Nov 05 2007
Which Way Is The Girl Spinning? A Visual Brain Test
This fun visual test will finally put your mind to rest… C’mon admit it, you simply can’t last another day without knowing which side of your brain dictates your thinking.
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If you see the girl turning clockwise, your right hemisphere dominates:
You are highly creative, you use your imagination, feelings and perception of space, you are sensitive to symbols and images, you enjoy exploring the future and thinking philosophically…
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If you see the girl turning anti clockwise, you use your left hemisphere:
You are a logical thinker, you rely on realism, words and language. you are attracted by maths and science, knowledge, and specifics.
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If you manage to see it turning in the both directions:
You are a genius… ( I tried and tried, I even stood on my head and viewed it through a mirror)
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And if you don’t see it move at all:
You are either brain dead or you need a new computer.
What’s all this got to do with business? Probably nothing but I thought it was a bit of fun and now I can wrap my right hemisphere up in cotton wool to protect it from you nasty, logical lefties.
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I am a Genius!!! I always knew it, but now I have a spinning ballerina shadow to prove it!!!
does it spin both ways for everyone if you stare at it or am i a genoius?
my iq is roughly 128 btw so im far from genious (170 is genious and 100 is average)
Ditto Grahm’s comment : )
That is one of the most bizarre things I have ever seen. It switched from clockwise to counter-clockwise in a split second, and then about 15 seconds later switched back…
Now I can’t see it counter-clockwise again.
Bizarre.
Thanks for this…thing…wherever it came from,
- Mason
That was pretty amazing hahaha, I saw it going clock-wise first, and then after I read the description and looked at it again, it went counter clock-wise.
I know how to control what I see now LOL.
If you want to see it going clock-wise, you simply picture an arrow going clock-wise in your head, then look at the picture again; it helps if you cover the picture when you’re thinking.
Hey people you know that if you stare at the picture without reading the words under it the spinning will change direction…..its called flash people….some fool is laughing day and night at the fact that you think you are changing how your brain sees things…wow…how about them apples?!?!
Sorry Chris you are wrong…
It is a GIF file and I have looked at them in an editor, it is NOT a trick… it’s simply an optical illusion that you can, with a little practice, reverse at will.
watch the heal of the right leg, and then keep telling yourself that it will change…wow it does, guess what it does it even if you are telling yourself that you don’t want it to change.
So how about this, explain to me how the the angle off the foot from the floor of the right leg changes so drastically when the change in direction starts?
Is your mind also able to change the position of the spinner in the picture so that the presentation of the foot, that is down, is wider during the rightward spin and the toes are at a higher angle?
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I don’t know but I think it’s a little chilly in that room…
I found that it spinned clockwise until I started to try to analyse it or got distracted doing another task then it would go anticlockwise and I would have to concentrate to get it go once again go in the other direction.
How is it possible.. so interesting..
It spinned very definitely clockwise for me too. Then, I relaxed and watched it for a while and saw it spin counter-clockwise. After a few rounds, it returned to clockwise. I did this several times and ended up with a bit of a headache. Guess my brain prefers clockwise. Very interesting!
I am the least comfortable person when it comes to non-concrete reality. So I have little faith in these tests. Being excessively left brained, I know that it would ’spin counter clockwise’. That is how the picture started spinning. It then changed to clockwise. Then back. No matter what task I switched I could not ‘decide’ what direction it should be spinning, therefore it is not a matter of the mind but that of the server on which the image loads from. Sorry folks.
Maya,
Thanks for your “spin” on it, however, your assumption is wrong, it has nothing to do with server, sorry.
Is it just me, or are the nipples distracting?
wow if that really works i think I’m a genius
For the people who say its fake, Both me and my sister was watching this the same time and we both saw it spinning in a different directions. I saw it clockwise she saw it counter. It was the same computer. So how is that Different server? it works get, over it.
Thanks Ronnie,
That is a great test, I wish I had thought of checking it that way.
I found it was easy to change direction if you cover everything except the foot… which is easy to see both ways, and then slowly uncover the figure.
I naturally see it clockwise… but I am definitely much better at maths than English etc.. so I don’t trust the conclusions.
I watched it for like 5 minutes clockways, then the last five minutes its been counter-clockwise??
And at one pont I saw her going back and forth 180 degrees for like 5 seconds?
The mind is too stange
Stays funny, my father can only see it clockwise. For me it switches every 2-3 seconds. Then again, i do posses an IQ of 143. Whilst i am proud of it, i am a too distracted person to utilize it. Then yet again, i do have small signs of dyslection and dyscalculation.
If da Vinci would look at it, it would most likely change direction atleast a few times a second if in a relaxed mood. Not strange for a person with the IQ of ~220.
Nurturing “Nature vs Nurture” plays a bigger role in this era then nature. Shame though that society brain-washes most people to act systematic, in other words, left brained.
But everyone has the potential of a genius, as certain people said;
Geniuses are made, not born.
If only people would think further then the eye limits.
I can see it both ways and I’m able to change the direction of it when I want. It’s just a matter of training your eyes. The figure does not actually spin. It’s just an optical illusion.
There are no lines of shadow on the body so you just assume it’s a figure spinning in circles, while really it’s just a 2D image swinging backwards and forwards. As much as I would love the title Genius. I doubt this has any real accuracy, as within seconds of trying, I was able to switch the way it was “spinning”
By the way, an IQ of 130 (which is mine) is not even close to genius.
-Regina. x
My husband and I aslo looked at it simultaneously and saw it going in different directions. It was certainly our minds changing it and not the computer as we tried looking at it from different angles and still it spun differently for us which is what I expected. He’s a left brainer and I’m a right.
We see with our minds, not our eyes- the eyes simply receive the light from the image and the brain translates it…
Both of us saw it change directions. I’m able to make it change based on what I’m thinking. Analytical - left. Arts - right. Worked for me numerous times.
Not convinced that any of this is any real indication of level of intelligence though. But certainly displays an amazing capability of the brain.
In my first minute staring at the test, I saw it turning clockwise. Then I saw it turning counterclockwise. After a few minutes, I realized that it wasn’t spinning 360 degrees at all. It only turns 180 degrees. When the toe reaches the very left or the very right it will just turn to reverse direction. I can also make myself see that it spins 360 degrees on any direction I want. I’m not a genius.. I’m only an average type. The bottomline is it’s only an optical illusion.. that when you found the trick point, you’ll see how it was designed. Hope this helps on how to perceive it in either ways.
if its spinning clockwise then just put your left hand on your desk and and trace her figure without looking at your hand and it should switch directions.