This is an interesting test to determine whether or not you are predominately a right or left brain thinker.
I have no idea how accurate this visual test is, but it is pretty interesting. The dancer was spinning clockwise for me initially (right brain), but I could make it change direction easily.
-Dave
P.S. – Post your comment to let me know what direction the woman was spinning when you first saw her. I’m interested in knowing what your first reaction was.
1 | johnny scansion
Spinning deasil until I concentrated on the central foot. Then a magical change to widdershins. Weird.
3 | Dan
She initially spun clockwise, but I was able to make her change direction. Very interesting!
5 | Nathan
the central foot’s the key, it’s simular appearence looking straight ahead as it does perfectly behind, is the trick. there’s some intersting theories on right brainers and left brainers. here’s the short of it, right brainers were hunters, left brainers, farmers.
6 | Leslie
I like the hunting and farming description better than the description below the test itself. Because I’ve always considered myself good with words and language, anyway.
8 | Scott
I started out seeing it counterclockwise, then could switch to seeing it either way, but it required a purposeful shifting of gears on my part.
My wife saw it counterclockwise to start, then it would spontaneously appear to change direction without any particular pattern.
I don’t know what that says about either one of us.
9 | Scott
Now that I’ve read Nate’s comment, I can easily shift directions at will just by focusing briefly on the central foot.
My wife still has it happen spontaneously; that observation made no difference to her.
10 | Dr. Ding
I can only see it spinning clockwise, and not at all counter-clockwise, even when I tried to concentrate on the center.
Sigh.
11 | Dave
I’m sure there are more valid and accurate tests for this sort of thing, but this little visual test has been interesting.
14 | Kate
October 12th, 2007 at 12:03 pm
I can make it go faster clockwise, but definitely can’t get it to go counter clockwise.
15 | Dave
October 12th, 2007 at 12:26 pm
Kate, I’m pretty sure that means you’re a cyborg. Are your co-workers aware of this and have they taken precautions for your eventual uprising against humanity?
16 | Janet
She changes feet, first saw her left then changed right, now her feet switch, from left one to right one.
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18 | Chris Beamond
November 30th, 2008 at 6:44 am
Clockwise.
Until she was more in my peripheral vision, such as reading the start
If clockwise, then you use more …..
Then it’d be anti-clockwise.
19 | Adam
November 25th, 2009 at 6:32 am
This was odd for me at first all that happend was her right arm was twiching then she went clock wise till i relaxed the i couldmake her go both ways
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