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Topic: Are you right or left brained?

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Re: Are you right or left brained?

RIGHT BRAIN FUNCTIONS

uses feeling
"big picture" oriented
imagination rules
symbols and images
present and future
philosophy & religion
can "get it" (i.e. meaning)
believes
appreciates
spatial perception
knows object function
fantasy based
presents possibilities
impetuous
risk taking


That's what I got today, anyway. It seems to switch with me. I once did an involved brain test and the result was "equi-brained", but I suppose I'm right-brain dominant lately. No surprise, really, considering what's going on with consciousness right now.

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Re: Are you right or left brained?

95% Right brain for me, very hard for me to see her go anticlockwise  which is odd as it goes against the other test i recently saw which if your third finger is longer than your index finger means you are supposed to have a typical "male" brain which mine are so dominated by left brain thinking and logic smile

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Re: Are you right or left brained?

She starts off clockwise, then goes anticlockwise then clockwise again....

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Re: Are you right or left brained?

I saw that, too, Blue. I think they were messing with us... smile

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  • Registered: 2004-04-21

Re: Are you right or left brained?

I think so, too, after seeing this posted at another forum.  Even though I stared at it a long time it took several more tries before I caught the figure changing directions.

  • Registered: 2006-09-28

Re: Are you right or left brained?

Blue wrote:

She starts off clockwise, then goes anticlockwise then clockwise again....

Yeah, it's a gimmick.

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  • Registered: 2007-07-06

Re: Are you right or left brained?

Man! that kinda bugged me.  I saw it counter- clockwise, but when I looked at the text next to it, it changed rotation in my peripheral vision and stayed clockwise when I went back to look at it.  It kept changing.  I didn't like the feeling.

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9 Reply by Sowelu (edited by Sowelu 2007-10-10 19:06:41)

  • Registered: 2005-06-26

Re: Are you right or left brained?

*heehee* I cannot make the image go counter-clockwise, not if my life depended on it. But I also know that it has to do with my current brain function, not some manipulation outside of me. Each who sees it move in both directions, that's your powers of perception, fluctuating between the two hemispheres of your brain. That's the whole point.

"The most important decision you have to make is whether you live in a hostile or friendly universe."
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  • Registered: 2007-07-30

Re: Are you right or left brained?

Right brained.  I can't make it go the other way no matter how hard I try.  This is frustrating.

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  • Registered: 2007-04-10

Re: Are you right or left brained?

I don't quite understand; if you just watch it long enough it will change direction itself. As hermit brad said its a gimmick.

  • Registered: 2005-06-26

Re: Are you right or left brained?

I watched it again just now, steady, for 3 solid minutes... and it remained a clockwise animation. How long is "long enough"?

"The most important decision you have to make is whether you live in a hostile or friendly universe."
~ Albert Einstein

The real voyage of discovery consists not in seeking new landscapes, but in having new eyes. ~Marcel Proust

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  • Registered: 2005-06-26

Re: Are you right or left brained?

I saved the gif file and checked, it's a 34 frame animation, and slow or fast, it moves only one way for me. I really do feel that the point is that your brain will see it moving in a clockwise direction when you're right-brain focused, and you'll see it move counter clockwise when you're left-brained focused. And this kind of brain focusing can change second by second or not at all, it all depends on your brain.

But hey... I could be wrong, I suppose. I didn't create the thing. heh heh

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~ Albert Einstein

The real voyage of discovery consists not in seeking new landscapes, but in having new eyes. ~Marcel Proust

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  • Registered: 2007-04-10

Re: Are you right or left brained?

The first time I watched it it switched almost automatically. Second time I had to sit there for awhile just to make sure what I was seeing was correct and ya it will eventually change. I'm not sure exactly how long it will take though it varied for myself.

15 Reply by Sowelu (edited by Sowelu 2007-10-11 13:00:35)

  • Registered: 2005-06-26

Re: Are you right or left brained?

I guess what I'm wondering, Auscastian, is how you are certain that the change you see is caused by the object you're viewing, rather than the perceptions of your two-hemisphere brain viewing it?

If the image changed exactly the same way each time, that would be a way to determine that the change is "artificial". If it changed in a seemingly random pattern, but consistently the same "random" pattern, that would be another artificial tell (and... for everyone who viewed it, btw). But that doesn't seem to be the case here. What I sense is that it changes with the viewer's brain shifting from right to left brain mental patterns. In other words, it's an illusion that it changes at all.

Similar in concept to these illusions:

http://sowelu.seibernet.com/checker-shadow-illusion.jpeg

Both A and B are the same color in the above image.


Or this one, which studies suggest will be seen differently based on life experience and memory:

http://sowelu.seibernet.com/dolphin-illusion.jpg

Do you see 9 dolphins or something else in the jar above?


Or this one, specifically targeted at the left/right brain phenomenon:

http://sowelu.seibernet.com/say-the-color-not-the-word.gif

(In this last one, for instance, I have no trouble at all saying the color, not the word. But it's a little more work for me to say the word and ignore the color. Tends to indicate right brain dominant, but not to a debilitating level.)

"The most important decision you have to make is whether you live in a hostile or friendly universe."
~ Albert Einstein

The real voyage of discovery consists not in seeking new landscapes, but in having new eyes. ~Marcel Proust

The evolution of humanity is an evolution of the heart. The path is through the heart.