The Right Brain vs Left Brain

The Right Brain vs Left Brain test … do you see the dancer turning clockwise or anti-clockwise?

If clockwise, then you use more of the right side of the brain and vice versa.

Most of us would see the dancer turning anti-clockwise though you can try to focus and change the direction; see if you can do it.

brains The Right Brain vs Left Brain

LEFT BRAIN FUNCTIONS
uses logic
detail oriented
facts rule
words and language
present and past
math and science
can comprehend
knowing
acknowledges
order/pattern perception
knows object name
reality based
forms strategies
practical
safe
  RIGHT BRAIN FUNCTIONS
uses feeling
“big picture” oriented
imagination rules
symbols and images
present and future
philosophy & religion
can “get it” (i.e. meaning)
believes
appreciates
spatial perception
knows object function
fantasy based
presents possibilities
impetuous
risk taking

Drop me a comment on what you see, i know a friend of mine can ONLY see the dancer going clockwise, yet his partner can swop at will with myself … how do you do ?

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  1. MJ says:

    ERM> OK!? How on earth do you see that thing going anti-clockwise? I mean. IM NOT ISANE!!!!!

    I don’t know if you are right with the lists though. Cuz I am good at both. Except maths :/

  2. Meryl says:

    How can you SEE it going any direction? It’s going clockwise – klaar :)

  3. Amanda says:

    Yup… definitely just going clockwise.

  4. Ivan says:

    Wrong!! I’m definately left brain centric and I cannot get her to turn anti-clockwise.

  5. JoeAverage says:

    This is really cool. If I focus directly on the pic, she turns anti-clockwise. If I focus elswhere and she is in the periphery of my vision she turns clockwise.

  6. I can only see it anti-clockwise and I’m irritated because it is frustrating me in my inability to chang direction at the moment.

    That and I should be working :(

  7. Shawne says:

    goes both ways for me, just depends on how much i focus on it.

    Very interesting :D

  8. vgreen says:

    started off anti-clockwise, then swapped to clockwise now can’t go back!

  9. eml says:

    At first I thought it was a programming trick and not completely convinced that it isn’t. If I focus on the shadow of the foot, it ALWAYS go across the window from right to left.

    If focus on the foot shadow, I can “make” it change directions. If I look at the image, it seems to switch directions randomly.

  10. Mike says:

    I saw it at first as counter-clockwise. To make it change to clockwise, I first focused on a leg and said outloud “back… front… back…. front” as it swung around; then I reversed the direction of spin by reversing the order of the words: “front… back… front… back”. That is, when the leg was in the back while the dancer was spinning counter-clockwise, I simply said outloud that the leg was in front, etc. After a couple of spins, the dancer started spinning clockwise.

    I had to use the same trick to make her go back to counter-clockwise — it wouldn’t change back automatically.

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