I have to admit that this has me stymied. As hard as I have tried (and I have given myself a headache in the attempt!) I cannot see the dancer turning any way but clockwise...but supposedly that means that I'm right-brain dominant. And right-brain dominant I have never been.
Can anyone explain this strange moving picture? And how anyone could see it turning counter-clockwise? And why I'm supposedly "fantasy-based" and good at "spatial perception" (ha!) and an "impetuous risk-taker"? I'm so confused.
*UPDATED*
Gabe can see it going both ways, but only if he sort of looks at it from the corner of his vision. After he said that, I tried it...
turns out that if I look straight at it, I see her going clockwise. But if I look elsewhere and see her in my peripheral vision, she's going counter-clockwise.
I don't know what that says about me. :)
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Hey, Em,
I saw it turning clockwise, too. Then I focused on the shadow under the foot and was able to turn the direction from there up.
Because of the hand and foot positions, it seems actually biased toward clockwise.
I can't see it counter, either, and I kept thinking, "Well, I would have thought I could at least FUNCTION as left-brained." But then I gave it up.
;)
Okay ... my teenage daughers and I watched this thing for a long time and we each (the 2 of us) say it going clockwise one minute and then it would switch (really). And then we realized that we could control it by following the foot with your finger - moving the circle the foot makes, clockwise first and then purposely reversing it. It is a lot of fun - that crazy dancer! See ya.
I saw it as counter-clockwise (not shockingly). :-) Although once I made myself see it as clockwise, I couldn't change it back...
Heather
Oh wow. I saw it counter-clockwise, but then I looked at another page and when I looked back at it, it was going clockwise! And it kept switching every time I looked away and then looked back.
i see it mostly as counter-clockwise(which surprised me, because I'm really not a math oriented person) but the peripheral vision thing worked too, so that I could see her going clockwise. then I was looking at her, but from an agnle, and saw her moving clockwise, and sometimes watching her straight on, it changed, I guess that means that I'm a little bit of both? Hm...
My first impression was strongly clockwise... I could only make it go counter-clockwise after I figured out how it worked. I'm not even going to try to analyse that. :-)
Thanks for the break from grading...
Hey Emily!
The first time I saw it it looked like she was turning clockwise. But if you stare at it long enough you can figure out how to make her turn either direction!
When I looked at the Right - Left brain descriptions I realized that I fit in with almost all of them!
Fun stuff!
Christopher
what a load of bunk - I can only make it go clockwise, and guess what, I'm an engineer. I don't think I fit the right brain mold. At all. And I know about 50 people that will back me up on that ;)
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