[eye sea]

Try this, it's great!

HOW SMART IS YOUR RIGHT FOOT?

You have to try this please, it takes 2 seconds. I could not believe this!!! It is from an orthopedic surgeon.............


This will boggle your mind and you will keep you trying over and over again to see if you can outsmart your foot,
but, you can't. It's pre-programmed in your brain!

1. Without anyone watching you (they will think you are Mad......) and while sitting at your desk in front of your computer, lift your right foot off the floor and make clockwise circles.

2. Now, while doing this, draw the number '6' in the air with your right hand. Your foot will change direction.


I told you so!!! And there's nothing you can do about it! You and I both know how stupid it is, but before the day is done you are going to try it again, if you've not already done so.

[Stacey.]

omg, thats really weird!!

[Jayson]

Isn't it tricking your brain, then? not you're foot...

I'm pretty sure a right foot isn't very intelligent

[GypsyGoth]

How odd.

[eye sea]

Weird isn't it.

[ILoveTRW]

wtf

[mizzy25]

do the no.6 with yr left hand and c if u can mover your foot clockwise

[Jords]

Didnt work for me LOL.

[Firewire]

nor me.

[MissKittyFantastico]

That's so fcked up, I tried really hard to stop my foot going the other way but it just did this weird jerky thing lol and then went anti clockwise!

[Stacey.]

if i concentrate really hard, i can just about do it!

[eye sea]

Okay, then it doesn't work for all. LOL.

[Enid]

Yeah, I can do it too. Pretty hard though.

[Stacey.]

my mum and dad cant do it, lmao

[Tom4784]

I can do one or two but then it jerks about and goes the other way.

[Ninastar]

Originally Posted by Dezzy

I can do one or two but then it jerks about and goes the other way.

What are you talking about!

[Shasown]

Instead of drawing the 6 from the top of the stroke down draw from the centre out.

Its simply the brain has more trouble coordinating movements that are in different directions, or non-isodirectional.

Here's another trick:

Take two pens, put one in each hand. With your dominant hand, write your name like normal. With your non-dominant hand, write your name backwards at the same time. They should be nearly identical.

A related puzzle: try to simultaneously rotate the index fingers of both hands in the same direction (clockwise or anticlockwise). Do it slowly at first, then faster, and faster.... Pretty soon, they're going in opposite directions. It was explained to me that this demonstrates a tendancy for the brain to coordinate the body in symmetrical ways. The foot/six combination on one side of the body is hard because it violates the brain's natural tendancy to keep one side moving in the same way. The two fingers trick shows that opposite sides tend to move in opposite patterns. The person explaining this then expanded his point to suggest that the body has certain rhythms and patterns, templates for motion, if you will, that it likes to repeat and are very difficult to consciously overcome. In other words, while these orchestrated body motions are physically possible, they are "harder" to do because it is so ingrained in us to keep things moving in symmetrical patterns.

[Patrick]

Is it not because like your foot cant bend the entire way round otherwise it would snap.