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She’s turning clockwise to me…and I’m a damn software developer, math and logic galore. Those are “left brain” traits, yet she’s turning in a way that indicates I am right-brained.

They also said I could focus and make her shift directions…I never could…not that I gave it more than a few seconds before moving on.

Steve

My experience was identical to yours. I tired to refocus so she appeared to be going counter-clockwise, but never could. Susan saw it both ways, and could seemingly switch back and forth easily.

As for the idea that being “a damn software developer” means you should be left brained, au contraire! Much of what you do is indeed detail, but you have to have a firm grasp of the big picture (right brain) before you can even figure out the details.

Me? Been a creative nut my whole life, so the results were expected. Susan is an accountant who plays the piano. And they also say women have a less dominant right-left split than men. They switch back and forth easier than men.

I saw it clockwise and couldn’t make it switch, either.

There is a ready explanation, though. The Daily Telegraph is an Australian paper, so, to them, it looks like it’s spinning the other way.

Also explains why they can’t talk english good. “anti”-clockwise?

I can see it turning both ways, easily switching from one to the other.

Zack’s lying. Just the other day, I saw him at Washingtonpost.com trying to claim that he invented the letter R.

Sir Fleshy: “Zack’s lying.”

Please do not project your frustrations over your own lack of visual perception onto others.

In addition, there is nothing wrong with being solidly right brained. Use it to your advantage, kind of like that old sketch on SNL, “Caveman Lawyer.”

“I’m sorry Your Honor, but I am completely right brained, and therefore all of your ‘details’ about how I am supposed to behave in your court just got lost in my preoccupation with the Big Picture in this case…”

Okay, maybe he’s not lying. Which, of course, means he’s a Warlock.

Burn him at the stake!

emcee-fleshy, anticlockwise is British English. There is a world outside the US you know. Really there is.

Don’t burn him at the stake- just nerf him. That is more satisfying.

And it is clockwise for me. I can’t even try to get her going the other direction. Not even if I talk dirty.

Macis, we’re talking about Australia here. What do weird British offshoots of english have to do with anything?

Thanks for the non-sequitur. Yeah, that’s latin, just like they speak in all those mexican countries. Which I also totally know about.

You’re all acting so very right brained about this.

Here’s another test. When someone gives you directions to a place, are you more comfortable with a written list of directions (e.g., go to Main Street, turn right, 2nd stop light is Elm street, go left…), or a hand-drawn map showing Main St., the stop lights, the arrow where you turn onto Elm, etc.

I tend to give people the second version without thinking, and I have literally had people take that piece of paper, turn it over, and ask “OK, so I go to Main St…” and create a written version of the visual map I just gave them.

Checked it again. It’s spinning the other way now.

DEMONS GET OUT!!!

I found the solution after looking and thinking about it a few times. Whether it turns clockwise or anti/counter-clockwise really depends on your perception. It’s just like the optical illusion of a partial box which is only 3-sided, whether you are looking at the interior or posterior of the box. When the dancer’s back is facing us, the optical illusion begins. Whether you imagine the ‘lifted’ leg is facing us or facing behind will determine the direction of the spin. If you focus on certain aspects and not staring at it too long, you will be able to manipulate the spin of the dancer. It’s just that simple.

It’s a bit more than that. Right brained people tend to take in the entire image, and see it spinning clockwise. Left brained people tend to look at the details of the image, a leg, a foot, and see it going counterclockwise.

In addition, some of these left brained people have noticed they can make it spin the other way if they look at a spot a couple of inches below the feet of the dancer … which means they are no longer looking at the details, they are peripherally seeing the entire image … so it switches direction.

I saw her spin clockwise, of course. ;)

Anti-clockwise at first (which matches – I am a musician who was also a math minor in college), then clockwise, and then I was able to switch it fairly easily, by letting my attention drift for a second and then come back to it.

As for your map question, Reid, I prefer the written directions method, but end up turning it into a physical map inside my head. I also have a good sense of direction; if I can find physical north when I come into a new town or county, I can usually remember that physical map on subsequent trips, something that has been more than a little useful when looking for faires at which my group performs.

There’s a survey to know what is more common, saw her spinning clockwise or anti-clockwise. Here is it:
Right Brain vs Left Brain Survey