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

If clockwise, then you use more of the right side of the brain and vice versa.

Most of us would see the dancer turning anti-clockwise though you can try to focus and change the direction; see if you can do it.

I see her turning clockwise, so I'm right brain. In fact I can't make her turn anti-clockwise even if I try really hard, so I guess my right brain is much stronger! I would of thought I'd be a lefty!

LEFT BRAIN FUNCTIONS	RIGHT BRAIN FUNCTIONS
uses logic	uses feeling
detail oriented	"big picture" oriented
facts rule	imagination rules
words and language	symbols and images
present and past	present and future
maths and science	philosophy & religion
can comprehend	can "get it" (i.e. meaning)
knowing	believes
acknowledges	appreciates
order/pattern perception	spatial perception
knows object name	knows object function
reality based	fantasy based
forms strategies	presents possibilities
practical	impetuous
safe	risk taking

(blatantly stolen from news.com.au via digg)

p.s. I posted this in Jack of Chat too - they seem to be mainly right-side. I want to see if there's more left-side people in the nerds group!

Leftie !!!!!

Damn it, I can't make my brain work properly... She won't turn right... i've asked her nicely too

lol! it's true!!!

I'm most definatly a left brainer. Don't understand any of that right brain nonsense ;-)

Wow thats fucked up !

I'm a righty but i concentrated for awhile and she started turning the other way haha.

Look at her shadow and then think of the opposite direction (thats how i did it)

Uuuuuugh she's going left, then right, then left.

Using my photographer's brain then if you use her shadow she can only be turning to her left (see what I did there?!).

Think about the shadow from her pivot leg - this indicates a light source behind and above her. The only way her other foot can then cast a shadow that's visible in the box is when it is on the far side of her from you - and this shadow moves from right to left.

I'd be interested in reading up more on this...

I can do her both ways, but I find it quite an effort to change from one to the other.

Said the Bishop to the, er, choirboy?

I spent a while thinking about that... and decided that if that were true, she wouldn't be going the same way as I thought she was... So I think the shadow has nothing to do with it.

... but is it a shadow or a reflection? And does that matter?

[gets dusty leftie brain out of cupboard]

Ok just a thought, try looking at her shadow for afew spins, then pull your focus towards her leg in the direction you want it to spin...

seems to work every time for me.

Well yes it does if you're supposed to say which way she's turning and it limits it to one way. (Reflection works the same way as shadow FWIW)

same,,,

this is old.

I used to be able to switch if i concentrated.
if i don't concentrate she just keeps switching.

just gave it a go, can still switch at will :P

nice jugs