I am dizzy!

[emily_in_nc]

Definitely clockwise. I couldn't get her to switch. I might try again later.

The funny thing is, I've always thought of myself as a very left-brain person.

Ditto! I am a software engineer, for goodness sakes. I am the "left brained" person in my very creative family of actors and artists.

Or maybe not so much anymore....clockwise completely and all the way, with both eyes, one eye, cross eyed, look away and back, I can't imagine seeing her going the counterclockwise.

Too weird!

Emily

[emily_in_nc]

I just clicked back a little later, and now she is totally going counter-clockwise!

How VERY strange. I wonder if it is a trick and the site changes from time to time -- sometimes fast, sometimes slow???

So I was right brained an hour ago and left-brained now. Me confused....

Emily

[bmccasland]

Turn to the left, turn to the right, left, right, left right. What was really funny that she would SLLLOOWLLLYYY turn firt one way and then the other while the image was loading (the joys of dial-up). So I'm now dizzy, and my brain HeRtZ.

[Hub]

Interesting! I immediately saw her going clockwise and then looked again and she was going counter-clockwise, then away and again and clockwise again.

Confirms my mental instability, eh?

Ditto!
Maybe it means my brain is like my eyeballs- I use one then the other-

[maillotpois]

Isn't she dizzy by now?? Days of going only clockwise!

[spokewench]

Absolutely clockwise - can't get her to change no matter what i do?

Oh, no, I can't be that analytical! I am not a scientist or an engineer!

[coyote]

It is weird. When I first looked at her she was going clockwise. Then while I was reading the text, I could see out of the corner of my eyes that she was going counter clockwise.

After a couple of minutes it was making me dizzy...clockwise, counter, clockwise, counter.

Its messing with my head man

[emily_in_nc]

Okay, I had my mom and step-dad both try this. They were both able to get her to go both ways, by focusing on her legs, not on her head. I tried it, and it worked! She still mostly goes clockwise for me, but sometimes counterclockwise. I also had my DH do it, and he saw her going clockwise on my computer at the same time I saw her going counterclockwise, so it's definitely a brain thing and not a program that randomly changes direction, as I was beginning to think (my conspiracy theory) last night!

I am not sure if it really measures left- and right-brainedness, as my DH is the most left-brained person I know (logical, analytical, all that), and yet he sees her going in the right-brained direction. But it definitely measures some sort of perception something-or-another. How's that for a technical explanation!?

Emily

[liberty]

Okay, someone needs to check me on this. First she was going clockwise, and then counter... But I thought I saw the screen halt for a split second and then the figure begin to go the opposite direction. Watch it for a good minute or so, and repeat to yourself , "the shoulder is going to the right/left, shoulder to the right/left..." And see if after awhile it doesn't start to go to the left. You can almost see it "reboot"...

Is it just me??? I'm dizzy too.

[emily_in_nc]

Okay, someone needs to check me on this. First she was going clockwise, and then counter... But I thought I saw the screen halt for a split second and then the figure begin to go the opposite direction. Watch it for a good minute or so, and repeat to yourself , "the shoulder is going to the right/left, shoulder to the right/left..." And see if after awhile it doesn't start to go to the left. You can almost see it "reboot"...

That's your brain at work, though -- she's really not changing direction! My DH and I watched her on my computer simultaneously, and he saw her going clockwise, and I saw her going counterclockwise, so she is not actually changing direction -- your brain is just changing how you view her! I don't know how to explain it, but I did take a Sensation and Perception class in Psych grad school many years ago, and this was the kind of stuff we learned about -- fascinating!

Emily

[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!