Try this little trick out
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Edav Roark
Bounty Hunter
Join date: 4 Sep 2003
Posts: 569
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02-23-2004 21:05
This is one of the strangest things;
I have ever encountered:
While sitting at your desk,
lift your right foot off the floor
and make clockwise circles.
Now; while doing that,
draw the number "6" in the air,
with your right hand.
Your foot; will change direction
and there's nothing,
you can do about it.
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Michael Small
Addicted To Counseling
Join date: 22 Sep 2003
Posts: 123
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02-23-2004 21:06
Thats so not right. 
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Xadrian Baysklef
Dancing Monkey
Join date: 17 Nov 2003
Posts: 59
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02-23-2004 21:17
I don't get it. I've tried this 10-15 times now, and my foot's not reversing directions. Must have a wiring problem in me noggin. |
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Ama Omega
Lost Wanderer
Join date: 11 Dec 2002
Posts: 1,770
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02-23-2004 21:38
Hah! My first instinct was to draw the 6 with my left hand (I'm left handed) and my foot didn't even hesitate. I tried drawing the 6 with my right though and my foot tried to go the other way.
It also depends on how you draw your 6. If you start at the top, the trick works, because you draw your loop counter clockwise. If you start at loop and draw it backwards then the trick doesn't work.
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Nick Fairlight
Humanoid Typhoon
Join date: 19 Jun 2003
Posts: 494
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02-23-2004 22:17
I tried it - cool  if your writing with your right hand, use your right foot, if your using your left hand, use your left foot.
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Xadrian Baysklef
Dancing Monkey
Join date: 17 Nov 2003
Posts: 59
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02-23-2004 22:35
Aye. I confirmed that I was doing it right by trying it out on a couple others. They all said that it felt like something else was controlling their feet. I used my right foot, right hand, and drew the six starting from the top (so that I was making a clockwise motion with my foot and a couterclockwise motion with my hand). Didn't work once. It's official, I am a freak. This makes me sad, since I was looking forward to having a possessed foot. |
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Nolan Nash
Frischer Frosch
Join date: 15 May 2003
Posts: 7,141
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02-24-2004 02:45
yeah , well, my foot turned into a chicken foot! Do not try this, I have been dragging this chicken foot around and it's no fun.
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Pendari Lorentz
Senior Member
Join date: 5 Sep 2003
Posts: 4,372
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02-24-2004 05:57
Stuff like this always facinates me while at the same time it freaks me out..
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Oz Spade
ReadsNoPostLongerThanHand
Join date: 23 Sep 2003
Posts: 2,708
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02-24-2004 08:48
Its the devils work!!! Its interisting how our brain gets all funky.
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Tiger Crossing
The Prim Maker
Join date: 18 Aug 2003
Posts: 1,560
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02-24-2004 12:18
I'm with you, Xadrian... My hand and foot did their own things without argument. I even drew the six in both directions to see if that was it. Foot kept going clockwise.
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Nick Fairlight
Humanoid Typhoon
Join date: 19 Jun 2003
Posts: 494
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02-24-2004 15:48
Yeah the brain is cool tool =P(yay for rhymes =P)
I guess when you're focusing on drawing the six your foot tends to focus on trying to draw the six too, maybe those who aren't focusing and trying to force their foot in the same direction aren't getting the same results.
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Nergal Fallingbridge
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Join date: 26 Jun 2003
Posts: 677
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02-24-2004 16:44
Er... It's also a problem if your brain got permanently broken as a result of owning counterclocks (yes. they run backward.)
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Rysidian Rubio
Ruby Red Head
Join date: 14 Jan 2004
Posts: 263
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02-25-2004 19:50
argh, scary. it worked for me. hehe
tho i didn't read the whole post before trying it, ie started reading and moving leg, then drew six starting at the top. by the time i finished i was thinking "well this doesn't work" then realised my foot HAD changed directions. lol
oh, maybe that makes me more normal rather than more of a freak??? hehe
(oh, and this from a person who can rub his tummy and pat his head at the same time without messing up)
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Kex Godel
Master Slacker
Join date: 14 Nov 2003
Posts: 869
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02-26-2004 06:42
Pretty cool! =D
If I concentrate on my foot, I can force it foot to keep going in the clockwise direction, while I draw the six semi-subconsciously, but that's not the point.
I think the way it works is if you try to "task swap" so that foot-rotation is now a background process, and drawing-six-in-air is now the foreground process, that your brain sends the direction signal to both processes.
Sounds like a bug. Where do I report it?
-- Kex =D
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