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It's still braeking my brain cell, I'm only seeing her go anti-clockwise and I just can't make her go clockwise. People from work are replying to my mail about this in completely random ways: some left, some right, some can, some can't. I'd like to know if the article's "most of us would see her go counter-clockwise" is right.

I find it very hard to make her go anti-clockwise, but can do it if I close my eyes, think of anti-clockwise movement then open them again.

Also, I am distracted by her tits.

I couldn't make her go the other way without scrolling down and scrolling back up.

(xp: Alba OTM)

I see her going clockwise, and I don't even understand how you could see him going to the other direction... Can someone give me a hint here?

I can ONLY see her going clockwise. Does this mean I should resign myself to my office job or resign from my office job?

"him", eh?

Come on, Dan, manboobs?

Make her go the other way? How the fuck do you do that?

BTW I can only see her going anti-clockwise.

For a split second, when I saw it the first time, it changed direction tho.

Opposite reaction: see counter-clockwise, can't even begin to imagine how you start seeing ambiguity or reversing things. Small part of brain suspects this is just revealing vast demographic gaps in ability to keep "clockwise" and "counter-clockwise" straight.

Also: sorry for shadownipple - if this is enough to turn this into a NSFW poll, please edit thread title :-(

I did the same as alba and closed my eyes and she went the other way.

WAIT WAIT I GOT IT TO SWITCH HOORAY

Hey wow, I managed to make her go anti-clockwise too! Magic!

(x-post)

Now I can't get her to go back counterclockwise

COOPERATE, CHICK

wow! how do it do that?

To switch without closing eyes, you need to think her legs going in front of her when previously you thought it was going behind. Or think of her pirouetting on the opposite foot.

Though I don't really understand how's it even possible to see her going to two different directions, so I guess the test is correct in saying I'm right-brained.

For all you newfashioned digital watch wearing youngsters:

CLOCKWISE
http://i23.tinypic.com/2ljotvq.png

ANTI-CLOCKWISE
http://i21.tinypic.com/10y3puh.png

only clockwise

Clockwise is still the default mode for me, I have to squint really hard to make her go to the other direction.

still only counter-clockwise :-/

To switch without closing eyes, you need to think her legs going in front of her when previously you thought it was going behind. Or think of her pirouetting on the opposite foot.

In practice, the former technique is much easier to achieve than the latter, I think.

DON'T SPEAK TOO SOON

People probably shouldn't vote too quickly -- the 1-minute "how the hell could it possibly go the other way" reaction can change pretty quickly. Maybe if you do some math and then look at it again.

Math? I'm leftie, I don't do maths. Or do I?

Sorry, this chick hates me and is disobedient. Refuses to change direction. :-(

Also, I'm getting mighty sick (in every way) of watching this bird.

Is there some explanation why this animation would tell which part of one's brain is dominant?

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.

..see the KRUNK SPiNNiNG DANCER
..see the KRUNK SPiNNiNG DANCER
..see the KRUNK SPiNNiNG DANCER
..see the KRUNK SPiNNiNG DANCER

is grady's mom zooming in or zooming out???

http://i47.photobucket.com/albums/f185/PappaWheelie/mom.gif

grady's mom is zooming hot

my mom: she's going anti-clockwise
(five seconds later)
my mom: now she's going the other way

what does that mean "centrally brained"?

http://www.shamozzle.com/Pic3ThreeInOneAll3NakedSpinningNudeDancerGirlsLeftRightBrainTestAnimation3.gif

That's head-explosingly great, that.

my mom: she's going anti-clockwise
(five seconds later)
my mom: now she's going the other way

what does that mean "centrally brained"?

― Fran Dreschantino (tron), Saturday, January 10, 2009 7:11 AM (11 hours ago) Bookmark

generally brained

I didn't see this before, but I am totally left-brained, I can not get her to go the other way...

Except when there is three of them! Then they are all over the place.

I never saw a picture in a magic eye painting either!

cover up the legs and see which way they go

Oh! they go clockwise when you do that.

dudes dudes if you focus on only two of the three spinny girls it looks like they are spinning in opposite directions! sometimes.

i can still only see it clockwise. :( apart from on that third one up there! i should surely be able to do it now! but no.

http://29.media.tumblr.com/tumblr_l4fsx6OJUZ1qzx8f2o1_500.gif

left to right. what does that mean?

although dancer at the top is going right-to left.

lols.

My hypothesis is that the cat is MAGIC and FLOATY and EXTRA AWESOME.

Btw, it's really super easy for me now to change the direction that either the cat or the dancer is spinning. I barely have to take my eyes off the image. I think my brain has caught on to this particular trick.

the cat is really hypnotic

Fuck yeah it is, it's a MAGIC CAT.

Clockwise. I can just about make the dancer go the other way (if I look to the side of the image instead of right at her she sometimes starts going anticlockwise and carries on when I look back at her) but I can't make the cat go the other way.

Usually I see her going clockwise, but have been coding for three hours and now it's really difficult to not see the dancer going counter-clockwise. Perhaps all the left-brain action of coding makes it dominant? Freaky.

cat is anti-clockwise, dancer is still -clockwise. I still can't change the dancer to anti-clockwise without looking at the illustrative examples Tipsy posted upthread, and then I get stuck on it until I look at the clockwise illustration again. :'(

http://29.media.tumblr.com/tumblr_l4fsx6OJUZ1qzx8f2o1_500.gif
http://29.media.tumblr.com/tumblr_l4fsx6OJUZ1qzx8f2o1_500.gif
http://29.media.tumblr.com/tumblr_l4fsx6OJUZ1qzx8f2o1_500.gif

xp to stet:

Not freaky at all, though. Practice a bit at changing the direction of the image, and it gets easier and easier to do. In fact it gets so easy that I can blink and the direction changes, without any concentration at all. That don't mean I'm Super Bi-hemispheric Man any more than it means anyone else has a dominant half of their brain.

And still, that is a floating cat. Who cares what direction it spins?

i just watched the cat spin for 4 relaxing minutes

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

http://38.media.tumblr.com/6cf53aa4d5cb54a1f2c82040d9b3e97c/tumblr_nisr0sBSNx1rte5gyo1_1280.gif
http://tinyclicks.tumblr.com/post/109227948536/