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[camwyn]

Right-brain, left-brain perception? Or just eye dominance?

I totally see her going clockwise, for what that's worth.

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[badninja.livejournal.com]

I somehow read your post as saying you saw her going -both at the same time-, and was very confused.

I see clockwise, too.

[wal-lace.livejournal.com]

Huh. I see her going clockwise, but I fit the left brain profile exactly and the right brain profile not at all. I also can't see those magic eye pictures, though.

[mattador.livejournal.com]

Clockwise.

[blackjack-svr.livejournal.com]

I start out clockwise, but the second I read anything on the page she starts bouncing back and forth between clockwise and counter clockwise. It's kind of maddening.. I could swear the animation was rigged to switch.

[adiva_calandia]

Ditto. *headclutch*

[ebony14.livejournal.com]

Same here. That was weird. I stared at it for a good minute trying to shift my perception, and the minute I finished reading the text on the page, it shifted.

Excuse me, I have to check under my desk for Rod Serling....

[empy.livejournal.com]

I was utterly confused by the "Most of us would see the dancer turning anti-clockwise", because she went clockwise for me from the very start. I sat staring at her for a while to see if perhaps I wasn't focusing enough, but no, she still spun clockwise.

And then I figured out how to make her change direction at will and nearly gave myself a headache. (Ask nicely and I'll tell you how. *g*)

[tundra-no-caps.livejournal.com]

How?

I think those methods only work for some people.

I can switch her, but not at will, it takes some time and thinking till it happens.

She began clockwise to me, but spend a while in either direction by now.

[empy.livejournal.com]

Perhaps "at will" was a misleading term. I need to focus a bit to get her to switch. What I do is focus on her feet for a moment and then look up, and that makes her change direction. I was a bit flippant in my statement, I think, because the effort needed feels rather minor to me.

I think those methods only work for some people.
You're quite right. I should have expressed myself more clearly, but my brain is total mush right now because of a lack of sleep.

Started clockwise for me.

[spritelord.livejournal.com]

I found the same method independently, and it doesn't really feel like any effort at all to me either.

[derien.livejournal.com]

Yup, it was the feet for me, too.

[ymfaery]

...

Wow, how odd. She seems to randomly change direction if I look away briefly. O_oa

[calluna]

I can change her direction! :D

[lienne.livejournal.com]

O_o

Not only do I see her clockwise, I can't get her direction to change no matter how hard I try. I have no idea how it's even possible to look at her as going counterclockwise. Whoa.

[sophistry]

I saw her clockwise at first, and couldn't even begin to figure out how anyone could perceive her as going the other way. But then - yeah, once I stopped trying and let my eyes wander away across the page, or looked at her feet and then back, she switched to anticlockwise.

[butterflykiki.livejournal.com]

Clockwise, but I already knew I was left-brained; I got her to switch direction briefly, but then my brain re-asserted 'clock-wise' and it flipped back. It's not eye dominance, I don't think-- it happens no matter what eye I have open, or if I have both.

[eor.livejournal.com]

I saw her going clockwise, looked left at the descriptions, then looked back and she was going anti-clockwise. After a bit she switched back to clockwise.

Looking down at the reflection seems to help me switch, but I can't do it easily.

[paradisacorbasi.livejournal.com]

The very first time I looked at her she was going anti-clockwise.

But ever since, she goes clockwise, and I have to concentrate to get her to spin in the other direction.

[derien.livejournal.com]

I saw her going anti-clockwise for an instant, but as soon as I started to think about how she could be going clockwise she shifted and I to take a moment to figure out how to shift her back. (For me the trick is to look at her feet and say "Now it's in front/Now it's in back.") I guess that means I'm ambibrainious?