mind blower...

[Smiling JOe]

Is this dancer spinning clockwise, or counter-clockwise?
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...If clockwise, then you use more of the right side of the brain and vice versa.


LEFT BRAIN FUNCTIONS
uses logic
detail oriented
facts rule
words and language
present and past
math and science
can comprehend
knowing
acknowledges
order/pattern perception
knows object name
reality based
forms strategies
practical
safe

RIGHT BRAIN FUNCTIONS
uses feeling
"big picture" oriented
imagination rules
symbols and images
present and future
philosophy & religion
can "get it" (i.e. meaning)
believes
appreciates
spatial perception
knows object function
fantasy based
presents possibilities
impetuous
risk taking

 

[jessifunn]

i really don't see how anyone could think it is spinning counter clockwise.

 

[Smiling JOe]

I kept thinking the computer was changing it making me question myself. Then, I began to change my perception of it, and control which way I wanted to see her spin. Rather cool. From some Right Brain, Left Brain test which I used to take, I usually was about 50:50, give or take one or two. From what I understand, the vast majority of people are very much one side or the other. I was just fascinated with the computer generated aspects of the movement, being either or.

 

[NoHall]

SJ, that's awesome. I wish you had sent that before I finished writing my paper on hemisphericity...

Jessifunn, you really really have to want it to go the other way. How I did it was by watching her outstretched hand or foot. When it is on your right, imagine it going behind her instead of in front. It's 2-D image, so she really isn't spinning either direction. The hand, foot, and ponytail all just go back and forth.

But even with that, I usually end up seeing her going back and forth with her back to me. (Sometimes I even see her top go one way and the bottom another. That's just weird.)

 

[Mango]

I keep seeing it change too. I think its messing with us.

 

[Smiling JOe]

Try this. Close your eyes for a few seconds. Now visualize her spinning clockwise for a few seconds. Really see her spinning clockwise. Now open your eyes.

Close your eyes again, and for a few seconds visualize her spinning counter-clockwise. Hold that image for a few seconds, then open your eyes.

Did that help you see the change in direction. I find it amazing how much our mind can influence what we think we actually see.

 

[seacrestkristi]

For a second she was going R, then she just turned and I can only see it goin' L now, even when I try what you said, NoHall. Hubba can only see her goin' R. She switched again for me but then switched back L. Very illusion, SJ.

 

[Smiling JOe]

Any comments from you peeps who see her spinning only one way, regarding the characteristics cited for R or L - Brained people? Do those characteristics fit your own description of yourself?

 

[Carol G]

I think my left brain must have fallen out of my head... seriously. I've tried all of the tricks and just cant see it...

 

[Mango]

I can do it without closing my eyes too now. I just focused on looking at the center of her body and switched gears. Interesting.

Uh, now she's gone. Maybe she went to have a late night snack.