Which way does the dancer spine for you..... Left or Right Brain Thinking

[David Humphries]

both ways at will it seems.

 

appears easier to do, whilst focussing just on the leg.

 

 

 

Cool, good use of someones techno skills.

 

 

 

 

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[BatiArb]

Aye, bothways for me. Is it a real women in silhouette or computer gen? Great nawks on her....

 

 

Have to agree there....

 

I can't help imagining the discussion in the science room when that was drawn up.

 

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By the way Batiarb, whats that tree doing to the other tree in your avatar? Cunning.......no wait a minute is that a boy tree.... rimm.... oh my!

 

Or is that another optical illusion?

 

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This was a tree I drew while I was over at the ISAAC conference in 2008. Interestingly the tree is regularly used as a backdrop for wedding photographs.

 

I have attached photographs below:

[BatiArb]

there is something in watching her staight down from head to foot and when she 'bounces' a change in direction happens.

 

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OK I will have to try that one

 

Can only make her spin clockwise myself.

 

 

 

 

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[Tony Croft aka hamadryad]

What if the question, rather than which way does she spin, was how open to suggestion is your mind?

 

10% of people cant be hypnotyzed, one might argue the other 90% are open to suggestion, some poeple accept that which they are told, and can hear and see what is "suggested" others will see through. The mind can and does see what it wants too if you allow it.

 

I spent a lot of time trying to work out what the trick was!

 

its all in the inside leg, which they actualy only change direction on from the knee down, she spins clockwise, then they say counter clockwise, which she does but then for about two turns her leg (inside) does a switch from the knee down!

[BatiArb]

Which way does the dancer spin for you..... ?

 

 

 

 

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This is the explanation which is missing from the YouTube clip.....

 

 

 

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.

 

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

[Tony Croft aka hamadryad]

I dont think its a straight one, confidant the tricks in the inside leg!

 

they also add a white shadow line to assit, and change the background, if it was a straight one, nothing would need to be said or done to "alter" the perceptions?

[BatiArb]

What if the question, rather than which way does she spin, was how open to suggestion is your mind?

 

 

 

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OK will here are a few more to keep you amused.....

 

 

[ame=http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4u64HDXoKVM]YouTube - The Best Optical Illusions Ever[/ame]

 

 

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[Mesterh]

You all have it wrong.

 

She is staying still, its the rest of the universe that is spinning!

 

But which way does it spin?

 

 

Thats cool that:thumbup1:

 

By looking at the pointing/stinking out leg I can make it change direction.

[Jonesie]

If I concentrate I can change the rotation hard though. But if I pause it and change the direction in my mind then restart she will be spinning the way I'm now thinking.

 

Weird.

[Stephen Blair]

starts off clock wise then anti colckwise and keeps doing that through the video to me.