Comments on: Right Brain vs. Left Brain Test

By: Kimmie

Kimmie — Fri, 24 Feb 2012 16:23:13 +0000

I see her moving clockwise, then switch to counter-clockwise. So as far as I’m concerned this ‘test’ is complete bogus.

By: Olivia

Olivia — Sat, 08 Oct 2011 02:07:25 +0000

No need to worry or get stressed out about it. If the left side of your brain was really dead, your entire right side would be completely useless. Hopefully that’s not the case. I’m not even certain this is accurate, but if it is, that just means the right side of your brain is much stronger than your left side.

By: Olivia

Olivia — Sat, 08 Oct 2011 01:59:00 +0000

This is crazy!!! I don’t even concentrate, I just look at it and it changes direction every second!! Now she’s counter clockwise! No now she’s clockwise!!! Wait now she’s seemingly doing both!!! I can’t change the direction at will, it changes spontaneously!!! What the heck!!? IT’S SO WEIRD!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

By: ari

ari — Sun, 02 Oct 2011 12:41:50 +0000

One minute she is spinning counter clockwise and peering over her left shoulder. The next, she’s looking over her right shoulder spinning clockwise. This is not an illusion people, she’s changing direction.

By: Kevin

Kevin — Wed, 28 Sep 2011 14:50:08 +0000

The lady turns clockwise, them after a while she turns anti clockwise. The direction in which she is turning keeps changing. You don’t need to concentrate and make her switch, just observe, the direction keeps changing, same as the speed. Nothing complex, just don’t hurry. a few seconds will do.

By: john rian radan

john rian radan — Mon, 12 Sep 2011 14:14:10 +0000

i can see it both..

when i’ve ready your statement above, the right vs left brain i try to concentrate…
but to be honest when i first see the figure my eyes ache because what i can see is both.. i can see both counter clockwise then clockwise then again then mixing until my eyes feel like i watch the t.v for 3 hours..

not until i force my mind i can see a smooth motion..if i decide to turn it clockwise it turns out and vice versa..thanks a lot it improved my concentration skills

By: johnkc

johnkc — Sat, 03 Sep 2011 06:45:00 +0000

i see it both and i can prove it how. Watch her two legs simultaneosly, and you gonna find the reason. One foot is counter to the other

By: Mary Ann Borg

Mary Ann Borg — Thu, 01 Sep 2011 10:16:38 +0000

Very weird. Every time I look away and look back, she’s turning in the other direction. And each time, I can’t figure out how it’s so clearly going in one direction when I’d just seen it turning in the other direction. It’s messing with my brain.

By: eva-greece

eva-greece — Fri, 26 Aug 2011 03:21:27 +0000

yeap its a trick the girl turns both wayz clockwize n after a while anti-clockwize… she just changes her foot n arm quickly…. so i dont see any valuable explanation here about who of us could “use more” the left or the right part of the brain…

By: clockwork

clockwork — Wed, 17 Aug 2011 00:24:19 +0000

i have found a way to switch direction. i hold a mirror above the image and look at the reflected image. when it appears to turn counter clockwise, i can switch to looking at the screen image and it also goes counter clockwise. i can hold it for a minute or 2, but then it switches back to clockwise. i am astonished and confused. how can it so clearly seem one way and then, just as plainly, look another way? how can we be sure of what’s real?

By: clockwork

clockwork — Wed, 17 Aug 2011 00:07:41 +0000

now i’ve tried looking at it in a mirror. that should turn it around, shouldnt it? but it is still turning clockwise in the mirror. help. i cant stand this! my L brain must be completely dysfunctional. i know my brain is wired badly, but this is tooooo much.

By: clockwork

clockwork — Tue, 16 Aug 2011 22:36:03 +0000

this twirling dancer drives me crazy. she is always turning clockwise for me. i was able to see her turning counter clockwise for a few seconds once, but i have not been able to again. i am annoyed by her. or by my brain. its MY brain so why cant i control it? i resent that my own brain isnt under my control. i try all sorts of ways to look at the image, focusing on specific parts or on the whole image, looking at it upside down and sideways. even upside down, she is turning clockwise, tho for a few seconds i was able to make her just kick in both directions. i am obsessed and want to sue the originator of this for causing me permanent brain damage. i cant believe that ppl see her turning counter clockwise. i am so jealous of people who can change her direction at will. it makes me feel like i cant see what is right in front of my eyes or can only see half of reality. how can i trust my own thots if my brain is half dead?

By: Rebekah

Rebekah — Sun, 07 Aug 2011 04:28:01 +0000

I saw counter-clockwise at first, and tried sooo hard to see her turning the other direction… had to scroll down on the screen so it was only her feet I could see and imagined her going the opposite direction. Then I’d scroll up to the rest of her body and sure enough, she was going clockwise. I’m sure the results would be the same if one executed this test on her head as well…

By: praveen kumar

praveen kumar — Sat, 06 Aug 2011 10:29:15 +0000

I can see her in both cw and ccw…..directions ……..I suspect this is an anime trick with random time to change its direction of rotation……!!!!!!!!!!!

By: John Benson

John Benson — Sun, 22 May 2011 14:28:29 +0000

Hi,
I’ve seen this spinning girl for a couple years now. I really don’t know what to make of it. Is it a sort of IQ test? I don’t know. But, I have found that I can see it spin both ways. And, with some concentration I can make it reverse almost at will. It’s very curious.

John

By: 149 IQer

149 IQer — Sun, 22 May 2011 14:02:01 +0000

For people who are saying that “it’s animated to change directions,” you’re completely wrong. It’s a .gif image, not flash, so it can run indefinitely. I saved the image and opened it in GIMP. It has very few frames actually. It has only 34 frames, one revolution. It is all with the mind, but it is neither right brain-left brain dominant or anything, it just happens to be(in my opinion) whichever eye actually saw it and registered it first. If your right eye saw and registered it first, it will spin clockwise, which is why you can blink an it switches.
For me, whenever I viewed it with my left eye closed, it spun clockwise, but when I closed my left eye then looked at it, it spun counterclockwise(not anti-clockwise).

By: 90 = genious

90 = genious — Sat, 07 May 2011 04:32:55 +0000

haha i saw that too.. it changes a bit quickly.. if you look at the raised arm, it is, most of the time, the left arm.. but if you stare at it, you’ll see that the right will be raised then quickly back to the left.. tricky animation..

By: Troy Massman

Troy Massman — Tue, 03 May 2011 05:02:58 +0000

not true, me and my friend looked at it at the same time and it was rotating in opposite directions for both of us.

By: Readr

Readr — Mon, 02 May 2011 08:08:55 +0000

It keeps changing for me.

At first it looked clockwise, but after about three seconds, switched to counter-clockwise, and then, at about three- or four-second intervals, it switches, especially if I glance away and look back at the shoulder region. I’ve done other tests, at university, that are supposed to test left- or right-brainedness and I always score dead center on them while my classmates tend to lean one way or the other.

By: JzonX

JzonX — Fri, 22 Apr 2011 21:54:49 +0000

This is a very good post, I’d constant thought about and had interests in memory, brains, neurological related stuffs. Especially lately, I started to ‘feel’ my brain’s functioning, efficiency, processes..i mainly focusses on my right brain, I could just feel it. My left brain is not too much, normal. When i look at the picture, I’d only saw the girl turning anti-clockwise, it took me some effort few seconds or so to try focus my left brain n i saw the girl changing directions – not long though (2-3 turns). It’s great, I stared at it 5mins after to do some purpose. Thanks, appreciated.