The Right Brain vs Left Brain

[-Syl-]

do you see the dancer turning clockwise or anti-clockwise?

 

[Captain Beard]

It's a trick. It changed directions twice.

 

[Anvil]

Nope, it's actually real... I've studied this kind of optical illusion.

 

[EricT]

It changes direction...

The purpose is, that the right brained fellow will just watch it go clockwise once, and assume it is clockwise, while the left brained fellow will wait and see and observe what it is doing.

 

[Captain Beard]

I appear to be both. *dances*

 

[teredd]

I see a nice rack...that is all.

 

[Lord Foul]

Clockwise, and despite my best efforts it will not reverse direction.

 

[Jace_Mereel]

I appear to be both. *dances*

Clockwise or counter-clockwise?

 

[Faffy@home]

Clockwise, and despite my best efforts it will not reverse direction.

try to look at the foot for a while.

 

[Chromatose]

so it is really going both ways or are we just fucked?

 

[Lunar Still]

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

I can't see how the hell that thing is moving counter-clockwise, but oh well. Right-brained sounds like more fun anyway.

 

[Metal head87]

just look at the foot and its shadow

 

[Lunar Still]

Yeah, I had to look away to get it going the other way, but as soon as I look at the top of the body, it goes clockwise again.

 

[-Syl-]

so it is really going both ways or are we just fucked?

yes, it's going both ways.
maybe it's like the 3d stereograms, somebody sees it somebody not

 

[Jeff-Loomis-fan]

when i first watched it was anti-clockwise...but after a few seconds it started going clockwise....buhh...my brain must be fucked up

 

[slashvanyoung]

That exact image was on a TV show here a few weeks ago... Couldn't see it go counter-clockwise back then (even with the advise on what to look on)... and can't see it now.

 

[-Syl-]

for me it's going anti-clockwise then clockwise than anti-clockwise againt, etc....

 

[Anvil]

If you actually SAVE the image and look at the layers, it does NOT change ways.

 

[slashvanyoung]

If you actually SAVE the image and look at the layers, it does NOT change ways.

Well, it's an optical illusion created by the composition of the layers/frames that (supposedly... can't figure it out myself) make you think it's changing directions. If you could tell by analyzing the layers, it would be more like an image manipulation than an optical illusion. ... if that makes sense.

 

[Anvil]

It's actually just a optical illusion. There are only so many layers, and they do NOT change direction in any way.