Right or Left Brain?

[ladulcinea]

This is SO COOL.

http://www.news.com.au/heraldsun/story/0,21985,22556281-661,00.html

My head has officially exploded.

Comments

[euqort]

we were sending this around last week and everyone I know was initially or eventually able to see her go in both directions but I can only ever see clockwise. That makes little sense since I do have alot of left brain traits so our theory was that the missing vision in my right eye somehow screws this all up.

[sharifa345]

Am I cynical if I feel like they made the image so the dancer automatically changes direction after a certain time? Cause when I first started looking it was going clockwise, and then it went back and forth between clock and anti-clock. And I'm pretty sure I lacked the capacity to try to see it going in another direction, as the article suggested, so I'm like 97% convinced that it goes clockwise sometimes and anti-clockwise after a certain period and repeats.

[euqort]

no matter what I try (staring at her feet, teh shadow etc.) I can't see her go counter-clockwise and it FREAKS ME OUT that other people can

[ladulcinea]

I don't know; Steve and I were looking at it at the same time and I could only ever see it going clockwise, and he was narrating what direction it was going for him, because it kept changing.

[jtstepp]

I was doing something when the page was loading. So when I first looked it, she was going clock wise, and then when I finished what I was doing, and could focus my attention, I looked up again, and she was going counter clockwise!

[whiterecluse]

At first I saw it completely clockwise, but then I focused on it and can see it both ways now. I love things like this.

[my_sobriquet]

I GOT HER TO GO COUNTERCLOCKWISE!

It just took unfocusing and crossing my eyes, then tracing a counterclockwise circle on the screen.

I was determined!

I can't get it back though.

[caithness]

my friends say it's a trick, and that it DOES change after a couple of minutes. however, i had to actually move my finger counter-clockwise in order to see it change.

there's a video that breaks it down into frames here: http://www.alchemysite.com/blog/2007/10/left-right-brain-dancing-girl.html

still couldn't see it then either.

[ladulcinea]

People are getting way more bent-out-of-shape over this stupid thing than I ever could have anticipated. (Not you, but people who are just like "Goddamn this is so stupid and everyone who can't make her switch back and forth at will is a moron.")

[robinmasters]

This is nonsense. Nobody I would normally characterize as left brained saw it going the right way, except for one. Everyone else seemed to have it backwards. I could make it switch pretty easily.

I hope nobody commits suicide over this. I'll be really heartbroken if I learn this is all it would take.

By the by, watch the tip of the extended foot. I think looking at that point is the easiest point to make her switch direction. I could get her to swing in a half arc, then magically be back at the top going in a half arc the other way. Just half one way then half the other over and over. What does it prove? Nothing. It's a ridiculous image. It's like why is it harder to judge the speed of cars at night?

[ladulcinea]

I didn't expect this to be my most controversial journal entry ever.

[robinmasters]

YOU AND I BOTH KNOW THAT'S A LIE!