Are you left- or right-brained? Take the test!

Nath, left-brained means good with maths.

Oh hahaha, yes, I do do math... and science. Croxor of shite. I'm crap at it.

(Actually, more likely -- try to perform sensitive tasks with either hands while periodically looking up at this, if it really does have to do with brain-hemisphere action.)

Yeah I was able to focus and close my eyes and make her go counterclockwise. Which is neat! It's a neat gif! Why does it have to "mean something" about my brain?

(get it clear in your head which way the lifted leg has just gone around - back or front - and just get her to repeat that side)

Actually, more likely -- try to perform sensitive tasks with either hands while periodically looking up at this

Are you talking about wanking?

dizzy

I am right-wanking. That is indisputable fact.

(Actually, more likely -- try to perform sensitive tasks with either hands while periodically looking up at this, if it really does have to do with brain-hemisphere action.)

lol wanker

(XPOST DAMMIT)

Maybe I'll have to do another poll on Friday: "what about now?"

Still widdershins.

I was listening to Confield while intensely staring at this for a few minutes, and I nearly threw up.

(I think all this has proven is that Alba and I are thinking the same way on this thread.)

I think I fancy her more when I make her go anti-clockwise. It's like I'm seeing her beauty afresh.

At first I was convinced she could only be turning clockwise, then I looked down and back up, was convinced it was actually counter-clockwise. Now I can only see her going clockwise, and I can't go back.

I want to go back!

Clockwise. Already knew I was right-brained. Can make her go the other way if I cross my eyes and look at her feet.

I was listening to New Order's Round & Round (vote in my poll!) when I first saw this, which was nice.

Oh, sorry. Poll here: You got (to) love Technique

Oh wait: she looks more awkward when she's going counter-clockwise, because her ponytail is suddenly leaning in the wrong direction.

On some official level she's REALLY going clockwise, with corresponding wind-pushing-hair action.

i always see her going anti-clockwise but can make her go the other way

how are you guys seeing her counterclockwise that is crazy talk!

nabisco xpost-- So only we immediate-clockwise people can see the truth!

how are you guys seeing her clockwise that is crazy talk!

Wait, I went back. What helps me in going back and forth is to actually trace the movement of the tip of her feet with my finger, going the direction I want to see her, while covering up her head with the rest of my hand. After tracing for about 20 seconds, remove the tracing hand, and voila!, you're in another dimension, and anyone observing you from outside your window thinks you may have gone insane.

Now Dream Attack is playing and she looks sadder anti-clockwise.

i just see her going round and round

Clockwise, was convinced the other way was impossible until I scrolled down and looked back up. Now it seems to be nearly abitrary, switches directions every time I look. Still, at first I couldn't concieve of it turning the other way, so I guess I'm rightbraned.

people in the southern hemisphere see her going the opposite direction

OMG I LOVE THIS

now i can make her change direction whenever i like

so what does that mean?

oh wait now I see her going counter-clockwise sorry!

This woman will haunt my dreams.

Unless I am actively thinking counter-clockwise, I always see her as clockwise first.

I couldn't figure out how to make it go counterclockwise at first, either, but then I scrolled back up and it did seem to be going that way. So right-brained here, I guess...

Also someone explain to me how's really moving: she's slanted, circling on her heel. IMPOSSIBLE.

I wonder if I see it differently once I delivered my baby. Maybe I'll revert back... Actually what if I don't see her move! Would that mean I'm a no-brainer?

All Minnesotans so far are right brained!

Why does she move so slowly at first and then SPEEDS UP?

There's a hidden message in this.

I'm feeling extremely nauseous. :-(

xpost Nathalie, you're right! If she was going to jump like that, she'd at least have to bend her knee...

Uh, sorry about the nausea. Go lie down on your left side. ;)

i can't make her go counter-clockwise at all, this is driving me nuts!

60-some posts and no one yes has typoed "cockwise"

counter-clockwise at first, concentrated a bit and got her going clockwise, looked at it out of corner of my eye and got her going counter-clockwise again, and then clockwise again and etc

brains they are weird

I have this sudden urge to buy mud flaps

http://imagecache2.allposters.com/images/pic/153/24-185~Mud-Flap-Girl-Posters.jpg

it's really weird, depending on when i glance at it, she can be going either way.

I am jealous of all the people who saw her counter-clockwise first you will all probably write novels one day and I never will. ;_;

Nabisco, what do you expect? She's not a great mover, now is she? Someone who's that freaky, must be an extra in Species.

Sara, should do, but I'm enthralled (-> see, leftie, good with words!)

whoa where did my post go? counter-clockwise the first time around, but everytime i scroll down and scroll back up she's changed direction.

btw you guys the left-brain/right-brain thing is really silly. It seems true that the left handles details and the right handles more spatial/abstract things, but if one half of your brain were truly dominant, it wouldn't be a personality trait, it would be a severe mental illness. Language for instance... the left half seems to (SEEMS to, no one has even proven this much) handle grammar and spelling and such, but the right brain handles tone, emphasis, volume, all the things that make speech and writing such nuanced things.

I can't make her go counter-clockwise.

but I have no depth perception, either, can't see 3-d etc. so maybe that's part of it

This is the great. Definitely easiest to get her to switch by block everything except her foot, and imagine that going round the other way and then slowly bring the whole thing back.

(xxxpost to kenan)

oh, ok - forget the left/right brain thing, it IS from the more astrology-minded section of psychology - but it's still a cool effect though (and I still can't make her go clockwise)

http://content.ytmnd.com/content/d/7/5/d75e0a3c24bd2f25621b7ebe6036242c.gif

^ that one's going counter-clockwise

clockwise for me.

iirc right-brained is meant to mean "moar creative/intuitive/___________" right?

which is why ilxors voted for it, to cheer themselves up

coz there is NO FRICKIN WAY that chick is going round clockwise

Last one is clockwise and telling me to kill my parents.

there is no such thing as left-brained/right-brained

Girl and cats going clockwise.

that's what dreams are made of

I can make them spin either way, at will.

Also... INTP. Still. But the margin for T/F gets narrower each time I take it.

Clockwise and clockwise.

why is one of the books on the bookshelf flickering? is it trying to tell me to kill my parents?

WTF? Now it's anti-clockwise and anti-clockwise!

yeah, this thing is bugging me out a bit. I opened it earlier & it was ^ now it is the opposite. Try as I might, I can't *unsee* it either way. Either this is a clever internet joek or I am some sort of schizoid

I can't get them to switch direction "manually" either. Just now I opened this thread and the woman was going clockwise again, so I scrolled down to teh cats and they were still going anti-clockwise. I went back up to the woman and she's going anti-clockwise.

Look at the legs. When they cross, your brain interprets that as one going behind the other. Tell yourself which one is in front or behind, and you can make the picture switch. It's easy.

can't get past the right foot touching the ground

there is no such thing as left-brained/right-brained
there is no such thing as left-brained/right-brained
there is no such thing as left-brained/right-brained
there is no such thing as left-brained/right-brained

Of course there isn't. It's just a cool illusion.

it depends on whether your brain is "looking" at the figure from the top or bottom

this kind of changes every time i look at it, but yeah, it was really difficult to reverse them until i read Masonic Boom's "look at the legs" trick.

With practice, you can make the kitty bounce back and forth, never completing a full rotation.

I can't switch the direction with the cat

my life has no meaning

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