The Right Brain vs Left Brain test … do you see the dancer turning clockwise or anti-clockwise?
You have to click through on the link above to see it. Please do so before continuing to read.
To me at first it was clearly going clockwise. I had my wife come over and look at it and she saw it going counterclockwise. She was very skeptical it could be perceived as being any other way.
She asked what that meant. As I was reading the list to her, a very left brain activity, to my surprise I saw out of the corner of my eye that the dancer had changed direction. It stayed that way until I started to surmise how the thing works and bingo! it starting going clockwise again.
My wife’s niece is visiting and she also saw it change direction. Eventually so did my wife.
This is a very clear proof that consciousness colors perception.
For another perspective on this:
October 16, 2007 at 9:17 am
For me she changes direction to match the column I read of the left / right brain description on the side. Interesting.
October 16, 2007 at 9:18 am
She was going backwards, or anti-clockwise when I first got there. Then I read the part about changing direction and I looked to the side of the page and she changed. When she goes clockwise it feels like she is going forward and I feel more comfortable.
October 16, 2007 at 10:36 am
Thanks for the link. I like showing my class illusions that demonstrate how our brains often fill in things that aren’t there, based on our expectations.
October 16, 2007 at 1:20 pm
If you check the Categories on my blog, there is one for Illusions.
Check it out and if you have any good ones I don’t have, please share. :-)
October 17, 2007 at 9:41 am
Is this gonna Kill You? No i Dont Think so !
October 20, 2007 at 11:03 am
Hare Krsna! My obeisances. Kindly look up the article “I am not these senses”, by Tamoharadasa, MS, archived on Dandavats, in regards to an analysis of the sensory capacities and some typical molecular-level interactions and resulting illusions arising from the interface of soul and material body.
In regards to this right brain left brain thing, I humbly suggest that a computer may have its components, but they don’t mean much until united to perform their mutual functions. The human brain is normally integrated, not split. Still, yes, very interesting in our inner analysis of our actual position to be able to step up, as it were, and view the whole mess from above, thus again demonstrating that we are not exactly these bodies.
Gauraharibol! All Glories to the Devotees!