Left Brain / Right Brain

  • Posted by Buck
  • October 11, 2007

I was very fascinated by this.

That gal is spinning clockwise for me and only for a brief instant could I see the counter-clockwise motion so I do know that it is there.

Supposedly I am in the minority as most see the counter-clockwise movement.

Is it normal for a guy with primarily the right brain function to admire so much more the functions of the left brain? I’ve always wanted to be strong in the left brain functions.

But I am what I am.

UPDATE:  Alice digs deeper and finds the truth.

 

 

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Written by:
mskitty
Posted on:
October 11, 2007 at 10:44 am

She was spinning clock-wise for me too, Buck, but as I watched, she turned around and whirled the other direction for awhile, then turned back to clockwise. What the heck does that mean? I watched her do it! It made me wonder if the picture was engineered to reverse directions randomly. And what the heck does my wondering mean?

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Written by:
alice
Posted on:
October 11, 2007 at 11:08 am

The same thing happened to me, Kitty, except I had to look away for a moment in order for her to change direction. At first, she was going counter clockwise and I could not get myself to see her going clockwise. But once she changed direction, I couldn’t get myself to see her going counter-clockwise. Freaky!

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Written by:
joe lance
Posted on:
October 11, 2007 at 11:46 am

I’m with Buck. I just received a devastating blow to my self-image by seeing the dancer only moving clockwise. Dangit!

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Written by:
Barry
Posted on:
October 11, 2007 at 12:16 pm

I’ve been following this little internet thing for a couple days now, and I’m utterly puzzled how anyone could think this girl is turning counter-clockwise. Every single detail about the movement I’ve examined show she’s moving clockwise - there’s simply no way she could be going the other way. I think everyone’s fooling themselves :)

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Written by:
smijer
Posted on:
October 11, 2007 at 12:25 pm

My brain hurts.

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Written by:
smijer
Posted on:
October 11, 2007 at 12:43 pm

I got some help from people sitting around me to find some cues I could focus on & now I can successfully get her to flip directions but I default strongly to clock-wise.

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Written by:
buddy don
Posted on:
October 11, 2007 at 12:44 pm

my brane hurts too, but thats on a counta trine to see her a’goin clockwise, witch she jes wont do fer me. the shadders make it impossibull …

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Written by:
Buck
Posted on:
October 11, 2007 at 1:05 pm

I default strongly to clock-wise.

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That stuns me Smijer. I had you pegged for a 100% counter-clockwise kind of guy.

I can make her go counterclockwise if I look at her toe long enough but I just can’t seem to make myself focus exclusively on her toe for very long.

A more androgynous humanoid would have been helpful.

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Written by:
parker
Posted on:
October 11, 2007 at 2:22 pm

I mostly saw clockwise. Sometimes if I started reading the text beside the picture she would start going the other way.Sometimes I think she couldn’t make up her mind and would go half way one way and then back the other way! LOL

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Written by:
Ben
Posted on:
October 11, 2007 at 3:48 pm

If I looked at it hard enough it would go the way I wanted it to or I could see it going one way, look off, then it would go the other,I really wanted some one to turn the lights on!!!

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Written by:
hafidha sofia
Posted on:
October 11, 2007 at 3:59 pm

I looked at her, and she was clearly spinning clockwise. I read the description of left/right brains, then looked at her again and she was going counter clockwise - obviously. Without focusing on any part of her at all, I can watch her alternate directions. I thought it was timed, but when my hubby (very left brained) looked at her, he only saw clockwise movement. He thinks there’s something wrong with the image because he is totally not right brained.

I don’t know what to think.

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Written by:
jadarm
Posted on:
October 12, 2007 at 11:18 am

It stuns me that it stuns you Buck, unless you were being somewhat facetious…I had him pegged for 110% clock-wise, I am just suprised the damned thing didnt speed up and fly off the screen when he looked at it.

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Written by:
RW
Posted on:
October 12, 2007 at 2:09 pm

Spinning? I didn’t even notice the spinning. I mean, did you check out the silhouette of that rack? Must’ve been cold in that room.

That should tell you which part of the brain I activate first. :)

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Written by:
eric
Posted on:
October 30, 2007 at 3:34 pm

More importantly, why is she spinning? Be sure to read the mouseover text.

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Written by:
smijer
Posted on:
October 30, 2007 at 5:40 pm

That’s great, Eric - That’s my second favorite web-comic… first has to be Perry Bible Fellowship.