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Lone_Star_Dem Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sun Oct-21-07 09:57 PM
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Would you people mind viewing this image?
It's supposed to spin either clockwise or counterclockwise and thus somehow tell you if you're right or left brained.

It would appear by the comments at the site that for most it goes both ways. For me it's stuck in clockwise.

I think my brain is broken. :cry:


Right brain vs. Left brain
http://www.news.com.au/heraldsun/story/0,21985,22556281-661,00.html?from=mostpop
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Poiuyt Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sun Oct-21-07 10:00 PM
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1. For me, it's stuck in counter-clockwise
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Lone_Star_Dem Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sun Oct-21-07 10:02 PM
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3. Spock, is that you?
Between the two of us we could conquer the world! :P

I was almost sure it was some kind of a hoax. Instead it would appear my brain is broken.
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yewberry Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sun Oct-21-07 10:02 PM
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2. It's easy to make the switch.
Look at her heel as it hits the ground, and see if it doesn't allow you to see her go in the other direction.
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Lone_Star_Dem Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sun Oct-21-07 10:05 PM
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4. No go.
I can almost see it change if I focus on just the heel, but as soon as a let my eyes drift up she's going clockwise again. :shrug:
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DS1 Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sun Oct-21-07 10:16 PM
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7. try scrolling down till the shadow is all you can see, look away, then back
Edited on Sun Oct-21-07 10:17 PM by DS1
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Lone_Star_Dem Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sun Oct-21-07 10:23 PM
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8. When I do that it's clockwise
The shadow from the raised foot appears to me to only go clockwise. If I can somehow ignore that one shadow (i.e. look only at the heel or using only my peripheral vision) then it appears to turn counterclockwise.

It seems odd to me that others see it turning counterclockwise. My brain is positive it should be turning clockwise.
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DS1 Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sun Oct-21-07 10:24 PM
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9. I was too, at first
it's harder to go from CCW to CW than it is to CW to CCW
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lligrd Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sun Oct-21-07 10:06 PM
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5. Try Reading The Text Next To Her
and just see her in your peripheral view.
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Lone_Star_Dem Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sun Oct-21-07 10:10 PM
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6. That works!
I wonder if this means if I'm to be logical I have to peek at the world out of the corner of my eye? :shrug:
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ghostsofgiants Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sun Oct-21-07 10:34 PM
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10. I can get it to go either way.
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Lone_Star_Dem Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sun Oct-21-07 10:44 PM
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12. I wonder if that means you have a balanced brain?
Not that I plan on putting ANY stock in the thing since she's refuses to spin counterclockwise for me.

It's obviously flawed. :P
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Whoa_Nelly Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sun Oct-21-07 10:39 PM
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11. I can make her change direction at will
Edited on Sun Oct-21-07 10:42 PM by Whoa_Nelly
cool!

(on edit: was a professional ballet/jazz dancer/teacher/choreographer for over 35 years. And when a dancer learns a move in one direction, the other direction also has to be learned and danced...maybe that has something to do with it... :shrug: )
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Lone_Star_Dem Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sun Oct-21-07 10:48 PM
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13. It might.
It could be a learned response.

Dancers as a whole are extremely balanced when it comes to all things involving motion. Yet they're also very creative and by the standards of right or left brain (if you buy into that) they'd lean more right than left.
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Whoa_Nelly Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sun Oct-21-07 11:01 PM
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14. Have also played Classical piano since I was five
and love Math...aren't those left-brained activities?
(piano is Math, too)
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NV Whino Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sun Oct-21-07 11:22 PM
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15. She goes both ways for me without much effort
I don't find this unusual. I've taken other left brain/ right brain test before and have gotten similar results.

In my case it's resulted in a practical, business oriented artist. For the uninitiated, practical and artist are almost never used in the same sentence.
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krispos42 Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sun Oct-21-07 11:23 PM
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16. At first glance it was counter-clockwise
But if I looked away and looked back, I could get her to change direction. Couldn't do it while staring at her, though. I was focusing on her hips for some reason.

Hmph. though I was a boob man...
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Prisoner_Number_Six Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sun Oct-21-07 11:30 PM
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17. Although with concentration I can make her spin counter
she keeps going right back to spinning clockwise, which doesn't surprise me in the least- the right-brain commentary describes me perfectly.
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petronius Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Mon Oct-22-07 12:17 AM
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18. Yowza! I'd like to see a lot more of that dancer...
Now, what was the question?
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CaliforniaPeggy Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Mon Oct-22-07 12:20 AM
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19. Definitely clockwise for me...
I cannot make her spin counter-clockwise at all...

:shrug:
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Critters2 Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Mon Oct-22-07 12:27 AM
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22. I'm the same way.
I've tried and tried, but she's going clockwise. Since you and I agree on this...it must be right. Clockwise it is!! :bounce:
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madeline_con Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Mon Oct-22-07 12:23 AM
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20. She changes.
I see it both ways.
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spacelady Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Mon Oct-22-07 12:25 AM
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21. Strangely, it will change for me if I look at the floor foot and tip my head. n/t
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Shine Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Mon Oct-22-07 12:37 AM
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23. She's definitely moving clock-wise for me: Right-brained
I couldn't get her to move in any other direction. :D Oh well.

:hi: cool test, though.
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JVS Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Mon Oct-22-07 12:46 AM
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24. It keeps flipping!
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ironflange Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Mon Oct-22-07 01:02 AM
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25. She needs to turn up the thermostat
That said, I see her going clockwise. I can switch her the other direction only with the greatest effort, and even then it only lasts a second or two before flipping back.

This comes as no surprise to me.
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