Right Brain vs. Left Brain | Which Do You Use Most?

Wow this is a cool test.. I see here clockwise so i guess I use the right side of my brain

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Diana Adams Reply:
January 20th, 2010 at 7:31 am

I just got a tweet from someone that said he was able to make her change directions. Ok, this is going to drive me bananas.. I have to make her change. Haha!!

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Misty Belardo Reply:
January 20th, 2010 at 7:34 am

LOL I actually was able to but got distracted and back to clockwise LOL this is fun!

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Diana Adams Reply:
January 20th, 2010 at 7:36 am

What???? How did you do it, where did you look? OMG, this is so funny, and ridiculous, all at the same time.

Great information as usual Diana. The video had me confused. Right or left LOL

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Diana Adams Reply:
January 20th, 2010 at 7:43 am

Thank you Lalita! About the video, I know, right? I’m getting dizzy.

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I love your articles, wherever your inspiration comes from, I want to live there! Your articles are very interesting, be they funny, inspirational, or just plain crazy! Will your next book also be on cooking?

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Diana Adams Reply:
January 20th, 2010 at 7:56 am

Wynand, you made my day. Oh my gosh, I’m so grateful. Thank you very much. You are an inspiration to me as well, all of our readers are.

I will not be writing any more cooking books, been there done that; however, I did write an article coming out soon about cooking. It will always be something I love to do. Thank you again for your comment. ~Hugs~

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Great article! I was just reading up on this the other day – I think I use both sides of my brain equally!

Keep up the good work!

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Diana Adams Reply:
January 20th, 2010 at 8:45 am

Thank you Andy! That means a lot coming from you.

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I can see both, but I have no idea how I made her change directions. Thanks for this bit of fun, Diana!

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I agree with most of your article. It is a shame that our schools and most of our professional guidelines are based almost entirely on left-brained concepts. I tend to think that we ARE predisposed to one or the other sides but I have tried (with some success) to persuade my brain to utilize the other side more effectively. BTW, I wrote a similar article back in May of ’08 about this. Check it out here: http://chiefshepherd.com/2008/05/half-brained-leadership/
Also, Ann Mcgee-Cooper write an excellent book on this titled, “Time Management for Unmanageable People” – recommend it highly. Great read and funny!

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Fun article, Diana. I’m both, also. Try this: as the video plays, look away for a second and then bring your eyes back to her hips. That might help you to change her direction.

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Diana Adams Reply:
January 20th, 2010 at 6:58 pm

Shoot… the hips thing didn’t work for me. Thank you for trying to help me though!!

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I experience a rather interesting phenomenon with this:

If I look directly at the spinning shadow, it spins clockwise. If I look at it in my periphery, it spins counter-clockwise.

The effect works because of the way our brains interpret shadow. The shape is obviously a woman, but because it is a silhouette there are no shadow gradations to give visual clues (e.g. the roundness of her breasts or the slope of her shoulders or the corners of her eyes being lighter on one side and darker on the other, as they would be under directional light) about whether she is facing toward or away from you. In any given “freeze frame” of the rotation her position could plausibly be either.

Without these visual cues, the brain fills in whatever information it needs to build (what it believes is) an internally consistent image.

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Diana Adams Reply:
January 20th, 2010 at 7:00 pm

Oh My Gosh… ok, by looking at it in my periphery, I got her to spin in the other direction just long enough for me to notice it, then she went right back to a clockwise spin. I’m so happy that for a moment she switched! Now I don’t feel like the only one that couldn’t make her change. Haha! Thank you very much for this.

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Bevan Bird Reply:
February 3rd, 2010 at 4:34 am

Oops. My mistake. I read your comment Rich Demanowski. Then I tried the periphery thing. All I had to do was look at it out of the corner of my eye, and then I could imagine somethin spinning whichever way I want. Turn back to look at it straight on, and it stays going whichever way you picked.

Then I tried it again. And this stopped working.
But then I tried skipping it to different sections. Then, you lose track of the cycle (it’s broken) and you can choose the direction somewhat by visualizing her spinning whichever way in your mind’s eye in the interval before the video resumes at the new cue. Thanks Marisol Ferreira for that tip! Oh, yeah, if that doesn’t work for you, try spinning a finger on one of your hands in the direction you want at the same time as thinking it. That makes the intention stronger.

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It’s strange, the first time I saw it, it was anti clockwise, and since then it’s been clockwise and I’ve not been able to change it’s direction. It’s strange because my day job uses my left brain quite a lot. Maybe it’s taking a rest.

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i see her spinning clockwise, which is strange because I am an engineer… maybe that explains why i like to design jewelry on the weekends

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The video had me crazy for a while b/c I was always seeing her going anti-clockwise… which was strange… I’m such a right-side brain person .. but I finally got to see her going clockwise by selecting different parts of the video randomly.
Great article! You always chose very interesting topics. Well done.

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You don’t need to concentrate to make her turn the other way. Notice that at 3:24 It says counter clockwise. Then she start turning the other way. It’s a big scam!
That was fun, people.

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Mary Reply:
February 3rd, 2010 at 4:27 am

I don’t think so… just saw the video again, and at any given point of the video (before 3:24) if you look away for a sec and look back again, your perception of the image will change, clockwise, anti-clockwise…

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Bevan Bird Reply:
February 3rd, 2010 at 5:15 am

Yeah you’re right. I made a mistake the first time. Then I read some comments, and it started to work. I put another comment replying to Diana Adams, replying to Rich Demanowski.
Interestingly enough, after all the thinking and typing the comment, I started to see it turning the opposite way from what I thought was my dominant side. (First it was CW, then CCW later).
Now, to make it switch… I realized that what prevents it from switching is that you create a model of the model in your head and make it seem real, once you do that you are screwed; you will find it hard to reverse the direction because you believe a solid object is spinning and that momentum will logically keep it going the same way.
So I achieved it this last time by abolishing the notion that the model is solid and real. Just go “it’s only a flat image, not real at all.” and don’t think of it spinning any more. You can close your eyes or look away or skip the video to a different spot. Then before you look, start remembering it spinning, but choose the direction before you visualize it. Now when you see it, it’ll go that way. It doesn’t necessarily work every time.
Does that work for anybody else?

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Diana Adams Reply:
February 3rd, 2010 at 7:45 am

Haha! This video messes with your head, doesn’t it? I know what you mean.

Good one. I started by seeing her clockwise. My husband started by seeing her anticlockwise. I was able to change to anticlockwise by looking at foot. He was able to change to clockwise but less easily.

Very interesting topic.

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Thanks for this Diana! I also think I’m fairly left- and right-brained and when I’ve done this in the past I’ve been able to get her to switch quite well, but this time around it’s much harder to get her to switch, or to stay turning anti-clockwise. Guess I need to go back to the Sudoku!!

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I think I use none of them! lol As soon as I start using them I’ll let you know!!

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I could only see clockwise at first, then stared at the shadow of her foot until she changed direction (took a tip from one of the YouTube comments). Then, I couldn’t see her going clockwise anymore. Interesting post. Thanks.

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[...] When I was young I went to a special school for creative children, but on the other hand, I can do my own business accounting and taxes. Do you notice those differences in yourself also? We all have bits of both inside of us. One is not better than the other. At this point in my life, I think my right brain outweighs my left brain by 3 to 1. If you would like to learn more about this, you can read an article I wrote on the topic here. [...]

[...] When I was young I went to a special school for creative children, but on the other hand, I can do my own business accounting and taxes. Do you notice those differences in yourself also? We all have bits of both inside of us. One is not better than the other. At this point in my life, I think my right brain outweighs my left brain by 3 to 1. If you would like to learn more about this, you can read an article I wrote on the topic here. [...]

My mother told me that I was ambidextrous from birth and as a toddler “experimented” with crayoning both left-handed and right-handed. One day she saw me switching back and forth with a crayon. I settled on right-handed and have written with my right hand ever since (except a few days following a sprained thumb). But I swing a baseball bat lefty, unlock doors with the key in my left hand, and can do several things (eg, use a screwdriver) almost equally well with either.

Sure enough, I saw the dancer spin anti-clockwise, but after focusing and unfocusing my eyes a couple of times she was very clearly spinning clockwise. (A few pints of Guinness and I might see her jump up & down!)

I have a BA in English, but I’m also good at math and enjoy using technology. I have a feeling there’s a connection. My mind may be a little quirky, but my brain hemispheres seem pretty evenly balanced.

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Wow, this is amazing post. I had to re-view the video like 2 times.

I am right side.. agree all the facts provided are true LOL

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