Ach, now I can't.
I have to look away from the image, though, to make it change--or else (and so it's a brain thing) if I lose concentration she reverts...
....I can see her foot going around as I type...it's going anti-clockwise...and I can make it flip!
one thing happens and then the other: somehow the brain is choosing to see A before B; with the flip it sees B before A and the direction changes. Don't fight forces, use them R. Buckminster Fuller.
"Yep, definitely counter clockwise for me."
and there's a lone voice saying,
"Well I see it going clockwise." Don't fight forces, use them R. Buckminster Fuller.
I think that means you are so far to the left you're to the right, or you're so far to the right you're to the left, or, um, you grew up with clocks that ran backwards? Don't fight forces, use them R. Buckminster Fuller.
The only thing I really failed at in school was learning to tell time. (I grew up with digital clocks.) I stayed after school and cried in the 3rd grade because I just couldn't understand how to tell time. I failed a test. I had intensive all night study sessions with my father. Eventually I figured it out, but for a while everyone was freaking out because I was in all these gifted kids classes but couldn't tell time. It was my dirty little secret.
No clue if there is connection there.
I think my head might just be on wrong. "Pretending that you already know the answer when you don't is not actually very helpful." ~Migeru.
I saw an earlier comment about 3D pics. You can train your brain to see these things faster. If you give me a 3D pic I am able to see what it is in less than five seconds. I just simply go cross-eyed and stare through the picture, and let the rest assemble itself. I love them. I can do a similar thing with different patterns, like upholstery on an airplane seat (yep, I can make it 3D!!!) I used the same principle while looking at this spinning woman... and it works! She started switching, like a pendulum. Slaloming, really. Try it! "If you cannot say what you have to say in twenty minutes, you should go away and write a book about it." Lord Brabazon
Yes, I can do those 3D pictures easily too (once I figured them out), and I do the same with patterns!! Curtains, shadows, graphic patterns have provided hours of dissociative pastime for me. It's almost like pulling focus on a camera, really.
Yay. I'm not insane.
So, perhaps it has more to do with the ability to shift perspective (literally and figuratively) easily than with being "right" or "left" brained? Interestingly, I would associate that skill with the "creative" mind and not the "logical" one. "Pretending that you already know the answer when you don't is not actually very helpful." ~Migeru.
Easily shifting focus is probably well said. I think it might be caused by easier communication between left and right brain that women have (the corpus callosum works better for us, apparently. Migeru reminded me of my psychology classes ;), credit to him.)
So maybe this little experiment shows that we are actually using both sides of the brain fairly well??? :) (Nothing wrong with a bit of ego-boosting on this apparently very right-brained blog... LOL) "If you cannot say what you have to say in twenty minutes, you should go away and write a book about it." Lord Brabazon
Scientific proof that this site has a male bias? lol.
So maybe this little experiment shows that we are actually using both sides of the brain fairly well???
Like I said, I'm going with "ambi-cerebral." (I thought I'd just made up this term, but some googling -yes, I can google, Mig- reveals its previous, though I suspect illegitimate, existence.) "Pretending that you already know the answer when you don't is not actually very helpful." ~Migeru.
The fact that Chris noticed--after having no doubt read and commented on economic this and financial that--explains his reaction to the image.
The fact that those who have looked have tried to see it spinning the other way shows we are eager to learn.
The fact that more than one of us suspected that the image had been manipulated in some way shows that some of us have a latent susception to conspiracy theories.
Which we will try and debunk, of course. Don't fight forces, use them R. Buckminster Fuller.
Don't fight forces, use them R. Buckminster Fuller.
i see it both ways. depending ont hem oment ... it is very nice..
but again is about the primary visual cortex... and noone is so stupid to claim that it has to do with something about the right or left brain...
a pleasure I therefore claim to show, not how men think in myths, but how myths operate in men's minds without their being aware of the fact. Levi-Strauss, Claude
Here's another optical illusion.
And here's one that is definitely (they say) "right brain/left brain".
Hidden Face Illusion - Optical Illusion
Can you find the human face which is hidden in these coffee beans? Doctors have concluded that if you can find the face in the coffee beans in 3 seconds, the right half of your brain is better developed than most people. If you find the face between 3 seconds and 1 minute, your right half of the brain is developed normally. If you find the face between 1 minute and 3 minutes, then the right half of your brain is functioning slowly and you need to eat more protein. If you have not found the face after 3 minutes, the advice is to look for more of this type of exercise to make that part of the brain stronger!
Can you find the human face which is hidden in these coffee beans?
Doctors have concluded that if you can find the face in the coffee beans in 3 seconds, the right half of your brain is better developed than most people. If you find the face between 3 seconds and 1 minute, your right half of the brain is developed normally. If you find the face between 1 minute and 3 minutes, then the right half of your brain is functioning slowly and you need to eat more protein. If you have not found the face after 3 minutes, the advice is to look for more of this type of exercise to make that part of the brain stronger!
I'd say it took me about a minute and yes: there really is a face in amongst those beans! Don't fight forces, use them R. Buckminster Fuller.
it is really amazing research...
I got oa two hour fullt reatment about brain implication of this kind of visual perceptions..a dn the reaction times to them...
And I have also read simialr things ina ntrhopology about presenting the same kind of visual percetpion to different cultures with other learnt parametres of perception...
really amazing
A pleasure I therefore claim to show, not how men think in myths, but how myths operate in men's minds without their being aware of the fact. Levi-Strauss, Claude
And your diary about magic, of course. Don't fight forces, use them R. Buckminster Fuller.
this is a good way to start..a s good as any other
http://www.weizmann.ac.il/brain/images/ImageGallery.html
or..
http://64.233.183.104/search?q=cache:yAGF13wXIA4J:www.dandavidprize.org/pr/2004_EnglishGrinvald0404. doc+weizmann+institute+brain+research+amiram&hl=en&ct=clnk&cd=3&client=opera
A pleasrue I therefore claim to show, not how men think in myths, but how myths operate in men's minds without their being aware of the fact. Levi-Strauss, Claude
you are the media you consume.
We are told there's a face hidden, so we find it?
Is everyone seeing the same face?
Seeing the damn thing also rather depends on the state of your eyesight and the quality of your screen... Mine are dimmer than they used to be... ;)
Only in the comment thread does the poster claim "Doctors have concluded etc...", and gives no source or reference to back the claim.
gee.. I should shut up sometimes :)
There was a Clash single, Tommy Gun...
Maybe I've got the wrong single, but there was one--I'm sure it was by the Clash--and when you shook the cover the words smeared off the page!
How does it work?
hint: the brain hates ambiguity
I must have a strange mind. :) 'It depends on which research report you read,'says Hattie, 'and sorry about this, but I do tend to believe the ones that suit me.'
