Is your Brain a Lefty or Righty?

Sea Sharp

Have a look here

I found this interesting. It'd be interesting to see this for all the regulars on the conspiracy theory forum.

I'm a lefty myself.

Ruu_Old

Clockwise, so a righty.

masherella88

first anti-clockwise so lefty but then it changes between the two...so bit of both?

I see it as clockwise (from the top looking down), and no matter how much I concentrate I can't see how anyone could perceive it as turning anti-clockwise. Odd!

Another odd thing... I'd associate the attributes they give to the left brain with myself. 90% of the left brain functions (that it lists) would suit me, and very few of the right brain functions that it lists suit me.

masherella88

if you kinda look at it out of the corner of your eye you might be able to get it to change directions

Klingon Hamlet

Anticlockwise at first but I scrolled down then back up and reversed it

alexcorb1991

strange i see it clockwise but do not fit one attribute from that side

Larianne

masherella88 wrote: »

first anti-clockwise so lefty but then it changes between the two...so bit of both?

Me too! How's it do that? :eek:

Tar.Aldarion

I just make it go whichever way I want. But When it starts out it is usually logic side for me, but now that I am upset at the moment is started out on the feelings direction. :eek:

Tar.Aldarion

Larianne wrote: »

Me too! How's it do that? :eek:

Both sets of info are in the pic I imagine, your dominant side picking which way to focus it for you?

Larianne

Tar.Aldarion wrote: »

Both sets of info are in the pic I imagine, your dominant side picking which way to focus it for you?

Well weird how it flipped on me.

.. oh did it again!! :eek: Me brain won't make up it's mind!!

Ah I think it's a farce!

Sea Sharp

If you focus on the shadow you can see it change direction

jumpguy

Saw it first going clockwise and after blood, sweat and tears I got it going anti-clockwise. Now I can't get it clockwise!!!
Oh wait, just switched back to that tab and now it's clockwise. Stupid brain.

Pretty cool stuff tbh. Can associate a good few attributes of the right but also many from the left. Again, shows how little we know about the brain.


EDIT: Can't get it going anti-clockwise anymore!!! God this is so annoying!!! :mad:

deadhead13

No matter what way I look at it - always clockwise.

It says that most people see anti-clockwise, it would be interesting to know what percentage.

A Neurotic

Ah, I've come across this before. I remember being able to change it at will, with considerable effort... it's a headwrecker.

Ponster

A Neurotic wrote: »

Ah, I've come across this before. I remember being able to change it at will, with considerable effort... it's a headwrecker.

As GaNjaHaN said, once it's spinning you need to focus on the shadows to get it to turn in the opposite direction.

Dmullar

-JammyDodger- wrote: »

Another odd thing... I'd associate the attributes they give to the left brain with myself. 90% of the left brain functions (that it lists) would suit me, and very few of the right brain functions that it lists suit me.

I see it spinning clockwise so it regards me as a lefty, but i'd definitely say the description of righty is a much better fitting one for me too.

Edit: Woah, with enough practice you can get her to be kinda stuck, so she only does a quater turn before changing directions.

bonkey

I'm trying to figure out how the lighting works, and what angles the floor/walls have to be for the shadows to work...

Zillah

masherella88 wrote: »

if you kinda look at it out of the corner of your eye you might be able to get it to change directions

Now that's curious. When focusing on it it takes about twenty seconds for me to manage to flip it, but out of the corner of my eye I can flip the direction of the spin almost constantly.

Interesting that the brain treats peripheral vision so differently.

Futurism

It's clockwise for me. Although I'm not really sure if I'd associate with the attributes presented for a right sider. I'm kind of a mix.

colly10

I see it clockwise and I don't know how anyone can see it any different. On the description of left vs right though im very much a left so I kind of think this test is BS (although interesting that someone can see her turning differently than me)

Prof.Badass

When i took the test the dancer was definitely turning clockwise.

However, not all the attributes suited me and questionaires i have done previously suggest i use both hemispheres equally.

What intrigues me is that they list "spatial perception" as a "right-brained" attribute as I was deliberately trying to use my spatial reasoning to visualise the dancer's movements in 3 dimensions.

Would i be wrong in saying that just because one hemisphere of someone's brain is dominant during one specific test, does not mean it is always dominant for all activities?

bluto63

It goes clockwise for me and I can't get it to go the other way at all. The description for the right brained person definitely suits me over the left brained person, so they got me pegged right!

mike65

Instinctively she is going clockwise for me, if you want to change her direction without busting your frontal lobe simply point your index finger at the image and then swing said appendage in a circular fashion one way then the other. If you get the timing right she follows.

Morzadec

Yeh like a lot of people here I'm getting clockwise and struggling to see how it can be anything other than that!

Havn't tried too hard to switch directions though..

Darlughda

Its turning Clockwise for me. All the way, round and round.

Then being aware it is a test, I focus on the details of the image and anti-clockwise she spins.

The shadows are interesting, I am wondering what kind of dance she is doing?

mark renton

wow - she's fit

Simply Red

It turns clockwise for me too, but i can change it to anti-clockwise by focusing on the shadow.

JC 2K3

Where's the science behind this?

rororoyourboat

I must be a devout right-brainer, as I can't even fathom how she could be turning anti-clockwise!

jumpguy

JC 2K3 wrote: »

Where's the science behind this?

Look the Herald Sun says it, no doubt the most reliable newspaper in all of Australia, IT MUST BE TRUE! :P

JC 2K3

Indeed.

Tbh, I've seen it before and never heard anything about it being related to left or right brain functions.

JC 2K3

JC 2K3 wrote: »

Where's the science behind this?

My guess is that there's no psychological or mental science behind it, only trickery.

It's a gimmick. The person is spinning clockwise (looking from the top down); just look at her upper abdomen: it's not possible for that to be perceived as spinning anti-clockwise. The issue of her spinning anti-clockwise only arises when you take the shaddow she creates and her legs into account.

I'd say that it's only an optical illusion padded with some pseudoscience: there's nothing deeper to it (but, if some evidence was produced, I'm willing to bite my own words).

kgpixels

anti-clockwise so a lefty

watty

You can learn how to flip it at will.

There may be some bias biologically for which direction it turns.

I have to momentarily look away or blink to change its apparent direction.

rockmongrel

Well it started out clockwise, then I looked away and back and it was anti-clockwise. I'd probably share traits with both groups, and the fact that I'm left handed and right footed probably contributes to the confusion

Edit: Typo.

A7X

Im just finding this so wierd cause I can randomly make it change and one thing I noticed is that her head is tilted in the direction she is spinning no matter which way you percieve her as spining. I really can't see how its possible. Id love to know how the optical illusion is achieved.

Its always anti clockwise when I look at it first.

WindSock

I'm trying to use the force to change it but the picture keeps jamming and I'm getting a headache:(

Piste

It started out counter-clockwise but I can now change it at will.

Fairdues

Lefty.

stevejazzx

she goes clockwise - anything else is a brain failure!

Fluorescence

Clockwise - righty :P That's cool

constance tench

A7X wrote: »

one thing I noticed is that her head is tilted in the direction she is spinning no matter which way you percieve her as spining.

yes!.. truly bizarre..

Drakmord

Can only see it moving clockwise! But those attributes don't really describe me at all.
Oh, when reading the attributes, it's going anticlockwise.
So if I don't look directly at it, it goes anticlockwise.

lizzyvera

I can change it easily by looking at the shadow, or by imagine the leg is coming outwards on both sides. I don't believe the analysis.

grenache

She's definitely going to clockwise, so thats Righty for me.

What they're saying on there is that right brain users are total spacers. Sounds about right

D0nners

I was just about to post how I could only see it going anti clockwise and how I could not comprehend the clockwise replies.
But I just went back to look at it there and shes going clockwise. :eek:

The way in which the brain works is fascinating.

Edit: I would relate with most of those lefty characteristics myself. Big maths/science nerd.

coady

it keep's changing direction

TheManWho

It's just an optical illusion and has nothing to do with your right or left brain. This article explains it pretty well.

Michellenman

It started off clockwise but after concentrating (to the point of giving myself a headache) I can change it to make it go either way.

wudangclan

i thought it was if you were left-handed you use the right hemisphere of your brain and vice versa.
i'm left handed,i see her turning clockwise so in my case this theory would hold up,but i'm guessing from the amount of people seeing her turn clockwise also ,that this theory falls a bit flat (unless a disprortionate number of left-handers are posting here which would correlate with the theory as right-brainers would be more likely to expand their horizons)