Comments on: Right Brain vs Left Brain Survey / Poll - Mind optical illusion

By: nitro

nitro — Sat, 08 Nov 2008 20:43:34 +0000

i can see it both ways… it is really cool… i am staring at it since half an hour and i can switch it like i want… and sometimes i can´t switch it backwards.. haha and then it works again.. funny shit

sorry for all folks who cannot see it. don´t give up

cheers

By: Nutz

Nutz — Tue, 21 Oct 2008 21:35:23 +0000

I have it open twice, side by side, and they are spinning opposite directions… WHAT DOES THAT MEAN??? oh my head.

By: bsg

bsg — Mon, 20 Oct 2008 00:22:00 +0000

No matter how I try, I can only see clockwise. It is frustrating because I’ve tried all the tricks everyone mentions and still I only see clockwise.

By: yoyoma

yoyoma — Sun, 19 Oct 2008 17:24:26 +0000

Guys!!!

I capture a video of the lady turning for sixteen times and when I re-view it, the lady,who first was turning clockwise, turn counter-clockwise on the twelve turn.When I re-view it again, it turn counter-clockwise at the sixth turn.

The results varies as I re-view it again and again.(but mostly during twelve and sixth turns)

Why don’t you guys try this and share your experience.

By: Maynard5

Maynard5 — Mon, 21 Jul 2008 15:08:13 +0000

I was mstified by this in the first instance, she was standing dead still. I looked right , left, closed one eye, then the other, stood on my head, pirouetted to get giddy. Bu no way, she doesn’t move!

Then, an inspired thought, it must be Java! I lot of groahics needing motion use Java. Mine is n9ormally off. So I turned on Java, reloaded the page and waited. Java is sometimes slow to start.

But no, nothing. Maybe I need professional help, maybe a psychiatrist, electro shock.. “Neither my left brain nor my right brain are working, doc!”.

Then a shadowy figure leaped into my mind, somthing old from the 60’s that was adapted for the web - animated GIF maybe? …hose falshing figures that can trigger a seizure in some people. So I turned that on, looked up, and there she was definitley spinning clockwise (or anticlockwise if you look from the floor up). Tne I looked down at my coffee, and back up, and there she was spinning VERY definitely anti-clockwise.

Mmm. Not sure my budget will stretch to a psychiatrist.

So I turned off GIF animation. That fixed it for sure. Shes motionless, not a flicker of movement. No worries now!

By: Elias

Elias — Sat, 31 May 2008 12:48:27 +0000

I focus on the boobs on the left side, because the left side is lighter. She turns clockwise when I do that. This experiment can probably tell about sexual preferences too.

By: Jack

Jack — Thu, 29 May 2008 01:37:59 +0000

On further thinking about my previous answer, I believe that the lady is not really spinning through 360˚. The 34 frames that I viewed show only a one-half rotation. Therefore, the designers of this illusion, have created a half revolution and then played it back in reverse thus simulating a complete rotation. In actual fact the lady is spinning CW for half a revolution and then CCW for the remaining half. So in fact she is actually rotating in both directions. The puzzle remains however as to why some of us see the CW rotation first and not the CCW rotation and vice-versa. I think that it depends on the frame of mind you are in when you first come across it.

Any takers on this theory and analysis?

By: Jack

Jack — Thu, 29 May 2008 00:50:08 +0000

I find that at first it turns CW for me and then if I stare at her feet, it suddenly turns CCW. I believe that the effect of turning CCW is the illusion because my frame by frame analysis shows that the figure is rotating right to left therefore CW. I’m using a MAC which has the ‘Preview’ application. Control click on the spinning lady and select ‘Download Image’. Then open up the file with ‘Preview’. It will show 34 image frames. Since I’m being so analytical and I was a physics teacher, I must be Left-brained or better yet Right-Left Brained because I can see both directions. It is very difficult however to explain the illusive CCW rotation….thinking numbers does seem to bring on the CCW motion…Hmmm.

By: Gail P

Gail P — Sat, 24 May 2008 00:14:52 +0000

She’s going clockwise most of the time. When I started doing arithmetic while watching her, she started going counterclockwise!!

By: keren bithell

keren bithell — Tue, 20 May 2008 20:48:54 +0000

Don’t quite understand it, but I can only see clockwise, no matter how hard I look I can see no other.

By: Lee

Lee — Sat, 10 May 2008 20:35:13 +0000

After awhile she can stand in place, although still moving.

Anybody else see that?

By: Tracey

Tracey — Fri, 18 Apr 2008 22:53:57 +0000

I can see her both directions and even bouncing back and forth without turning completely around. COOL.

By: Lindsay

Lindsay — Sat, 12 Apr 2008 19:10:37 +0000

It also depends on what you were doing before hand and what side of your brain you were using most extensively. Watch it with another person. When you both see her going another direction then decided whether or not she’s really faking it and just switching directions.

By: alison

alison — Mon, 03 Mar 2008 15:37:57 +0000

I can’t get her to switch directions no matter how long I stare, whether or not I close one eye, look at the shadow, cover the top half, “decide” to make her spin the other way…

She spins clockwise for me and that’s it. Oh, and by the way, I’m a programmer/analyst, mathematically gifted and a true left-brainer. Therefore my logical mind concludes that while it’s a neat optical illusion, it’s not a test of left or right brain dominance!

By: tomo

tomo — Tue, 26 Feb 2008 22:57:13 +0000

it’s very easy to switch directions, all you have to do is decide which way you want her to go. try doing that whan her leg is close to the left or right edge and after a while you will see that you can make her go from side to side.

By: Mel

Mel — Fri, 22 Feb 2008 06:46:01 +0000

At first I thought I see it immediately because her shadow moves anti clockwise and she moves clockwise. Wow, I thought, I’m almost a genius! Until people actually told me that they see her moving anti clockwise. I looked up this site to find out more about the lady and decided to stare long enough while I’m counting, when I got to about 20 seconds, she switched direction and moved anti clockwise!!! But I agree totally with the above, although I see her mostly moving clockwise, I’m definitely more the description of the left brain above.

By: Gary

Gary — Wed, 13 Feb 2008 03:45:23 +0000

I can make her turn left and right by closing each eye back and forth. I blink and she changes direction. I have her dancing a jigg. It;s amazing!

By: Cali

Cali — Mon, 04 Feb 2008 21:59:30 +0000

I agree with Alex… I read somewhere that this is actually just an optical illusion and has nothing to do with right brain/left brain.

Even so, I can’t help but notice that the poll results are *drastically* weighted to clockwise, which is completely opposite to the prediction that “Most of us would see the dancer turning anti-clockwise.” In fact, before I read that this is really just an illusion, I was starting to suspect that they’d got the directions wrong in the original article. It seemed like all the comments were along the lines of:

“I see it spinning clockwise, but tests say I’m 70% left brained!”
“I see it anticlockwise, but I’m a really right-brained artist!”

Still an interesting thing, though. I have yet to make the darn thing go clockwise, no matter how obsessively I stare at her.

By: Chandler

Chandler — Sat, 02 Feb 2008 20:10:24 +0000

anyway the spinning lady is crazy

By: jeff

jeff — Wed, 30 Jan 2008 19:26:42 +0000

this is total b.s. i have had tests done that put each side of my brain to sleep and i am missing half of my right brain, abut it still still says i’m right brained? right! when i had all the tests done, i didn’t even know that they put the right side to sleep, the left side i lasted about 15 seconds and i was out. i don’t remember a thing after that.