Left or right brained?

Um... OK, I am officially freaked out. I got her to change by looking away and back a few times. I think it's a fraud...? Anyone check myth busters?

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Originally Posted by Mindibun

edit: If you watch her long enough she *literally* does change directions. It's not your brain, it's the animation.

Tis a fraud I say!

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Thats what i was thinking.

It was going clockwise and then I started to read what that meant and as I was reading it it turned to counter clockwise. does that mean i used my other side of my brain to read the info? or is it a mind game farse?

See, I would have said it was a fraud, execpt for the fact that there was 5 of us in the room, and at just about any time, someone say it going a different direction than the someone else. I think it just has to do with the fact that it's just shadowy...there isn't any depth, so you can't tell what is actually in front, or what's going behind. Either way, I thought it was pretty cool.

clockwise most of the time. it changed for a few seconds

she goes clockwise for me no matter what. i focused, i read, i looked away, i focused some more but always clockwise. you people that say she changes direction must be nuts. :P

It's not a fraud. There are no three-dimensional cues, so our brains fill in the missing details with something that makes sense to us.

She doesn't change direction...our brains do. If you force your brain to accept it, you can watch her switch directions back and forth without ever making a full rotation.

It's a pretty trippy trick, but there's nothing "fraudulent" about the animation...it's just capitalizing on our tendancy to jump to conclusions based on incomplete data.

She was counter-clockwise for me, then clockwise, and I swear, she actually stopped for a few seconds before changing directions. I do think that the left brain is most accurate of me.

i ABSOLUTELY could not see it going clockwise. I tried for a while too. Only once when I was reading did I see it for a split second going clockwise.

Okay, coming back from this thread I musta switched sides... Gah...

She was going Counter Clock Wise first... then I read the story, looked back up and she was going Clock Wise. I thought it was weird, blinked and she was Counter Clock Wise once again...

LOL