The Right Brain Or Left Brain Test

[fastlane]

The turning dancer is suppose to tell you if you are a right brain or left brain person.

If the first time you view this you see her turning clockwise then you are right brained. If she is turning counter clockwise then you are left brained.

By focusing on the shadows at the bottom you can train your mind to make her switch directions.

Good luck and may the strongest side win.

If she is not turning at all, then unfortunately you have only half a brain. :D


http://blog.seattlepi.nwsource.com/thebigblog/archives/123502.asp

[sunbird]

Very interesting!!
For me she turned clockwise. Then, when I concentrated, she started to turn anti-clockwise for a few seconds, then back to clockwise... :p

Yudit

[etLux]

To tell you the truth, I wasn't paying a lot
of attention to which way she was turning.
.

[Leaf]

That thing is weird.
:)
She was spinning counter-clockwise and before i even got to the checking out the shadow, i read the blue text under her and she began spinning clockwise, so i looked at the blue text again and back at her, and she was going counter clockwise again.

I can't seem to make her change by looking at the shadow though.

[kanazo]

its always clockwise for me... have yet to find a way to turn her counter-clockwise...

[fiziwig]

Whichever way she turns when I look at her, by glancing away and then looking back at the picture, she's spinning in the opposite direction.

Other tests I've taken in the past told me I give tend to give equal weight to both sides, so I'm not sure how to interpret what it all means.

[rwayland]

Because streaming/downloading is so slow for me, I have not checked out the hologram. Am I correct in presuming a hologram? It seems to me that the right-left brain statement is not justifiable. Seems more like a possible confirmation of which eye you favor. Most people are just as much right or left eyed as they are right or left handed, normally hand and eye being opposite. It might also be completely unreliable if you have monocular vision or serious astigmatism, as I have. Also, great difference in visual acuity of the eyes could confuse the issue, also a problem of mine (20/400 and 20/200 at last check).

Comments from Fabian?

Richard

[etLux]

I'd say this "test" rather biases the outcome
in the first place by asking the viewer to
perform a "left-brained" analysis of it.

What I was implying above was that one might
simply take delight in watching a beautiful
form moving gracefully through space without
becoming caught up in dissecting the mechanics
of it.

Did anyone notice she levitates on each turn,
by the way?
.

[fiziwig]

Because streaming/downloading is so slow for me, I have not checked out the hologram. Am I correct in presuming a hologram? It seems to me that the right-left brain statement is not justifiable. Seems more like a possible confirmation of which eye you favor. Most people are just as much right or left eyed as they are right or left handed, normally hand and eye being opposite. It might also be completely unreliable if you have monocular vision or serious astigmatism, as I have. Also, great difference in visual acuity of the eyes could confuse the issue, also a problem of mine (20/400 and 20/200 at last check).

Comments from Fabian?

Richard

Interesting thought. I saw her spinning both ways just as easily, and I'm blind in my left eye.

[Raymond62]

That is a good one. Left AND right, depending on the angle of looking to it.
I guess......

Raymond

[rpearl]

She was turning???

[robh]

Clockwise. A dancer would rarely if at all lift her right leg to spin toward her front left (counter clockwise). Also the way she is leaning into the spin says clockwise. That and her right breast shows up first - but who is looking there, hmmm?:wow:
That's odd. According to the "test" that means I'm right brained. But I used left brained activity to explain why I saw it as clockwise.

Stupid test.

Rob

[RichR]

This is an all too dizzying experience:wow:

I saw her at first turn clockwise and then counter and then clockwise and ... what? levitate? didn't see that I had fallen off my chair by then!:D

[Matthew S Phillips]

For me everytime I divert my attention she turns a different way.

I have read research though that says musicians tend towards more balanced use of their hemispheres, since playing writing and studying music involves areas of the brain on both sides.

BTW... the first thing I noticed was the detail in her breasts. What does that say about my brain? :wow:

[caher]

She was turning???

My thoughts exactly. ;)

BTW, I heard you and Julian Grey performing Scarlatti last night on the classical music channel on cable TV. Great performance!

Regards,
Chris

[raz.bari.88]

That's really cool. By looking away, I was able to change the direction the dancer spins.

[robh]

BTW... the first thing I noticed was the detail in her breasts. What does that say about my brain? :wow: Normal.;)

Rob

[Rhap2]

If you put her near your "peripheral vision" perimeter, and then look
back and forth, she will turn (back and forth).

[Leaf]

I noticed that if you turn her upside-down, she also changes the direction she is spinning.


There is a book to teach drawing called "Drawing on the Right Side of Your Brain." I have some music in my head on the right side, and i think my left side is the side trying to learn how to get it on a .wav file, the way it sounds in my head. Sometimes it spins clockwise and sometimes it spins counterclockwise, so whenever it's spinning the right way, i try to make for lost time.

[rpearl]

My thoughts exactly. ;)

BTW, I heard you and Julian Grey performing Scarlatti last night on the classical music channel on cable TV. Great performance!

Regards,
Chris


Chris,

That's nice to hear - was it baroque music? That tends to wind up being broadcast more than some of the other repertoire we recorded (big surprise...)

Thanks for bringing that to my attention.

[rwayland]

Well, I finally checked out the link. What I saw: she rotates in one direction for about 2 seconds, then reverses, repeating apparently forever, and as she rotates, she either levitates or raises up on tip toe. It makes no difference which eye I use, or when I switch eyes. I can't focus both eyes on her simultaneously. Also no difference noted whether using peripheral view or straight on. I think the thing is a meaningless game.

Richard

[SeanHannifin]

Hmmm... I can't seem to make her turn clockwise with my right eye and counter-clockwise with my left eye... :(

[Skysaw]

Clockwise for me. I concentrated for a mighty long time and analyzed perspective, etc, before I could even imagine her going counter-clockwise.

[Gesticulator01]

Anti clockwise first for me. When I saw it clockwise - I think I experienced a heightened sense of 'gracefullness', that wasnt there in the other way round.

Test two - if Ive just been reading a lot - I will see it anti-clockwise if I go to it immediately. After listening to Debussy, I saw it clockwise. Coincidence, or insubstantial test? Hmmm.

[sanyarem]

Wow, for me she was turning counterclockwise. I tried to imagine her going clockwise, but it was absolutely useless. Until, I followed a comment posted below the picture. I looked at her out of the peripheral vision of my left eye and nothing changed. Then I looked at her out of the peripheral vision of my right eye, and she changed to clockwise...and now, no matter how hard I concentrate...she looks like she's going clockwise!!! Crazy!

Edit: Ah, I got it!!! As soon as her legs cross, just imagine she's going the other way, don't pay attention to her upperbody at all, just block it out...then, when you want to change direction, just focus on the legs again...it worked for me.

[SeanHannifin]

It becomes very easy to make her switch directions by closing your eyes and visualizing her going the other way... or is that cheating? :D