mind blower...

SoWal Expert

Nov 26, '07 · 10:52 PM6,6031

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

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Beach Fanatic

Nov 27, '07 · 11:47 AM#52

I was finally able to get her to spin the opposite direction, at will, by focusing on one of the corners of my computer monitor.

SoWal ExpertAuthor

Nov 27, '07 · 11:56 AM#53

Paula, I found it when searching for images of "dirty santa." I found a great card in the images of Santa pooping down a chimney with a caption something like, "You know if you've been naughty when..." I clicked on the link, and it took me to a website which had this, but the card on which I clicked had been removed -- probably the Santa Police confiscated it.

superJfunn

Nov 27, '07 · 11:59 AM#54

still can only see her going clockwise. i think this is a trick...

SoWal ExpertAuthor

Nov 27, '07 · 12:00 PM#55

I was finally able to get her to spin the opposite direction, at will, by focusing on one of the corners of my computer monitor.

I love reading the comments. One thing I notice which we do, is that we think that we are controlling the way she spins. She simply spins, with or without our willing her to do so. Even in my description in the prior sentence, I note, "she simply spins." In reality, it is merely a two-dimensional figure created by a series of images and she isn't spinning at all. I love this kind of stuff.

Meow

Nov 27, '07 · 12:00 PM#56

...this woman is driving me crazy, again. I am turning off the computer.

Beach Fanatic

Nov 27, '07 · 12:02 PM#57

I love reading the comments. One thing I notice which we do, is that we think that we are controlling the way she spins. She simply spins, with or without our willing her to do so. Even in my description in the prior sentence, I note, "she simply spins." In reality, it is merely a two-dimensional figure created by a series of images and she isn't spinning at all. I love this kind of stuff.

You mean that when I get her to spin in the opposite direction that everyone else isn't seeing the same flip-flop? :rolling:

Beach Fanatic

Nov 27, '07 · 12:06 PM#58

You have confirmed one thing for me...the left side of my brain is still missing.

Well mine too, I can not get her to go counter, regardless of how much I try. :idontno:

SoWal ExpertAuthor

Nov 27, '07 · 12:08 PM#59

You mean that when I get her to spin in the opposite direction that everyone else isn't seeing the same flip-flop?

Nope, but I do remember Echelon creating a website of a mock house, which they set up with internet controls on things such as lights and blinds. They set up live webcams in the rooms, and you could go to their site and open and close the blinds and turn on and off the lights. Echelon sold the controls and switches. I haven't heard more about the company in the last 8 years, but with the right security, it might be a very cool thing. Can't remember if you turned off the iron, or locked the front door, or shut the window? Check your crackBerry to see if you did. If you didn't, click a few buttons and Wah-La! You're set.

Beach Fanatic

Nov 27, '07 · 12:09 PM#60

I did it! I feel so proud...

I had to *blur* my vision until I was almost cross-eyed, like I was looking at a Magic Eye picture (which I could never see either) and it worked... until I blinked.

Beach Fanatic

Nov 27, '07 · 12:12 PM#61

My husband can make it change back and forth, he said if you watch the shadow instead of the dancer, it changes for him to counter, then he went back to watching the dancer and she went clock wise.

I still can't make it change. :bang:

SoWal ExpertAuthor

Nov 27, '07 · 12:13 PM#62

If you never saw a magic eye picture, you are missing out. Those things are incredibly amazing.

Beach Fanatic

Nov 27, '07 · 12:15 PM#63

If you never saw a magic eye picture, you are missing out. Those things are incredibly amazing.

Those give me a headache, my husband can always see them, I never can.

SoWal Expert

Nov 27, '07 · 12:18 PM#64

Hmmm...I just watched her change to counter clockwise, then back to clockwise. :idontno:

Beach Fanatic

Nov 27, '07 · 12:21 PM#65

Funniest thing just happened. Yes, I was staring at her once again. Then all of a sudden she stopped spinning and one leg was directly in front of the other. Me: "Oh my gosh, how'd I do that????"
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A few seconds later...
Computer: "Firefox has just installed an update and you must restart..."
LOL :floor:

Beach Fanatic

Nov 27, '07 · 12:22 PM#66

I can make her switch directions almost at will now... I have to blur my vision and look off to the upper-right or lower-right side of the screen, and she switches to counter-clockwise. When I look directly at her standing-leg foot, she goes back to clockwise.

I think a big part of being able to see it has to do with believing it is possible. Before I ever witnessed her spinning counter-clockwise, I kept thinking "there is no way, she's going clockwise and that's it!"

This is really cool, on so many levels - Thanks SJ!

(I'm going to look at some magic eye pictures now, maybe I'll finally be able to see one...)

Beach Fanatic

Nov 27, '07 · 12:27 PM#67

I did it! I feel so proud...

I had to *blur* my vision until I was almost cross-eyed, like I was looking at a Magic Eye picture (which I could never see either) and it worked... until I blinked.

Maybe if I drink a bottle of wine I will see her go counter clockwise. :idontno:

Beach Fanatic

Nov 27, '07 · 12:34 PM#68

Maybe if I drink a bottle of wine I will see her go counter clockwise.

worth a try!

SoWal ExpertAuthor

Nov 27, '07 · 12:38 PM#69

I just finished staring at some Magic eye art, and then looked at the spinning girl. She is spinning hard in a CCW direction, just as I thought she might, after looking at the geometric shapes.

Beach Fanatic

Nov 27, '07 · 12:44 PM#70

try as I might, I can't make her go CCW. been at it all morning.

funny thing though, the left brain descriptors are me, not the right brain descriptors.

does this mean that my brain is cross wired?

oh yeah, and she is nekid!!!:rofl:

or is she fully clothed and my cross wired brain makes her look nekid? :confused:

but if I saw her going CCW, would she have clothes on?:roll:

and why does she bounce up and down slighly? :idontno:

Edited Nov 27, '07 · 12:52 PM

bean

Nov 27, '07 · 12:46 PM#71

Today I'm only seeing her go clockwise. The other day ( it was on the aol homepage) I saw her go counter clockwise. I can't make her change today either. I guess I should have made my ornament last week when I was more left-brained!

SoWal ExpertAuthor

Nov 27, '07 · 12:53 PM#72

try as I might, I can't make her go CCW. been at it all morning.

funny thing though, the left brain descriptors are me, not the right brain descriptors.

does this mean that my brain is cross wired?

oh yeah, and she is nekid!!!:rofl:

or is she fully clothed and my cross wired brain makes her look nekid?

but if I saw her going CCW, would she have clothes on?:roll:

and why does she bounce up and down slighly?

You haven't even considered the question of whether or not she is actually a HE! :floor:

I wonder what 30gAy sees. :idontno:

SoWal Expert

Nov 27, '07 · 1:08 PM#73

If that's a "HE" his surgeon is quite talented! ;-)

SoWal ExpertAuthor

Nov 27, '07 · 1:10 PM#74

Maybe you are not willing him enough. lol

Admin

Nov 27, '07 · 1:21 PM#75

http://scienceline.org/2007/10/29/ask-hsu-spinning-girl-right-left-brain-hemispheres/

So what does the spinning dancer tell us? The whole test is more of an optical illusion than anything else, according to Steven Novella, an academic clinical neurologist at Yale University School of Medicine who blogs on NeuroLogica. When our brains process visual images to make some order or sense of the world, they have to make assumptions. The dancer is just a two dimensional image switching back and forth, but our brains process it as a three dimensional spinning object.

I used da Google cause I is no brained.