Comments on: Right Brain vs. Left Brain Test

By: Carmen

Carmen — Wed, 04 Nov 2009 17:51:06 +0000

If you concentrate enough, you can make her go both ways. Initially, I saw her spinning clockwise, then by staring at her foot she switches and goes the other way.

By: TryThis

TryThis — Mon, 19 Oct 2009 20:41:14 +0000

Try Opening the image in a few tabs (you do this by right clicking select open image in new tab) in at least 3 tabs in the middle tab have this page so you can scroll in down a bit. in the other 2 they should be roughly same location. you can tab over and notice it change as your perception does. you brain is forced to reevaluation the information it is given and make a new assumption. This is what this image does is cause you the viewer to attempt to put a 2d image in your 3d world. this is a great example of your brain trying to make since of none since.

By: Cynthia

Cynthia — Sat, 17 Oct 2009 21:49:07 +0000

My whole family has taken the test. I only see the woman spinning clockwise. My husband both ways (I still don’t believe him) My father clockwise and my 3 nephews all anti-clockwise again don’t believe them. I can sit and stare at her for 10 minutes no changes……….. Though it did start a fun 30 minute debate in this household lol….

By: skittles

skittles — Mon, 05 Oct 2009 18:26:03 +0000

ya thats how it worked for me

By: Megan

Megan — Sun, 04 Oct 2009 22:12:38 +0000

My nephew, niece and I were watching. My niece and I only saw it going clockwise; my nephew saw it changing. Then my niece started seeing her go both ways. They told me to stare between her legs and then I saw her going back and forth between the two ways.

By: ts

ts — Fri, 02 Oct 2009 22:59:19 +0000

youre wrong :) my friend and i were looking at it at the same time and i saw it going one way and she saw it going the other.

By: Susan Vegter-Slape

Susan Vegter-Slape — Tue, 29 Sep 2009 14:50:48 +0000

Correction: she changes direction when the foot is pointing either left or right. Also, try viewing it in firefox. The movement is smoother and much faster.

By: Susan VS

Susan VS — Mon, 28 Sep 2009 08:20:33 +0000

Initially, I saw her spinning clockwise only. Focusing on the ‘grounded’ foot, I found that the moment the foot was pointing directly away from me, the spinning would reverse and the girl would start going counter-clockwise in full circles. After a while, focusing on the grounded foot caused the spinning to continually reverse, so that the spin would be 180 degrees clockwise then 180 degrees counter-clockwise, always with the girl’s back towards me and never making a full circle. By focusing on the upper body I was eventually able to ‘control’ the spin through a full circle in either direction, but would have to re-focus on the foot in order to reverse direction. I found a plausible explanation for what is really going on here, one that made perfect sense in light of what I had experienced. It has nothing to do with right/left brain, but with the brain’s inclination to convert a 2-dimensional image into a 3-dimensional one. It was written by a clinical neurologist from Yale University Medical School. See what you think: http://www.theness.com/neurologicablog/?p=27

By: Mary

Mary — Sun, 27 Sep 2009 19:52:57 +0000

It means you’re middle brained and that you see what the picture is actually doing. :)

By: Lily

Lily — Thu, 24 Sep 2009 22:27:05 +0000

I see both!!! =] I just have skills and can control the way i see it

By: Bob

Bob — Thu, 24 Sep 2009 17:50:28 +0000

First clockwise…then anti-clockwise…then I can half spin her one way then the other at will.

By: Faith

Faith — Thu, 17 Sep 2009 14:21:14 +0000

This image is responding somehow to my movement. If I concentrate on the dancer moving the other way and sort of tilt my body to that side, she will suddenly turn and do what my body is leaning towards. Try it. It seems to be responding to the movement of the person in fron of the screen. Don’t know how, but it IS. … If someone tries it, please comment.

By: justme

justme — Mon, 07 Sep 2009 01:02:12 +0000

I like you was also skeptical about this test when i first saw it so i asked my dad to come over and take a look. I asked him what way the dancer was turning and he said anti clockwise. I said, “No it’s going clockwise.” and he looked at me like I was crazy and walked away. I tried it with my brother and the same thing happened, but my mom agreed that it was spinning clockwise. It’s completely real.

By: SteveK

SteveK — Sat, 05 Sep 2009 18:49:12 +0000

try it with one eye covered. depending on which eye i cover it turns left or right. close both eyes and only open one, then close both, think about something else for a moment, and open other eye…. anyone else?

By: qiuhoon

qiuhoon — Sun, 23 Aug 2009 15:16:02 +0000

hihi I kept seeing the lady doing the turn left and right, and never turn it backward to make a complete anti- or clockwise turn! What does it make me then? Left or Right?

Regds
qiuhoon

By: ginga

ginga — Tue, 18 Aug 2009 15:46:07 +0000

counter-clockwise

By: sk

sk — Sun, 09 Aug 2009 04:04:30 +0000

Okay, here is the answer. When she spins clockwise, the right leg is extended. When she spins counter-clockwise, the left leg is extended. This is a clever illusion. I believe if you time it (using only left and right leg extensions) by number of spins for a fixed duration over the course of several screen refreshes, you will see that it is pre-programmed. There are several long periods for both clockwise and counter-clockwise, and then there are some short back and forths. Nothing mental about this. Someone just put it together really well.

By: Srishti

Srishti — Sun, 26 Jul 2009 09:48:30 +0000

It changes every time i blink or look away!

By: Natan

Natan — Fri, 24 Jul 2009 20:38:30 +0000

First of all I would like to type that this isn’t the first time I encounter this “test”.
Also I am quite sure that at the first time aswell I couldn’t decide what direction the woman was spining and later on reading that it spins both ways in intervals so it is pretty much a fraud.

Still unsure if the above is right or wrong I’ll say that once I manage to see it spinning one way it takes me a while to get it spin the other way.

*First time was counter-clockwise.

By: noel moralde

noel moralde — Fri, 17 Jul 2009 05:28:54 +0000

Amazing! After a few minutes of experimentation, I found my way of quickly changing orientation. I just look at her feet and she dances CLOCKWISE. When I want her to dance COUNTER-CLOCKWISE I just quickly shift my eyes to the left and up by reading the “Ok” in “Ok folks, I’m not sure…”.

Funny, I always thought myself to be more of a right-brain person, but the first time I looked at this animation, it says I’m a left-brain type.