Which way is the dancer spinning… clockwise or counter-clockwise?
Most people will see her turning counter-clockwise, which apparently means you’re more left brained (logical). I see her spinning that way, and it’s at first almost impossible to imagine her going clockwise. But it happens, usually by focusing or when something unexpectedly alters your perception.
Here’s the typical run down on left versus right 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
Many people associate the right brain with creativity and lateral thinking, and there’s certainly something to that. Our left brains create structures that can act as barriers to alternative solutions and perspectives.
But your left brain plays a crucial role in creativity as well. Seeing logical associations between seemingly unrelated things is a hallmark of creativity. And the critical-thinking skills necessary to tell a good idea from a bad one are pretty important too.
So… tell us which way your dancer spins for you in the comments. And weigh in with your opinion about the right brain versus left brain for creativity… isn’t it a really a “whole mind” thing?
P.S. Want to know how this optical illusion works? Read this.
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When I first looked at it, the dancing lady was spinning clockwise. I didn’t read any of the comments so haven’t seen if this was already mentioned, but, if you watch the space between the foot of her standing leg and her reflection beneath it, you can force the image to “change direction” almost at will.
I’m with Roland and Josh.
At first I couldn’t seem to see the dancer turning in any direction but clockwise. For some reason, looking at that leg shadow changed the perspective.
As to your Post, Brian, remember the long debated question: which came first, the chicken, or the egg? The only answer that made sense to me was: there is no answer … because it doesn’t matter. Fact is, one cannot exist without the other, so they’re equally important.
To me, you’re absolutely right. When it comes to “right brain” or “left brain” thinking, it’s the “whole” that counts. They each have their function in the brain’s thinking process and, as far as I’m concerned, one really cannot exist without the other. That is, if one wishes to lead a full, happy and creative life.
In actuality, they find out that this has absolutely nothing to do with the way your brain operates. I found some articles on it after it went ‘popular’ last year when it was first published.
Still cool though
Cheers,
Glen
While I appreciate everyone’s theories about using the left eye and the right eye I have not been able to see her spinning in any direction but clockwise. I have tried looking at the shadow of her foot, looked away and back, peripheral vision of either eye etc… and she still only spins clockwise.
View it from a cell phone then angle the phone differently…that’s what finally worked for me
the phone was the trick, i guess a mirror would be the same.
its clockwise for me. but once i look at the reflection in my phone, its counter…when i look up again she actually is spinning counter clockwise. i cant change it by force but when i look back in the phone reflection again, its the other way around! 🙂 weird
i just read the fatigue post… so just keep looking at her and she will turn after a while hahah so true!
They are write she started to spin Clockwise then after a while start to spin counterclockwise , then she switch it keep doing it.
I’m afraid your list of right and left brain functions is utter nonsense. The dichotomy is a popular misconception with no basis on reality. Check out a post about this very same topic:
http://scienceblogs.com/neurophilosophy/2007/10/the_left_brain_right_brain_myt.php
It’s a nice spinning image, though, I’ll give you that. 🙂
A wonderful illusion. I don’t buy into the left-brain, right-brain connection, though.
When I looked at this several days ago, it was clockwise consistently. Now as I look at it, I can look away and return to see it revolve counterclockwise and then back to clockwise, and so on. Thanks.
Back and forth, back and forth. Sometimes she will be locked in the clockwise position sometimes locked into counterclockwise and then she will flip back and forth rapidly. It’s actually making my head spin so maybe what it says about me is that I’m a dizzy blonde!
Thanks for a bit of fun…..
That whole left-brain/right-brain thing was debunked years ago. Why people still believe it is the REAL mystery…
http://www.sciam.com/article.cfm?id=uncovering-brainscams
I’m curious… I made my own version of this, same number of frames and more or less the same pose (I deliberately made it a little different to avoid any possible copyright issues) and I can’t for the life of me get my own version to turn the “wrong” way. Can ANYONE make it change direction?
I omitted the shadow as it could cause confusion in the original. Now I think the shadow may be part of whatever it is that tricks my brain (and yes I checked the original gif frame by frame, it is indeed not changing direction during play, though some clever coding may be able to make it do so… I’m NOT saying the original is a fraud or a trick, mind you)
Anyway, if anyone want to try, my version is here: http://trekkiegrrrl.dk/SpinningTG.gif
I checked out your version and I can see it both ways, counter and clockwise.
Hi, I can make it go either way and back again.
I just see counter-clockwise, though have been told I create like a right-brainer. I have refreshed, told myself it is going the other way, gone into expanded awareness and she still spins counter-clockwise for me.
What are the stats of answers from Southern & Northern Hemisphere??? could add a whole new dimension to it.
Love it…..
Wow, it’s not until I stop looking directly at her that she seems to shift direction and move clockwise.
This is tripping me out!
Jeannette
It actually changes for me.
Even forgot which way it felt for the first time.
It started with either of it (say anti clock wise), as my eyes tried to read the text below the image, the image was spinning the other way.
For few moments i thought some time delay might have been given to reverse the spin. Tried the same (watching the image spinning in one direction, and then look below the image and it would reverse).
Crazzy !
Yeah, when I look at the animation, I can make the dancer spin both ways just by wanting her to. I have checked the functions and I have a very balanced set of both. I also possibly have a mild case of Schizophrenia so I’m not sure if it is related.
Well after commenting i did it again. First time i watch image, only image it turns clockwise.
As i start reading the text below it is the opposite way !
Yes sure, i tried thrice while writing this.
She is definitely going clockwise.
Haha, me and my friends all get in arguments over which leg she’s using.
I guess I use both sides of my brain because I can get her to change direction at any time I want.
One way she’s going counter-clockwise.
and when I focus and tell my brain.
“clockwise” she instantly goes clockwise.
There’s not a chance in hell this thing is going clockwise. I tried so long to see it. How could it possibly be?
It really can go clockwise and then counter clockwise and then clockwise again, she can flip from one to the other.
Wow. That is a trip. No matter what I do, I can’t see her turning counter-clockwise. But it’s funny because I’m definitely a word and language guy, but many of the right brained characteristics apply to me. I have always thought I was more a creative type based on what I am good at, and I’m also left handed.
I can see this in both ways, clockwise and anti-clockwise 😛
I see her spinning left for about ten seconds, then right for about 10 seconds, then left, then right. I know when I have taken tests my scores have shown that I am very right and left brained both, and that I am very well rounded. When I first took the test about six months ago, she was swinging wildly around, about every two seconds, LOL. Now she moves systematically for awhile in one direction and again in the other, back and forth, back and forth, like that. It makes me think. As of late I have attempted to develop my mind — both in right and left brained pursuits. Perhaps she is not swinging so wildly b/c I have mastered a little more of both the left and right side of my brain, and she can hang there for awhile before having to swing to the other side! Just a thought… Anyway, thanks for sharing this with us. 🙂
seriously losing my mind watching this… she keeps switching directions!!!!
at first she was going clockwise. i looked again and she was going counter clockwise. am i crazy?
Wow.
I am definitely more left than right brained if this measurement is accurate. I saw counter clockwise until I read the word counter clockwise in the text. Then she went the other way. I can now make her go either way at my leisure with ease. Matches me though, I am extremely logical and analytical before I apply any creativity.
So I find this mind-blowing!
To me the spinning lady ONLY spins clockwise!!! Only when the feet are filled in do I see any difference – with effort.
So I guess I must be heavily right brained. Why am I ever in law school!
What a fascinating experiment.
Lesley
Weird – I saw her spinning counter-clockwise first, scrolled down to read the rest of the post, then looked again without even focusing and she was spinning clockwise.
I see her spinning clockwise. With a minimal amount of effort I can see her going counter clockwise. With more effort I can switch back and forth and have her doing the twist.
Listen up everybody! I can get her spinning both ways on command.
Here’s how you do it.
Look at the spinning lady from the knees down only.
Now picture in your mind that you are looking at her from behind.
When her leg spins around to 90 degrees on either side, pretend she’s hitting an invisible wall and bouncing back in the opposite direction.
This way she is spinning in both directions.
OMG!
All this time I saw her turning clockwise. Then I read a comment saying that if you look at the space between her standing leg reflection, you can make it change.
I felt something happened and when I looked at her whole she was going Anti-clockwise! I looked away shocked.. When I looked back she was going clockwise again.
Wieeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeerrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrd..
omg.. it changes after every 20 seconds or so.. jeeez pay attention!
her direction changes after about 20 seconds.. look carefully.. you’ll realize it
Dont mind the guy called staffy, hes my friend and he thinks that we are all stupid and he knows that she is changing cause of the animation 🙂
I saw it turning clock wise at first then I looked away for a second and it switched to counter clock-wise.
If you get used to seeing her go either way you can train yourself to see her “sweep” first one way and then the other without her ever making a full turn. Try it. I think that’s probably a good whole brain exercise.
This is amazing….i cant make her spin any way i want her to i just have to focus on her going the opsite way shes going by looking at her feet and moving my eyes the oposite way!!! So much fun!!!
so i dont know what side that makes me!
Started out going clockwise, then after a brief distraction I looked up and it was moving counterclockwise. Started at the ankle for a bit, and sort of resolved it and got it to metronome, and then figure eight 🙂
Fun little test. Shadow kind of ruins it though
Look at the picture closely, she is moving her leg left to right and not rotating. Look very carefully, you will just notice if you are left brained.
Ugh, this is making me dizzy.
First I looked and she spun clockwise, but when I looked away and back, she spun counter-clockwise. Then I looked back and it was clockwise again. Now when I watch for a while she switches, sometimes every second.
So does that make me really balanced (between left and right), or am I just really mentally unbalanced?
It depends on what part of her body you look at.
Most of us look at the chest area first, so we see her going counter-clockwise. Those who look at the feet first see her going clockwise.
Look away then at her feet/chest for a few seconds to see the opposite of what you originally saw.
The fact that it’s a silhouette makes it possible that she’s going either way. There is no right or wrong answer, as some people seem to think.
this is so so so cool. i figured out how to change the way the ballerina spins. i can make it spin to the right AND to the left. ^_^. awesome.
She rotates clockwise always.I am right hand. My wife see her under counter-clockwise.She is left hand.
I see her spin both ways – sometimes clockwise and sometime anti. Watching with my husband we see her spin opposite ways at the same time. Very good. One of the guys who works with us (who claims to be logical) can only see her clockwise!!
There is nothing right in my left brain
There is nothing left in my right brain
but i can see her moving whichever way i want, so where do i stand
It’s clockwise for me but if you shake you head side to side it changes after a bit.
I took a quiz on Left-Right Dominance and 20 left 10 right for me making my left side dominant. So obviously which side you use varies with the situation. Example: Spinning Lady.
This is awesome! A friend of mine told me about this test.
When I first got on to this page, she was going counterclockwise. Then, all of a sudden, she switched to clockwise and I couldn’t for the life of me get her to go back the other way.
Then, I figured out THE TRICK: Move your eyes off of her image so that you can’t really focus on her but she is in your peripheral vision. You should still be able to get an impression of her leg spinning around, but you can’t really make out details. Then tell yourself what direction her leg is spinning (whichever direction you want) and keep looking at her in your unfocused peripheral vision until you see the leg spinning in the desired direction. Then slowly move your eyes over to focus on her, and voila! – she’ll be going the way you wanted to see. Works like a charm.
If anyone is curious or collecting weird data, I am right-handed but apparently also right-brain dominant (I think I’m wired a bit strangely – but have both brain hemispheres working quite a bit. I write poetry, play classical piano and also have a Masters in Biostatistics.) My Dad was born a lefty and then was “beaten by the school system” (figuratively, not literally) into using his right hand for everything. To this day, he is ambidextrous but prefers the use of his left hand for everything except handwriting.
I have also tested out INFJ on the Meyers Briggs test .
To all those doubters,
This is definitely not a program that switches her rotation direction at pre-set intervals! You can make her change direction ANYTIME YOU WANT!! I just submitted a post about it and tried it again – it works! Move your eyes just off of the picture so that she’s in your peripheral vision and unfocused and you can make her switch direction by “willing” her leg to go the other way. Then slowly move your eyes back to her. Than try it again and make her switch.
I’ve seen her just switch on me also when I didn’t want her to, and at other times seen her just spin clockwise even though I was trying to see how she could go counterclockwise. That’s how I figured out the technique above.
I also tried the advice of another post, which was to make her go counterclockwise by doing simple math in my mind, whether saying it out loud or not (12+13 = 25, 47-19 = 28, etc.) This works, but it takes longer than just looking at her on the peripheral. When I did the math experiment, and she was going counterclockwise, I also tried to make her go clockwise by doing right-brain dominant things (singing – didn’t work; imagining a rose or my Dad’s face – didn’t work; imagining a slice of pizza and trying to fit it back into the empty space it left when it was lifted from the whole pizza pie – VOILA!! THE PIZZA PIE THING WORKED and she switched back to clockwise for me). However, the fastest way to make her dance to your bidding is to do the peripheral eye thing I talked about in the first paragraph. 🙂
When observing an ambiguous figure that has two possible perceptual interpretations, the brain alternatively constructs each possible perception. We first see one perception and as observation of the figure continues long enough, the perception fatigues and is replaced by the alternative. When this fatigues, we again see the first alternative, etc. Simply stare at the dancer long enough and the direction of her twirling will reverse.
There is no such thing as “left-brained” and “right-brained” people unless an individual has half the brain surgically removed or inactivated by anesthetic. Both sides of the normal brain are always active, in interaction with each other, and participating in learning, memory, perception, imagination, and emotion. No normal human being thinks with one side of the brain at a time.
I see both ways, the first time I thought I noticed a change in her direction, now I can “see” her going in either direction without taking my eyes off her, I relax to see her go counter-clockwise and use intensity for the clockwise. Very cool.
I can make her spin both ways…mostly counter
Best way is to look at her leg the one that’s going up and down, then see it going what ever way you want. Still dose not make you right or left brained thou. All you are doing is tricking it.
yeah it really is good…..but i can only see it spin clockwise…..although i think i m going 2 crush my brain trying 2 move it counter clockwise…..hope it works…:-)
Under the list for right brain functions, you have seeing symbols listed as one of the functions. This is incorrect. The left-brain recognizes symbols (letters, numbers, signs, etc.), while the right-brain recognizes angles, distances, values, etc. This is very important, because when people go to draw, the start drawing symbols (left-brain) instead of using their artist right-brain.
John – It says “symbols and images”, not “seeing symbols”.
Letters and numbers are signs rather than symbols – i.e. they have a clearly defined meaning. (You are correct that the word ‘symbol’ is sometimes used in this limited sense.)
A symbol (in the sense Brian is writing about here) is more ambiguous – it can have multiple meanings, even contradictory ones, which left-brain thinking finds hard to compute, but which makes perfect sense in right-brain thinking.
For example, the letter ‘X’ and the cross on a street sign indicating a crossroads are signs; but in Christianity the Cross is a symbol that has been interpreted in many different ways.
You’re on to something, here. Right brain always gets treated as disposable, ie. school budgets kick out the music, and arts programs when tightening the belt.
Intuition and perception are valuable. Ask Albert Einstein about how his feelings led to discovery. (If you’re right brained, you can do this, lol)
Is computer programming totally left brained, though?
I DEFINATELY see her switch!!!!
when she spins anti-clockwise her left leg is raised and her head is tilted to her left shoulder.
when she spins clcokwise her right leg is raised and head tilted to her right shoulder.
she is leading the spin with the outside of whichever foot/leg is lifted up.
i’ve been looking directly at her with my friend who finds it very hard to see her switch and i see it every time she switches which is definaly random….i am not willing her to change direction at all!!!
bit about me.
i’m 22 british and taking my final exam next week for my BEng Hons Automotive Engineering with Motorsport Uni Course. i’m not religous and would say i’v very science based. done maths in one form or other throughout my life. very technically minded and open to everyone. love rock music, hate dance and RnB with a passion. like to take risks on the race track and definately VERY logical. also have a wild imagination and like taking arty farty pics with my camera although i’m shit at drawing/painting. also like to get my hands dirty working on stuff like my car as i get huge satisfacion from it and i dont trust most mechanics…especially main dealers!!!
i guess both halves of my brain are working pretty hard then. wish the left side was a bit better though as would have helped my uni degree haha.
anyone got any thoughts on my results??
Every time I look at her she’s turning clockwise, and the only time I ever saw her turning counter clockwise (left brain) was when I was designing something and listening to music (using right brain). How much sense does that make?
First, the lists of supposed functions of the two hemispheres are not correct. For example, religiosity is associated with epileptic activity in the left hemisphere, not right hemisphere. Second, emotions are not province of the right hemisphere nor logic of the left. Low activation of the left frontal lobe is associated with depression, whereas low activation of the right frontal lobe is associated with pleasantness. As for logic, patients with damage to the right hemisphere are deficient in following the logic of a story. Second, there is NO scientific evidence that the perceived direction of the dancer’s spinning has anything whatsoever to do with control by one hemisphere or the other.
even though what you say sounds rather convincing, like listening to a clinician, I still like this story.
It provokes both my thoughts and emotions if they’re separate entities. If not, it provokes whatever it is I’ve got in my head or heart or both.
Your thoughts and emotions are not separate entities. Read DECARTES ERROR by Antonio Damasio, which is accurate science that will provoke thought, emotions, imagination, and fascination. One does not need radically oversimplified myths to provoke thoughts and emotions. Real science is far more effective in doing so.
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.
Also she spins to the left if i look to the lower left corner of her square.
LOL… oh my goodness… it’s easy to see her switch to the left when you follow her foot that is spinning.
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?)
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?
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.
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.
Right. You are annoying though.
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.
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.
After stumbling on this and being struck by it, I spent a few minutes concentrating on this and here’s my conclusion on how to see the woman turning both ways:
Essentially what you need to do is realize that she isn’t spinning, I mean obviously she’s moving and not just a two dimensional shape moving back and forth. That’s just ridiculous. What you instead should imagine that she isn’t of her pivoting around vertical line, she is instead tracing the symbol for infinite folded in on itself with her back to us.
If that image is difficult to understand just imagine
the circle that her big toe draws isn’t actually going around her, or a more concrete version of infinity folded in on itself would be M. C. Escher’s one sided three dimensional object
counterclockwise
who else can make it change direction at will? is it a brian function test?
The spin directions have nothing to do with the relative activity levels of the left and right sides of the brain. When an ambiguous figure is presented – one that can be perceived in more than one way – the brain’s perceptual system constructs one of the possible perceptions. When the neural systems that mediate this perception become fatigued, the other perception is constructed. The perceptions will switch back and forth over time. If you look at the spinning dancer for 10 minutes, the perceived direction of spin should switch back and forth many times (if your brain is functioning normally).
This is silly….she does both!
Yes, Stethoscope, you are correct. It is impossible for a normally functioning brain NOT to see alternating directions of spinning. There is no scientific evidence whatsoever that the direction of spinning at any given moment reflects asymmetric brain activity.
I could only see her as spinning clockwise until I turned my head to the extreme left & watched her out of my periphery vision (when I did that she finally started to spin anti-clockwise!). Turning my head to the extreme left makes her spin clockwise again.
Apparently research has shown that about 70% of people see the dancer as spinning predominantly clockwise (even though the majority are “supposed” to see her as spinning counter-clockwise because that makes them left-brained – like the majority of people are presumed to be. I think we’re all a mix of both sides of the brain).
I found the best way to make her switch back and forth from counter-clockwise to clockwise at will, without her even completing a full circle! What you do is follow her calf, back and forth, and “switch” the leg in your mind as it swings from left to right. For instance as she swings the leg to the right, you imagine it’s a left leg (eyes focusing on the calf), and she will start to swing counterclockwise. Then, as the leg swings to the left, you imagine it becomes a right leg and she will automatically swing clockwise. 🙂 🙂 🙂
You can repeat this and have her swing left to right like a pendulum, so that she only does a 180-degree turn back and forth and back and forth, it’s fun!
Its spins clockwise so right brained! I think in images tho
I really cannot see her turn counter-clockwise, so that probbably means I’m right brainded :P. But that sounds very logic, cause I’m a really creative person who loves to fantasize 🙂
First, despite popular claims, creativity is not localized to the right hemisphere. True creativity emerges from a close interaction between the two hemispheres, both of which contribute to creative actions, thoughts, and words. Second, fantasizing is not creativity. Third, there is not the slightest evidence that the right hemisphere plays a dominant role in fantasizing. Fourth, even if the right hemisphere of an individual is in dominant control of perception and behavior, this would NOT result in perceiving clockwise rotations. Fourth, staring at the dancer turning in one direction for a sufficient period of time, necessarily leads to perception of the dancer turning in the opposite direction. This is due to adaptation of brain circuitry underlying perception of one rotation direction. No brain escapes these adaptation effects.
I see it going both ways??Is that normal??? One minit its going clockwise the next counter clockwise??????weird…..
Like Bre, I see her going clockwise for a bit and then changing her direction.
But what’s worse, she kind of started teasing me, by not spinning but just swinging her leg to her left and then to her right and to her left and to her right …
So am I neither left or right-brained? Maybe ‘centre-bained’?? 😉
This has nothing to do with left or right brained. It all depends on when you look at the picture. The are only a few frames that will get you see it going clockwise.
I was miffed because when I first looked at it i saw her moving counter clockwise and then clock wise then counter clock wise, it got me curious so I watch for longer but with disappointment because i realized shes on a timer when she spins one way for a period of time then then the opposite way. So its just chance it you see her moving clock wise or counter clock wise. I came to the conclusion that it has nothing to do with being left or right brained. Its just a computer trick to get you to think, it doesn’t mean your left or right brained from this experiment, in fact it doesn’t mean anything. Just a game. But it go my attention for a while so well done.
I disagree.
if she’s on a timer, it must be an extremely sophisticated one in which, the SAME screen can be seen DIFFERENTLY by a number of people, all watching together at the same time!
It was spinning right when I got on the page. Then it began spinning left. Now, it’s spinning right again. I figured out I can switch it as I choose. Really simple.
wow she is going leftt righhtt left righhtt…or right left right left…and she switches a lot sometimes.. causing my head to hurt a bit….geeze…
look at the image up close for about 10minutes. . . it switches. . . it is nor one or the other
What if I can see her spinning both ways or either way? Initially she spun counterclockwise for me.
I posted an answer to this previous, which I copy again here:
Jerre Levy says:
December 7, 2009 at 12:29 am
When observing an ambiguous figure that has two possible perceptual interpretations, the brain alternatively constructs each possible perception. We first see one perception and as observation of the figure continues long enough, the perception fatigues and is replaced by the alternative. When this fatigues, we again see the first alternative, etc. Simply stare at the dancer long enough and the direction of her twirling will reverse.
There is no such thing as “left-brained” and “right-brained” people unless an individual has half the brain surgically removed or inactivated by anesthetic. Both sides of the normal brain are always active, in interaction with each other, and participating in learning, memory, perception, imagination, and emotion. No normal human being thinks with one side of the brain at a time.
Very interesting…I first saw her turning clockwise and then I just stared at her foot and then she was turning counterclockwise and turned clockwise eventually ……..using our ‘left side of our brain’ more than our ‘right side’ probably makes sense…we are in our comfort zone when we do things our way, for years and years and when we have to learn different techniques relating to ways we have been doing, eg drawing or painting and perspective……it’s difficult to do it another way, especially when it is a correct way taught by an Art Teacher. Our brain gets confused?? am I right in thinking that?
Its changing from counter clock wise to counter.
At first I thought it was on a timer….but as I’m viewing this from my phone I decided to angle it differently and voila! She changed directions.it takes a little bit of time but you can train yourself to make her change directions or bounce left to right without making full circles….pretty damn cool I must say!
Clockwise…totally natural, can t even imagine her rotating the other way, even if I try hard… but then really… I am an artist, so there must be something to it :)))
The dancer can be said to be spinning counter-clockwise if you picture the clock over her head (ceiling mounted) and facing down… It’s easier to picture her spinning while standing on top of a clock which is facing upwards, thus having her spin clockwise.
It’s all relative to clock position.