http://www.news.com.au/dailytelegraph/story/0,22049,22535838-5012895,00.html
I see her going both ways. I blink and she's facing a different direction. wtf
Make up your mind.
LEFT BRAIN FUNCTIONS
uses logic
detail oriented
facts rule
words and language
present and past
math and science
can comprehend
knowing
acknowledges
order/pattern perception
knows object name
reality based
forms strategies
practical
safe
RIGHT BRAIN FUNCTIONS
uses feeling
"big picture" oriented
imagination rules
symbols and images
present and future
philosophy & religion
can "get it" (i.e. meaning)
believes
appreciates
spatial perception
knows object function
fantasy based
presents possibilities
impetuous
risk taking
For people who don't know, people who use the left side are predominantly right-handed, and people who use the right side are predominantly left-handed.
She turns clockwise for me, but after I thought about it for a little while, I was able to see her going the other way. I'm mostly ambidextrous, but I guess the right side is dominant.
It won't stop going clockwise for me, which is weird because I'm right-handed and I seem to kick *** at Math and suck at Philosophy.
edit: I closed the window, and re-opened it, and now she's going a different way. wtfffff
I wasn't paying attention to whichever way she was turning...SHE HAS NIPS SHOWING.
Clockwise4me
For the first minute, she was turning clockwise, but after reading the points are people who use their right brain mostly, she was turning anti-clockwise. Pretty weird.
RIGHT BRAIN FUNCTIONS
uses feeling
"big picture" oriented
imagination rules
symbols and images
present and future
philosophy & religion
can "get it" (i.e. meaning)
believes
appreciates
spatial perception
knows object function
fantasy based
presents possibilities
impetuous
risk taking
Most of those are right about me. Although I'm right-handed...
right. she never turned any other way
Left first. She turns right if you follow her foot, and left if you follow her hand.
It's ****ing me off so bad. She's going both directions.
That's strange, everytime I look away and look back, she seems to change directions.
Right. Closed window and reopened, continued in the same direction..
I tried again and she kept turning clockwise this time. Even when after I looked away from the screen.
Seems like the foot the dancer balances on changes direction every once in a while. It twists around unnaturally and then the extended leg follows it. Not sure whether or not it's my eyes are just a hoax.
I opened it again and it started right and then immediately changed to left.
no matter where I look or how long I look away for, it's always clockwise for me...
I just look at the text beside the picture and unfocus my eyes, and it changes to counter clockwise. It's normally clockwise for me.
When I see her spinning in one direction, for the life of me I can't figure out how I see the other way. Weird. The switch for me is staring at the tip of the foot that is sticking out and imagining it being the opposite one.
clockwise
I saw it clockwise at first, but when I went to focus on the text it was going anti-clockwise for me.
First it was going counter-clockwise, but once I looked away for a bit then looked back it was going clockwise.
wtf...
how can you say clockwise? She's clearly turning counter-clockwise. I tried so hard to make her go the other way, but it just wouldn't work.
Left brain.
Both, apparently. I just focused on a visual of her changing directions, and bam.
On first look, she was turning clockwise for me - and I am right handed. On first look, my partner saw it counter clockwise, then he looked away and turned back and it was clockwise for him. I looked away, say at the text or the address bar of my browser and not pay attention to the image, look back and she was anti-clockwise for me, and clockwise for my partner.
Spending a little more time with the image, I could force her to change directions as soon as I thought about the direction. For me, it had nothing to do with her legs, feet, hands or arms.
She's only turning clockwise for me. I thought I saw this exposed as a hoax before... but maybe not.
Wait, I just saw her go counterclockwise for as second, and then back again. 99% clockwise.
Clockwise at first. Then I was able to concentrate really hard and make it anti-clockwise. After about two minutes I could control which direction she was spinning in, but still can't do both at once.
I'm left-handed.
Right-handed, right-brained. She won't stop ****ing going clockwise.. *******it. I can't ****ing change it! Argh.
I just asked my brother in the room, he saw it going counter-clockwise first, then when I asked him about it again, he said he could see it both ways. And I still only see it one way. BARF.
Tried it again. Went clockwise till I tried making it go counter. Slowed down a bit, little by little but eventually goes back to rotating clockwise when I lose focus. :(
I did it!
She was going clockwise. I closed my eyes for a minute, pictured her going anti-clockwise and opened my eyes to see her going anti-clockwise! At last!
Hah, I finally got the hang of focusing to change direction
Yeah, I can't do it. Hopeless. Still going counter clockwise and staying that way.
I had this SUPER STRANGE HUNCH.
This is a hoax. I deleted my cache and cookies and whatnot and visited again, and now it's going clockwise.
No. :mad:
It's not a hoax. I refreshed multiple times and the image still has the same URL. It's really just your perception.
I had a good laugh over this because I read all your statements, and then I showed it to my friend, here. I see her moving clockwise or counter-clockwise, changing her direction at will. When my friend looked at it, he said he saw it counter-clockwise. How's this for entertainment: save the picture as a .gif and open it multiple times, and see if you can see the dancers turning different ways. If you have two open and one turns clockwise while the other turns counter-clockwise, your brain will explode.
Haha. I did that and they did go in opposite directions on occasion. They went the same moments afterwards, but overy so often they went opposite.
Mind is still in tact.
Clock, then anti, then clock after reopening.
I don't see how exactly this left-right brain sideness when really she's going both ways. You'll see what I mean by looking at the legs shrink and grow during the rotation. Notice something fishy? The stuck out leg (same with the arms,) shrink when they're about to dissapear in the body shadow. Our minds determin that shrinking as meaning it's behind her, so you never know which lim is really behind making the rotation possible of going both ways.
The ground shadow is also interesting, but adds more to the trick. The foot that rotates shrinks yet it is infront of the pivot leg...Since that's impossible, it adds into the effect of making her rotating both ways.
Now... The head took me a while, but I see how that works too. The angle of the head rotating doesn't stay constant. It's tilted down and to the side when the head is about to go into the body shadow, but when it comes out of the body shodow it's upright. That effect is what makes the body seem going a certain direction, yet by the angle of the chin it could be going either way.
I can change it at will. For me, I just look slightly to the right of the screen and unfocus my eyes. If I choose to look back at the dancer while I see her leg sticking to the left in my peripheral vision, she'll turn one way, and if I look back when her leg is on the right, she turns the other. Works 100% of the time. For me anyway.
I like how it shows her turning horizontally but a clock tends to face in a vertical fashion. Either way, clockwise.
Clockwise, no mater how I looked at it, it was always clockwise. I think the trick is in the shadow. The shadow of the leg sticking out is actually turning in a counter clockwise motion, or appears to be anyway.
Always clockwise. When I look at just the shadow I see the shadow turning anticlockwise, but as soon as I look back at the figure it's still going clockwise. I can't even understand how the figure could be going anticlockwise.
Oh ****, nevermind. JUST got her going anticlockwise. Sweet. Just closed my eyes for a few moments and checked again, really trying to imagine it going that direction.
this is bullshit
it was going counter for like 25 minutes and i was in an IM bitching to omni about how i couldn't get it to change and just like that, it fucking changed on me
and then i came back to read some more posts and it was counter again when i clicked back
:(
fuck it
Where's the explanation as to how this shows left brain or right brain dominance? Everything I've found so far just accepts the author's word as law when it really makes no sense... I see it nothing more as a trick of photography, reguardless of which side of the brain you use more.
The reason that most woman can see it turn both way is because the female gender is the gender mor capable of using both hemispheres of the brain. male genders are more prone to only use one of the hemispheres.
80% - counter clockwise
20%- clockwise
Maybe clockwise and counter-clockwise directional skills lie in different sides of the brain?
Even if it is "trick photography" like you say, it's how you perceive this trickery that matters.
Clockwise, I saw it going anti clockwise for a few sec.
lol , opened 2 of the same windows showing the pic, and it looked wierd for a few sec, then not weird then again ect. lol I'm sort-of ambidextrous.
Assuming that is true, how does that explain the instances where several users can see both directions and sometimes change directions at their own will? I do understand the concept you're trying to explain but if we look at this purely as a "accessed first," and I see it clockwise once, look away and then see it anti-clockwise the second time that would indicate it accessed one side first, then opn the second time accessed the other side first.
The more that one looks away and looks back to see it in a different direction, the less it becomes accessing a particular side first.
It's likely just an optical illusion and nothing more.
Today it goes counter-clockwise for me. I switch tabs to type that sentence, and now clockwise.
I got it to go clockwise and counter clockwise. What I did was move my finger in the direction I wanted it to go, and sometimes it worked. Cool!
Protip: Most people are right-handed and use the left side of the brain more, whether or not they think they have right-sided characteristics. That explains why most people see it going in that direction.
[URL]http://www.answers.com/topic/cerebral-dominance?cat=health[/URL]
Fate's right. Stop trying to poke holes in it when it's perfectly logical.
umm no, that source proves the existance of cerebral dominance and how it has been observed. If I was saying Fate was wrong to believing cerebral dominance existing, then you would have me, but my complaint is directed at the spinning girl test showing which side is dominant.
[quote]
Cerebral dominance is the ability of one cerebral hemisphere (commonly referred to as the left or right side of the brain) to predominately control specific tasks. Accordingly, damage to a specific hemisphere can result in an [URL="http://www.answers.com/topic/impairment"][COLOR=#003399]impairment[/COLOR][/URL] of certain identifiable functions. For example, trauma to the left hemisphere can impair functions associated with speech, reading, and writing. Trauma to the right hemisphere can result in a decreased ability to perform such tasks as judging distance, [COLOR=black]determining direction[/COLOR], and recognizing tones and similar artistic functions.
If damage to a side of the brain can effect your judgement of direction, obviously your ability to use that side of the brain can determine whether or not you see something clockwise or counterclockwise. Read harder.
Two way street Miss. Trauma to the right hemisphere results in decreased ability to determin direction, reguardless of which sidedness you're stronger with. This implies that reguardless of sidedness, we all use the right hemisphere to determine direction.
Once again, I'm feeling like some are still not following what I'm saying. This TEST could be bull **** without the author's explanation to how it works, and even with that it could still mean nothing. Without seeing evidence of how this test proves anything then hell yes I'm going to find (not poke) holes. It's no offense to Fate, I see where she's comeing from, same with Iris.
Have any of you actually taken an intensive brain mapping survay before? About 2 years ago I volunteered for tests dealing with left/right sided brain analysis, done by Doctors, doctors that spend their entire lives studying the subject, and even they said they couldn't be 100% sure which side it truely was. Those tests were NOTHING like this optical illusion. Other than questions like "Which shape seems the largest" most of the stuff having shapes dealt with color schems and contour lines. Take a 2 hour brain map test at a lab and tell me if this 10 second test proves jack ****.
There's no shrinking. Even if there was, the design of the image plays a part in which part of the brain you use most.
wow willisgreeny, have fun being banned
meh, I was tricked. Didn't mean to.
It's a clean looping gif. It doesn't shrink by itself after a period of time and some people can see it go in one direction the whole time because that's how their brain works.
It's an optical illusion, and it just so happens that how you perceive it may be due to which part of your brain you access most.
or it's an optical illusion