Oct 122007
This optical illusion is supposed to determine which half of your brain is dominant. If the dancer is spinning counter-clockwise, you’re left-brained. Clockwise means you’re right-brained. I’m apparently left-brained, which is a complete blow to my carefully constructed self-image of a poetic dreamer. It turns out I’m Spock. But even Spock got lucky once in a while, so I suppose I shouldn’t feel too bad.
great. now I keep staring trying to figure out how anyone can see it going counter-clockwise; but isn’t that a left-brain attempt?
In my view, the dancer is usually spinning clockwise, except for when she switches direction for a while. I’ve also noticed that if I concentrate she might not turn her back on me at all, but simply sweep rhythmically back and forth.
(Perhaps this means I’m a bit confused without full use of my brian – left or right.)
So I went to check it out, thought she was spinning counter-clockwise, and I was going back and forth between confirming that she was spinning counter-clockwise and reading the left-brained description, I looked again and decided that she was now spinning clockwise. Yikes.
Definitely clockwise for me. Pretty much fits me too.