You know her, Ms. Spinning Ballerina. You've probably seen her on a lot of websites, coaxing you to click on her so that she can tell you whether you are right-brained or left brained.
Apparently, if you see her spinning clockwise, then you use more of the right side of your brain. Your right brain jumps into action when you engage in feelings, when you've got things like religion and philosophy on your mind, or when you're using your imagination.
And if you see her spinning anti-clockwise, then you use more of your left. This is when you're using logic, solving math problems, and being nit-picky about details.
This used to drive me nuts, because I couldn't understand how anyone could see her spinning the other way round (I can't remember which way I saw her spinning but I'm probably more left-brained.)
And then, as ridiculous as this may sound, I tried switching between the two types of brain activity and it actually worked. I think of landscapes (imagination), family (feelings) and the meaning of life (haha, not really, but I needed an example for philosophy) and she spins clockwise, and when I add up numbers in my head she spins anti-clockwise. Now she just drives me nuts - I wish she'd stop spinning!
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I'm going crazy trying to make her spin the other way too. But to no avail. Sigh. My brain seems set in its ways. Ok i may be budu maths but I can conjure a mythical animal in my head anytime (ya very practical skill, i know).
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