Gray Matter

Ann, I think the video example you provided is excellent. I viewed the dancer as rotating counter-clockwise, which I guess means I use more of my left brain. I even tried doing mental math but couldn’t make myself see the rotation in the opposite direction. You know what though? I’m actually left-handed. This leaves me really thinking about how much I’m actually in my “right brain”, lol!

Great article Ann. You always get me to think! :) For some unknown reason, I got the girl to spin both directions a couple of times. Have no idea how I did that! lol

The strangest thing happened while I was trying to get her to spin counter clockwise.. I giant pole appeared! I wonder what brain made that happen?

Great article! Of course, my left brain required me to step through your article and attached quizzes and videos in the order they are presented. Very interesting. This will come as no surprise to you, but I did not score very many points on the left/right quiz. I’m guessing that it may take me quite a while (if ever) to get the spinning woman to go clockwise.

OK, I’ve spent exactly 27 minutes on this. I must get back on task for the day.

BTW - I like your new website.

I think this is REALLY cool. I’m not yet out in the world for a job or career but I LOVE softball and math. The dancer was flipping back adn fort so fast I was getting dizzy!! I have alot of simmalarites with my friends in fact one of them is the one who told me to watch this video and i knew it wasnt like a trick because she couldnt get the dancer to switch directions till the end and mine was fliping all over the place!!

You say what it means when she turns one way or the other but you do not say what it means if she keeps switching directions. A friend emailed the spinning girl test from a different location and she kept changing direction. She would turn clockwise two or three times, then she would turn counter clockwise 2 or 3 times. If I tried to keep her turning the same direction, she would switch. So I did a google search to see if I could find more information and found this page. Your girl does the same thing but no mention of what it means when she keeps switching directions.

WOW! I watched the video all the way through but couldn’t seem to get it to spin left. Then another video, similar to the one you posted popped up that was longer, and what they did was add reverse shadow effect to give it either left or right spin perspectives. And, believe it or not after that when I watched the original video she was spinning left and I couldn’t seem to get it to spin right again (ha ha ha, go figure).

I always thought I functioned more balanced. I am an artist and a writer, I can be either emotional or stoic, prefer structure in some things and not in others. I first look for similarities, like in puzzles, but after a couple of minutes I immediately start finding the differences, and by the time I am almost finished I am using both simultaneously.

In the first test I took, the only clear answers I could give were to the first: Which is the right-brained, prefer demonstrated instructions: And, I prefer ranked over collegial authority structures. Everything else was evenly split. Heck, I even organize my closet according to color, then shirts, skirts, and pants, and other things like organizing my movie collection can start by release date, later be redone based on the leading man or woman, and then again by genre. I often find myself redoing these things over and over because at one time I prefer it one way, and later I change my mind. I think I need to build a better bridge between the two hemispheres or figure out how to get both sides to work together more proficiently (wow, I just realized I waste a lot of time trying to find the balance between the two, there has got to be a better way).

You are not “left” or “right”, you are both. There is no one side. This is utter nonsense, and has already been debunked.

Will someone please answer

That’s so cool Hannah. How did you get it to flip around? I couldn’t get it to do that.