thread and the woman was going clockwise again, so I scrolled down to teh cats and they were still going anti-clockwise. I went back up to the woman and she's going anti-clockwise.

Look at the legs. When they cross, your brain interprets that as one going behind the other. Tell yourself which one is in front or behind, and you can make the picture switch. It's easy.

can't get past the right foot touching the ground

there is no such thing as left-brained/right-brained
there is no such thing as left-brained/right-brained
there is no such thing as left-brained/right-brained
there is no such thing as left-brained/right-brained

Of course there isn't. It's just a cool illusion.

it depends on whether your brain is "looking" at the figure from the top or bottom

this kind of changes every time i look at it, but yeah, it was really difficult to reverse them until i read Masonic Boom's "look at the legs" trick.

With practice, you can make the kitty bounce back and forth, never completing a full rotation.

I can't switch the direction with the cat

my life has no meaning

http://38.media.tumblr.com/6cf53aa4d5cb54a1f2c82040d9b3e97c/tumblr_nisr0sBSNx1rte5gyo1_1280.gif
http://tinyclicks.tumblr.com/post/109227948536/