Survey: Spinning Clockwise or Counter-Clockwise?

[GCam]

This is slightly unscientific...I'm the only female that's
participated so far. Come on girls! I'd like to see how we do. It
looks like the guys are all evenly balanced.

Pam: It may be that we are muddled rather than balanced, not knowing r from l or up from down.

It's fairly easy to get the leg to swing. Follow the foot to either side, 90 degrees from center and focus the eyes there. The foot will stop and start back the other direction; follow it with gaussian blurred eyes to the other side and focus there and it will reverse direction. George

 

[selwynbr]

Maybe they reversed this line in their article!

Or maybe I don't know myself as well as I should!

 

[Mike Warren]

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Clockwise initially, until I read the words at the top:
"Survey Spinning Clockwise or Counter-Clockwise?", then it goes CCW.

My theory was that if you do something that requires thinking then it changes based on what your brain is doing. If I eat something, then it goes Clockwise...

Try this:
Make your right foot move in a Clockwise Circle-keep doing this.
While you are doing this, make your right hand draw an 8 over and over.



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[Cherilyn]

But I have to concentrate to see the clockwise rotation; counter-clockwise is my initial or comfortable perception.

If you are having trouble getting the rotation to "switch" in your mind, zoom in, then scroll until you only see below the knees; it's easier to visualize the desired path, and to keep that pattern in mind as you scroll back up the page to view the entire image.

Cherilyn

 

[Junk Yard Dog]

She goes both ways. She changes at random. I can't make her do it, she just does.

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[elboertie2]

She only swings clockwise for me (mind the pun).

Here are three screenshots that I took in order of time.

In the first image, she is facing left and towards us, with her right arm bend, and her left arm straight. You can also see her right hip bone, which is a bit to the front of the body and will cast a silhouette at that angle.

If you state that in this image she is facing left, but away from us, then why does she not have a left buttocks?

In the second image - in the forward direction of time - she still faces left, still with her left arm straight. The strange thing about this image, however, is that she only shows one arm; the bending arm should show both the hand and/or the elbow.

The third image - following on from the second image in time - she faces to the right and away from us. You can see that the right arm is still bend, the raised foot is further away and shown higher.



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[CUSIN BRUCIE]

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I notice that if you look at the outer leg you can see her change direction. Very good optical illusion Mike.

Thanks for the challange.
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[ratherbsouth]

Kate... I am exactly the opposite of you... it wants to dominate counterclockwise for me till I look below the right corner, then it switches clockwise in my peripheral vision. The more I try to make it switch, the dizzier I get

 

[Daviskw]

Very strongly clockwise…I’ve known for years I was half brain dead… hmmm I am also very strongly left handed…I wonder how that ties in.

Butch

 

[Conrad Birdie]

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I notice that if you look at the outer leg you can see her change
direction. Very good optical illusion Mike.

Thanks for the challange.
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Try this.

Follow the outer foot with your finger on it. When the outer foot hits the left hand side, follow it with your finger going in a clock wise direction.

Now, when the outer foot hits the RIGHT HAND side, put your finger tip on it, and make a counter-clockwise motion.

See if that works for you.
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[Koosla]

I easily see it clockwise; with concentration and tricks, I can see it counter-clockwise, but it changes back to clockwise at the slightest distration.

I seriously doubt the article's conclusion about it (or if the left/right brain stuff makes any scientific sense at all), though I'm aware that we don't necessarily think about ourselves objectively enough.

 

[Peano]

Also despite what pop psychology and authors have made out of brain
lateralization, the actual science doesn't back much of the myth.
Remember the 'seasons' for skin coloring - and the 'appropriate'
colors? That may even have more basis, but both sold books!

Ahhh, but you aren't telling the whole story. The brain geography of "lateralization" -- left brain / right brain -- proved mistaken, yes. But the two kinds of mental activity denoted by those terms are no myth. They are categorically, qualitatively different ways that we all "think."

"Left brain" processes are linear, sequential, logical, linguistic. "Right brain" processes are none of those; they are pictorial, intuitive -- all the things we cannot translate into language.

The spinning woman is an example. We can talk about that image till we're blue in the face, but we'll never be able to say what is happening when that mental ("right brain") shift occurs and she appears to change direction. There are, of course, many similar Gestalt puzzles.

Are we looking up at this box attached to the ceiling? Or down at it attached to the floor? Answer: both.



Do we see two faces in silhouette, or one goblet? Both.



And old woman, or a young woman? Both.



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[imqqmi]

After a while I can change direction at will

Just switch looking with one eye then the other at the moment the leg disappears behind the other. Doing this a few times changes direction. While looking at the shadow it always turns anti clockwise.

Thanks for sharing
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[aussiekate]

Im a leftie too, maybe you're on to something there......

Kate.

 

[aruzinsky]

I suspect there is conflicting rather than ambiguous information about a 3D object that could produce the silhouette. I also believe the "wacky" news story is a lie. Where are the citations to scientific papers?

Regarding any 3D figure potentially producing the silhouette (not through a mirror), when the shadow/reflection of the orbiting foot appears, the most likely position of the foot is in the semiorbit behind the body. This suggests counter clockwise rotation.

If you see clockwise without a mirror and counter clockwise through a mirror, this may be evidence that the main silhouette has size information of clockwise rotation. (Parts moving toward the observer appear to grow in size.)

Thus, there may possibly be conflicting information between the silhouettes of the main figure and the shadow/reflection.
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[efg40]

That is so strange. When I first look at it, it's CCW, no matter how long I stare or try to visually make it otherwise. When I look away and look back, it turns CW, and no matter what I cannot make it otherwise, not even by looking away and back at it. Not even by scrolling down the page and reading others' answers and then looking back at it.

But when I come back to it later, it's the same thing all over again. CCW, then CW. Very strange!

Not really sure if it's indicating left vs right brained or something else. Probably knowing your traits is a better indicator. But this illusion is very strange.

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[Dasher]

I am also a lefty, but I also downloaded the image, and looked at it frame by frame. There are 34 frames. And it is also clockwise there.

 

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[Peano]

Not really sure if it's indicating left vs right brained or something
else. Probably knowing your traits is a better indicator. But this
illusion is very strange.

It isn't a matter of left-brained versus right-brained. This is just a plain old right-brain phenomenon. The shift you experience is one of those non-linguistic mental operations that have come to be called "right-brained."

I can't help being just a little amused at all the attempts to articulate what is happening here. A hallmark of right-brain processes (and a frustrating hallmark it can be) is that they cannot be reduced to language. The same goes for the other Gestalt puzzles I posted earlier.
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