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Are you Right or Left 'Brained'?

FrankBauerFrankBauer Posts: 453
edited October 2007 in A Moving Train
This is fucked up, but pretty damn cool. Dont know if you guys have seen this (didnt search the forums) but check it out:

http://www.news.com.au/perthnow/story/0,21598,22492511-5005375,00.html?from=mostpop

First glance, I'm right brained (which is not what I'd thought I'd be), but after a few minutes of staring at the dancer and reading the page, the thing was fucking flipping on me (fuckin' flippers right speedy?). CW, CCW, CW, CCW - its like a magic trick.

And our buddy Andrew Sullivan gets philosophical:
http://andrewsullivan.theatlantic.com/the_daily_dish/2007/10/the-dancer-and-.html
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  • know1know1 Posts: 6,794
    It usually shows right brained for me at first look. But I can immediately see it the other way if I try.
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  • PegasusPegasus Posts: 3,754
    Right, though I manage to get it the other way by reading something and quickly looking back at the picture (but the description doesn't work, I'm logical and good at IT, maths and Science and absolutely not creative unfortunately).

    Frankly, until i get a full explanation of how it's supposed to work, I'd say it's random.
  • catefrancescatefrances Posts: 29,003
    i saw her moving clockwise. :)
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  • Uncle LeoUncle Leo Posts: 1,059
    Right. I saw clockwise. Then I focused on the shadow below, looked back up and saw counter-clockwise and could not get clockwise back for a while.
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  • catefrancescatefrances Posts: 29,003
    ah crap i see her turning anti clockwise now.
    hear my name
    take a good look
    this could be the day
    hold my hand
    lie beside me
    i just need to say
  • sweetpotatosweetpotato Posts: 1,278
    started out clockwise, then changed to counterclockwise. does that mean i'm a genius???
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  • onelongsongonelongsong Posts: 3,517
    FrankBauer wrote:
    This is fucked up, but pretty damn cool. Dont know if you guys have seen this (didnt search the forums) but check it out:

    http://www.news.com.au/perthnow/story/0,21598,22492511-5005375,00.html?from=mostpop

    First glance, I'm right brained (which is not what I'd thought I'd be), but after a few minutes of staring at the dancer and reading the page, the thing was fucking flipping on me (fuckin' flippers right speedy?). CW, CCW, CW, CCW - its like a magic trick.

    And our buddy Andrew Sullivan gets philosophical:
    http://andrewsullivan.theatlantic.com/the_daily_dish/2007/10/the-dancer-and-.html

    i'm left handed and therefore in my right mind.
  • mammasanmammasan Posts: 5,656
    Right brained.
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  • DeLukinDeLukin Posts: 2,757
    Freaky. I can't get it to go counter-clockwise no matter what I do... do I even HAVE a left brain???
    I smile, but who am I kidding...
  • wolfbearwolfbear Posts: 3,965
    I only saw "left" which made sense after reading the descriptions. :)
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  • bovy_jbovy_j Posts: 1,008
    Riiiiiiiiiight.
  • KeiranKeiran Posts: 393
    She couldn't spin any faster clockwise if she tried. How do I get her to go even a little bit counter???
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  • anothercloneanotherclone Posts: 1,688
    If you stare at the standing leg, after a minute or two, she does appear to change rotation.
  • nick1977nick1977 Posts: 327
    I seem to switch back and forth on demand.
  • RolandTD20KdrummerRolandTD20Kdrummer Posts: 13,066
    I can get her to bounce back and forth repeatedly without completing a full revolution.

    What helps was to scroll down and look at her ankles first, then use the reflection of her feet to change directions. Once you can do that easily, scroll up and focus on her feet again if needed.

    Pretty trippy. Thanks for that.
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  • soulsingingsoulsinging Posts: 13,202
    DeLukin wrote:
    Freaky. I can't get it to go counter-clockwise no matter what I do... do I even HAVE a left brain???

    im the same way. i cannot for the life of me see how it could possibly turn counter-clockwise. but it makes sense. the right brain description fits me much better than left.

    *edit* it suddenly changed on me. and as i watched it, it randomly changed again. i'm pretty sure the graphic changes and it has nothing to do with what half of the brain you're using.
  • jlew24asujlew24asu Posts: 10,118
    this is just odd. my twin brother sees it one way and I see it the other.

    I see it going clockwise. yet I feel I am 100% more towards the left brain then the right. (according to that list)
  • FrankBauerFrankBauer Posts: 453
    any dirty pervs in here also notice she's butt nekkid?
  • AhnimusAhnimus Posts: 10,560
    It's bullshit.

    I can see it both ways and flip back and forth. But I have experience with Necker Cube like illusions.

    Initially I saw it spinning counter-clockwise, but then I saw it spinning clockwise for a considerable amount of time before making the conscious effort to switch it back. This suggests that I am Right-Brained? I think Angelica would strongly disagree.
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  • RolandTD20KdrummerRolandTD20Kdrummer Posts: 13,066
    soulsinging wrote:
    *edit* it suddenly changed on me. and as i watched it, it randomly changed again. i'm pretty sure the graphic changes and it has nothing to do with what half of the brain you're using.

    I thought the exact same thing. At first I thought he image was programmed to change randomly, but It's 100% legit. You can make her change back and forth at will.

    One of the cooler illusions I've seen.

    Which side of the brain... I dunno...
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  • barakabaraka Posts: 1,268
    A better trick to determine right/left brain. Hold your hands together, as if you were praying and overlap your thumbs. Look at your hands.

    Left thumb is below the right thumb = left brain
    Right thumb is below the left thumb = right brain
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  • AbuskedtiAbuskedti Posts: 1,917
    I'm freaking crazy..

    Always figured myself to be left brained..

    That dang think is going clockwise and I can do a damn thing about it
  • AhnimusAhnimus Posts: 10,560
    Abuskedti wrote:
    I'm freaking crazy..

    Always figured myself to be left brained..

    That dang think is going clockwise and I can do a damn thing about it

    We are all whole-brained. This left-right dichotomy is rather misleading.
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  • AnonAnon Posts: 11,175
    jlew24asu wrote:
    I see it going clockwise. yet I feel I am 100% more towards the left brain then the right. (according to that list)

    me too. that's the only way i see it.
    if i do it the way baraka suggests, then i am left.
  • gue_bariumgue_barium Posts: 5,515
    I saw her get down on all fours.
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  • gue_bariumgue_barium Posts: 5,515
    Ahnimus wrote:
    We are all whole-brained. This left-right dichotomy is rather misleading.

    I think what you say is true.

    I first saw the dancer turn counter clockwise, began reading the "left-brain right-brain" columns to the left, looked back, and she was going clockwise. And stayed that way.
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  • FrankBauerFrankBauer Posts: 453
    gue_barium wrote:
    I saw her get down on all fours.

    ha! i guess we know which brains dominates for you...
  • FrankBauerFrankBauer Posts: 453
    gue_barium wrote:
    I first saw the dancer turn counter clockwise, began reading the "left-brain right-brain" columns to the left, looked back, and she was going clockwise. And stayed that way.

    everytime i "clear it" (like look away completely or go back to the webpage after some time), that chick is always spinning clockwise. i can get her to spin the opposite direction when i focus, but my initial view is always clockwise.

    is this the same for everyone else? or does it alternate for anyone else?
  • AhnimusAhnimus Posts: 10,560
    gue_barium wrote:
    I think what you say is true.

    I first saw the dancer turn counter clockwise, began reading the "left-brain right-brain" columns to the left, looked back, and she was going clockwise. And stayed that way.

    The same thing happens with the classic necker cube. But the cube doesn't rotate. I'm interested in how it's infered that the rotation of the spinning has anything to do with what "brained" we are, and what exactly that means. I have a complete brain with many fibres (corpus callosum) connecting the two halves and my visual system uses both left and right halves of my brain.

    http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Visual_system

    I doubt the visual system receives any kind of backpropagation from the logical or emotional parts of our brains, that wouldn't serve any functional purpose and would have been pruned away.
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  • gue_bariumgue_barium Posts: 5,515
    Got it.
    The trick is deciding if her left or right leg is out (or down; either way). It helps to look at it peripherally when you wanna change it.
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