Are you right brained oriented or left brained oriented?

[Bap]

I'm left handed, so I know that tends to steer me to the right side of my brain... xD

[animewarrior]

First Quiz:
70% Right Brained
30% Left Brained

heh. I kinda like to be organized...(ALPHABETIZATION lol) but I CANNOT LIVE without my MUSIC and I FAIL at math. I kinda figured it would say right brained. ^^

And the second quiz said Right Brained lol. I AM ALWAYS LATE (usually 5 - 10 minutes)

[Warrior4Christ]

Left-brained. :p

I match your observation and raise you the following:
Dancer

I'm right-brained by this.

How.. can that possibly change direction? I can't get it to go anything other than clockwise. I thought I was supposed to be left brained...
DOES NOT COMPUTE! Also, the shadow looks a bit broken...

[Hana Ryuuzaki]

[font="palatino Linotype"]*is confused* Can you be both right- AND left-brained?

I'm artistic, but I'm good a persuasion, and I'm REALLY bad at math, but...yeah.

I took the test on BT.

I'm apparently 75% Right-brained and 25% Left-Brained.

But when we were doing drawing on the Right side of the Brain in Art, I had problems with it. I'm a perfectionist to a degree with my drawing.

Everything else could be a mess, but my drawing has to be immaculate...

*shrugs shoulders*[/font]

[wingedfox]

70% right brained and 30% left
which works I hate having to follow a schedual and keep things neat looking if i can find what i'm looking for my room's fine....but I do hate being the last person to show up for somthing (though that seems to be my curse XD)

[rii namuras]

[color="Red"](In regards to the dancer test... I can't figure out how she'd be going anti-clockwise. So that means I'm completely right brained?)[/color]

[LadyRushia]

Hmm, I can see the dancer going both ways.

[Angel Tifa]

[font="palatino Linotype"]*is confused* Can you be both right- AND left-brained?

I'm artistic, but I'm good a persuasion, and I'm REALLY bad at math, but...yeah.

I took the test on BT.

I'm apparently 75% Right-brained and 25% Left-Brained.

But when we were doing drawing on the Right side of the Brain in Art, I had problems with it. I'm a perfectionist to a degree with my drawing.

Everything else could be a mess, but my drawing has to be immaculate...

*shrugs shoulders*[/font]

I think you're naturally one or the other first, but I also think you can definateley be both at the same time if you really trained yourself to be.

I also read in an article a long time ago that elementary through high school teachers usually have to be trained to be both sided so they can help teach students through their different learning styles.

What I think is that in the end you're naturally one or the other, but you can get better with the other side of your brain. I've noticed this too when I was taking my math classes. My tutor told me that over time my math skills have improved . Even though learning math does not come so easy with me XD.

I also noticed that I have some characteristics of my left side of the brain (ie I'm detail oriented, analytical, and obective), but I posess way more characteristics of the right side of my brain so therefore I'm more rightbrained .

So I beleive if I really needed to I could eventually train myself to be both, but in the end I'm always gonna be naturally right brained first .

[ADXC]

First I saw the dancer going clockwise, then once I minimized the screen and then maximized it again she was going counter-clockwise. Its not anti, its counter. But I quess you could say it either way.

[ADXC]

Actually whenever I stared at the dancer it would be going clockwise, but when I started reading the words beside the picture it would go counter. Try and see if that works.

[Debitt]

The dancer keeps switching directions on me. Should I be troubled? XD

[Kaligraphic]

Yes. You should be very, very troubled.


And I'm supposedly left-brained, but at the same time 60% right-brained. Of course, the old rule of thumb is that it's simply the side opposite your dominant hand, but that doesn't make for very interesting quizzes.

As for the dancer, I don't see her turning at all - I see her facing either toward me or away from me. Away is dominant, because of the relative sizes of the legs.

[Sammy Boy]

Blogthings says I'm 50/50. Quzilla has me as left brained.

[rii namuras]

First I saw the dancer going clockwise, then once I minimized the screen and then maximized it again she was going counter-clockwise. Its not anti, its counter. But I guess you could say it either way.

[color="Red"](Ummm, I'm pretty sure only Americans say "counter." At the very least in the UK [and by extension, Hong Kong, where I live], and New Zealand [going off of my New Zealander English teacher] it's "anti".)[/color]

[Valkaiser]

In regards to the dancer linked earlier. Clockwise/Counter-Clockwise in reference to which plane? What I mean is, are we looking at the floor, which would make a right turn for the dancer be clockwise? Or are we looking at the ceiling, which would make the dancer's right turn be counter-clockwise? I can only get the dancer to rotate to her right...

[Cognitive Gear]

I've taken tests similar to these, in which I found that I use both sides equally. As for the dancer, what happens to me is usually the following:

When I focus on the dancer, she moves clockwise. When focusing on anything else, she turns counter-clockwise.

In regards to the dancer linked earlier. Clockwise/Counter-Clockwise in reference to which plane? What I mean is, are we looking at the floor, which would make a right turn for the dancer be clockwise? Or are we looking at the ceiling, which would make the dancer's right turn be counter-clockwise? I can only get the dancer to rotate to her right...

I believe that it is based as if there were a clock on the floor facing upwards.

[mechana2015]

25% left 75% right, by blogthing and the dancer.

[uc pseudonym]

Left-brained. :p

I match your observation and raise you the following:
Dancer

I'm right-brained by this.

According to this, I'm ridiculously right-brained: I would go so far as to say the dancer is going clockwise. Objectively. Everyone who can see it the other way, help me understand. The body parts always appear on the right side, so how can she be turning to her left?

[Radical Dreamer]

Left-brained. :p

I match your observation and raise you the following:
Dancer

I'm right-brained by this.

That dancer totally switches directions. Seriously. I watched it for a good five minutes, and saw it turn clockwise until I scrolled down the page, when I literally saw the .gif flash and it started going counter-clockwise. I continued to watch it, and it flashed and began turning clockwise again.

That thing has to be rigged. XDDD

[rocklobster]

I believe I must be right-brained. After all, I'm a southpaw, which means that the right part of my brain is probably largely dominant. (The whole crisscross rule: The right part of the brain controls your left half of your body and vice versa)

[Raiden no Kishi]

The dancer switches directions for me. I think I'm broken. Oh dear my brain is fjoilrgnk,sidkfnlkgl. . .

.rai//

[shade of dae]

If you know the basic character traits of left-brain and right-brain people, you might as well replace every single question on the quiz with "Are you left-brained or right-brained?"

Actually, I was about to say the same thing. I took the quizzes and answered them honestly anyways, and these were the results.

Quizilla: Right-brained
Blogthings: 60% right-brained and 40% left-brained
Dancer: She's definitely going clockwise.

[Sae-chan]

Hmmm...

The Blogthing said I was 55% left brained, while I was 45% right brained. The Quizilla said I was right brained, though. Hmmm... What to choose?

Personally, I like to think of myself as right-brained. I'm very visual-oriented; on the other hand, though, I am kind of left-brained, because I like things that make logical sense.

Huh. Strange. ^^ I'll just say I'm both.

[Conner999]

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According to this, I'm ridiculously right-brained: I would go so far as to say the dancer is going clockwise. Objectively. Everyone who can see it the other way, help me understand. The body parts always appear on the right side, so how can she be turning to her left?

I'll try to help.


Here are some quick mousedraws (pardon quality, I don't care to make them look awesome. =P) I'd make an animation if I was on my PC, but I'm not, so here are some pictures.

All I did to these was color them in. The first one is the "blank." No features, so you cannot determine which way she is facing for sure, you can only percieve the rotation one way or the other based on her features and which way your brain says they are moving based on what you observe.









This second picture is the one you are seeing in your mind, her right leg is sticking out and she is spinning clockwise. Correct?









How can anyone see it any other way? This is what I will try to show you with the following image. It is the exact same pose, but with an "inverted" posture. Instead of her right leg leading the spin, it is her LEFT leg. Look:







Does this help? =)




Personally I saw her rotating clockwise and didn't see her rotating counterclockwise for a minute of focusing on her features because I had in my mind that the object was 3D. Once I was able to flip it and understand how it worked though, it got easy, and I was able to control my perception and flip the rotation any way I wanted on command, even rotate in a "figure 8". (Like she was doing low-crescent kicks with each leg back and forth.)

I went so far as to see if I could cross my eyes to see two dancers, and force them to rotate in OPPOSITE directions. It took a minute, but I got it to work. I was also able to make one dancer rotate while the other one turned in place back and forth without completely spinning around.

Does that mean I can use both sides of my brain at the same time, independently?


As far as the quizzes go, one said I was right brained, while the other said I was 40% left, 60% right. I have strong traits of either side though. I am very logical in the way I think about things, and I lean toward artistic pursuits. I am ambidexterous in some ways, except for the things I have trained only my right hand to do, so my right hand is more dominant, while there are a few things my left is more coordinated with. (Playing piano probably helps.)

My right eye is also more dominant because I have trained it to be. For example, I am a photographer, and 95% of the time I use my right eye to look through the camera lense because it is not as comfortable for me to press my left eye against the eyepiece due to the shape of my camera. But I can use either. Sometimes I use both eyes at the same time while taking a picture. I focus through the lense with my right eye, and look around with my left eye that is not blocked by the camera, or look through the lense with my left eye and look behind me with my right eye by looking into the reflective surface on the back of my camera. (I work with 2 other photographers so I have to keep an eye out sometimes so I don't block their shots.)

Someone tried testing my eye dominance once, with things like those "point at something and close one eye" tests. Sometimes my left eye was dominant, sometimes my right eye was dominant. It also depended on which arm I used when doing tests like the pointing one.

I am a musician, a dancer, an artist, an actor, a writer, a teacher, a vocalist, and a gamer. I do my best to balance my skills and teach or train myself in areas I am weak. I homeschooled myself for more than 10 years, so I have a lot of experience teaching myself at my own pace. The way I see it, you can train yourself to be whichever you want to be, left handed or right handed, left brained or right brained, outgoing or introverted, and so on. Some people are born with a steep inclination toward either side however, and there are obviously also handicaps. I am not sure how the extremes in those situations work, I don't have a lot of experience with that.[/SIZE]

[uc pseudonym]

Does this help? =)

It's interesting, at the very least. I understand the principle (that a person must see the back as the front) but it still looks clockwise to me no matter how many times I see it. Out of curiosity I took some snapshots of the process throughout - some of them seem as though they could be logically going counterclockwise, but in the majority I don't think there's room for interpretation.

What's strange about this is that I'm a left-brained person by other standards, though generally fairly balanced. A straw poll at my office here suggests that we're either very scattered or the test measure something else. In any case, I think I've spent enough time on this.

[GeneD]

I'm left brained too and I see her going clockwise. If I concentrate I can make her go the other way, but only for a short while.

I can also make her stop turning...

Oh wait, that's just my slow internet connection.

[Conner999]

[SIZE="2"]If I had my PC, I could make a slow animation for you with features drawn on the figure to show the counterclockwise rotation. But I guess by the time I get my PC back, you wont care so much anymore, heh.[/SIZE]