If I wasn't so obsessed with Estonia ...

[blamebrampton]

... I would be completely obsessed with Iceland. This video calls me to jump on a plane and then spend several days investigating volcanic rock and dressing children like orphans. But the song is beautiful, Sigur Ros: Glósóli, one of those haunting tunes that stays with you. Back to the writing ...

ETA A friend just sent me this link which apparently is a simple test to see if you are dominantly right or left brained. I am horrified to learn that I am mung-bean loving right brainer! It's a treacherous example of nature overcoming nurture after I've spent years learning how to score perfect dictator results on MB tests! 

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[gracilejenn.livejournal.com]

Okay, I immediately saw her spinning clockwise. So I looked, and it appears I am a right brainer also. Then she started switching back and forth, and I became woozy. (It doesn't take much!) So I called my sister over, *another right brainer* and explained to her what was happening, she called me a witch, and went back to her desk.

A moment later, (I'm apparently slow on the uptake this morning) I said, "Did you just call me a witch?"
"Yeah."

I don't know why.

[norton-gale.livejournal.com]

I really want to go to Iceland too. Perhaps we should meet up there someday!

[arethinn]

What? I see clockwise. I guess it has to be the same illusion as where a flat black silhouette of a 3D object sometimes is interpreted as facing towards the viewer, and sometimes away, and in that case I can usually force myself to change it, but I can't do it in this case. The rotating is too strong.

This is a stupid test, therefore, because I know from experience I am left- and not right-brained.

What's wrong with mung beans? Mmm sprouts!

[ekaterin.livejournal.com]

First time I looked, she was stubbornly turning anti-clockwise. Today I tried again, and she was turning clockwise. Then she changed direction suddenly, and I could not make her go clockwise again. Some more experiments, like closing my eyes, imagining her turning clockwise and opening made her turn clockwise again. Some more experiments, and the result is that, if I watch her legs, I can make her turn whatever way I want, but if I watch her face, she will be turning anti-clockwise. Makes me wonder what that means for my brain....

[leochi.livejournal.com]

This video is one of the best I've ever seen, thank you for putting it on your LJ (and for commenting on one of my drawings; I wouldn't have been here without your post :-))