As the title suggests, I came across this The Right Brain vs Left Brain test | PerthNow
and thought the NLPC community might find it of some interest, so what do you think, do you go a long with it or not. BTW I'm right, just as I thought, but wouldn't want anyone left out, so brought it right here, it's a bit left field for me, but it might sit right at home with you

First she looked to me to be moving clockwise, then I read the descriptions and in my peripheral vision she changed direction.

Same for me, Peter. Couldn't make her change directions by staring, but she did so when I widened my vision. Stephen, as usual, is right, though as usual I'm left wondering...

So who here knows or would care to speculate whether a left-handed person with access cues reversed from 'typical' right-handed patters across the board (that would be me) is also reversed as to dominant and non-dominant hemispheres?

Clockwise, clockwise, clockwise, and then I used peripheral, bingo, suddenly the lady turns, in the other direction. I can now make her seems to spin in either direction, however clockwise is my default stiing

The question is, do you agree with what is said about right and left hemisphere people, I can mix between the two quite happily.

yeah, both are comfortable apart from writing. I'm sure I could learn with practice if I could be arsed, lol

In the first instant i saw her going counter-clockwise. Then, when I focused on the page it was clockwise, clockwise, clockwise. Then, when I focused on the copy on the left side the page in my right peripheral (or would it really be peripheral when it's that close?) she started turning counter-clockwise.

I never could make her change while looking at her, but only when I focused to the left of her. Gee, now that I think of it, I didn't even try focusing to her right.

Yes, clockwise is my default (though the directions said most would see her moving anti-clockwise, which leads me right into think ing they mean most typically-wired right-handers. Now we have three people in a row left having clockwise as the default. Care to reveal your handedness, Stephen and Peter? Or is the subject too... sinister?

I think I have pretty good communication between the two 'types' of thinking, and I've read somewhere that left-hadded people tend to do, probably because of growing up in a right-handed world.

Perhaps it's all in how you frame it. I've heard from some NLP trainer-types that the left (usually dominant in the right-handed majority) hemisphere can be usefully thought of as the "conscious" hemisphere, and the right as the "unconscious" one. Richard Bandler talked in Time for a Change about ways of getting the dominant hemisphere off playing with itself in a corner somewhere in order to have better access to the non-dominant one. Is it, does anyone think, safe to treat hemispheres as a metaphor in the various types of changework we do, or are there sound neurological reasons for aiming communications at one side of the brain or another?

And I'm left wondering if I'm right about the notion that the right hemisphere might actually be the dominant one (the one to get out of the way when you want to speak to the other) in sinistral types like meself.

venus_brown wrote:

In the first instant i saw her going counter-clockwise. Then, when I focused on the page it was clockwise, clockwise, clockwise. Then, when I focused on the copy on the left side the page in my right peripheral (or would it really be peripheral when it's that close?) she started turning counter-clockwise.

I never could make her change while looking at her, but only when I focused to the left of her. Gee, now that I think of it, I didn't even try focusing to her right.

Care to chime in on handedness, Venus? I'm curious if the effect is different.

Wow THAT WAS AWE3SOME!

ONLY---It kept changing, I couldn't control it, (that doesn't please me).
I see this tube in my head, very similar....but sometimes I can make
the tornado--tunnel--thng spin counter and clockwise at will.

I will work on making her change direction...Oh...mine was mostly
counter clock...with an occasional ballet-eque change in direction.


THAT WAS AWWESOME.
!!

DANCER





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

Karla, just maybe -- if you see it less as a matter of control than as one of flexibility -- you'll be able to note the changes and feel good about them. Exercises like allowing the dancer to change directions or "flip" a Necker Cube from one side to the other are sometimes recommended as ways to increase the communication between hemispheres.

So change is good, right? Are you left believing that's true?

I am growing to be more and more ambidextrous

Hi Bridget, All

Love Watching Her- I
T's Late -- I'm So Sleepy

And Dopey

Multiple Dwarf Visions

Tonite She Rotates To The Music, Back Forth Back Forth
I Need To Do That Cube Thing. Control The Tornado!
Stop The Rain! It's Raining To F----n Much Here Now!
But Many Banana And Papaya, Thank You Rain God.

I'm 'g E T T I N G' It. It's Beginning To Sink In. Ocd
Is Good For Listening To R.b. I Don't Think I'll O.d. On R.b.
Just Yet. Valeria Said It Might Happen...i Don't Think So!
Anybody Heard Of Physicist Deutsch? I Talked To Him About
Multiple Universes --i Asked Him If He Thinks There's
An Infinite Number And That We All Have Or Own Holographic
Bubbles We Experience ~ & Infinite Parallel Timelines...
He Said 3 Years Ago , Only About 11. And Now? Yes. And Is Writing A Book, (swiped My Name), Multiverse, Punk Ass Physicist-- Oh Well, He's Kick Ass Sci-guy.

I'm Retarded And As I Said, Too Sleepy.
I Want A Crunchy Cookie
Good Nite

Xoxoxo

Wow, Karla slow down take a load off, do some tai chi, lol

Care to reveal your handedness, Stephen and Peter? Or is the subject too... sinister?

Revealed in my opening gambit, second line, I'm right I see the figure turning clockwise normally, but can change her direction quite at will.

Ok I may seem daft here or cynical but does she keep going around the same way or does she change....you know in the programme not our minds.


Because I read the intro to look at her & she was going round anti-clockwise & it was as clear as day that she was then I flicked my eyes over to read what that meant & it said left brain dominant & then when I looked back she's going the other way around.

And then I looked away & looked back & she's now going anti-clockwise again.


Ok weird, after just writing the above I looked at her & she's anti cw so I close my eyes do a little relaxation procedure that I have, took about 5 seconds open my eyes & hey presto I've made her start going clockwise....Geez my brain must be strong......I'm gonna start turning the telly over with it when I can't find the remote.


Ok weirder still she's back to anti clockwise but as I'm looking I get into a dreamy relaxed state & before my eyes she's going clockwise again & then I just watch her do that for a bit & it's really quite nice & THEN I start thinking about all the reasons why I'm seeing it different ways & about how my brain is probably shifting between the 2 on a regular basis & what it means & how I can control it & as I'm looking at her she just flips around again.

I could spend all day playing around with this.


I've felt for a while that I may not operate be dominant one side of my brain or the other, I'm definitely big picture, broad brush strokes in many ways, definitely a fantasist (my mother calls me Walter Mitty) & I'm impetuous.

The flip side is I get accused regularly of 'thinking too much' & I analyse a lot & was good at maths & logical stuff at school & I'm regularly searching for specifics in language to put my point accross in the exact detail that I want whilst at the same time being ultra empathetic & open with my body language & loads of eye contact & nodding & touching & all that feeling based stuff.

i'm gonna use this ballerina as a biofeedback device & see what I have to do/feel/think to get her going clockwise all the time because I want my brain to operate in the right side a helluva lot more, I'll leave the details of life to other people & enjoy living in a relaxed dreamy haze.

Ok I've just flipped back to it & she's just going clockwise all the time now.


But now she's spinning like a top both ways & I'm not quite sure how I'm doing it but I'm intrigued.

I'm as happy as a sandboy with this.

Easily pleased.

Ok I've got a question for people.

It seems to me that when I went on there I'd been reading this thread & I was alert to see what it was all about & I was reading the stuff there so I was in an analysing info mood & I saw her going anti-clockwise then as I understood the thinking behind it & just looked a relaxed she's now spinning the whole time clockwise.

Which seems to make sense, I was in a left brain state through trying to take in information & reading what was said.

Then I flipped through to just enjoying the ride & now it's the other way & I'm right brainging it.

But from what you said Venus it was when you 'focused' that you got her going clockwise....so what do you mean by focus because to me focus would indicate 'concentration' which I would have assumed would be a left brain thing.

Unless of course focus means something different for you.

And Bridget you said stuff along similar lines but then you're a lefty & as you pointed out it could all be a bit reversed for you.


I play a bit of online chess & I might get into a game & flip over to her & see which way she's going & see if I'm playing chess in hard logical way (scientific I guess) or whether I play it in a more artistic intuitive way.

It really is getting random now, I flicked back & she's going clockwise for ages then as I'm looking she goes the other way for about 2 seconds right in front of my eyes no looking away, then flips back cw again for about 2 seconds then goes back to anti & now every time I flip on there she's going anti-clockwise...so am I confused....yeah you betcha.

Oh ok just flipped back again & she's going clockwise.

This is sending me crazy....which is actually quite a nice feeling.

I think it may be a know nothing state I'm in.

Easily pleased.

[Milton voice on] That's right [/ Milton voice off]

I just flicked onto the 'Are You a genius Test' it said only 2% of the population can see the red dot in each photo & there's a yellow scarecrow & I can see a red dot in the middle of his coat & I'm thinking 'yeah I always knew it, make some room everyone there's a new genius in town' then I read that it said 'click to start attention tests' so I realised that it was a red dot that could be seen by everyone(presumably).

Bit disappointed & I can't do the Test anyway, I think because I'm on a mac not a PC.


Genius will have to wait.

Stephen Salmon wrote:

[Milton Erikson sounding voice] That's right [/voice off]

Haha.