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.
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?
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 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’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.
i’ve tried what you said and it really changed direction after about 30 seconds..
ahh..i don’t know what to believe..
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.
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 can see the woman spinning both ways. If you can do this, tests have proved that you would usually have a strong IQ.
I looked at this for days and could only see it clockwise. My kids were saying no, it changes, and I just could not see it. Not to be bested by a bunch of kids, I studied and studied and FINALLY it changed. Now it changes for me all the time, once you see it. At first it appeared she was ALWAYS on that left leg and always had her right arm extended. You can make yourself see it the other way if you will just look to the right or left of the image and see the woman with your peripheral vision. If you do this long enough, it will change. It will never change if you stare intently at the woman because you will continue to see it as you always have. Stare to the right a few minutes; it will change.
uhhh, it is an illusion…just keep looking at her and the direction wont change..
i can only consciously make it change when looking at the ankle…. i can get to a point where i view the foot rotating one way, then reversing and going to the other side, but never making a full revolution. then i can simply let it continue to rotate when its going the direction that i want. however, i cant do this with the outer (outstretched) leg, so if i keep it in this stage where its never rotating the whole way around, the leg that is held in the air continues in complete, monodirectional rotations while the bottom leg rotates halfway back and forth ‘~’
This stupid women only spins counter clockwise for me. Can’t get it change! Very frustrating knowing others can.
I can see her rotating both ways, however when I’m trying to “change” the way I see her it appears as if she doesn’t turn but bounces from side to side never making a complete circle. I suppose the sides of my brain are fighting for dominance.
Notice when she appears to be spinning clockwise, her head is leaning to the right. When she appears to be spinning counter clockwise, her head leans to the left. This is a trick, not your eyes playing tricks on you. It is like a mirror image, as opposed to a reversal of motion.
awesome body no matter which way she spins…counter clock is the most revealing
that counter clock wise turn is most revealingmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmm
That is just a coincidence it is a not GIF because if you get a friend and look at it at the same time like i did we saw it go different ways at the same time proving that yes it is an illusion but i don’t know about the whole left brain right brain thing.
its a scam. i see it going both ways.
when she goes clockwise its her right arm
and when she goes anticlockwise its her left arm
this is pretty cool, i realized that when i read it turns to the right, and when i concentrate on the music that is playing in the background it turns in the other direction
where is the music…don’t hear it…maybe just so amazed that with the least thought I get her to change…now what about the music…awesome bodymmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmm
I see her spinning both directions, I’m able to switch back and forth by watching the shadow.
Yes. Anticlockwise,
Or, to non-retards,
COUNTER-Clockwise.
Protip: Learn to read.
Actually, I’ve been watching it for awhile and it has only gone clockwise for me . However my brother sees it go anticlockwise but sees it change direction occasionly.
still the most awesome Lady which ever way She spins
I see her moving in both directions without completing a revolution.
After a while, you will find it easy to control when it turns.
here is the method I discovered.
First, look at the spinning foot, when it goes to the corner (of the box), the switch your focus to the same hip, then it will turn either clockwise or anti clockwise! (don’t look at the upper part of the body or they will keep spinning on you
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thats true i did the same thing. i dont see it switch and she did.
took me about 30 seconds to get the change in direction going.
had a closer look at it and worked out how it works.
its a matter of perspective.
the image is not 3D and because it is black you cannot tell wether you are
looking at the front or the or the back of the girl,except when she is side on and
when she is side on you cannot tell wether you are looking at her left side or her right side.
so depending on which perspective your brain takes she will spin one way or the other.
change your perspective and you change the direction.
with a bit of practice you can change her direction every half rotation.
Not fake.
Real 100%
Rly nice ;]]
the body is tilted, the left foot is a bit angled…..
try to look at the shadow when the shadow of the left foot is aligned with the leg, thats the time that it looks like its changing direction, but its really just spinning on the same direction… clockwise…
lee! there is no specific direction, it is a sequence of flat images and depending on what perspective your brain takes of these images it will appear to rotate . As I said before with a bit of practice you can change the direction it appears to spin every half turn . Remember its a series of flat images that our brain interprets as 3D .
Side Note : at some points in the sequence of images you cannot tell weather you are looking at the front or the back or the left or the right side of the lady , this happens 4 times during the sequence of images.
these are the points where you can change the direction the lady appears to spin.
sorry my mistake , i have look look at the image again , this time frame by frame and every frame can be interpreted as back or front & left or right
so confused if its my brain or the image it self thats making the lady chang position, i made my partner look at it the same time i was looking at it too..he was seeing the woman clockwise and i was seeing it counter-clockwise but i can change it by looking at the shadow…
She can spin whichever way she wants…in fact she can do whatever she wants. She can stop still as far as I’m concerned. With a figure like that, she is control (for me anyway!)
Anyone who thinks it is fake, do this test:
Use your iPhone or anything else to record video of it while you watch it on screen and say what you see. Then keep watching, and note out loud when you “notice” it switching.
When you play the video on your phone back you will almost certainly not see her change directions as when you first did so “live.”
Oi! I was supposed to be doing my homework! Somehow I’ve been looking at this thing for the past 2 hours now! Eep! Umm… how many people think my math teacher’s going to cut me some slack? By the way, awesome illusion. I freaked out my brother.
And if you notice that she is nude and well constructed, then you do not need glasses.
no matter which she turns awesome nipples…plus a super outline of bush country…wish I had her upon my wall
Hello Tanya…in a pendulum motion…could you explain more…Christopher
yup yup, it’s not fake, it’s an optical illusion.
like some of you have said, it’s all got to do with the silhouette… the fact that it’s all in black and just a 2d image.
i’d say it was explained best by robert…. you can change it at will by switching your perspective and deciding to make her go in the other direction.
i never even noticed the shadow till i came to this site. before then i would always switch it when her extended leg is coming down, and visualize it swinging in the other direction.
great illusion! and christopher… what’s with the perverted comments?
it really is an iliusion. i can make her spin left-right-left-rigt-and so on for as long as i want. its not a 30 second thing, the secret lies in her hips. look at them and she should spin where ever you want her to
It’s spinning left and right as soon as the legs cross each other it switches direction.
For a very clear explanation (and help getting it to change directions if you can’t do it), go to http://www.michaelbach.de/ot/sze_silhouette/index.html
Note: This page used to always load the spinning woman (the one referred to as “on the right you see the silhouette of a spinning figurine). For some reason, this time I had to refresh the page a few times before it actually showed the spinning woman. Probably something to do with FlashPlayer.
she can spin which ever way for with out a doubt she is the most awesome woman ever
It is a fake. I wasn’t even focusing on it and it still changed directions!
Never mind it really does work:)
I can make is switch every time I look down. It certainly is not random or timed. Freaky, but not random/timed.
She’s not spinning at all. THAT’S the illusion. It’s a series of 2D shapes that trick our brain into seeing “movement” just the way all animation works.
Furthermore, our brain associates the white/black contrast with an illusion of spatial depth. This is the visual premise behind all 2D imagery. The combination of imagined movement plus imagined space, along with a recognizable symbol (the human body), tricks our brain into presuming a causal relationship. In an instant we decide that one of her shoulders or hands or legs is closer to us, that her back is towards or away from us, and then our brain predicts the direction of the “spin.” Freeze any frame of it, and you’ll see that her orientation in imagined space is always reversible.
I’m not sure that it’s a right brain/left brain phenomenon. Our brains just seem to have a preference for
clockwise in this case. Maybe because she’s tilted towards us rather than away?
The bitch is spinning clockwise, you’re all on fucking crack.
it’s ridiculous how much time an energy you people spend on useless discussion. Noone is right or wrong here. ‘She’ doesn’t spin left or right for she doesn’t spin at all, nothing spins there. It’s a black 2D blob that quickly deforms left and right!
I focused on the direction her pony wail was moving, and i think its a fake, because the ponytail switches from facing right going clockwise circles, to opposite.so, im calling fake. and there was not looking down or away, i focues on the ponytain for a good few minutes without looking away, you can actually SEE the switch
awesome body no matter which way she turns
Use your cellphone to record the video until she switches direction and then play it back. See if she switches at the exact same time when you play it back over and over. If she doesn’t, it’s not a fake. If she does, it’s a fake. I tried this and concluded it was not fake.
this is crazy and it works!!!!!!!!!!!!:DDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDD
It’s obvious that the fact the legs are shadows its impossible to know which one is behind the other and which one is in front. However, how we can get confused about which is the back and which is the front is so frustrating! We can SEE the hair and the shape of the back that marks it as the back of the woman and yet no-one agrees on it being the back!
Oh and IT IS NOT A FAKE! Please stop commenting that like like you’re the only non-gullable person on the earth.
If you want to see that it’s not a fake and have a frustrated laugh too, call a friend to watch it with you. They’ll probably be pointing out the front as you’re pointing at the back and claim her to be turning in the opposite direction!
And to all those who say: “She’s spinning clockwise you bafoons!!!!” remember that only people with less than 90 of IQ sees her going in only one direction. So I’d watch who I call bafoons if I were you.
either way see turns her body is superb
no one seems to have a good answer…too me it’s awesome front or back…
lolz..
its not a fake..
i can change its direction at will..
even every 2 seconds..
just looks at his toes..
poor u guys..(those who cannot see and say its a fake)
lolz..
its not a fake..
i can change its direction at will..
even every 2 seconds..
just looks at her toes.. (typo)
poor u guys..(those who cannot see and say its a fake)
wish she was in live colour…she is great black and white…can you picture her as a red head..mmmmmmmmmm
At first I saw her spinning in one direction. After scrolling down to read comments, and scrolling back up, I noticed that her left arm was out instead of her right one as before! After a few minutes I can make her switch, or make it look like she’s in harmonic motion, always facing me. I define which way she spins by looking at her foot, and then looking up at the rest of her.
My advice: Try covering up everything but her feet with your hand, and try to imagine she’s always facing you. That might work..
actually william it IS an illusion cuz i can make it change at random times thats just you
nicely formed breasts…mmmmmmmmmmno matter which way she spins
it’s cool to see how many years apart the comments are
if your mind is free of your thinking…she turns at your will not a lapsed amount of time…just an awesome body…
She is changing feet every once and awhile. That is not complicated at all. What I want to know is why did the artist feel like her nipples had to be poking out?!
the lady is so excited knowing she is driving everyone wild…male or female…am a nipple checker my self…
When I first looked, her nipples were spinning clockwise. It didn’t take much for me to make her nipples spin the other way.
I think it’s a fake. One minute her left leg is sticking out and then her right leg is sticking out. Same with the bent arm. If her posture stayed the same and she changed direction I might believe it as an illusion but it’s a gif just changing.
no matter which way she spins her nipples are great
it just keeps going clockwise to me…even after i tried making it turn so many times!
Don’t under stand why you can not see her turning which ever way…nice body…
The secret is, there is no woman and there is no spinning. Rather than observing the true nature of the animation (moving black pixels on a gray-scale background) we are using our knowledge of how women are shaped and knowledge of what spinning looks like to *project* order/sense. I love this illusion because it helps demonstrate how we often don’t see the world how it is, we see the world how we are…in politics, judgement of others, invented self limitations, etc. It’s an offshoot of gestalt psychology.
so my mind is out to lunch…she’s not really there…those are not super feet that I see…what to do now
awesome feet …hands…arms…pony tail…all I see which ever way I get her to turn…all women in my life I wish they had her attributes
i can make her switch directions with a little focus. but if i even un-focus for a SECOND, she starts to spin the other way again. just shows the power of ur brain!
I am able to see it switch at every rotation. ha pretty cool!
super nipples either way
this picture should be sent to all terrorists… then the pres would have no support
only clockwise…doesnt work
It keeps changing a lot. I see it go both ways.
I don’t think it is actually spinning the full 360 degrees. I think it is just an illusion that it is spinning fully. (I bet everyone else knew this and I am late again)
Maria…watch her nipples…they go back (counter clockwise)they go forth(clockwise)
If you put a sticky note on the shadow (or cover it up however you can), the situation will clear up pretty quickly and one can see the other way. Now the interesting thing is that the women will not appear to do 360 at all like some have said here. She will do a 180 one way and when the legs merge she will do a 180 the other way.
I guess our brain looks at the direction of light source and the shadow and interprets it one way or the other but not both. Pretty cool.
she turns ten to the right 6 to the left…no matter which way she turns she presents a mouth water profile…yes
still super super super which ever way she turns…what would a man look like…bet the women then could get the illusion to change as often as they wanted…smile
it is an emotional vs. rational issue the right side of the brain deals with the emotional and the left with the rational. whichever direction she first appears to you is the side of the brain that is predominant for you. I first saw her clockwise then counterclockwise, I can shift her at will however sometimes it takes a bit of time to switch it back and forth so whoever saw her switch at 30 second intervals Decided that there would be a certain amount of time between each revolution and settled on 30 seconds. Anyone could do it however people who have difficulty or are unable to do it at all are simply unable to switch between rational and emotional as easily as others. it could still appear to these people in both ways but it would happen on a subconscious level rather than the conscious level that people who switch it at will do.
Wish I could make a holograph of her above my bed…then I sure would know which way she is spinning…
This really is fake. Try focusing on the head. The ponytail and the face are both really easy to tell apart. You can see that at first she turns counter-clockwise then she changes to clockwise. Just watch!
there’s no trick, it’s strictly a right/left brain dominant thing. Right brain dominant will see this clockwise, left will see it counter clockwise, and bi-dominant will be able to switch it at will, stop putting so much thought into it.
which side of my brain is dominant…I see both breasts as she spins
if you look above her head she goes counterclockwise then if you look below her foot she switches to clockwise.
It changes every turn for me! Even though I am kind of scared of optical illusions, this is awesome!
lol i saw this on dr.phil
Forget the shadow. The question is which way is she spinning. The answer is clockwise. If you look at the figure and see anything other than that you are officially RETARDED
clock wise no nipple extension
counter…smile
I downloaded the gif and pulled it up in adobe image ready. There are exactly 34 individual slides that make up this moving image. And she only completes ONE spin in those 34 slides.
So the image truly doesn’t switch directions on purpose! This is REAL!
Olivia sure wish there was a way to chat…first good answer in a long time…super thinking
They actually said if you can see them move in two directions, your IQ is above 160
I saw turn clockwise… a second later, she turned anti-clockwise. Now she turns clockwise again. WtF
If you stare at the feet (or shadow) it appears in the pendulum fashion where the image is of a woman facing away moving back and forth left and right, left and right.
The key to switching directions is to start by focusing on the foot and accomplish the pendulum effect, then look to the center-right section of the image, about where the other foot would be swinging. This causes the image to appear to rotate counter clockwise. If you do the same thing, again starting by looking at the lower foot, then pop your eyes over to the left-center section of the image, then the image appears to rotate clockwise.
I have tried to get the pendulum effect to work by staring at her head but she always goes clockwise, unless I do the foot trick and make her turn counter.
you fuckn drips she dose change just watch the fuckn shadow duhhhhhhhhhhh
no matter which way I get her to turn SHE is always awesome
I dont see it spin because every 2 seconds it changes ways for me. Sometimes it changes in one second.
hello Renee…awesome finally some one to agree with my thinking
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this actually works, i was in i lab and 5 people saw it spinning at different times, but not this one guy, he couldnet make it work. so yes it works!
this illusion can test if u are able to change to direction at anytime u want.
this illusion is true, i have figured it out, look at the part near the knee, and focus to imagine that it is swinging left and right, u could see it in any direction you like.
Do this put the image on top of your screen and focus 2 inch down from it you will see th movement looks like someone ice skating
Phew! This is clearly not fake! It got to the point that I could watch her changing rotational direction every half turn.
After i learned how to make her spin the opposite direction, i could even make her legs spin clockwise and body counterclockwise. Amazing!
all of you that have a system…does not count…can get her to turn in 2 sec then back and fort at will
aren’t her nipples so awesome…either way
i believe this is not fake. how can it be, me and my sister both said different things!! if you look only at her feet and block out everything else you can change her direction, i also sometimes see her going clockwise then anti clockwise then i see her just swaying her feet back and for, in less than thirty seconds’william’ who says somthing at the top.
for me her whole body just sways back and forward. I can change to make her face me or be facing away from me though. but she does not spin >.<
asdasd your not smoking good shit are you…agree she has awesome nipples no matter which way she turns
if in the forest can you see the trees
nice boobs
It’s spinning from the brain
For all of you that say that it’s fake, it’s not. I too was in disbelief, but then I downloaded this picture and viewed it in Photoshop. Turns out, it’s really an illusion. It’s a total of 34 frames. The thing is,when I viewed frames 7-10, that’s when she’s about to turn 180 degrees, it’s up to the brain to decide which direction she’s spinning in. I viewed those frames again and again, and I got different results each time. So, honestly, it’s NOT fake. Approved.
After experimenting for way too much time I have come up with a way to make it easier to view the change. Look to the right or the left until you are pretty much viewing the image out of the peripheral vision of one eye. You should no longer see “her” as spinning but as swinging her foot from left to right in front of her. To see her spin one way or the other, wait until her foot touches either edge of the frame she is in and quickly look to the center. Which edge her foot is touching will control which way you see here spinning.
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