I am dizzy!

[Mr. Bloom]

Ditto! Both ways...is this true???

[Flybye]

Sheesh, I can't get that woman to spin counterclockwise no matter how hard I try. Turn, dangit, turn!!!

Perhaps I only have half a brain!!

Where's the test for that?


How fun! Thanks for that!

[Flybye]

Aha......

If you stand up and look at your monitor from the top of the screen she will change direction...................

I am not half brained after all, okay, well, it was actually my husband who figured that out, but he isn't in the room to get credit for it right now
Shhh......don't want him thinkin' he is the smarter one.

[7rider]

Nope.
Still clockwise.
I look at it standing up.
I look at it sitting down.
I close my right eye.
I close my left eye.
I turn my head to the right.
I turn my head to the left.
I look at the moving foot on the right side of the picture (peripherally?), as my DH recommended.
Always clockwise.
Sigh.

p.s. And I'm with OakLeaf. I just took a Myers-Briggs test for a class I'm taking (will get the results on Friday), and all my answers about my own perception about me says "left-brained".
I guess I don't even know myself????

[OakLeaf]

Now that was weird.

After reading some of your other responses (and going out, teaching Pilates and having dessert ) I looked at it again. Clockwise. Then, I read the text on the page and really focused on thinking about what the text was saying. Counterclockwise. But when I went back to looking at her, she switched directions on me again.

I have a feeling it's more about which side of the brain is predominating at the moment you're looking at the image, not which side predominates generally. Just the fact of it being an image - and having movement - and being a dancer on top of that - maybe is going to bias the test toward the right brain? This just suggested itself to me when I had a similar experience to LTBC's.

[lph]

I have a feeling it's more about which side of the brain is predominating at the moment you're looking at the image, not which side predominates generally. Just the fact of it being an image - and having movement - and being a dancer on top of that - maybe is going to bias the test toward the right brain? This just suggested itself to me when I had a similar experience to LTBC's.

I agree. I would say I'm a very logical math+science problem-solving type, but she was revolving merrily clockwise no matter how long I stared at her. Then I read the text in an ad underneath - and swish, she was revolving the other way. Looked at her - swish, clockwise again. I turned off the music I was listening to and read the ad again - counterclockwise. Music back on, looked at her - within three seconds she was revolving clockwise.

Fascinating. I do think that a dancer biases to right brain perception. If it was a formula or a word you had to read or understand I suspect there would be more left brain perception.

[silver]

after reading the responses here.....my conclusion.....this little test is not valid! We cyclists have trained ourselves to be very aware of our surroundings! So there!

[maillotpois]

Nope.
Still clockwise.
I look at it standing up.
I look at it sitting down.
I close my right eye.
I close my left eye.
I turn my head to the right.
I turn my head to the left.
I look at the moving foot on the right side of the picture (peripherally?), as my DH recommended.
Always clockwise.
Sigh.

Ditto - always clockwise.