brain teaser

[pensnest]

How to drive yourself crazy... try this. It's a .gif which (apparently) can be seen rotating in either direction. I say apparently because I cannot see it anticlockwise however hard I try!

Are you right-brained, left-brained or both?

Comments

[trumpeterofdoom.livejournal.com]

This is what I did, and I managed to see it anticlockwise after that. Try looking at it with one eye closed at a time, and concentrate on the foot and the shadow of the foot. I only managed to see it go anticlockwise after viewing it that way with my right eye.

[pensnest]

I have tried all kinds of staring and winking and what not, but no luck.

[without-me.livejournal.com]

Meep! By scrolling down so I could only see the foot for a while, I managed to get it to "switch" (in my case, from counter-clockwise to clockwise) ... and now I can't manage to see it the original way!

[pensnest]

It is the most compelling thing... I can't get it to switch at all, though.

[musiclover03.livejournal.com]

I can see it rotating both ways as well :)

[pensnest]

*eyes you suspiciously*

[musiclover03.livejournal.com]

what does it mean if it makes you nauseous? LOL

[pensnest]

... time to step away from the keyboard and get a coffee, I think.

[lucy-u2.livejournal.com]

You can see it both ways with some effort. At first I could only see anticlockwise.

[randomling]

Definitely spinning anti-clockwise. Can't make it go the other way no matter how hard I try.

[pensnest]

Some of us are very one-sided. Tis odd.

[phaballa.livejournal.com]

Yup, I'm right-brained. I can't see it anti-clockwise at all, either!

[pensnest]

Clutches you in relief. i am not alone!

[rikes]

Both ways, but not intentionally.

[pensnest]

Yikes - that must feel very bizarre!

[turloughishere.livejournal.com]

If I look away for a few seconds and then look back I can usually get her to change direction. Cool!

[quiet000001.livejournal.com]

yeah, me too. I think the thing is when you're looking and 'seeing' her going one way, your brain is anticipating that she will continue to go that way, so it's much harder to make her switch directions than if you look away for a moment and then look back.

[turloughishere.livejournal.com]

Yeah, I felt myself trying to make her stop spinning for just a moment so that I could make her change rotation, but that didn't work of course but looking away and then back did.

[pensnest]

I've been trying to do that - I've even been trying to look away and visualize her going in the opposite direction, but she's still resolutely clockwise.

[truekat.livejournal.com]

Dude! I can only see it anti-clockwise, no matter how hard I tried! lol

[pensnest]

Hmm. We're opposites!

[stellamira]

That's fascinating. I started seeing it clockwise, and I only managed to see the oposite when I didn't look right at it but out of the corner of my eye. And then I couldn't turn it back for a long time, except when I really concentrated. But it's getting better, and the moment when it switches is fun.

[pensnest]

*pouts* I wanna make it switch too!

[duoshinigami.livejournal.com]

At first I could only see it go clockwise (right side) and I was all sad cause all the tests I've taken say I'm both. So I started reading the descriptions and all of a sudden it switched!

It has to do with the damn outstretched leg.

[pensnest]

I can just tell I'm going to go back to this and stare at it again in a fruitless attempt to see it go the other way. :-(

[ephemera.livejournal.com]

try scrolling down until you can just see the one lower leg and foot - I still can't get it to switch, but lots of folks say that helps. apparently it's to do with dominant *eye* not 'side of the brain' ...

[pensnest]

*pouts* Doesn't help. I must be resolutely whichever-brained, which is annoying me as I thought I was reasonably logical as well as creative. Grr.

[silveryscrape.livejournal.com]

That is so cool! I can make it switch by watching her legs from the corner of my eye. Next project: trying to see her rotate both ways at once. *urp*

[silveryscrape.livejournal.com]

AJGALKKLJLKSDFK I got her to swing her foot back and forth, side to side, without turning. My brain hurts now.

[lucy-u2.livejournal.com]

oh, you are right! I can also do it. LOL

[silveryscrape.livejournal.com]

Isn't it freaky?

[lucy-u2.livejournal.com]

It IS! I would like to know who here is right-handed, reason-oriented or not and what they see, because this is totally working with my friends and worked with me!

[silveryscrape.livejournal.com]

Well, I default to clockwise most times, but not always. Very interesting to know how everybody sees, yes!

[pensnest]

*squeaks* with some envy and quite a bit of horror! Dammit, I want to do this too!

[queenydiva.livejournal.com]

I'm right-brained, apparently because I can't see it counter-clockwise no matter how hard I focus!

[pensnest]

Me too - all these comments from people who can see both are making me feel very inferior ;-)

[lucy-u2.livejournal.com]

Really interesting! I'm right-handed and at first I could only see anticlockwise and I'm a practical person/logic oriented. I just had to concentrate on the legs only and now I can see it both ways with some effort.

[pensnest]

It's fascinating, really - I mean, I'll go with having a mostly non-logical brain, but I'd have thought I could manage to see it the other way, from all the staring I've been doing.

*pouts*

[wearethestars.livejournal.com]

That's awesome. I'm mostly right brained but I can easily get it to change between them. :)

[pensnest]

*envies you* It's amazing how many different responses people have to this thing.

[(Anonymous)]

OK - I tried the foot and got the foot to go anti-clockwise and was ready to move the page back up when she switched back to clockwise again aghhhhh...

[debsfarm.livejournal.com]

OK - I tried the foot and got the foot to go anti-clockwise and was ready to move the page back up when she switched back to clockwise again aghhhhh...

[pensnest]

Plainly I shall have to concentrate on the foot. Have you got your bratlets to stare at it yet?

[ariadnem.livejournal.com]

Looks like I'm both. I started seen it anti-clockwise and then it was clockwise. Shocking :P

[pensnest]

It's so weird - I want to be able to see it both ways, too!

[ariadnem.livejournal.com]

After a while I could even change it at will @.@ oh, well....

[debsfarm.livejournal.com]

OK tested it out on the family - Ben saw clockwise, Charlotte anticlockwise and typrically husband said she keeps on changing and then a miracle happened and I saw her dancing anti-clockwise too!!!!! . . . . .then she went back to clockwise!

[pensnest]

*envies you* I wanna see her anticlockwise!

BTW, I have dispatched, belatedly, a parcel containing a DVD and some bath bombs.

I visited Pa today, he seemed reasonably cheerful, and he and K were well cheered by the arrival of the 'emergency manager' whom they trust. Apparently management of that place has been buggered for a while, but now, there is hope!