Left Brain vs. Right Brain.

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http://www.news.com.au/heraldsun/story/0,21985,22556281-661,00.html

I saw it first anti-clockwise, but after a little focus I turned it around. Now for some reason whenever I look at it it's going clockwise, and it's even harder to turn around.

It's funny what triggers it too. A friend of mine saw it anti-clockwise all day, and couldn't turn it around till his wife touched him on the shoulder.

Edit: If you can't turn it around try using the suggestions there. Do maths in your head, or sing a song. Didn't really work for me, but others have claimed it did.

wow thats so weird. at first it was anti clockwise for me. then i changed it. and then i changed it back. but i had to close my eyes to do it

Hmmm... I can only see it moving clockwise... I can't seem to get it to turn aroundEdit: After looking at it longer and letting my eyes go in and out of focus it turned lol Weird!

It started off clockwise for me, then I flipped it around a few times. Cool trick.

I have been completely unable to see it as anything other than clockwise, which is the opposite of what I am supposed to see according to the left brain/right brain description. I'm very much a detail/facts/logic/science person.

I find that staring at the feet helps flip it.

I saw it counter-clockwise first, but can flip it around if I concentrate a little. But the shadow of her moving foot makes no sense if she's turning clockwise. The arc is all wrong...more like a mirror than a shadow, with the other foot still being a shadow.

Yeah, thats what helped me flip it from clockwise to counter-clockwise, the shadow seems to only make sense if she is turning counter-clockwise.

I can make it flip if I concentrate on the cast shadow below her heel. My first perception is clockwise though.

Ah yes, that works for me eventually. The "natural" direction seems to be clockwise, though.

If I want to flip it, I just say back / front opposite of what I currently see it as.

I view it clockwise first, then counter-clockwise and when I think different of different things it starts to change. It's constantly changing; there's no definite answer for me!That kind of frustrates me.

I am definitly not a right-brain person yet I sayw it clockwise. I can get it to go counterclockwaise but it ends up flippping back to clockwise.

I saw it moving anti clockwise at first, then I looked away for a couple of seconds, and when I looked back she was moving clockwise! So, I don't think that it has anything to do with left brain/right brain. I mean, it seems to have switched with a lot of us.

I felt like such an outcast because I could only see it clockwise, lol. But it makes sense because I learned before that I was always a right-brain person.But I did exactly what you said and concentrated on just her heel and it flipped to counter-clockwise. Now I don't know who I am!

it's just a stupid computer trick.

It's not. It's a regular GIF image.It's acutally an trick of the mind. An illusion, if you will. Just like the faces or vases or the old or young woman illusion. It all depends on what you see first.

i wish i had kept a email i got a while while back..... it had alot of those things on it. my mind is fucked anyway... i dont; need a trick to tell me it's brokenu knwo those pics that u look at and suposed to see a image in it..... i can never do those fn things. and thse fkn word puzzles.. where u have to circle a lot of letters to make a word.. i NEVER can find those friggin words.

Interesting. I first saw it clockwise.. Guess I'm a right brainer.. then again I probably have some issues..I can make it flip but, it gets harder and harder.. I looked at the heels to make it flip a couple times.

I find that when I start fantasizing something random and unrealistic like Harry Potter magic and a night sky melting and the stars becoming firelflies that mix together and turn to fire or something of the like, I get it to make it turn clockwise, but then when I switch gears and think about how the picture is just has a logical explanation behind it and has some mechanism caused by vision/the works of the brain it starts to turn anti-clockwise.Lol I love the synchronicity with my mind.