Taken from the Daily Telegraph website:The Right Brain vs Left Brain test ... do you see the dancer turning clockwise or anti-clockwise?
If clockwise, then you use more of the right side of the brain and vice versa.
Most of us would see the dancer turning anti-clockwise though you can try to focus and change the direction; see if you can do it.
LEFT BRAIN FUNCTIONSuses logic
detail oriented
facts rule
words and language
present and past
math and science
can comprehend
knowing
acknowledges
order/pattern perception
knows object name
reality based
forms strategies
practical
safe
RIGHT BRAIN FUNCTIONSuses feeling
"big picture" oriented
imagination rules
symbols and images
present and future
philosophy & religion
can "get it" (i.e. meaning)
believes
appreciates
spatial perception
knows object function
fantasy based
presents possibilities
impetuous
risk taking
My friend Macca showed me this just before lunch today. I saw it going clockwise, but my other friend, Cathy, kept seeing it changing directions. I tried to make it go anti-clockwise, but it stubbornly refused. I went to lunch and forgot about it.
After lunch, Macca told me that he'd discovered that you had to watch the legs to get it to change direction. And it worked! I got it to go anti-clockwise!
So now, instead of watching the dancer spin, I can make her pivot on the spot.