Incredible illusion

[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!imp

[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