I found this “optical illusion” and I’m still astonish!
I test it with some friends and, seeing the spinning lady at the same time, one of us saw her turning clockwise, another anti-clockwise and another saws changing the spinning direction. I saw the spinning lady turning clockwise and after a couple of minutes trying to see her spinning in the other direction, I do it.
Now I can see the spinning lady turning in both directions but I always saw turning clockwise first.
It’s amazing how the mind works… for us everything is what we think it is… isn’t just is… it is what we think it is… or not…
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About the right brain or the left brain side, here is what the original post says:
If clockwise, then you use more of the right side of the brain and vice versa.
Most of us would see the dancer turning anti-clockwise though you can try to focus and change the direction; see if you can do it.
| 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 |
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Now with this poll / survey I’m trying to see what is more common, saw this “optical illusion” spinning clockwise or anti-clockwise.
Let’s wait and see the results…
this is pretty weird because it sais that I use my left but the right personallity describes my soooooo much better
There is no scientific validation that this illusion determines whether you use your left or right brain. It is just an interesting optical illusion.
Alex, you are right
Can see her counter clockwise at first & can make her pivot right and left to change directions it’s all in the feet & way fun.
Where’s the option for “neither”? She’s just turning back and forth..
I do believe this illusion is very beneficial when acquiring whether one is right-brained or left brained…after the viewing of this illusion, I must admit I could “get it”…therefore, I am right-brained!
The first time I watched her I saw her spinning clockwise,then I went back to study it a bit more,and Azu is correct.She spins back and forth. When she is facing the front is when she switches her direction.
I could see something happening while watching her and it occurs when she is right in front . It is very subtle,but it can be seen. Well,I saw it anyways.
Reading is an activity that makes it go CCW (you use the left side to read. If it is going CW and I’m reading, I can see it change direction out of the corner of my eye.)
If I think of numbers (tax forms) it will go CCW.
If I think about my paintings, it goes CW.
This must be some kind of joke. The figure will spin one way for a while and then switch directions. Watch her breasts. When spinning clockwise first the right breast comes into view and then the left one. When the spin reverses so does the order. It is a clear and unmistakable pattern change.
OK.. Here it is.. Anybody that cannot see it…
Look at it first, discover if you are Right Brain or Left Brain…
THEN…
With one hand cover from her waist up and only look at her legs.
THEN…
COVER ONE of your eyes
IF you cover your RIGHT eye (which prevents your left brain from working in this exercise) you will see her turn clockwise.
THEN..
Cover your left eye and do the same thing.
It may take up to 30 seconds for your eyes to re-adjust
Ur a an idiot. There is no left or right breast. It is a shadow, so it can be seen either way. But some people can’t see it one way or another.
Stop thinking how you can see, or telling people what you see, because it may come as a surprise, but not everyone can see what you see.
hahahaha omg. I watched the shadow for a while and it just went the other way. Holey shit. I’m the idiot. but I am definitely right brained cuz that took a long time.
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.
anyway the spinning lady is crazy
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.
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!
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.
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.
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!
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.
I can see her both directions and even bouncing back and forth without turning completely around. COOL.
After awhile she can stand in place, although still moving.
Anybody else see that?
Don’t quite understand it, but I can only see clockwise, no matter how hard I look I can see no other.
She’s going clockwise most of the time. When I started doing arithmetic while watching her, she started going counterclockwise!!
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.
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?
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.
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!
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.
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.
I have it open twice, side by side, and they are spinning opposite directions… WHAT DOES THAT MEAN??? oh my head.
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