Look at this girl…
Personal December 9th, 2007
Seriously… look at her with your head tilted to your left, to your right… and even upside down if you want to. Look at her from her legs up or head down… or even at her shadow… can you figure out?
No? Okie… if you are a guy, perhaps you should stop looking at her nipples because it doesn’t really help much. As one fellow blogger mentioned, “guys will get tired after staring at her for quite a while because they’d all be looking at the wrong parts of the body!”
For me, I think I’d have a headache.
Now, can you see her spinning clockwise or anti-clockwise? I saw her spinning clockwise first, for as long as I wanted to, then I saw her spinning anti-clockwise. While it was rumoured that this determined which side of the brain you used more, the fact is that, this is only a 34 frame animation in a constant loop which does not provide sufficient 3D spatial information for your brain to process - so your brain tries to fill it up by providing whatever spatial information it thinks you need to see something that you can interpret.
And if you are interested in the left-right brain nitty-gritty, here you go (extracted from news.com.au):
| LEFT BRAIN FUNCTIONS uses 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 FUNCTIONS uses 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 |
More explanations can be found here and here, and thanks to Chillycraps for highlighting this. 
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haha hey jean, didn’t know this image would interest you… hope you didn’t get dizzy looking at it!
Optical illusion which has nothing to do with brain functions.
* blink - look at left side * anti-clockwise
* blikk - look at right side * now, clockwise.
If you can turn it on and off as you like, it’s just an optical illusion.
One wonders what’ll happen if we attach a subluminal msg to that picture. you can rule the world!
i cant see it turning clockwise! i dont know why.
and i think my character is more of a combination of left and right brain user.. left brain just doesnt quite describe me!
anyway. this is all rather… unscientific, isnt it?
omg i can’t see it turning clockwise too!
@chillycraps: haha… it’s just interesting because many of my friends can’t see it turning clockwise either! nay… i just got a headache =P
@xizor2000: no leh, blink blink doesn’t work! haha… but I can now see it clockwise or counter-clockwise at will now…
@Vandalin: erm… it’s possible, in fact it’s rumoured that some companies do that; although it’s not in this picture
@daphemaia: haha… someone mentioned that it’s mind over matter. Oh well, no worries if you can’t see it - I think there are many other more important things in our lives than a spinning silhouette! haha…
@decypher: hmm, ok. maybe it’s just me =P
Whenever you see such picture, imagine you are the female spinning, and then map aspect of the figure (arms, legs, hand movement) to your own (Including the nipple if you ever have one, haha) , and then visualize it in your mind. You will see it turning clockwise. The reason that one find it hard to decipher is because it is all black, unless you imagine you are the figure turning.
If one ever take any MENSA or IQ test, it is all about identifying patterns, visualization and making sense of it. This is one aspect of identifying pattern.
Good luck…