Trick of the mind

[Turbinator]

Lift your right foot a few inches from the floor and then begin to move it in a clockwise direction.
While you’re doing this, use a finger your right index finger to draw a number 6 in the air.
Your foot will turn in an anticlockwise direction and there’s nothing you can do about it!

The left side of your brain, which controls the right side of your body, is responsible for rhythm and timing.
The left side of your brain cannot deal with operating two opposite movements at the same time and so
it combines them into a single motion.

 

[PeterRoss]

Gosh. My body betrayed me...

 

[Artlav]

Interesting.
Tricky, but not impossible - the tendency can be ovecamed by phasing the motions so that the motions intersected at verticals, and be the same on horizontals.
If they intersect on horizontal parts, however, it seems to be wired very hard to sync.

 

[Nazban]

I DID IT!!!!

 

[Ghostrider]

Doesn't work on me. My brain doesn't have a left side. Maybe a moderate side, but definitely not a left side. :lol:

 

[RisingFury]

Trick of the mind? You mean... brain failure?

 

[T.Neo]

Interesting... I wonder if it could be somehow overcome as Artlav said, similar to patting one's head while rubbing their stomach.

The latter becomes very easy when you synchronise the motions.

 

[TMac3000]

Doesn't work on me. My brain doesn't have a left side. Maybe a moderate side, but definitely not a left side. :lol:

Are you sure? Remember, the brain works in reverse, so right-brained people tend towards the left...which makes me left-brained as hell

 

[RisingFury]

Are you sure? Remember, the brain works in reverse, so right-brained people tend towards the left...which makes me left-brained as hell

It was a joke - a reference to political left...

 

[FSXHD]

Good find! I was amazed to see that happen.

 

[TJohns]

You can draw a six clockwise!

 

[Mauler85]

BWAHAHAHAHA my Autistic Brain Allows me to do this with out training :lol:

 

[DanM]

Copypasta?

 

[Turbinator]

From where /int/ ? That was my post there.