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.
― Alba, Monday, 8 October 2007 18:34 (sixteen years ago) link
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.
― Tuomas, Monday, 8 October 2007 18:35 (sixteen years ago) link
For all you newfashioned digital watch wearing youngsters:
CLOCKWISE http://i23.tinypic.com/2ljotvq.png
ANTI-CLOCKWISE http://i21.tinypic.com/10y3puh.png
― StanM, Monday, 8 October 2007 18:35 (sixteen years ago) link
only clockwise
― Jordan, Monday, 8 October 2007 18:36 (sixteen years ago) link
Clockwise is still the default mode for me, I have to squint really hard to make her go to the other direction.
― Tuomas, Monday, 8 October 2007 18:37 (sixteen years ago) link
still only counter-clockwise :-/
― StanM, Monday, 8 October 2007 18:37 (sixteen years ago) link
In practice, the former technique is much easier to achieve than the latter, I think.
― Alba, Monday, 8 October 2007 18:37 (sixteen years ago) link
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.
― nabisco, Monday, 8 October 2007 18:37 (sixteen years ago) link
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.
― stevienixed, Monday, 8 October 2007 18:38 (sixteen years ago) link
Is there some explanation why this animation would tell which part of one's brain is dominant?
― Tuomas, Monday, 8 October 2007 18:38 (sixteen years ago) link
Nath, left-brained means good with maths.
― Tuomas, Monday, 8 October 2007 18:39 (sixteen years ago) link
Oh hahaha, yes, I do do math... and science. Croxor of shite. I'm crap at it.
― stevienixed, Monday, 8 October 2007 18:39 (sixteen years ago) link
(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.)
― nabisco, Monday, 8 October 2007 18:39 (sixteen years ago) link
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?
― kenan, Monday, 8 October 2007 18:39 (sixteen years ago) link
(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)
― Alba, Monday, 8 October 2007 18:39 (sixteen years ago) link
Actually, more likely -- try to perform sensitive tasks with either hands while periodically looking up at this
Are you talking about wanking?
― Alba, Monday, 8 October 2007 18:40 (sixteen years ago) link
dizzy
― dan m, Monday, 8 October 2007 18:40 (sixteen years ago) link
I am right-wanking. That is indisputable fact.
― kenan, Monday, 8 October 2007 18:41 (sixteen years ago) link
lol wanker
(XPOST DAMMIT)
― HI DERE, Monday, 8 October 2007 18:41 (sixteen years ago) link
Maybe I'll have to do another poll on Friday: "what about now?"
Still widdershins.
― StanM, Monday, 8 October 2007 18:42 (sixteen years ago) link
I was listening to Confield while intensely staring at this for a few minutes, and I nearly threw up.
― Z S, Monday, 8 October 2007 18:42 (sixteen years ago) link
(I think all this has proven is that Alba and I are thinking the same way on this thread.)
― HI DERE, Monday, 8 October 2007 18:43 (sixteen years ago) link
I think I fancy her more when I make her go anti-clockwise. It's like I'm seeing her beauty afresh.
― Alba, Monday, 8 October 2007 18:44 (sixteen years ago) link
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!
― Z S, Monday, 8 October 2007 18:44 (sixteen years ago) link
Clockwise. Already knew I was right-brained. Can make her go the other way if I cross my eyes and look at her feet.
― Noodle Vague, Monday, 8 October 2007 18:45 (sixteen years ago) link
I was listening to New Order's Round & Round (vote in my poll!) when I first saw this, which was nice.
― Alba, Monday, 8 October 2007 18:45 (sixteen years ago) link
Oh, sorry. Poll here: You got (to) love Technique
― Alba, Monday, 8 October 2007 18:46 (sixteen years ago) link
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.
― nabisco, Monday, 8 October 2007 18:46 (sixteen years ago) link
i always see her going anti-clockwise but can make her go the other way
― latebloomer, Monday, 8 October 2007 18:47 (sixteen years ago) link
how are you guys seeing her counterclockwise that is crazy talk!
― horseshoe, Monday, 8 October 2007 18:47 (sixteen years ago) link
nabisco xpost-- So only we immediate-clockwise people can see the truth!
― Jon Lewis, Monday, 8 October 2007 18:47 (sixteen years ago) link
how are you guys seeing her clockwise that is crazy talk!
― StanM, Monday, 8 October 2007 18:48 (sixteen years ago) link
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.
― Z S, Monday, 8 October 2007 18:48 (sixteen years ago) link
Now Dream Attack is playing and she looks sadder anti-clockwise.
― Alba, Monday, 8 October 2007 18:48 (sixteen years ago) link
i just see her going round and round
― max r, Monday, 8 October 2007 18:49 (sixteen years ago) link
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.
― John Justen, Monday, 8 October 2007 18:50 (sixteen years ago) link
people in the southern hemisphere see her going the opposite direction
― dan m, Monday, 8 October 2007 18:50 (sixteen years ago) link
OMG I LOVE THIS
now i can make her change direction whenever i like
so what does that mean?
― emsk, Monday, 8 October 2007 18:50 (sixteen years ago) link
oh wait now I see her going counter-clockwise sorry!
― horseshoe, Monday, 8 October 2007 18:50 (sixteen years ago) link
This woman will haunt my dreams.
― Alba, Monday, 8 October 2007 18:50 (sixteen years ago) link
Unless I am actively thinking counter-clockwise, I always see her as clockwise first.
― HI DERE, Monday, 8 October 2007 18:51 (sixteen years ago) link
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...
― Sara R-C, Monday, 8 October 2007 18:51 (sixteen years ago) link
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?
― stevienixed, Monday, 8 October 2007 18:51 (sixteen years ago) link
All Minnesotans so far are right brained!
― Jon Lewis, Monday, 8 October 2007 18:52 (sixteen years ago) link
Why does she move so slowly at first and then SPEEDS UP?
There's a hidden message in this.
― stevienixed, Monday, 8 October 2007 18:52 (sixteen years ago) link
I'm feeling extremely nauseous. :-(
― stevienixed, Monday, 8 October 2007 18:53 (sixteen years ago) link
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. ;)
― Sara R-C, Monday, 8 October 2007 18:53 (sixteen years ago) link
i can't make her go counter-clockwise at all, this is driving me nuts!
― gff, Monday, 8 October 2007 18:53 (sixteen years ago) link
60-some posts and no one yes has typoed "cockwise"
― nabisco, Monday, 8 October 2007 18:54 (sixteen years ago) link
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
― rrrobyn, Monday, 8 October 2007 18:55 (sixteen years ago) link
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.
― kenan, Friday, 2 July 2010 23:32 (fourteen years ago) link
the cat is really hypnotic
― sarahel, Friday, 2 July 2010 23:34 (fourteen years ago) link
Fuck yeah it is, it's a MAGIC CAT.
― kenan, Friday, 2 July 2010 23:36 (fourteen years ago) link
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.
― atoms breaking heart (a passing spacecadet), Friday, 2 July 2010 23:37 (fourteen years ago) link
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.
― stet, Friday, 2 July 2010 23:40 (fourteen years ago) link
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. :'(
― NYC Goatse.cx and Flowers (Merdeyeux), Friday, 2 July 2010 23:44 (fourteen years ago) link
http://29.media.tumblr.com/tumblr_l4fsx6OJUZ1qzx8f2o1_500.gifhttp://29.media.tumblr.com/tumblr_l4fsx6OJUZ1qzx8f2o1_500.gifhttp://29.media.tumblr.com/tumblr_l4fsx6OJUZ1qzx8f2o1_500.gif
― sarahel, Friday, 2 July 2010 23:45 (fourteen years ago) link
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.
― kenan, Friday, 2 July 2010 23:50 (fourteen years ago) link
And still, that is a floating cat. Who cares what direction it spins?
― kenan, Friday, 2 July 2010 23:51 (fourteen years ago) link
i just watched the cat spin for 4 relaxing minutes
― sarahel, Friday, 2 July 2010 23:54 (fourteen years ago) link
http://content.ytmnd.com/content/d/7/5/d75e0a3c24bd2f25621b7ebe6036242c.gif
― . (gr8080), Friday, 2 July 2010 23:58 (fourteen years ago) link
^ that one's going counter-clockwise
― sarahel, Friday, 2 July 2010 23:59 (fourteen years ago) link
clockwise for me.
― NYC Goatse.cx and Flowers (Merdeyeux), Saturday, 3 July 2010 12:53 (fourteen years ago) link
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
― j/k lol simmons (history mayne), Saturday, 3 July 2010 13:12 (fourteen years ago) link
Last one is clockwise and telling me to kill my parents.
― Three Word Username, Saturday, 3 July 2010 14:35 (fourteen years ago) link
there is no such thing as left-brained/right-brained
― the last air bud (crüt), Saturday, 3 July 2010 14:38 (fourteen years ago) link
Girl and cats going clockwise.
― Born too beguiled (DavidM), Saturday, 3 July 2010 14:50 (fourteen years ago) link
that's what dreams are made of
― the last air bud (crüt), Saturday, 3 July 2010 14:57 (fourteen years ago) link
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.
― OCD Soundsystem (Masonic Boom), Saturday, 3 July 2010 17:29 (fourteen years ago) link
Clockwise and clockwise.
― ninjas and lasers and gold and (snoball), Saturday, 3 July 2010 17:33 (fourteen years ago) link
why is one of the books on the bookshelf flickering? is it trying to tell me to kill my parents?
― sarahel, Saturday, 3 July 2010 19:40 (fourteen years ago) link
WTF? Now it's anti-clockwise and anti-clockwise!
― ninjas and lasers and gold and (snoball), Saturday, 3 July 2010 19:48 (fourteen years ago) link
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
― death kebab of DEATH (Pillbox), Saturday, 3 July 2010 20:15 (fourteen years ago) link
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.
― ninjas and lasers and gold and (snoball), Saturday, 3 July 2010 20:19 (fourteen years ago) link
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.
― OCD Soundsystem (Masonic Boom), Saturday, 3 July 2010 20:26 (fourteen years ago) link
can't get past the right foot touching the ground
― j/k lol simmons (history mayne), Saturday, 3 July 2010 23:27 (fourteen years ago) link
there is no such thing as left-brained/right-brainedthere is no such thing as left-brained/right-brainedthere is no such thing as left-brained/right-brainedthere is no such thing as left-brained/right-brained
― PappaWheelie V, Saturday, 3 July 2010 23:31 (fourteen years ago) link
Of course there isn't. It's just a cool illusion.
― StanM, Sunday, 4 July 2010 06:28 (fourteen years ago) link
it depends on whether your brain is "looking" at the figure from the top or bottom
― the last air bud (crüt), Sunday, 4 July 2010 06:37 (fourteen years ago) link
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.
― circa1916, Sunday, 4 July 2010 07:03 (fourteen years ago) link
With practice, you can make the kitty bounce back and forth, never completing a full rotation.
― the girl from spirea x (f. hazel), Sunday, 4 July 2010 12:10 (fourteen years ago) link
I can't switch the direction with the cat
― Life! The Story of Life (CaptainLorax), Friday, 19 November 2010 01:23 (thirteen years ago) link
my life has no meaning
― Life! The Story of Life (CaptainLorax), Friday, 19 November 2010 01:25 (thirteen years ago) link
http://38.media.tumblr.com/6cf53aa4d5cb54a1f2c82040d9b3e97c/tumblr_nisr0sBSNx1rte5gyo1_1280.gifhttp://tinyclicks.tumblr.com/post/109227948536/
― club mate martyr (a passing spacecadet), Tuesday, 27 January 2015 18:33 (nine years ago) link