Incredible illusion

[Breukelen advocaat]

Don't know if this has been posted before.

The Right Brain vs Left Brain | Frostfirezoo.com (http://frostfirezoo.com/the-right-brain-vs-left-brain)


Is the dancer going left to right, right to left, or both?

I usually see it going clockwise, but sometimes I see it going counter-clockwise.

I do not think that it has anything to do with right or left brain usage, but it's interesting since the image is just repeating itself over and over the same way.

[illnillinois]

it turns both ways

[affasd]

the link didnt work for me but i found it on another site...i must be retarded cause it looks counterclock wise to me but i can't make it go the other way

[ghosty]

I can make her spin whichever way I want her to at will... what does that mean? Although initially it confused me cause at first for me she was spinning clockwise a few times, then counter and for a while I couldnt see her spinning any other way than clockwise, but then after looking more I realized I could make her change at will...

Great post:thumbsup:

[Breukelen advocaat]

it turns both ways

It looks like it turns both ways, sometimes to some people, but it's not turning in any particular way. Some see it only going left, or right.

[Cannabic]

that was trippy... I was lookin at it and then I looked away for a bit, but I could still see it out of the corner of my eye and I noticed it changed from counterclockwise to clockwise! I totally freaked out! then after staring at it for like 10mins I realized how to make it go both ways

[Gandalf_The_Grey]

I can only see the dancer moving right, I don't even see how you could see it going left or both ways:wtf:. Though the analysis seems to be wrong, indicating that I'm "right brained". I have attributes from both, but it seems more than anything I fall under the left brain side.

[ghosty]

hmm wierd now looking at it a second time it's harder for me to see her going in a full revolution... rather i see her spin halfway one way the come back... anyone else have that hapen?

[Cannabic]

Yes! LOL

[affasd]

no matter how hard i try i only see it going left haha its making me crazy trying to see it the other way

[ghosty]

watch her legs... its harder to make her change if you watch the upper half i think

[Breukelen advocaat]

no matter how hard i try i only see it going left haha its making me crazy trying to see it the other way

It may help if you try scrolling it up so that you only see the shadow of the feet, look at it from other angles, etc. I used my laptop and closed it to a 45 degree angle to get a different direction in my perception (hey that rhymes!:pimp:)

[birdgirl73]

She goes both ways, at least for me. For the majority of the time she turns clockwise as I'm watching. But then she'll seem to switch directions and make a couple of counterclockwise rotations. My husband had just the opposite experience. She turned more counterclockwise to his brain with brief periods of clockwise. Interesting! I wonder if this really reflects a particular type of brain hemispheric dominance? I also wonder if this is why he and I work together, because we have complementary brains.

I like that Web site, Breuk! I'm bookmarking it.

[Gandalf_The_Grey]

Am I the only one who sees no optical illusion whatsoever? She's going clockwise as far as I can see; I've tried looking at it every way and letting my mind go "limp", still the image is consistant.:wtf:

[CanaDanKs Inc.]

yea everytime she crosses legs.. you can imagine which way she's gonna go.. and you see it shift everytime..

it's cool cuz you can feel your perception shifting too
its a good mental exercise me thinks :jointsmile:

[Cannabic]

imagine her feet making a 'figure-8' that's how I make her change directions

[grapeflavor]

that was crazy.:rasta:

at first i only saw her go clockwise and i couldnt figure out how people could see it go the other way. once you figure out the key aspect of the illusion you can change it at will. :rastasmoke:

[OahuLocal]

It Switches by itself

[CultureCherryPopper]

I have no idea what's going on! I see it one way, look away, and it's going the other way. I can't change it, can't figure it out. But why does it change?!? AHHHHHHHHH!!!!

Oh, and if you read the one comment, it proves that it doesn't change directions, it is just a loop.

[Coelho]

Man... this thing is crazy... it took me a time until i can change her direction... its hard... initially i only could see her spinning anti-clockwise... but with some effort i could make her spin clockwise.
An interesting thing i noted is that when she is spinning anti-clockwise, she is resting upon her right foot, and when she is spinning clockwise she is resting upon her left foot. I think its how they relate the direction of her spin with the cerebral usage.
Maybe we decide what is the direction of her spinning by "overlapping" the notion of our body on her image, thus assigning what is right and what is left for her. When we assign this, the spinning direction is also assigned to her.
Ive heard that the brains right lobe controls our left side, and vice-versa. So, maybe they are supposing that if a persons usually rests its body on his left foot is because its brains right lobe is dominant, and vice-versa.
Concluding... or resuming... if a person has, lets say, the right lobe dominant... then this person will prefer to rest its body upon its left foot. So, when the people sees the image, it will "overlap" its own body image to her image, and so will conclude that she also is standing upon her left foot, and thus spinning clockwise.
Does it makes any sense?... for me it does... but im very stoned so my opinion may be a bit biased... :stoned:

EDIT : I must add that the very moment i change her direction is VERY funny... i cant help from laughing... like... in the very moment it changes its direction, i think the mind stops for a fraction of second... there is an interruption of continuity... something like that... which is very funny... like the very moment you understand a joke... or had a sudden insight... or a deep realization... its hard to describe... but very funny :D

[scagster]

If I look at it more than a second or two, she just goes from right to left, never turning her back to me......but if she goes in a circle i see her back?

I'm going insane....

[LIP]

clockwise for me

[ghosty]

BTW that website that this was hosted on is really really cool.... Ive spent hours just scrolling through all the wierd and cool stuff on there... might even be a new favorite internet time killer:thumbsup:

[crudemood]

that was trippy... I was lookin at it and then I looked away for a bit, but I could still see it out of the corner of my eye and I noticed it changed from counterclockwise to clockwise! I totally freaked out! then after staring at it for like 10mins I realized how to make it go both ways

HAHA. I swear it made a switcheroo on me too. At first it was counter clockwise and I stared at it for so long waiting for it to go clockwise and BANG. It changed on me then it changed back. etc etc. lol

[Ganja Dude]

Wow, that was really trippy. After about a miniute I figured out how to change the direction. Focus on the bottom half and watch the spinning leg go back and fourth and not around then focus on following it going the other way around. After a while it just changes for me even when I don't focus on it.

[jagarr]

i feel like this is a scam. or possibly scamola?
clockwise was the natural direction for me. it changed after much trying but i feel like it was the pic changing not my brain changing how i saw it.

[cannabis campbell]

someone find me a working link?

[SantaClawz]

too me it seemed it changed on it own. like a loop image