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

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.

Is it possible that I don't have a right brain hemisphere?

no

So the best way to make a girl change orientation is to stare at her feet until she swings the other way?

Weird, at first she went clockwise and I couldn't turn her to the other direction, then I managed to do it a couple of times, but now I can't do it anymore no matter how hard I try.

xxpost

j/k :-)

I feel like I'm missing something by not being able to do this though.

Completely clockwise, but by turning my head sideways and standing close to the computer I got her to switch for about a half second.

Anyway - is this the coolest optical illusion ever or what? I love this, even though I can't make it work (I fully expect to be able to without trying somewhere in the future, but at the moment: I don't even understand how the left half of the shadow below her could be going clockwise AT ALL)

Effort didn't help me get her to go counter-clockwise but then I got distracted by something else and when I looked back she had changed direction.

so strange, whenever i click on this thread she's usually going either way...what does that say about muh branez?

There's no vote option for "I see her changing direction every second and my poor brain can't make its mind up"

That's because I didn't think it was possible (I still don't believe anyone can see this going clockwise), sorry

The left half of the shadow: how can this NOT be disappearing out of the image in the counterclockwise direction?

BAN ROTATING CHICK

^^^YES
she was anti-clockwise on first glance, then i looked at her again and she was clockwise... it keeps changing.

xpost to onimo

stanM, try looking at the just her legs.

Oh snap: you mean that the opposite way, don't you? The raised foot's shadow appears when the foot should be in front going clockwise = reversals are maybe contingent on ignoring the shadow

I'm going to give up for a while & look at this again tomorrow.

(I just got the tip to only look at the shadow and I'd see her going clockwise for sure - don't think the shadow has anything to do with it, I only see that going counterclockwise as well)

this was easy

omg i got her 2 switch. the key is to look at the shadows and scroll up a little.

she's swinging back and forth easily for me.

the key is to look

yeah, I've received about 20 different tips from people who can do it, still no dice. going to bed now, cheapest way to get drunk evah

clockwise - i had to cover up most of the image and just look at her knees to get her to go the other way.

Woah - crazy! That hint actually worked for me.

i can't MAKE it go any way. It sort of flips directions by itself

my immediate reaction is clockwise and i can't imagine seeing it the other way

my parents have studied brains for more than 30 years and i recall them saying the left/right thing is bullshit

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.

Men who put women on a pedestal are revealed.

when i first clicked it was counter-clockwise and then i got her to switch to clockwise and now i can't get it back to counter-clockwise! how did that happen? if i reload the page now, it is clockwise.

xpost to gabbneb ... yeh: i think this "R U LEFT BRANED?" thing is a pretty reductive simplification at best. i'm not sure what controls the way you might perceive something like this ... ask me when i've had some more psychology lectures and i might be able to give you a better answer ;)

whatever: it's fun.

also, FWIW: after about a minute i found i could -- by closing my eyes, thinking and re-opening -- switch at will.

to begin with i had to scroll the image out of the frame, then move it slowly back in.

key to "live" switching, ie without closing my eyes: focus on the shadow.

kenan OTM about brains upthread.

now: can someone explain the animation trick?

Y'all are just trying to make me feel stupider!

whatever: it's fun.

No! It's NAUSEATING AND DEPRESSING!

GUYS SHE IS NIPPING OUT

THAT IS ALL I CAN SAY ABOUT THIS PICTURE

When the gif is slowed you can see that it basically shows her leg moves to the left and then moves back to the right - how your brain constructs that into a 'reasonable' representation of a three dimensional 'person' moving in two dimentional space is what's interesting.

I can't really do this because I was born with half a brain :(

fortunately you have the half that notices nipples.

When the gif is slowed you can see that it basically shows her leg moves to the left and then moves back to the right - how your brain constructs that into a 'reasonable' representation of a three dimensional 'person' moving in two dimentional space is what's interesting

too right ... why d'you think i've gone back to university? :)

i can see what the shadow's doing (ie flipping) but my brain gets suckered by the silhouette every time.

Well yeah or I wouldn't be able to tell where to feed my future offspring!
(haha no really that is the 'undocumented wet nurse' part of my brain.)

xp to kenan

the leg switch is pretty dope