BS: Right Brain/Left Brain

Subject: BS: Right Brain/Left Brain
From: John Hardly
Date: 29 Oct 07 - 07:05 PM

Here is a test you can take to see if you are right brain or left brain. I clicked on the test and had to study it for a while. Really, quite a long time. Then I had to go back and re-read the premise of the test and the question it was asking.

Then I studied the test a while longer.

Apparently the idea is that if you think with one brain you see one thing, and if you use another brain you see something else, and if you think with yet another brain, you see yet something else.

I'm not sure yet. I have to go back and study it a while longer.

Subject: RE: BS: Right Brain/Left Brain
From: Little Hawk
Date: 29 Oct 07 - 07:16 PM

Interesting!

At first I saw her moving anticlockwise. No doubt about it. I tried to make her go the other way, but couldn't.

Then I looked away for a few seconds, looked back, and lo and behold she was moving clockwise!

With a bit of practice I found that I can switch the apparent direction when it's at the midpoint, and she suddenly seems to reverse her direction of rotation.

Subject: RE: BS: Right Brain/Left Brain
From: Barbara Shaw
Date: 29 Oct 07 - 07:23 PM

Fascinating. At first I could only see clockwise. After awhile, I looked away and came back to counter-clockwise. By moving my eyes to the left and right I was finally able to switch direction at will. Most interesting. What does it mean?

Subject: RE: BS: Right Brain/Left Brain
From: artbrooks
Date: 29 Oct 07 - 07:26 PM

She is clearly balancing on one foot and swinging the other leg from right to left in front of her...but then, I am a liberal.

Subject: RE: BS: Right Brain/Left Brain
From: number 6
Date: 29 Oct 07 - 07:28 PM

She wasn't moving at all. Standing still.

biLL

Subject: RE: BS: Right Brain/Left Brain
From: Little Hawk
Date: 29 Oct 07 - 07:29 PM

Look at it while standing on your head, art! ;-)

Subject: RE: BS: Right Brain/Left Brain
From: Liz the Squeak
Date: 29 Oct 07 - 07:39 PM

I'm sure I posted to this a minute ago....

In which case I really AM screwed. I saw her making S shapes rather than rotating and I'm apparently the only one who noticed she was nekkid and rather well endowed!

LTS

Subject: RE: BS: Right Brain/Left Brain
From: number 6
Date: 29 Oct 07 - 07:40 PM

Hmmmm .... let me take another look.

biLL

Subject: RE: BS: Right Brain/Left Brain
From: Amos
Date: 29 Oct 07 - 08:21 PM

I had her moving either way with a shift of the attention, and yes she was well endowed and apparently unclothed.

This means I use my Third Brain.


A

Subject: RE: BS: Right Brain/Left Brain
From: Leadfingers
Date: 29 Oct 07 - 08:35 PM

Left Brain Somewhere ! Must go and look for it !

Subject: RE: BS: Right Brain/Left Brain
From: Emma B
Date: 29 Oct 07 - 08:42 PM

That's really wierd, could only see her moving anti-clockwise first. Looked away for a couple of seconds and saw her moving clockwise. After glancing away again saw her terning anticlockwise for 18 degrees then clockwise for 180 degrees

HELP! - just realized, I "think" like Little Hawk!!!!!

Subject: RE: BS: Right Brain/Left Brain
From: Ebbie
Date: 29 Oct 07 - 08:48 PM

Man.   I must lack imagination. To me, she turns so obviously clockwise I have no idea of how to get her stopped and going the other way. After all, her right foot swings over the left foot- how can I change that?

Wait, wait! I just went back and watched some more and suddenly she raised her left foot and swung it forward. Then she kind of twisted and went back to clockwise. She is possessed, I tell you.

Subject: RE: BS: Right Brain/Left Brain
From: Janie
Date: 29 Oct 07 - 10:13 PM

At first she was turning clockwise. Couldn't get her to reverse unless I read the lists and really concentrated on 'just the facts'. Got to where I could get perceptions to switch directions, but never quickly or easily.

Facinating.

Subject: RE: BS: Right Brain/Left Brain
From: Riginslinger
Date: 29 Oct 07 - 10:19 PM

Totally counter-clockwise. I don't see how anybody could see it any other way. I watched for some time.

Subject: RE: BS: Right Brain/Left Brain
From: Stilly River Sage
Date: 29 Oct 07 - 10:58 PM

I saw glimpses of her turning counter-clockwise, but it kept going back to clockwise. I had to look at the shadows under her feet and I could "make" her feet reverse direction, then look at the rest of the image to follow. Given a little study it's probably not impossible to make her go back and forth at will.

Amos beat me to the line about the third brain. No wonder John studied this image so intently! :)

SRS

Subject: RE: BS: Right Brain/Left Brain
From: topical tom
Date: 29 Oct 07 - 11:10 PM

Truly fascinating! At first she was turning counter-clockwise,

then by concentrating I appeared to cause her to revolve clockwise! I appear not to have a third brain!

Subject: RE: BS: Right Brain/Left Brain
From: Stilly River Sage
Date: 29 Oct 07 - 11:21 PM

If you're truly a "Tom" then that probably isn't something you want to brag about. . . ;-)

Subject: RE: BS: Right Brain/Left Brain
From: The Fooles Troupe
Date: 30 Oct 07 - 07:51 AM

1) I realised she was a naked simulation.

2) she seemed to be going clockwise - no matter what I tried to think.

3) I looked at the shadow of her feet, then looked back, and she was going anti-clockwise!


Am I a foot-fetishist?

Or obviously male sexual impulses have to do with left brain thinking....

Subject: RE: BS: Right Brain/Left Brain
From: Little Hawk
Date: 30 Oct 07 - 09:28 AM

The thing to do is mount yourself onto a large revolving circular apparatus, similar to a target on an archery range. You tie yourself onto it with arms and legs spread out. Someone hits a button and the thing starts rotating, first clockwise, then counterclockwise. At the same time you observe the girl on the computer screen. What direction is she now moving in? Repeat several times, altering your own direction of rotation, and take copious notes...

Subject: RE: BS: Right Brain/Left Brain
From: topical tom
Date: 30 Oct 07 - 10:02 AM

Who's bragging? But I do have a middle leg.

Subject: RE: BS: Right Brain/Left Brain
From: McGrath of Harlow
Date: 30 Oct 07 - 10:16 AM

I'm solidly right-brain it seems. I'm rather surprised at that. Still the list of right-brain functions is quite fun. Dashing even...:

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

Subject: RE: BS: Right Brain/Left Brain
From: GUEST,curious
Date: 30 Oct 07 - 10:27 AM

I saw her moving clockwise, then thirty minutes later she had reversed. Is this a function of reverse image control by the website, or an optical illusion caused by brain function?

Subject: RE: BS: Right Brain/Left Brain
From: John Hardly
Date: 30 Oct 07 - 10:54 AM

"The thing to do is mount yourself ...

There's nothing about viewing her that made me wish to mount myself.

Subject: RE: BS: Right Brain/Left Brain
From: Liz the Squeak
Date: 30 Oct 07 - 11:51 AM

Or obviously male sexual impulses have to do with left brain thinking....

Like I said... I'm really REALLY screwed! I'M A GIRL fercrissakes!

LTS

Subject: RE: BS: Right Brain/Left Brain
From: Ebbie
Date: 30 Oct 07 - 01:32 PM

I think I've figured it out- when I unfocus my eyes I can make the figure turn counter-clockwise. In other words when I'm NOT seeing clearly I am using my left brain. :)

Subject: RE: BS: Right Brain/Left Brain
From: gnu
Date: 30 Oct 07 - 01:46 PM

Yes, Ebbie. It's in the eye focus. You can also do the same if you cross your eyes slowly until you "refocus" and the spin changes direction.

Subject: RE: BS: Right Brain/Left Brain
From: gnu
Date: 30 Oct 07 - 01:46 PM

Oh yaeh, nice nipples.

Subject: RE: BS: Right Brain/Left Brain
From: McGrath of Harlow
Date: 30 Oct 07 - 02:01 PM

Yews, I found with a little work I could make her go the other way. But the right-brain clockwise version is the one that always shows u0 first.

I wonder if it'd work differently if it was a naked bloke instead?

Subject: RE: BS: Right Brain/Left Brain
From: Ebbie
Date: 30 Oct 07 - 03:07 PM

gnu, can you see me? :)

Subject: RE: BS: Right Brain/Left Brain
From: Don Firth
Date: 30 Oct 07 - 04:12 PM

To everything
    turn, turn, turn
There is a season
    turn, turn, turn. . . .

I guess I'm ambicephalic. At first she was turning cloclwise. Then counter-clockwise. Then I looked away for a moment, and, by golly, she was going clockwise again. . . .

I couldn't make ber change direction, nor could I predict which way she would be turning when I looked back again.

Nice bod!

Don Firth

P. S. It was when she started doing somersaults that I got really confused!

Subject: RE: BS: Right Brain/Left Brain
From: Bert
Date: 30 Oct 07 - 04:19 PM

Clockwise.

Subject: RE: BS: Right Brain/Left Brain
From: John Hardly
Date: 30 Oct 07 - 04:21 PM

She seems to be staring at her breasts as she's turning. Or maybe that's me.

Subject: RE: BS: Right Brain/Left Brain
From: GUEST,mg
Date: 30 Oct 07 - 04:30 PM

clockwise

Subject: RE: BS: Right Brain/Left Brain
From: Anne Lister
Date: 30 Oct 07 - 05:01 PM

At first anti clockwise, then clockwise after I looked at the shadow of her foot ....very confusing.

Subject: RE: BS: Right Brain/Left Brain
From: Wolfhound person
Date: 30 Oct 07 - 05:11 PM

Clockwise naturally (I'm happy with that), but if I concentrate and engage a particular mode of thinking I can turn her the other way.

Other half (as I expected) said anticlockwise. He can only turn her if I'm nearby. Conversely I can turn her to anticlockwise more easily if he's within six feet.

I always did think his brain interfered with mine!

Paws

Subject: RE: BS: Right Brain/Left Brain
From: McGrath of Harlow
Date: 30 Oct 07 - 06:17 PM

Set me thinking of Flanders and Swann's tragic Misalliance:

       The fragrant honeysuckle spirals clockwise to the sun,
        And many other creepers do the same.
        But some climb anti-clockwise, the bindweed does, for one,
        Or Convolvulus, to give her proper name.
        
        Rooted on either side a door, one of each species grew,
        And raced towards the window-ledge above.
        Each corkscrewed to the lintel in the only way it knew,
        Where they stopped, touched tendrils, smiled, and fell in love
        
        Said the right-handed honeysuckle to the left-handed bindweed,
        "Oh, let us get married, if our parents don't mind, we'd
        Be loving and inseparable, inextricably entwined, we'd
        Live happily ever after" said the honeysuckle to the bindweed.
        
        To the honeysuckle's parents it came as a shock.
        "The bindweeds," they cried, "are inferior stock!
        They're uncultivated, of breeding bereft,
        We twine to the right and they twine to the left."
        
        Said the anti-clockwise bindweed to the clockwise honeysuckle,
        "We'd better start saving, many a mickle macks a muckle,
        Then run away for a honeymoon and hope that our luck'll
        Take a turn for the better"
       said the bindweed to the honeysuckle.
        
        A bee who was passing remarked to them then,
        "I've said it before and I'll say it again,
        Consider your offshoots, if offshoots there be,
        They'll never receive any blessing from me".
        
        "Poor little sucker, how will it learn,
        When it is climbing, which way to turn?
        Right, left, what a disgrace,
        Or it may go straight up and fall flat on its face!"
        
        Said the right-hand-thread honeysuckle
       to the left-hand-thread bindweed                              
        "It seems they're against us, all fate has combined.
        Oh my darling, oh my darling, oh my darling Colombine,
        Thou art lost and gone forever, we shall never intertwine".
        
        Together, they found them, the very next day,
        They had pulled up their roots and just shrivelled away.
        Deprived of that freedom for which we must fight,
        To veer to the left or to veer to the right!

Subject: RE: BS: Right Brain/Left Brain
From: Ebbie
Date: 30 Oct 07 - 07:11 PM

And let that be a lesson to ya!

Subject: RE: BS: Right Brain/Left Brain
From: Hawker
Date: 30 Oct 07 - 07:18 PM

Clockwise, definately clockwise, If I tried really hard I could make her go anticlockwise. I have had a slight stroke in my left frontal lobe ........would this make any difference?
Cheers, Lucy
PS Did she stick 2 fingers up at annyone else?

Subject: RE: BS: Right Brain/Left Brain
From: gnu
Date: 30 Oct 07 - 07:21 PM

Ebbie... hehehehehe. Hmmmm, I wish I could! I could make a ribald comment, but, I am too much a gentleman to do so.

Subject: RE: BS: Right Brain/Left Brain
From: McGrath of Harlow
Date: 30 Oct 07 - 07:29 PM

Good excuse for looking at her though...

Subject: RE: BS: Right Brain/Left Brain
From: BanjoRay
Date: 30 Oct 07 - 08:41 PM

It told me I'm a right-brainer - which scientifically proves to me what a lot of bollocks all the left/right brain crap is.
After 20 secs could make it go either way at will.
Ray

Subject: RE: BS: Right Brain/Left Brain
From: Bill D
Date: 30 Oct 07 - 09:19 PM

No matter what I did, eyes crossed...staring...watching shadows...I could not see anything except clockwise.

Strange, because I seem to have a dose of properties from BOTH right & left brain lists.

Subject: RE: BS: Right Brain/Left Brain
From: folk1e
Date: 30 Oct 07 - 09:47 PM

Clockwise ...... until I shift my perspective to be viewing from a lower angle ..... then she changes!
Looking at the shadows does this too!
Guess I am just naturally risky.....

Subject: RE: BS: Right Brain/Left Brain
From: bobad
Date: 30 Oct 07 - 09:52 PM

I see no movement at all, nada, zip, zilch - perhaps a confirmation that I'm brain dead or a function of my dial-up accelerator which compresses image files, all I see is a frozen silhouette.

Subject: RE: BS: Right Brain/Left Brain
From: Jeri
Date: 30 Oct 07 - 10:09 PM

I primarily see it as anti-clockwise, but I can see it clockwise too. What it comes down to for me is that I prefer seeing her as setting her right foot down rather than picking it up. I think it's because the toes of her left foot would be farther to the left (the outside) if she were pushing into a clockwise turn. The toes are to the right (inside) because the right foot is moving in front of them to the left and the left foot was planted before the turn.

Subject: RE: BS: Right Brain/Left Brain
From: GUEST,leeneia
Date: 30 Oct 07 - 10:37 PM

For me, she didn't move at all. I decided she had been dancing but had stopped for a moment.

I'm either brain dead or my right and left brains are perfectly in balance.

Subject: RE: BS: Right Brain/Left Brain
From: Lepus Rex
Date: 30 Oct 07 - 10:39 PM

Clockwise. When I looked away and started reading the text to the left of the image, she briefly seemed to be turning counter-clockwise. Then, I blinked, and clockwaise again. And I can't seem to get her going the other way. Hard think, make brain hurt. Neat.

And what is with the nipples?

---Lepus Rex

Subject: RE: BS: Right Brain/Left Brain
From: Ebbie
Date: 30 Oct 07 - 11:47 PM

Tried it again. I can make her change her rotation at will now- as long as I watch her feet.

By the way, I don't see any nipples at all, only the bulge of her breast.

And John Hardly, *she* is looking at her breasts?

Subject: RE: BS: Right Brain/Left Brain
From: GUEST,dianavan
Date: 31 Oct 07 - 12:19 AM

Definitely counter-clockwise but when I looked again, she had changed direction. Amazing!

I finally stopped playing when she stood there kicking her leg back and forth. Wierd!

Subject: RE: BS: Right Brain/Left Brain
From: Donuel
Date: 31 Oct 07 - 01:12 AM

first right then left then any direction I willed.

Advanced observers in the 4th dimension should be able to see her far side before it is turned directly to the viewer.

While doing this exercise I solved the space travel problem of bone density loss and muscle mass loss. All you need do is put the weightless person in a chair that vibrated sufficiently to signal the cells to grow more bone and build more muscle. The vibration is not one single frequency nor does it need to be any stronger than a Lazy boy recliner in massage mode.

This is truely a great application of a discovery to manned space exploration.

But I'm not tellin anybody unless you do.

Subject: RE: BS: Right Brain/Left Brain
From: McGrath of Harlow
Date: 31 Oct 07 - 07:38 AM

All very strange. Not least being that she seems to spin a lot faster if you open her in Firefox than in Internet Explorer or Opera. And with Firefox and Opera (but not IE) you can stop her spinning at any point by holding down a left mouse button when the cursor is on close or minimise or restore...

And the thing is, all we are actually seeing is not a spinning figure at all, clockwise or anti-clockwise - it's just a black blob that changes shape.

Subject: RE: BS: Right Brain/Left Brain
From: Donuel
Date: 31 Oct 07 - 08:25 AM

anges shape"
So is Al Sharpton but Mc Grath is really great at finding things on the web that are hidden in plain sight. I bet you find the most easter eggs too.

Subject: RE: BS: Right Brain/Left Brain
From: GUEST,leeneia
Date: 31 Oct 07 - 09:46 AM

I'm beginning to suspect that different computers handle the dancer different ways. On mine, she doesn't move at all. My security software may be blocking the code that makes her move.

Here's a curious tale about the brain. I play piano. I have a cuckoo clock in the next room. When I play, neither my husband nor I ever notices the ticking of the clock. However, if I play "My Grandfather's Clock," both of us notice the ticking. This has happened again and again.

I believe that the left brain (language) is cued by the lyrics (clock) to alert the right brain (environment) to the ticking sound. At all other times, the ticking is blocked as irrelevant.

I also feel that the list McGrath quoted is awfully broad. To me, "right brain" is the world of space, shape and pattern. It's the realm I enter when playing piano, driving the car and designing a garment.

I cannot play the piano and say a sentence at the same time.

Subject: RE: BS: Right Brain/Left Brain
From: Ebbie
Date: 31 Oct 07 - 02:11 PM

Another oddity in my perception: When the figure goes clockwise she goes all around; conversely, when she is going counter clockwise she seems only to swing back and forth.

It's a fun thing, John Hardly.

Subject: RE: BS: Right Brain/Left Brain
From: Bill D
Date: 31 Oct 07 - 04:11 PM

I'll ne darned! Suddenly, I got her to reverse and go anti- for a few seconds....I have no idea what I did, and after a few seconds, she reversed again and went clockwise....and I can't repeat it.

Subject: RE: BS: Right Brain/Left Brain
From: Bert
Date: 31 Oct 07 - 05:23 PM

It's just spacial perception, I don't see how the other right brain stuff has anything to do with it. She is leaning back and if you watch the whole figure carefully her shoulders appear smaller as she swings her leg in front of her.

Subject: RE: BS: Right Brain/Left Brain
From: Anne Lister
Date: 31 Oct 07 - 06:06 PM

If you look at the foot that touches the "floor" you can make the switch from clockwise to anti clockwise ...very clever, though.

Anne

Subject: RE: BS: Right Brain/Left Brain
From: McGrath of Harlow
Date: 31 Oct 07 - 06:55 PM

With a bit of practice it's easy enough to make her twist either way - or just to have her facing forward and swinging her leg from side to side. I haven't been able to have her facing away swinging the leg from side to side, but I assume it can be done.

Really strange - it's rather like those stereogram pictures where the hidden solid suddenly becomes visible when you stare at them in the right way.

Subject: RE: BS: Right Brain/Left Brain
From: Bill D
Date: 31 Oct 07 - 09:50 PM

Oh,I can do the stereogram things just fine! But this GIF image defeats me. It happened once, briefly, but I can't repeat it.

Subject: RE: BS: Right Brain/Left Brain
From: McGrath of Harlow
Date: 31 Oct 07 - 10:48 PM

Here is a discussion of this on NeuroLogica Blog - Your Daily Fix of Neuroscience, Skepticism, and Critical Thinking, with various links to other stuff.

Subject: RE: BS: Right Brain/Left Brain
From: folk1e
Date: 01 Nov 07 - 06:31 PM

SO ...... is her head leaning to the left or the right?
Definately nipples! ..... 2 ...... not that I looked you realise.

Subject: RE: BS: Right Brain/Left Brain
From: Becca72
Date: 01 Nov 07 - 06:39 PM

The head tilt depends on which way she's turning for me. I start out counter clockwise with the head tilted to the left and can make her change to clockwise with the head tilted to the right if I look at the text or concentrate on her feet.

Subject: RE: BS: Right Brain/Left Brain
From: GUEST,Slag
Date: 01 Nov 07 - 07:32 PM

I'll give you tit for tat on this one. She definitely rotated to the right, clockwise. After a little study she appeared to vacillate like a pendulum. As for brain dominance:

    "Listen to the words of wisdom what the medulla oblongata has to say, 'The libido is intact. The race will survive.'"

Copyright 1999, T. F. Carter II

If I had half a mind.... ?!

Subject: RE: BS: Right Brain/Left Brain
From: McGrath of Harlow
Date: 01 Nov 07 - 08:58 PM

"Tit for tat" indeed...

Subject: RE: BS: Right Brain/Left Brain
From: Gurney
Date: 02 Nov 07 - 01:03 AM

I only see her turning clockwise, from a non-gynecological perspective. My family see her switching direction constantly.