Ok folks, I’m not sure if this is a joke or what. The Australian Herald Sun posted this Right Brain vs. Left Brain test which is nothing more than a picture of a lady spinning around.
THE Right Brain vs Left Brain test … do you see the dancer turning clockwise or anti-clockwise?
If clockwise, then you use more of the right side of the brain and vice versa.
Most of us would see the dancer turning anti-clockwise though you can try to focus and change the direction; see if you can do it.
They add the following interpretation:
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
safeRIGHT 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
Frankly, I only see the lady turning clockwise. I find it very difficult to believe that ANYONE sees it turning counter-clockwise, much less most people! So please take a moment and leave a comment to let me know how you see it. If everyone sees clockwise I’m going to call this test a fraud…
I saw her counter-clockwise at first, and then about 10 seconds later, clockwise. :]
Ok. At work while looking at it with some other folks I was able to see it turn directions. But then, when I got home and looked at it again – no dice! Still only clockwise.
Grrrrr..
John P.
She’s been around a long time (and around and around!). She’s even on Wikipedia.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Spinning_Dancer
Q
I see both. For a while its counter-clockwise, then changes to clockwise. I don’t think it is an optical illusion because you can focus on the foot which definitely defines the rotational direction.
i can see going both directions one after the other.
i see it the opposite.. counterclockwise
i can change the direction at will.
clockwise, and shes hot.
Gentlemen: I don’t know if this will help, but I have a Ham license to transmit on certain radio frequencies under US FCC rules. I read in The ARRL Handbook for Radio Communication that Benjamin Franklin was instrumental in discovering certain things about electricity one seems to be that electricity actually runs backwards from what we would preceive as the direction that electricity flows—I’m not talking about AC (alternating current) necessarily. But from what I read in that book that for whatever reason electricity actually runs opposite from what we preceive and what our diagrams indicate on electrical drawings.
Yes, I see the woman twirlling in a clock-wise direction, but that is relative to a verticlal clock on the wall. Speed up the illustraion of the girl several hundred times and you get the same effect that you would looking at spokes on a bicycle wheel or a sports car
wire wheel spinning in the opposite direction from its forward motion.
Hope this all helps. cc
Some friends had shown me this before and I can only see it going clockwise! I’ve tried all the different suggestions that people have shared…and that my friends told me to try – and I just can’t see her going the other way! Crazy!