Are you Right or Left 'Brained'?

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  • baraka
    baraka 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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  • Abuskedti
    Abuskedti 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
  • Ahnimus
    Ahnimus 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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  • Anon
    Anon 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_barium
    gue_barium Posts: 5,515
    I saw her get down on all fours.
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  • gue_barium
    gue_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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  • FrankBauer
    FrankBauer Posts: 453
    gue_barium wrote:
    I saw her get down on all fours.

    ha! i guess we know which brains dominates for you...
  • FrankBauer
    FrankBauer 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?
  • Ahnimus
    Ahnimus 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_barium
    gue_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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  • prism
    prism Posts: 2,440
    aren't even the curious just a little bi-brained?
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  • gue_barium
    gue_barium Posts: 5,515
    prism wrote:
    aren't even the curious just a little bi-brained?

    Nope. She also gave me a lap dance.
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  • prism
    prism Posts: 2,440
    gue_barium wrote:
    Nope. She also gave me a lap dance.


    in which case bi-brained means thinking with both heads?
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  • gue_barium
    gue_barium Posts: 5,515
    prism wrote:
    in which case bi-brained means thinking with both heads?

    No.
    I couldn't see her mouth.
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  • Nothingman54
    Nothingman54 Posts: 2,251
    Look at the actual foot thats in the air and then look at the shawdow foot and you can make it go back and forth.
    I'll be back
  • gue_barium
    gue_barium Posts: 5,515
    Nothingman54 wrote:
    Look at the actual foot thats in the air and then look at the shawdow foot and you can make it go back and forth.

    I didn't try the shadow thing. For me, like I said before, it's a conscious effort deciding which leg is in the air. If you turn your head one way or the other and glance at it peripherally, it will change for ya.
    At least that's what works for me.
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  • jlew24asu
    jlew24asu Posts: 10,118
    gue_barium wrote:
    I saw her get down on all fours.

    greatest response I've ever heard outta you :D
  • wolfbear
    wolfbear Posts: 3,965
    gue_barium wrote:
    I didn't try the shadow thing. For me, like I said before, it's a conscious effort deciding which leg is in the air. If you turn your head one way or the other and glance at it peripherally, it will change for ya.
    At least that's what works for me.
    I can't change it and I've tried it all day long. lol I only see counter clockwise. I know it's probably a trick like the old/young photo but that one also took me a long time to see. :)
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  • gue_barium
    gue_barium Posts: 5,515
    wolfbear wrote:
    I can't change it and I've tried it all day long. lol I only see counter clockwise. I know it's probably a trick like the old/young photo but that one also took me a long time to see. :)
    Denise!
    You can do this.
    Just change your eyes. Try closing one or the other.
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  • ADogNamedPilate
    ADogNamedPilate Texas, USA Posts: 291
    I'm convinced this is bullshit and it changes on its own.
    Austin City Limits - Oct 04, 2009

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