Today I was directed to a news story entitled Right Brain v Left Brain, which asks you to look at the image to the right and determine if you believe the silhouette of the woman is spinning clockwise or counter-clockwise. Depending on how you respond it supposedly determines if you are left or right brained. Personally, I always saw her spinning clockwise, but then someone told me to stare at the shadow for a bit and wait until it appears like it started turning the other way. This appeared to trick my brain into seeing it turn counter-clockwise.
By this definition that makes me right-brained, but the qualities described below don’t seem to describe me at all (it doesn’t have “sexy” on there). So what does this all mean? It means that because of this slow news day and various people sending me this link, my time has been wasted. Obviously the next logical step was to waste more time by writing a blog post (my first) about this.
| LEFT BRAIN FUNCTIONS Counter-Clockwise |
RIGHT BRAIN FUNCTIONS Clockwise |
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October 12th, 2007 at 6:03 pm
Clockwise. I’m right-handed and very left-eye dominant.
October 13th, 2007 at 12:33 pm
When I looked at her shadow, it appeared that she was spinning the other way. Awesome blog man.
October 13th, 2007 at 2:48 pm
Clockwise. Always. Shadows or not.
October 13th, 2007 at 6:25 pm
I totally saw it as clockwise and feel that those traits totally describe me. Viva right brain!! p.s. welcome to the blogosphere, kiddo.
October 13th, 2007 at 7:53 pm
Today its counterclockwise unless I blink hard. BTW, Crave picked this up. Must be a CNET office thing?
http://crave.cnet.com/8301-1_105-9796676-1.html?part=rss&tag=feed&subj=Crave
October 15th, 2007 at 5:32 pm
Couldn’t see it clockwise. Then couldn’t see it counterclockwise. Now I can go back and forth, with great difficulty. Dear Robert, thanks for wasting my…oh, nevermind!!! Good stuff.
October 15th, 2007 at 8:24 pm
Every time I come and look at this again, it switches >_<
November 24th, 2007 at 4:55 am
Its not an illusion the silouette just changes the way it rotates. This is stupid… so many people have been fooled by something as lame as this.
December 10th, 2007 at 5:46 am
I just gave myself a headache and motion sickness from trying to see it going counter-clockwise, which I still can’t…
April 26th, 2008 at 4:51 pm
Just wondering. Are the few persons who see the rotation going counterclockwise all left-handed and do they have an associated anti-clocwise hair-whorl direction? See http://www.epileptologie-bonn.de/upload/homepage/weber/weber_neuroimage_2005.pdf for information.