{"id":11268,"date":"2007-10-08T07:43:37","date_gmt":"2007-10-08T14:43:37","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/hill-kleerup.org\/blog\/wp\/2007\/10\/08\/you-spin-me-right-round-baby-right-round-2.html"},"modified":"2007-10-08T07:43:37","modified_gmt":"2007-10-08T14:43:37","slug":"you_spin_me_right_round_b","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/hill-kleerup.org\/blog\/2007\/10\/08\/you_spin_me_right_round_b.html","title":{"rendered":"You spin me right round, baby, right round &#8230;"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>I would post the GIF here, but it would probably give someone a headache or vertigo or an epileptic seizure or something.&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>Oh, wait, I can put it below the cut so folks can close it off at will.<\/p>\n<p><!--more--><\/p>\n<div class=\"img-shadow-right\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" title=\"Spinning Dancer\" height=\"400\" src=\"https:\/\/www.hill-kleerup.org\/blog\/images\/dancer.gif\" width=\"300\" \/><\/div>\n<p>So, which way is the dancer spinning?&nbsp; Well, in point of fact, she&#8217;s not spinning in any given direction that can be actually perceived, being only a silhouette, but which way does your brain think she&#8217;s spinning?<\/p>\n<p>The <a href=\"http:\/\/www.danharlow.com\/blog\/2007\/10\/04\/what-kind-of-brain-do-you-have\/\" target=\"_blank\">ostensible answer<\/a> is that if you say &#8220;<strong>counter-clockwise<\/strong>,&#8221; you&#8217;re thinking more with your logical left brain (and are more likely right-handed?) while if you say &#8220;<strong>clockwise<\/strong>,&#8221; then it&#8217;s your artistic right brain that&#8217;s running the show.<\/p>\n<p>Me?&nbsp; I see it initially as counter-clockwise, but if I glance away then come back, it&#8217;s changed.&nbsp; Don&#8217;t know if that means I&#8217;m a well-balanced and fully integrated, or just really confused.&nbsp; My money&#8217;s on the latter.<\/p>\n<p><small><\/p>\n<p>(via <a href=\"http:\/\/stupidevilbastard.com\/index\/seb\/comments\/whoa_dude_thats_trippy\/\" target=\"_blank\">SEB<\/a>)<\/p>\n<p><\/small><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I would post the GIF here, but it would probably give someone a headache or vertigo or an epileptic seizure or something.&nbsp; Oh, wait, I can put it below the&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_seopress_titles_title":"","_seopress_titles_desc":"","_seopress_robots_index":"","_seopress_robots_follow":"","_seopress_robots_imageindex":"","_seopress_robots_snippet":"","_seopress_robots_primary_cat":"","_seopress_robots_breadcrumbs":"","_seopress_robots_freeze_modified_date":"","_seopress_robots_custom_modified_date":"","_seopress_robots_canonical":"","_seopress_social_fb_title":"","_seopress_social_fb_desc":"","_seopress_social_fb_img":"","_seopress_social_fb_img_attachment_id":0,"_seopress_social_fb_img_width":0,"_seopress_social_fb_img_height":0,"_seopress_social_twitter_title":"","_seopress_social_twitter_desc":"","_seopress_social_twitter_img":"","_seopress_social_twitter_img_attachment_id":0,"_seopress_social_twitter_img_width":0,"_seopress_social_twitter_img_height":0,"_seopress_redirections_value":"","_seopress_redirections_enabled":"","_seopress_redirections_enabled_regex":"","_seopress_redirections_logged_status":"","_seopress_redirections_param":"","_seopress_redirections_type":0,"_seopress_analysis_target_kw":"","_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":false,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[6],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-11268","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-science"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack-related-posts":[{"id":10108,"url":"https:\/\/hill-kleerup.org\/blog\/2006\/09\/03\/look_ma_no_hand.html","url_meta":{"origin":11268,"position":0},"title":"Look, Ma! 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