Comments on: Which Way Do You Spin… Left Brain or Right Brain?

By: Nikki

Nikki — Sun, 08 Aug 2010 01:54:33 +0000

Wierdly I find it easy to switch between changing left and right. I can also quite easily make the ballerina and her shadow rotate in opposite directions, both ways.

By: Roni

Roni — Tue, 27 Jul 2010 05:11:27 +0000

At first I saw her spinning clockwise, but now I can it just looks like the dancer’s moving back and forth, or it switches between moving clockwise and counter-clockwise.

By: Austin

Austin — Sat, 24 Jul 2010 02:46:43 +0000

You guys know, this being related to left brained or right brained is a complete myth. Oh, and while we’re at it, it technically doesn’t spin, it goes back and forth. I can see it spinning left, right, or back and forth on will.

By: Cindy

Cindy — Thu, 22 Jul 2010 22:21:21 +0000

For those who think the animation is changing direction by itself and this is a trick, it is not.
When I first looked at this, it was moving Counter clockwise for me. I told my boyfriend to look at it, at the same time as me, and he saw it moving clockwise.

The correlation between being left brained or Right brained makes absolute sense here.
I am “left brained” and he is “right brained”, so it made sense why we would see it opposite directions.

After staring at it for 10 minutes, it was still moving counter clockwise for me. I tried every “trick” listed here, as far as looking at a certain area of the picture, and forcing it to change, but nothing worked.
I then tried thinking of something abstract, and almost immediately, it changed direction for me and I saw it clockwise. that lasted for a little while. Closing the page and reopening it I still saw it clockwise. But after waiting a few minutes, and letting my brain go back to its comfortable way, looked at it again and sure enough counter clockwise!
Its pretty cool to actually feel your brain making that change between which side it is using when looking at this.

By: Shellie

Shellie — Wed, 30 Jun 2010 23:37:03 +0000

I even followed the link to the 2 modified spinning ladies where it supposedly forces the viewer to be able to view both right and left, however, I found it very interesting that seeing both side by side without covering either spinning lady I was then able to see that she spins both directions at the same time or either direction that I freely choose her to spin regardless of the IMPLIED lines created for the purpose of forcing me to view her a certain way it actually did not force me but rather allowed me the freedom to choose to have both figures spin to the left, or both to spin to the right, or both to spin opposite of each other at my will. Is this the same for anyone else? Or is my brain so creative I’ve made myself able to be insane at my own choosing?

By: Shellie

Shellie — Wed, 30 Jun 2010 23:18:55 +0000

Now i can see her going left consistantly if i first follow her foot for a few cycles and slowly go up her body I can see her still spinning left. I can then resume seeing her going right if I quit intensionally focusing on her going left, since naturally I see her spinning to the right. (maybe I see her going to the right because I am used to things being clockwise? And rarely see things going counter clockwise? perhaps?)

By: Shellie

Shellie — Wed, 30 Jun 2010 23:14:57 +0000

LOL… oh my goodness… it’s easy to see her switch to the left when you follow her foot that is spinning.

By: Shellie

Shellie — Wed, 30 Jun 2010 23:06:58 +0000

Also she spins to the left if i look to the lower left corner of her square.

By: Shellie

Shellie — Wed, 30 Jun 2010 23:00:36 +0000

It is not by something unexpectedly alters the perception, it is actually for me the simple difference of looking at a white paper causing her to spin left and colored paper she spins to the right. This is when I use my perifial vision to view her. Otherwise my natural view of her is spinning to the right.

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