Right brain, left brain...?

[desperance]

Ganked from nineweaving:

This is intriguing.

For me, she was absolutely going clockwise and there was no question about it, which makes me right-brained, which was something of a surprise because when I do verbal tests I always come out entirely the other way; but I was running my eye down the list of left-brain characteristics just to confirm I hadn't got muddled (again), so only watching her in peripheral vision - and suddenly, yup, she'd turned around and was going anticlockwise. And then I could shift her at will, one way or the other. Such fun.

Comments

[cakmpls.livejournal.com]

To me, she's going clockwise, and I can't make her go the other way, though usually with things that can be seen two ways I can make the shift.

[pogodragon.livejournal.com]

I've seen this a couple of times before - but never with the left/right side of the brain thing attached to it.

I cannot get her to switch direction at all, she goes clockwise for me, whatever I do.

[fidelioscabinet.livejournal.com]

Maybe you're both--some people are balanced between the two.

[norilanabooks.livejournal.com]

How amazing! This thing is changing direction for me from clockwise to counter-clockwise almost every time I blink...

PS - congratulations on your Lace and Blade story! :-)

[shewhomust.livejournal.com]

I'm a bit suspicious of this, as so many people seem to be saying that they see her going clockwise, and that they don't usually get "right-brain" results in tests. (And yes, I'm one of them; with the added twist that I managed to switch to anticlockwise just once, and now can't do it again).

[desperance.livejournal.com]

Mmm, everybody I've seen is reporting clockwisedness, while the article says that's rare. I shall probably accord it as much real-life veracity as I do to, oh, all those quizzes that tell me what Star Trek creature I actually am. But it's still fun.

[spaceoperadiva.livejournal.com]

It's very clockwise for me. The only way for me to see it widdershins is to catch it in my peripheral vision. Both of the child-units see it switching back and forth.

[durham-rambler.livejournal.com]

Well, I first saw it anti-clockwise which I suppose fits me, or at least the ideal of me. The way I got it to switch to clockwise was to look at the foot that's in the air and imagine it going in front of the body rather than behind it.

[julesjones]

Put me down as another clockwise in spite of normally coming out as left-brained on tests.

[beckyzoole.livejournal.com]

Clockwise, and I couldn't make it change until I tried the peripheral vision thing suggested by resar. She stayed at counter-clockwise only until I blinked - and then she was going clockwise again.

[mantichore.livejournal.com]

Saw her going very clockwise first. Then turned my eyes away, and when I looked again, she was going counter-clockwise. Then she seemed to switch again, as I was watching. Very strange.