Are You a Left-Brain or Right-Brain Thinker? This Image Can Tell You

The Blaze ^ | 11 August, 2013 | Mike Opelka

[oldbrowser]

I can see it spinning both ways. What’s up with that?

[rabidralph]

Just like a woman.

[onyx]

You spin from your feet upward.
:)

[central_va]

I can see it spinning both ways. What’s up with that?

You might be gay.

[mdittmar]

Looks like the opening credits of a James Bond movie.

[RegulatorCountry]

Strictly clockwise until I started looking at it out of the corner of my eye. Then it goes clockwise out of the corner of my left eye and stays that way until I look at it out of the corner of my right, then it’s counterclockwise and stays that way, until I shift to the left, and so forth. No switching back and forth in my primary field of vision.

[The Cajun]

Once you get over the fixation on her headlights, blinking a couple of times will change her direction every time.
Must be some type of brain reboot/reset that causes the visual pathways to change slightly.

[wardaddy]

Lol

Amen...my first thought too

[Errant]

Got me. I can see it spinning both ways too. We need some ladies to chime in. I have a theory that the spinning subject used, influences the male observer, and affects the results.

[FreeperinRATcage]

I could only see her spinning clockwise, and couldn’t force another impression until I just looked at the shadow of her foot and concentrated on that spinning counter-clockwise...BAM...instant switch.

[Errant]

lol that’s what I was thinking... ;)

[MCF]

Same with me. I guess we are seriously left brained.

[wardaddy]

She is a spinner...my preference

Spinning to her right

Lovely

I

[PoloSec]

Scrambled Brains...

Rotate the image 90 degrees every 15 seconds.

[Errant]

No switching back and forth in my primary field of vision.

I can, especially if I bump the scroll.

[pallis]

One second it is counter clockwise, and the next it is clockwise. I’m so confused.

[KarlInOhio]

And the verdict is.... extremely not guilty.

The trick to make it spin in either direction is to look at the shadow of her foot. If you convince yourself that it is in the foreground then she will be spinning clockwise when you look at the whole image. If you convince yourself that it is in the background and it is showing foot movement when the foot is behind her then she will be spinning counterclockwise.

Wikipedia article on this image:http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Spinning_Dancer

Noteworthy in it is this line: In popular psychology, the illusion has been incorrectly[6] identified as a personality test that supposedly reveals which hemisphere of the brain is dominant in the observer. Under this wrong interpretation, it has been popularly called the Right Brain–Left Brain test,[7] and was widely circulated on the Internet during late 2008 to early 2009.

[Girlene]

All my life, I’ve had to think twice about right and left.

lol...same here. I've never met anyone else who had to use tricks to remember what is left and right.

[Errant]

Hol’ muh beer, I’m gonna to try standing on my head. lol

[thecodont]

Looking at the shadow of her foot only, it seems it switches direction every 8 rotations.