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

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

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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)

also A++ boobs

It'll switch back and forth several times a minute, but I can't do it intentionally. Actually it happens when I'm not concentrating that hard.

When she's going clockwise it seems I'm looking down at her from a slightly elevated viewpoint and up at her from below when she's going counter-clockwise.

For those who can't change directions, and who are using Safari on Mac OSX:

You can pause the animation by clicking and holding the scroll bar on the right side of the screen. So, scroll down to where you can't see the picture, then click and hold the scroll bar to pause the animation, and scroll up and look at it, in a paused state. If you want to see her going counter-clockwise, concentrate on her left leg being in the air, imagine the path it would follow, and unpause. If you want to see her going clockwise, instead imagine the elevated leg to be the right leg, the path it will follow, and unpause.

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. ;_;

But you'll paint great pictures!

the left/right brain distinction is very real, as someone who's known someone with brain cancer will tell you.

(the pause trick is most effective when the dancer is facing either directly away from you, or directly toward you, depending on your, er, orientation)

I can make her skip in either direction, it's quite fun to switch quickly between the two so she's just sort of wobbling. I think the first look was clockwise, but to be honest, I've forgotten already. Thanks, brain!

If only I had a girlfriend, I'd make her do pirouettes in the living room until I understood how this works :-)

the left/right brain distinction is very real, as someone who's known someone with brain cancer will tell you.

I'm not saying there's no difference, only that in normal brains, the two halves work together to do just about everything.

Milo, I don't have much depth perception either and I see her as counter-clock wise.

If only I had a girlfriend, I'd make her do pirouettes in the living room until I understood how this works

WANTED: Girlfriend. Mainly interested in getting her to dancing naked behind a sheet in my living room for a scientific experiment. Will pay expenses. No time wasters please.

lol

(multi-xpost to nabisco, who first mentioned this ponytail thing)

actually, I can see that her pushing her ponytail in the direction she's turning to doesn't feel right, but that still doesn't help, she keeps turning counterclockwise.

"You spin me round..." is playing in my head now. Must lie down. Must lie down.

don't you feel the baby going clockwise or counterclockwise? :-)

Well in one direction it seems like her ponytail is flowing appropriately; in the other she just looks like she's, you know, a mannequin, or something. Immobile hair and whatnot.

I find it very weird that I initially saw her going counter-clockwise, but now, every time the thread reloads and she pops up again, I see clockwise first. The hair might be relevant, really!

Nope, her head is following her ponytail.

I'm going to not look at this for a while

Or maybe you have split-brainality?

Stan, I wish the baby was going downwards.

I can't stand this girl anymore.

ha!

She's not standing. She's a mover. Urgh; hold on. Crap joke.

"When she's going clockwise it seems I'm looking down at her from a slightly elevated viewpoint and up at her from below when she's going counter-clockwise.

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this is the best trick to make her go the other way.

Immediately clockwise, couldn't make her go any other way until I covered up the top and stared only at her feet, as recommended above.

my life has no meaning

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