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This is an amusing optical illusion, but I wonder what it really says about the brain. I can quite easily switch it from one rotation to the other by looking at the woman's legs.

I do know that I have been told that my eyes are cross-dominant as I am right handed but "left-eyed." You can test this in yourself by forming a window with your thumbs and index fingers touching and then holding your hands straight out in front of you while centering on something across the room with both eyes open. Still holding your hands out, close each eye in turn and see whether the object viewed through your "window" appears centered while using just your left or right eye. Most right handed people will find the object centered in their vision window with their right eye.

The only problem this has brought me is that I have trouble shooting a bow and arrow because I have a lot of trouble lining up my target. :frown:
 
Will you take it on faith that the authors of this GIF prove that one is either right or left brained, and the meaning of either of those, because he sees her spinning one way or the other? What a silly exercise.
 
Well, she's standing on her left leg and leaning back---of course she's spinning clockwise... how else could she be spinning?

Watched it twice, couldn't see it any other way.

I'm not sure that one gif is proof of anything, though.:cool:
 
Chuckleberryfinn said:
Will you take it on faith that the authors of this GIF prove that one is either right or left brained, and the meaning of either of those, because he sees her spinning one way or the other? What a silly exercise.
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Nope, not taking it on faith. If I were, I wouldn't have bothered posting it to see you all's results and read comments on it.

My mother and father did it, and they got the opposite results as they thought, given the descriptions of what right and left brain is about.

I think it may indicate what part of the brain deals with visuals though. Or which part deals more with visuals. Not sure ultimately.

I find it interesting people can see it in ways I can't. I still haven't seen it counter-clockwise.
 
gilbavel said:
Well, she's standing on her left leg and leaning back---of course she's spinning clockwise... how else could she be spinning?
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according to someone in the comments on the news site, they opened the gif in an editor and looked at each frame independently. Apparently there is absolutely no movement at all, I.E. there is no animation and the girl just stands there. So the brain is causing the motion.
 
OK, I just noticed something really fucking weird. I was lying on my bed looking at the reflection of my laptop on my desk. I happened to still have the gif image on the screen.

After a couple of seconds it hit me that the image should be rotating OPPOSITE in the mirror to what Im seeing on the screen. But no, both the image on the screen and in the mirror were rotating clock-wise. Talk about a trip!

So I picked my laptop up and held it right next to the mirror and both images persisted to rotate clock-wise. It was really weird as its the complete opposite of what things are supposed to look like in the mirror. Really cool actually.

So after that I convinced myself that it really should be rotating counter clock-wise in the mirror so after staring at the screen for a bit then back to the mirror I managed to view it rotating counter clock-wise in the mirror. Then Id look back at the screen and THAT was rotating counter too! Then a couple secs later it went back to clock-wise.

Id be interested in hearing other peoples experiences with the mirror trick. If nothing else this little experiment convinced me that the gif image really does do what it purports to do and isnt some shitty hoax.
 
Gareth said:
OK, I just noticed something really fucking weird. I was lying on my bed looking at the reflection of my laptop on my desk. I happened to still have the gif image on the screen.

After a couple of seconds it hit me that the image should be rotating OPPOSITE in the mirror to what Im seeing on the screen. But no, both the image on the screen and in the mirror were rotating clock-wise. Talk about a trip!

So I picked my laptop up and held it right next to the mirror and both images persisted to rotate clock-wise. It was really weird as its the complete opposite of what things are supposed to look like in the mirror. Really cool actually.

So after that I convinced myself that it really should be rotating counter clock-wise in the mirror so after staring at the screen for a bit then back to the mirror I managed to view it rotating counter clock-wise in the mirror. Then Id look back at the screen and THAT was rotating counter too! Then a couple secs later it went back to clock-wise.

Id be interested in hearing other peoples experiences with the mirror trick. If nothing else this little experiment convinced me that the gif image really does do what it purports to do and isnt some shitty hoax.
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Nice idea about the mirror.

I was able to watch it with other people together. It was funny hearing them describe what they see, meanwhile I wasn't seeing it.

If anyone has family, friends or roomates etc. watch it with them at the same time.
 
Just out of curiosity, does anyone see her spinning 180 degrees then abruptly changing directions and spinning the other way 180 degrees, direction change, 180 degrees, direction change 180 degrees, etc... ad nauseum:confused:
 
inuk2600 said:
Just out of curiosity, does anyone see her spinning 180 degrees then abruptly changing directions and spinning the other way 180 degrees, direction change, 180 degrees, direction change 180 degrees, etc... ad nauseum:confused:
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If I understand you correctly, yes some people have mentioned they see it change. My mother saw it keep changing too.
 
my wife just did took the test and it "changes" every 3 seconds or so, as she watches it changes back and forth between clockwise and anti clockwise.
i cant see it any other than clockwise and get a headache type feeling of strain if i try and force it

it is funny to watch with someone else and hear them say oh it just changed, when to me it hasnt
 
My boyfriend saw it change that way too. When I asked him to show me at what point the image changed he couldn't and then only saw it spin clckwise. I am going to get my mirror.
 
I just watched the images on the computer and a mirror. The images in both cases still look like they are moving clockwise. As much as I try to see the image counter clockwise I can't. Being in my right mind can't be a bad thing??
 
I got it! Here's the trick to making her spin the way you want...
Keep your attention on her toe that is pointing out. That's how I was seeing the 180 degree flip. When she turns in the desired direction move your attention towards the top of her body and she'll keep turning in that direction!
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It seems to be impossible for me to see it other than clock-wise with music playing. I had to turn the music off to answer a question that I had to think about, and she started spinning the other way. My girlfriend sees it alternating every few seconds. I'm curious what would happen if you looked at like a hundred of them at the same time. I have stared at static patterns on the television and seen them seem to form geometric and fractal patterns that were most likely a product of my brain's interpretation of the input. I once saw it make spiraling patterns of frogs. When I mentioned it to someone else, they could also see spirals of frogs. No, we weren't on mushrooms or acid.
 
skunkape said:
It seems to be impossible for me to see it other than clock-wise with music playing. I had to turn the music off to answer a question that I had to think about, and she started spinning the other way. My girlfriend sees it alternating every few seconds. I'm curious what would happen if you looked at like a hundred of them at the same time. I have stared at static patterns on the television and seen them seem to form geometric and fractal patterns that were most likely a product of my brain's interpretation of the input. I once saw it make spiraling patterns of frogs. When I mentioned it to someone else, they could also see spirals of frogs. No, we weren't on mushrooms or acid.
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I hate to say it, but you were licking the backs of frogs werent ya... getting high off the green-tree-frog supply.
 
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