{"id":408,"date":"2007-10-16T16:35:00","date_gmt":"2007-10-16T16:35:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/davetraynor.com\/wp2\/2007\/10\/16\/are-you-left-brainer-or-right-brainer\/"},"modified":"2016-10-29T05:49:49","modified_gmt":"2016-10-29T05:49:49","slug":"are-you-left-brainer-or-right-brainer","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/davetraynor.com\/wp2\/2007\/10\/16\/are-you-left-brainer-or-right-brainer\/","title":{"rendered":"Are you a left-brainer or a right-brainer?"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img data-recalc-dims=\"1\" loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.davetraynor.com\/images\/dancer.gif?resize=300%2C400\" alt=\"dancer.gif\" border=\"0\" width=\"300\" height=\"400\" align=\"right\" \/>I don&#8217;t really know what this test shows, but it&#8217;s kind of fascinating. <\/p>\n<p>According to an article from Australia&#8217;s <a href=\"http:\/\/www.news.com.au\/heraldsun\/story\/0,21985,22556281-661,00.html\">The Herald Sun<\/a> if you see the dancer in the image turning counter-clockwise, you&#8217;re using more of your left-brain and vice-versa.<\/p>\n<p>They say that most people see the dancer turning counter-clockwise (left-brain). Apparently, some can make her change direction, but I only see her turning clockwise. Here&#8217;s what they say the two sides of the brain represent:<\/p>\n<p><strong>LEFT BRAIN FUNCTIONS<\/strong> <br \/>uses logic<br \/>detail oriented<br \/>facts rule<br \/>words and language<br \/>present and past<br \/>math and science<br \/>can comprehend<br \/>knowing<br \/>acknowledges order\/pattern perception<br \/>knows object name<br \/>reality based<br \/>forms strategies<br \/>practical<br \/>safe<\/p>\n<p><strong>RIGHT BRAIN FUNCTIONS<\/strong> <br \/>uses feeling <br \/>&#8220;big picture&#8221; oriented<br \/>imagination rules<br \/>symbols and images<br \/>present and future<br \/>philosophy &#038; religion<br \/>can &#8220;get it&#8221; (i.e. meaning)<br \/>believes<br \/>appreciates<br \/>spatial perception<br \/>knows object function<br \/>fantasy based<br \/>presents possibilities<br \/>impetuous<br \/>risk taking<\/p>\n<p>Which are you?<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I don&#8217;t really know what this test shows, but it&#8217;s kind of fascinating. According to an article from Australia&#8217;s The Herald Sun if you see the dancer in the image turning counter-clockwise, you&#8217;re using more of your left-brain and vice-versa. They say that most people see the dancer turning counter-clockwise (left-brain). Apparently, some can make [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":1299,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_feature_clip_id":0,"_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},"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-408","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p88Hib-6A","jetpack-related-posts":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/davetraynor.com\/wp2\/wp-content\/uploads\/2007\/10\/dancer.gif?fit=300%2C400&ssl=1","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/davetraynor.com\/wp2\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/408","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/davetraynor.com\/wp2\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/davetraynor.com\/wp2\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/davetraynor.com\/wp2\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/davetraynor.com\/wp2\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=408"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/davetraynor.com\/wp2\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/408\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1298,"href":"https:\/\/davetraynor.com\/wp2\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/408\/revisions\/1298"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/davetraynor.com\/wp2\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/1299"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/davetraynor.com\/wp2\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=408"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/davetraynor.com\/wp2\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=408"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/davetraynor.com\/wp2\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=408"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}