Left-Brained or Right-Brained?

[slipslope]

I too could only see her counter clockwise. I can get her to wobble back and forth now when the screen is upside down.
Crazy

[Lestat]

Wow, that was weird. When I first opened the link she was going counter clock-wise. Then I diverted my eyes to read the text beneath and when I looked back up she was going clock-wise! Then I couldn't get her to go counter clock-wise after that. Still can't.

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Wow, that was weird. When I first opened the link she was going counter clock-wise. Then I diverted my eyes to read the text beneath and when I looked back up she was going clock-wise! Then I couldn't get her to go counter clock-wise after that. Still can't.

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same here

[ZeeJustin]

Wow that's trippy. It took me 10 minutes to see her counter clockwise. Half way through my brother came in and could only see her counter clockwise. I can now switch her to counter. The key IMO is to focus on her planted foot, block out the rest of the picture (with your hand or something), and picture her other leg spinning the way you want to see it before looking at the whole pic.

I wonder how a computer would read this. Would she just be going side to side without ever doing a full spin?

I remember reading something the other day about a computer that was trained to see optical illusions the way a human would; by training it to "see" the same way humans do, it would make the same "mistake". Kind of neat.

[Grisgra]

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Wow that's trippy. It took me 10 minutes to see her counter clockwise. Half way through my brother came in and could only see her counter clockwise. I can now switch her to counter. The key IMO is to focus on her planted foot, block out the rest of the picture (with your hand or something), and picture her other leg spinning the way you want to see it before looking at the whole pic.

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Thanks, dude. This was driving me crazy. She still 'resets' a few seconds after I go back to seeing the whole picture -- and it takes me a good 15-20 secs to force the foot into seeming to go counterclockwise -- but I've definitely 'seen' her go counterclockwise 2-3 revolutions at this point.

Damn.

Of course, fact is that I am one of the most obsessively left-brained, logical people you would ever meet, so re this proving the whole right-brained/left-brained creative/logical dichotomy . . . well, not so much.

[LotsOfOuts69]

I initially saw her going counter-clockwise, but I could flip it in my head to see her going clockwise as well.

[EL Burro Loco]

According to the test i immediately see counter and thus left side... but after 30 seconds i could make her go either way... according to the person who brought up the folded hand test i am left hand on top so that means right side...

somewhere on the net there is a serious of questions and tests that shows you how far to the right or left you are and i was pretty much near the middle slightly on the right side if i remember... i am not going to find it but its a cool test... it also asks lots of visual / auditory questions and puts you in the frontal or rear regions of the brain... after you take the test a little dot moves to the spot where your brain is most dominate or something....

[GinaSD]

I think I'm like most of the people here who could see both directions with effort. started clockwise. looked away for a second, looked back and she was counter clockwise.

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I wonder if the people who can see the dancer spinning both ways at will have better cognitive abilities. Maybe if someone creates a whole set of optical illusions like these we can "train" ourselves to think in different ways more easily.