A Test for "creative types" ;-)

[miniproject]

What do you see?
Is the dancer turning clockwise, or anti-clockwise?





.. whether you're right or left brain dominates. If you see her turning anti-clockwise, as "most of us would" (says the article, though most of the people, including myself, I've asked about this, actually see it going clockwise first) you tend to use more of your left brain. If you see the dancer going clockwise, you tend to use more of your right brain.

The right brain governs:

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

And the left brain's functions are:

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

... So how did you do? Are you in your right mind? :-P

Don't worry if you see her going clockwise, because right-brain people are cool in my book. They're misunderstood, but valuable souls. I definitely think I'm one of them. However, society does place a lot of importance on intelligence, and a lot of those left-brain functions are pretty damn crucial! We all use both sides of our brains. If you are desperate to see her dance the other way, to feel whole and reassured, but can't, try watching the shadows under her feet, and willing her to turn the other way, or reloading the image until it (seems to) randomly change direction, or as with optical illusions, make your eyes go out of focus, and will her to turn the other way before focussing again. She fits right in here on dreamwidth, because she really does go both ways..

:-P

Comments

[holyschist]

Ha, right, I remembered. The young woman has always been much more dominant in that image for me, but I can switch between them, where I can't with the animated dancer.

[miniproject]

It's definitely possible to see the dancer go either way. The trick is to focus on the lower part of the image, let your vision go blurry, and convince your brain the motion is moving in the opposite direction.

Brains are strange. :-)

Anyway, you do seem to be a very left-brained type, and if you can't see the image go anti-clockwise, I think this "test" is baloney.

[holyschist]

Well--I'm not sure I'm left-brained only, more that it's my preferred mode. But I think this test says more about how we process optical illusions than anything else.

(Even on the page with the added guidelines, I had trouble seeing the anti-clockwise version going anti-clockwise consistently.)