Brain test, maybe.

Have you seen this? Look for the man in the coffee beans. If you can find him within three seconds, you supposedly have a highly developed right brain. If it takes you between three seconds and a minute, you have a normally developed right brain. If it takes you longer than three minutes, or if you can't find it at all, you need to work at developing that part of your brain -- and maybe eat more protein.

It's fun, but likely one of those email scams. Especially since the authority quoted in the email a very generic "doctors say." Not even the almost as generic, "researchers say."

I found him immediately. Like in a second or two. Am I highly right brained? Or did my gaze happen to land on him as I opened the email? Even more likely......all that time I spent with my son reading those "Where's Waldo" books, just finally paid off.

How did you do? How likely is it that it means anything? And what's protein got to do with it?

CAN THIS BE REAL?

HANK: I'm just not sure I believe this. I saw this--somewhere, who knows. And when I watch it, I definitely see it just one way. I asked my producer Mary to look at it, and she absolutely saw it the other way. I mean, we were looking at the same thing at the same time!

And then at one point, I saw it change. And then go back to the way it was initially.

What do you see? Is this some kind of a trick that has duped me? Here's what the article said.


The Right Brain vs Left Brain test ... do you see the dancer turning clockwise or anti-clockwise?

If clockwise, then you use more of the right side of the brain and vice versa.

Most of us would see the dancer turning anti-clockwise though you can try to focus and change the direction; see if you can do it.

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