Are you right or left-brained?

Tim · Post by **Tim** » Mon Oct 08, 2007 10:34 pm

Not a serious question; this is just a really cool optical illusion.

The really freaky thing is when you figure out the trick to switch it back and forth.

Bustertheclown · Post by **Bustertheclown** » Mon Oct 08, 2007 10:37 pm

Right brain, but I've been drinking. Usually, I can control such things better.

Brockway · Post by **Brockway** » Mon Oct 08, 2007 10:54 pm

Wow, that's really weird. At first I stared, and it obviously was turning clockwise. How could you possibly see it turning counter? Then I read the text, stared at it for a while, and it suddenly flipped directions! Now I can't seem to get it to spin clockwise again.

*Edit - Oops, nevermind, got back into the right frame of mind and it worked.

MixedMyth · Post by **MixedMyth** » Mon Oct 08, 2007 10:55 pm

It hurts my head. IT HURTS IT!

At first it was going anti clockwise...then it flipped and started going clockwise. And I can't control it. Are you sure htis is an optical illusion?

Brockway · Post by **Brockway** » Mon Oct 08, 2007 10:59 pm

It seems like reading the directions affects how you see it. Seems like you have to catch it out of the corner of your eye at a certain spot for your brain to interpret which way its going.

*Edit - K, looks like sweeping your eyes across the picture left or right controls which way your brain sees it. It was right initially about me being left handed though.

MixedMyth · Post by **MixedMyth** » Mon Oct 08, 2007 11:06 pm

My psychologist friend who does a lot with optics says it doesn't actually have anything to do with being left or right brained, but that bistable images like this are still cool. Particularly since although you can figure out how to switch between one and the other, you can never see both at once.

Phact0rri · Post by **Phact0rri** » Mon Oct 08, 2007 11:53 pm

I was looking at it... and was like... "both?"

CorpAmis · Post by **CorpAmis** » Tue Oct 09, 2007 1:03 am

I only see clock-wise

Mr.Bob · Post by **Mr.Bob** » Tue Oct 09, 2007 1:41 am

I only see anti-clockwise and I can't change it. Perhaps I will come back to it later.

CJBurgandy · Post by **CJBurgandy** » Tue Oct 09, 2007 1:44 am

everytime I blink she changes which way she's going

I get dizzy looking at her.

Edit: Cover her torso with your hand and it looks like Irish jigging

Post by **Mercury Hat** » Tue Oct 09, 2007 2:40 am

If you scroll down so that you can only see the feet and shadow, you can sort of will it to spin the other way. It's an image that's been online a long time.

Cope · Post by **Cope** » Tue Oct 09, 2007 3:15 am

I can't stop her going clockwise. I think I hate maths too much.

Rkolter · Post by **Rkolter** » Tue Oct 09, 2007 3:50 am

I initially saw her moving anti-clockwise, but could make her change directions by concentrating. I managed to get her into a 9 o'clock -> 3 o'clock -> 9 o'clock half-rotation by flipping what I wanted her to do back and forth. Then my eyes started to ache because like CJ, if I blinked she'd start up in the opposite direction.

That's a neat picture.

Joel Fagin · Post by **Joel Fagin** » Tue Oct 09, 2007 3:56 am

Well, I'm both right and left brained - but I doubt that illusion thingie is really any sort of indication.

- Joel Fagin

Killbert-Robby · Post by **Killbert-Robby** » Tue Oct 09, 2007 3:58 am

Clockwise, making me a right brainer, I'm trying REALLY hard to see it moving anti-clockwise, but I can't see it, I really can't, I'm stuck on right brain.

*edit* Ok, really focused using just my right eye, finally got the damn thing to turn the other way.

KWill · Post by **KWill** » Tue Oct 09, 2007 4:26 am

Right-brained, apparently. And I can't make her turn counter-clockwise either... =(

Sketchywallflowr · Post by **Sketchywallflowr** » Tue Oct 09, 2007 4:26 am

I saw it counter-clockwise, but I'm completely right brained.

Eve Z. · Post by **Eve Z.** » Tue Oct 09, 2007 4:43 am

Definitely clockwise and I can't help it!

Maybe I'm tired....

edit: oh..., wait! I can do it now!!

I just imagine that her back is actually her front and viceversa by looking at her legs.

Dr Legostar · Post by **Dr Legostar** » Tue Oct 09, 2007 7:01 am

yup, right brained, so far can't see her turning the other way.

edit: wow, weird, if i concentrate it turns clockwise, if i relax my brain it turns counterclockwise, what's that say about me?

Rkolter · Post by **Rkolter** » Tue Oct 09, 2007 7:32 am

legostargalactica wrote:yup, right brained, so far can't see her turning the other way.

edit: wow, weird, if i concentrate it turns clockwise, if i relax my brain it turns counterclockwise, what's that say about me?

It means you're generally logical and have to try real hard to think emotionally, you cold, hard plastic bastard.

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