What Dominates Your Brain? Look at this image :)

Do you see the dancer turning clockwise or anti-clockwise?

This is supposed to be a Right Brain vs Left Brain test. The direction of the dancer's spin depends on which side of your brain is more dominant. I could only see it clockwise, it sometimes stops, then keeps going clockwise. Allegedly, if you concentrate you can make it spin the other way.

So, I decided to make an experiment and sat a room full of family and had them look at the image at the very same time, some began to say "clock wise" while others said "counter clockwise", but mom said "it switches back and forth". Dad said "you guys are kidding." Interesting!

Click on the image if it isn't spinning at all.

Full article => Herald Sun

Apropos to nothing, Tuesday is my birthday.
Makes me want to jump and spin just like she does! Well, almost:)

So, what do you think? Is the dancer turning right or left?

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EDIT: After a second test where two people who were looking at the spinning lady at the same time began to argue: "it's obviously spinning right" "are you kidding me? it's going left, look at it" "I am looking at it, and it's going right!" left, right, left, right... so who's right? I turned to my friend, Google.

Even AOL News ran a poll on this image:

Turns out this image is heavily debated in the blogosphere, and the New Scientist debunked it saying it has nothing to do with right or left side of the brain, but that it is an optical illusion where different people will see different things because the dancing lady is a "two-dimensional image of only 34 frames in a constant loop that does not contain enough three-dimensional information to tell the brain which way she is spinning. So your brain helpfully fills this in, as brains do in many optical illusions. Only, in this case the brain can do it one of two ways.... what you see is purely due to your perceptual and cognitive flexibility..."

Full New Scientist Article here => Bring on the dancing girl

So, it's not a hoax but it's also not proof of what side of your brain dominates over the other. It's just a simple optical illusion :) Enjoy!