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Stumble ThisWhich direction is the ballerina twirling? Counter-clockwise or clockwise?
From "www.news.com.au":
COUNTER-CLOCKWISE = 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
CLOCKWISE = 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
From "www.news.com.au":
COUNTER-CLOCKWISE = 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
CLOCKWISE = 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've never been able to see those images in the "magic picture" things, either.
We came across one last week that doesn't run out of time..just perpetually spins. It gives one more time to concentrate on changing the turn.
Here is the page that has a constant image, try this one guys: http://www.news.com.au/perthnow/story/0,21598,22492511-5005375,00.html
I like these things.
The most frustrating thing was showing it to someone else who sees it switching all the time. They're like "There! Anti-clockwise! See?" No! I don't see.
Maybe i have 2 right brains.
It's hopeless for me.
http://wtf.videosift.com/talk/Dancing-ballerina-proof-that-shes-going-clockwise
I can't help but feel somebody is playing a trick with this, but maybe that somebody is just my own perception.
It's funny, I'm a CS major so theoretically I should be left-brained, but for some reason it's ten times easier for me to see her as going clockwise than counter-clockwise. Hmm...maybe it's a sign I should switch to fashion design instead.
Oh, and the left-brain/right-brain non-sense has been shown to be a bunch of new-age garbage. It means nothing. Some of the greatest artists in history were left-handed. Some of the greatest artists in history were right handed.
It doesn't matter. This is an optical illusion. Look at the feet and you can get her to spin either way. Doesn't mean anything.
Split brain
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lateralization_of_brain_function
The idea that you can determine how your brain works from watching a ballerina is absurd.
And here is another, the REAL KEY to seeing it however you want - imagine you are sitting slightly below her foot level, looking up at her sole, and she is going one way, imagine you are sitting slightly above her foot level, looking down at her feet, and she is going the other way.
With the second technique I can voluntarily switch between perspectives. The difficulty lies in your brain settling on a vertical perspective. Are you above or below her? I like to imagine her on top.
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I get clockwise when I look at the entire picture. To get it to go counter-clockwise I focus on the reflection of her foot on the ground.
It's funny, I'm a CS major so theoretically I should be left-brained, but for some reason it's ten times easier for me to see her as going clockwise than counter-clockwise. Hmm...maybe it's a sign I should switch to fashion design instead.
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Focus on the reflection people
and in the link SG posted first thing I noticed was the nipple.
what does it mean?
It was a fleeting moment lost to history forever.
Pretty cool sift, first vid that made me go through the hassle of registering
Next thing I will see spinning is my laptop out the window in a second (clockwise)
As far as I can tell, it's an optical illusion that is in the same class as the necker cube, an illusion that I'm sure you are all familiar with, even if you don't know it by name. Both of these are "bi-stable images" (or, in the case of the ballerina, a bi-stable movie, I guess), that your brain can interpret in one of two ways. If you are looking at the cube, with a little practice, you can force it to switch between the two interpretations pretty easily. I suspect that a forced switch will be harder with the ballerina because it's a moving image, but it should be possible. I've found that if I focus j