Brain Test Illusions Suck. And so does my Brain.

I saw this in my inbox this afternoon. It’s a brain test image which determines which part of your brain is being used more often. If you see this lady turning clockwise, the right hemisphere of your brain is working at the moment. The left brain if she spins the other way. If you don’t see the lady move at all, then you should consider earning a fortune by selling your brain on eBay. I hear they make higher bids on slightly-used stuff over there!

The lady’s sillhouette which supposedly spins around on a fulcrum (one of its legs), is in reality a two-dimensional image that shifts from left to right. The turning motion is caused by the ambiguous frames where the “spinning” lady’s legs and arms cross over each other, giving you (or your brain) the impression that she’s um, spinning. If that explanation did not cause you discombobulation nor make your mouth froth, then congratulations, you already passed the brain test.

What’s up with the left and right portions of the brain, you ask? Studies show that left brainers are more analytical and logical. The right brainers work more based on imagination and creativity. That means when you see the silhouette lady spin clockwise more often, you’re most likely to wet your underpants faster than the others at the mere sight of this photo:

Looks like a vagina to my right brain!

But here’s the thing, if you’re able to see the lady spin on both directions AT WILL, then you my friend belong to a handful of people who, according to the Science guys over at Yale University, can make full use of their entire brain which then makes them a GENIUS (providing they have never had surgery to cut their corpus callosum)! That, or you’re just someone who has a really really boring day job and has a lot of time to spend on staring at naked silhouettes like this one. 

I saw her go counterclockwise at first, then if I draw my attention to another part of the screen, say, like that mIRC icon down in my taskbar, then look back at her, she starts spinning clockwise. The girlfriend, however, was able to see it as if the lady just does a half-circle before spinning back to the other direction repeatedly. Does this mean she’s more smrt than I M? I don’t thinx so.

But then again, I can’t even distinguish between clockwise and counterclockwise without looking at my watch. So there.