Are you right or left brained? This is really weird

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Sun, 2007-10-21 16:47

Apologies if you've seen this before, but if you haven't this is kind of creepy.

The woman on the site below is spinning clockwise and anti clockwise (at the same time), but we tend to see her turning only one way, depending on whether our right or left brain is dominant.

I'm left handed (which I think means I'm right brained) and only see her spinning clockwise, but others assure me (all right handers) they can see the opposite.

How about you? Could you say which way you see her turning and whether you are right or left handed.

http://www.sonnyradio.com/spinninglady.html

Sun, 2007-10-21 17:04

Yan2

I'm right handed, but I can see her spinning both ways simply by shifting my perception. Clever, eh. You're 'right brained'? I should imagine western cultural conditioning makes left-brainers out of all of us...but whatever you say. :) When the power of love overcomes the love of power, we'll find peace. - Jimi Hendrix

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Sun, 2007-10-21 18:28

Kropotkin38

Yeah, shifting perspective changed her direction for me too. I think my natural state was to see her go clockwise, anti-clock took some finding in my peripheral vision.

Sun, 2007-10-21 21:32

Brooklands

Same. Clockwise automatically and then anti when I tried hard. Her nipples are distracting.

Sun, 2007-10-21 21:34

Ursula

hmmm not entirely sure that seeing lady both ways indicates dangerously high IQ, just means that you can appreciate how the silhouette might be facing either forwards or backwards. I notice this because I only use one eye at a time (sounds dodge but this is in fact the common squint) so I see everything as flat. Not inclined to interpret as either way if you see my meaning, but yeah, it went anti clockwise for me. Which makes sense.

Mon, 2007-10-22 09:36

chant

right-handed, could see both ways, anti-clockwise at first, then clockwise.

Mon, 2007-10-22 10:23

poetjude

ditto Chant! jude "Cacoethes scribendi" http://www.judesworld.net

Mon, 2007-10-22 14:37

tcook

clockwise at first for me - I tried to make myself see anti but failed. I looked away and looked back and now it was anti. Weird. I suspect that most people can see it both ways and so we all end up believing we are geniuses (genii?).

Mon, 2007-10-22 14:40

Ewan

It's a woman? It's moving? I failed the Rohrshach Test too!

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Mon, 2007-10-22 16:20

#10

brooosh

This is so weird. I covered my eyes with both my hands and just allowed a pinprick of light to show through. I then focused on the centre of the woman. Soon as I did that she started to spin the other way. And now I can't reverse her! The really weird thing is that in both cases it looks impossible that she could be spinning in the other direction. So what's going on here? Does this mean life itself is an illusion? Can we ever trust anything we see again? Someone please explain.

Mon, 2007-10-22 17:15

#11

Yan2

http://www.newscientist.com/blog/shortsharpscience/2007/10/bring-on-danc... http://forums.randi.org/showthread.php?postid=3061222#post3061222 When the power of love overcomes the love of power, we'll find peace. - Jimi Hendrix

~It's a maze for rats to try, it's a race for rats to die.~

Mon, 2007-10-22 21:09

#12

passerby

Thanks Yan :) (Um, still confused.)

Tue, 2007-10-23 08:33

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brooosh

Yeah thanks Yan.

Tue, 2007-10-23 19:02

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archergirl

Oh, no, that's too weird. She turned anti-clockwise for me; I left the page and went back, and she's still turning anti-clockwise. I can't even fathom how she could be turning the other way. But I'm not completely sure what that has to do with handed-ness. I'm right-handed but most definitely not completely left-brained, and know plenty of southpaws who are most definitely not completely right-brained. Still, it's weird. I'll have to go back later and see if I can change her direction. I guess I'm not a genius, then...hmm.:-/

Tue, 2007-10-23 19:28

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Kropotkin38

I'm with Ursula on that one archergirl; there's quite simply no way I can imagine that something like this could be a good predictor of IQ. I could only see her spin anti-clockwise in my peripheral vision.... maybe I'm cleverer if I don't look at things straight on... wow that's deep man!

Tue, 2007-10-23 19:35

#16

Kropotkin38

Enjoyed those links btw Yan2, thanks.

Tue, 2007-10-23 23:51

#17

brooosh

AG try my trick of looking through a tiny gap in your hands so you only see the smallest fraction of the image (in the centre). Then slowly widen the gap and narrow it and widen it again and eventually she should change direction. I was stuck on clockwise until I discovered this. Now sometimes I even see her do a half turn one way and then a half turn the other.

Wed, 2007-10-24 08:53

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pepsoid

Does this mean life itself is an illusion? Can we ever trust anything we see again? Yes... and no! ;) pe ps oid What is "the art of tea"? And what does an "odd courgette" look like?

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Tue, 2007-11-13 14:52

#19

laazon

I must be brain dead, She didn't move at all for me.

Tue, 2007-11-13 15:52

#20

styx

I'm bi-dextrous and see her spinning both ways.

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