This is a great optical illusion. When you first look you’ll see her spinning in one direction. Now focus on her shadow, and try to imagine her spinning in the opposite direction. Alternatively, tilt your head down and look at her out of the top of your eyes, and try to imagine her spinning in the opposite direction. Sooner or later she’ll switch for you.
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It “miraculously” changes directions EXACTLY every 30 seconds every time I’ve timed it when I grew suspicious this was just a GIF counting down and reversing so this in not an illusion.
No, every frame is ambiguous. I’ve watched it for a minute, and it doesn’t change. Also, I can change it at will, 5 seconds apart, by looking down at the shadow. My guess is that at the 30 second mark you’re looking at the watch and back up, or similar. It really does move in the direction the brain “expects” it to move.
You fucking moron. If you focus on the woman and ignore the shadow for longer than 30 seconds she’ll remain spinning in the same direction. Then try focussing on the shadow.
It’s not fake.
Download and install Irfanview, go to options and extract all frames.
Go experiment with proceeding manually through the frames.
Pay special attention to what happens around frames 8 and 25, here the woman is seen from the side, the direction of spin will depend on whether you are visualizing the woman standing on her left leg, with her right leg lifted, or standing on her right let with her left leg lifted.
How do you get it (spinning woman) from your e-mail to this program.
Save the .gif file by right clicking on the image at the top of this screen and select “Save image as” then save to your desktop.
If you have a problem, find another copy of it online.
i’ve tried what you said and it really changed direction after about 30 seconds..
ahh..i don’t know what to believe..
Would this not work on any spinning object in silhouette? Since you can’t tell which side is which (left, right), ie, when she’s facing you or which leg/arm is up and out, your brain has to make a decision. So when your brain assumes her right leg is out, she’s spinning clockwise, and when your brain assumes her left leg is out, she’s spinning counter-clockwise. Get her to “change direction” by forcing yourself to see her “front” as her “back”, and vice versa. It’s easiest for me to force my brain to reverse by watching her legs. The switch happens as her legs merge.
While I have been able to do by just wanting her to go the other way, the easiest way is definitely to look at her foot, and when it reaches 180 degrees to think its going to opposite way.
It’s not rigged. I watched this in my science class on a projection screen and its a left brain right brain thing. In the classroom people some people saw her spinning clockwise, some counterclockwise at the same time. Also she doesn’t switch at the same time for everyone, for some she doesn’t switch at all.
To test it, show it to a friend and have them explain what they are seeing.
My mom showed me this in an email and i would point to her front and my mom would say that it was her back, it is really confusing to realize you are looking at the same image! i think it is cool that i can make her switch the direction she turns that means that i can use my left and right brain dominantly!
I see it going clockwise. I’m left-handed so guess that makes sense, my right brain is dominant, so I want her to go “east”. I’ve tried really hard to make her go ‘west” ie anti-clockwise but the only way anything changes is if I zoom in fairly close. Then I get the feeling she is moving both clockwise and anti-clockwise at the same time. Kinda a weird feeling.
it ia not an illustion its just going the oppisit way to make it seem like its in illuston but its not
very strange, all of you say its an illusion but explain this, you see she has an arm thats bent and a leg thats lifted. how come when she changes direction, her bent arm changes from left to right (and vice versa) also her leg changes from left to right (and vice versa). how come my brain can mistake a bent thing for something thats straight or a lefted leg for a leg thats on the ground?
I agree. It did that to me. At first she was lifting her left foot and her right arm and then suddenly, she changed and she was doing to opposite thing (right foot and her left arm.)
It spins counter clockwise and never changes for me.
Think of her clockwise and watch the foot she’s standing on, it doesn’t match up with the shadow. i.e: the toes point in the opposite direction.
If you look at the way the woman positions her body, you’ll see that she is rotating clockwise. If you look at her shadow, however, you can see that as her foot rotates around the back of the image her foot is facing outwards showing that she is rotating counterclockwise.
Those that see the image rotating clockwise experience the more artistic view, which seems like the woman is leaning forward in a more flowing twirl. That contributes to the creative side of your brain: the right side. Upon closer examination, if you saw that the shadow spacial perception wouldn’t match up with the woman rotating clockwise, so she must be spinning counter clockwise, the left side of your brain would be thinking in terms of what is more logical.
What you are actually seeing is not a woman, but a series of black shapeless forms that are bound together into a video that when set in motion like a flip book would appear to be of a woman.
she doesn’t spin at all, she moves in a pendulum movement, always with her back to me.
Although I found that I can get the image to switch directions at will, If I look at something just to the left of the image and look at it with my peripheral vision it appears to just turn back and forth. Fascinating!
I think she has great TiT’s
i see her goin both ways too. but i am using a mirror so that might be why. its well easy tho
I see her spinning counter colckwise. I wonder who wrote the program and which way they made it spin. This would be the Logical question. No theory just facts.