Right brain v. Left brain test - spinning dancer
 

I clearly see this dancer spinning clockwise, which means I'm right brained. Evidently I'm not very logical oriented. Ha. That explains everything. My Brother sees it spinning counterclockwise and my friend sees it sometimes spinning one way, sometimes the other.

Spinning dancer

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Clockwise.

I have a terrible time seeing it any other way. ATM I'm not even convinced it's possible.

Re: Are you right or left brained?
 

Ah; got it. Yeah, I can do both at will now. I had to focus on the feet and the shadow before I could do it.

Re: Are you right or left brained?
 

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Clockwise.

I have a terrible time seeing it any other way. ATM I'm not even convinced it's possible.


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LOL, this explains a lot. You are fantasy based, not reality based.

(just razzing you Nielsio)

Re: Right brain v. Left brain test - spinning dancer
 

my default is clockwise, but i can generally control which way she goes. i don't think i'm very right-brained.

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I first saw her going clockwise, but like the others I could also see it change and go counter-clockwise.

I'm also not truly left or right handed, but I'm not ambidexterous either. Some things I do left-handed and other things right handed.

I'm also sometimes right brained and sometimes left brained.

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Damn it, I can't make her go counterclockwise. [img]/images/graemlins/frown.gif[/img]

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I first saw her going clockwise, but like the others I could also see it change and go counter-clockwise.



[/ QUOTE ] Yes, I can control it now too, by looking at the shadows on the ice. I'm wondering if anyone here defaults to counterclockwise?

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I didn't scroll down far enough to see the shadows. I just "freezed" her for a second and then she went the other direction...

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I can now see her going both ways pretty easily, but I'm more inclined to see her going clockwiese. Interesting, because the first time I ever saw it she was moving counter-clockwise, but switched when I diverted my eyes. It took a long time before I could get her going counter-clockwise again.

For those having trouble, the key is to focus on the shadow and when it disappears, imagine it coming back around in the direction you want.

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The key is to focus on the shadow and when it disappears, imagine it coming back around in the direction you want.

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This is the trick, yes. But I suspect it works because we project our clock-wisedness on it, and then the object above becomes counterclockwise.

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Damn it, I can't make her go counterclockwise. [img]/images/graemlins/frown.gif[/img]

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do you see the dancer turning clockwise or anti-clockwise?

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This wording is ambiguous. I'm assuming everybody takes this to mean "when viewed from above"?

I see counter-clockwise so strongly that I can't imagine how it's even theoretically possible to see it the other way. Coincidentally, I'm pretty much 100% left-brain according to their criteria.

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I see her standing on her left leg and spinning clockwise -- meaning that if she held her right leg out and I viewed her from the top of her head, the right leg would be moving clockwise.

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Weeeeee ok. If I stare at something away from it, for instance the ad underneath it, I can see the counter-clockwise. As soon as I look at the picture, though, she's back to clockwise.

Re: Right brain v. Left brain test - spinning dancer
 

Interesting. Would you say that the list of "right brain functions" on the page describes you better than the other?

Also, was it necessary to give her nipples? She'd be hypnotic enough without them.

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Also, was it necessary to give her nipples?

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absolutely. [img]/images/graemlins/tongue.gif[/img]

Re: Right brain v. Left brain test - spinning dancer
 

In this link you get a full view of the leg shadows and a smoother dance.

Better Spinning Dancer Image

PairTheBoard

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I'm stuck on anticlockwise, looking at the feet/shadow doesnt work for me. [img]/images/graemlins/frown.gif[/img]

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do you see the dancer turning clockwise or anti-clockwise?

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This wording is ambiguous. I'm assuming everybody takes this to mean "when viewed from above"?

I see counter-clockwise so strongly that I can't imagine how it's even theoretically possible to see it the other way. Coincidentally, I'm pretty much 100% left-brain according to their criteria.

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Same with me.

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I'm stuck on anticlockwise, looking at the feet/shadow doesnt work for me. [img]/images/graemlins/frown.gif[/img]

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Using my link, I concentrate on the shadow legs until I can see them as two dimensional, like a pendulum swinging back and forth. Then I try to image the foot shadow swinging to the foreground when moving from right to left. Then I look up to the dancer to get the clockwise movement. To switch back I image the foot shadow swinging behind when moving from right to left. It's easy to do with the shadow because there's no body movements in view reinforcing the old perception.

PairTheBoard

Re: Right brain v. Left brain test - spinning dancer
 

I'm like everyone else, I saw clockwise but eventually managed counter-clockwise. When I look at her my tendency is to will her to spin in the other direction, instead of changing my perspective. My head hurts when I try to make it change.

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When I opened the link, it was counterclockwise for the first 2 seconds, then it switched to clockwise. Hasn't switched back, although it does randomly stop for a moment sometimes.

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In this link you get a full view of the leg shadows and a smoother dance.

Better Spinning Dancer Image

PairTheBoard

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Oh, it's much easier to make it reverse with this one. I couldn't do it with the other until after.

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Also, was it necessary to give her nipples?

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absolutely. [img]/images/graemlins/tongue.gif[/img]

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Hah, left brain, right brain. Many brains are just processing "it's a nekkid chick lolz" [img]/images/graemlins/smile.gif[/img]

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I'm biased towards clockwise.

If I make her leg go anti-clockwise, her foot and head spin in opposite directions exorcist-style.

Re: Right brain v. Left brain test - spinning dancer
 

I first saw her going counter clock wise but once i got her to go clockwise, I can't get her to go back to counter.


** I can do it both ways at will now, I guess cause I first saw it counter, that is my default?

** I thought I read soewhere that the whole left brain v right brain was bunk?

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** I thought I read soewhere that the whole left brain v right brain was bunk?

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The popular conception of left brain-right brain differences is oversimplified, and the self-help stuff like 'get in tough with your right brain' is bunk. But the two hemispheres are specialized and there's an element of truth to a lot of what you hear about it.

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Interesting.

When I first opened the page, I saw the dancer spinning counter-clockwise. Then I read the text on the left, and when I looked back, she was spinning clockwise.

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** I thought I read soewhere that the whole left brain v right brain was bunk?

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The popular conception of left brain-right brain differences is oversimplified, and the self-help stuff like 'get in tough with your right brain' is bunk. But the two hemispheres are specialized and there's an element of truth to a lot of what you hear about it.

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I'd go so far as to say that this has more to do with dominant eyes than "brainedness."

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This is a only an optical illusion and has nothing to do with the pop psychology attached to it. Try concentrating on the "shadow" at the bottom of the dancer and looking at it like a reflection. Eventually you can get your brain to flip back and forth and see it both ways. Good luck!

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When I first looked she was going to the right with an occasional flip to the left...but the longer I looked the more it seemed she was going right continuously. Could it be a visual trick indicating where your eyes are currently focusing?

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** I thought I read soewhere that the whole left brain v right brain was bunk?

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The popular conception of left brain-right brain differences is oversimplified, and the self-help stuff like 'get in tough with your right brain' is bunk. But the two hemispheres are specialized and there's an element of truth to a lot of what you hear about it.

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I'd go so far as to say that this has more to do with dominant eyes than "brainedness."

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Probably, I would have expected that the effect would be random. AFAICT what you see depends on where your visual system places the light source.

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Oh, whoa, I woke up this morning and the first thing I did was check this out. Now she is spinning anti-clockwise and I can't get her to go the otherway. In the late evening, she was going clockwise and I had the hardest time getting her to go the other way. I'm looking at it one more time right now and she is still spinning anti-clockwise. I wonder if your brain reacts differently in the morning then at night.

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Oh, whoa, I woke up this morning and the first thing I did was check this out. Now she is spinning anti-clockwise and I can't get her to go the otherway. In the late evening, she was going clockwise and I had the hardest time getting her to go the other way. I'm looking at it one more time right now and she is still spinning anti-clockwise. I wonder if your brain reacts differently in the morning then at night.

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Funky, obv you must from now on time your responses in different threads to what brainhalf suits them best. [img]/images/graemlins/smile.gif[/img]

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Clockwise. (I don't buy the right brain/left brain distinction, however)

Also interesting, I find that my brain is visually filling in some details of the hair and face that don't exist.

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AFAICT what you see depends on where your visual system places the light source.

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This is a better way of putting it. Try to picture the shadow like it was a reflection and you were lookin at the dancer through a pane of glass from underneath or something. It took my coworkers like 5 minutes to understand how they could see it both ways.

lol @ the some of the reasoning offered up in this thread. At least no one suggested looking at it during odd or even numbered minutes.

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First time I looked, the dancer appeared to be going
anticlockwise; the second time, clockwise. With some
effort, I was able to see the dancer alternating in each
direction for half a revolution!

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Clockwise. (I don't buy the right brain/left brain distinction, however)

Also interesting, I find that my brain is visually filling in some details of the hair and face that don't exist.



[/ QUOTE ] Hi Metric,
Here's another discussion on the dancer. These folks at Freakonomics are attempting to do a little experiment to test the efficacy of the dancer test. They are also asking their group if anyone knows why or how this is suppose to test for "brainedness". They have over 1045 comments as of my writing this, so I haven't waided through many of them yet. Just thought this was interesting.
Look about a quarter of the way down the page.

spinning dancer - Freakonomics Blog

Re: Right brain v. Left brain test - spinning dancer
 

Wow. Insane. Last night I saw counter clockwise. Today I saw clockwise and couldn't for the life of me see counter-clockwise. I was convinced that I just screwed up which direction was clockwise last night. But now I've found counter clockwise (I advise focusing on her left arm) and am having trouble seeing clockwise again. This thing is mesmerizing, even before the nipple.