Oct 26 2007
Spinning Girl
The Spinning Girl…
Do you see the spinning girl turning clockwise or counterclockwise?
According to an article in PerthNow, if you see her going clockwise, you use more of the right side of the brain. If you see her going counterclockwise (anticlockwise) you use more of the left side of your brain.
The folks that can see her going both ways - or even change direction at will - use left and right sides of their brain equally.
Apparently, that’s not quite true. It’s more a case of perception, and the ability to sharpen your perceptual skills.
And if you can’t see her going more than one way,check out this image — it will help you see the “other” direction that you can’t see.
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It still confuses me
The problem is the foot. If you look at the foot, even if you can see the rest of it going counterclockwise, the foot is still traveling clockwise.
At least as far as I could perceive. So it is spinning clockwise, which would show that more people can see it going that direction one would think.
Still, a nifty exercise in perception.
Ummm… I see it both ways and I can assure that if the body is going clockwise, the foot is going that direction. Seeing it going counterclockwise results in the foot going counterclockwise. It does deal with how you perceive it.
Daniel, I see it both ways, too.
For Kuri… this page adds a line that helps you see the other way better.
http://www.randominc.net/spinninglady/
At first it seemed to go clockwise then after i focused on her stomach for a while i noticed she was now going the other way so i tried to see if i could make it change at will and i found that if you blink really fast for a few seconds she will appear to rotate the other direction, well it did for me. So give it a try… it’d be really cool if it was just me
Actually, I saw it as COUNTERclockwise for 3 days, then I could get it to reverse. It is shocking, but I still initially see it as counterclockwise, then it can be made to switch.
If you think “Ok the foot on the ground is her left” you see her rotating anit-clockwise. Look away and think “ok the foot is her right now” and look back she is going clockwise.
When I looked at the foot on the ground for awhile, it became easy to perceive NO rotations, but rather a back and forth swaying. From that point it was easy to make her spin either direction at will.
I can only switch it if i look at something that isnt the girl…i saw it clockwise
then without me thinking about it it switched and i couldnt switch back
then it did the same thing
This bothers me… I can’t reverse the directions by choice. I see the clockwise naturally. I can see the counter-clockwise by looking at the image with the white lines defining, and then look back at original. But then I can’t make it go back to clockwise without looking at the clockwise or looking away for awhile…
I can make her turn either way for a while and then she’ll stick going one way.
Actually if you keep watching it changes direction from one way to the other…you have to keep your eyes wide open and don’t blink…you’ll see it change directions. No left side right side brain stuff here…just a trick in the picture changing directions.
lol Dan. I thought that the image changed directions, too, so I opened it cell by cell in an animation program and it doesn’t change directions.
If you move your eyes to different places - like reading the text beside it or glancing up down or just off to a side - you’ll discover that you can make it change directions by changing where you’re looking. The direction you see is created by an optical illusion.
It took awhile but I was able to force myself to see both ways. Using the browser tabs helped.
After a few minutes, I found that verbally saying which way it was going when the two legs are parallel, I was able to switch directions.
Lol. It’s a trick. The image actually changes direction. When she’s spinning clockwise, her right leg is sticking out. When she spins counter-clockwise her left leg sticks out.
Really cool, i was able to make her change which way she way spinning by really focusing on her feet and thinking she went the other direction
I thought i was CLEARLY seeing her spinning clockwise (and i asked myself how it was possible the opposite)
Then I thought i could follow the rithm til i could focuse on that central point in which the leg was swaying back and forth, instead of spinning..from that point forth, it was easy to change direction at will..
I thought that without realizing that if you focuse on the body (Whatever part) or the raised leg, you will always see her spinning in one direction.
The only way to make her “change” is to focus on the standing leg, “not seeing” the rest of the image. According to the moment you start watching the body again, the spin will be determined in your head..
Dunno if it is really affected by the brain..maybe it’s still a valid argument for the first 5 seconds. Later, consciousness takes over..
This is amusing. Initially i only saw the clockwise. Couldn’t set my mind to anything but it.
Then i viewed the page Linda linked with the 2 spinning ladies with lines.
Then after looking at either of them and coming back here i now see whichever was the last direction i looked at.
I assume if i go away and don’t think about it again i’ll see clockwise again probably. But interesting to find out so i’ve bookmarked this page and hopefully i’ll come back to this page sometime in the future when i’ve forgotten about it and can find out.
I originally saw her spinning clockwise and couldn’t see how anyone could see it otherwise. Then I discovered that every time I squinted, she would change direction.
while looking at the page with 2 i saw both move both ways then as i looked in the middle of the two they went the same way then opposite then same again I was SOOO freaked out
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Oh god.
Ive stumbled on this before, its a hoax. It changes itself dumbasses.
No it doesn’t mha. You can get two people to look at it at the same time to prove it.
an interesting experiment:
take random equal numbers of republicans and democrats and test with this illusion. I have a feeling I know which group would fail to see both rotations
Another perfectly valid way of seeing this is here floundering back and forth. That is, the moving leg always in the back or always in the front, and one arm always in the front and another always in the back. That took quite some concentration to see, but I was able to get it, by staring at her torso and imagining that one arm was always behind her. I can’t keep it going for very long, though.
At some points, I could make her upper body spin in an opposite direction to the bottom half, so my brain expected her to twist.
This is interesting, although notably fake. You can check the .gif for proving my point - after a small while, the actual animation changes direction. I hate to be the bearer of bad news, but this was built to deceive and has done so very well over the past year or so. I’ve seen this on at least 70 websites, and only one of which realized that it was not indeed a mind trick, but just a trick. Anyways, happy internetting, just don’t take this kind of thing too seriously, in the case that it’s fake (as is such in this case).
-Second note
Mha agrees with me (I didn’t read the comments before posting). Check it out.
Marathon,
I thought it was a trick too, until I saw the side by side here:
http://www.randominc.net/spinninglady/
It really is a perceptual trick. You can actually make it switch at will using the two shown there.. really freaky.
p.s. Stop lying about dissecting the gif, I did too, and it never changes direction.
hey marathon… you voted for mccain, didnt you? i can switch directions at will. its not a trick. stop being so closed minded.
hey mha… you voted for mccain, didnt you? i love the way you are so overconfident and dead wrong at the same time. it says alot about you. focus on the foot touching the ground. when i do that, i am then able to change deirection at will or even keep the dancer making only half turns back and fourth indefinitely. didnt you look at the other link where someone added a faint grey outline at the thigh? it really simplifies things or were you just so damned sure that you need not bother? ill wager that liberals have a much easier time seeing both sides than conservatives. i would like you to take a few minutes and check it out one final time, then apologize like the big man or woman you pride yourself as being. same for marathon.
I found that by reading the text on the left while watching her spin in my peripheral vision, it allowed me to manipulate to some extent which direction she turned. Otherwise, I see it in one direction some times and the other direction other times, but with little ability to manipulate or switch.
thats just stupid you can quite plainly see that she has her left leg on the ground and then it changes to here right leg. just look at them.
It was clearly very cold in that studio.
The trick of this is that you can’t see any depth to the image, so it is up to your brain to decide whether it is in the back while moving to the left, or in the front, it’s as simple as that. Personally, I can switch it at will, making it easier to understand. There is no trick, and the link provided by the poster shows us how the same animation can be interpreted either way, just by putting lines on the figures thighs to define the front and back leg. I also agree with anonymous, I noticed that, very cold…
By “it” being in the back or front in my previous post I meant the outstretched leg.
lol Marathon and Brad get a clue stop makin fools of yourselves
My wife figured out that it’s a fake. At first I thought she was nuts, but not so.
If you look at her face and her boobs at the same time you will see she randomly changes direction. Being a man I guess I only looked at her boobs.
I disassembled the gif. It switches directions..
People are tricked by such simple nonsense nowadays.
Although this does show which side of your brains you’re using,
the answer is neither, you’re not using your brain.
its a trick with the legs
try looking around ther it works
its just a video trick…. i could see it turning in both directions….. the trick is that for some time it is rotating clockwise… then after some time(the time varies) , it starts to turn anticlock wise…………. the testing proof is the proximity of the girls hands to her waist………….when she is moving clockwise, the left hand is closer to the waist and when she is rotating anticlockwise, the right hand is closer to the waist…………. hence its just a video trick… nothing to do with the left or right side of the brain being active !!!!
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you people who “figured it out” are idiots. its not a trick. read michaels comment, he explains it perfectly. and bob… you wifes an idiot too.
All I see are a nice set of tits..
wtf the it keeps changing so either im really smart or they just think that people aren’t going to look at if for very long
PPl who believe this is not a trick and think its real are the real idiots… its indeed a trick…. the pic is a gif image and it does that at constant time intervals if u watch properly…ppl miss the whole picture when they are tryin so hard to focus on a body part to see which direction is turning, dont focus on any part jst keep watching the whole grl then suddenly she will change direction, in fact in slower system (config) u can see a brief pause b4 she turn opposite.
Lol nipples!
f***ing foot shadow…
It’s a trick… if it helps cover it up except for her head… it spins one way about 30 times and then goes the other. Simple effect explained simply.
with a little work, I am now able to switch between directions pretty much in a split second at will
although the image provided by Linda didn’t help me unfortunately- I just saw two girls spinning in the same direction. am I the only one?
É muito fácil percerber. Ela simplesmente traça um círculo imaginário, apenas metade do círculo para a direita e a outra metade para a esquerda. A mudança ocorre quando ela está de frente para o vídeo justamente quando dá um pulinho, traçando a metade do círculo ora para a direita, ora para a esquerda.
Muito bom. That’s it
Otacon…. LOL.
It cracks me up when people think it’s a trick. It’s not a trick, it’s an optical illusion. The girl can be going either way, depending on which leg we perceive to be leading.
It is as others have said an optical illusion.
If the people that keep saying it is a changing gif image would try an animated dissection of the gif would see that plain and simple.
There are 34 frames in all and no direction change, if your still not convinced get an animated gif program, download the gif and take a look.
Took me a little while to train my eyes to move it back and forth but it does work
Ok I might have spoke too soon, after a while I captured the gif when it was spinning one way and then the other, saved them both to HDD and what do you know they both have 34 frames and both spin in opposite directions.
Does not explain however how I can switch it one way or the other at will - or at least seem to
Still a neat idea though….
look at the shadow bellow, it’s turning clockwise.
if they’d remove the shadow, then…
This is stupid, she’s going clockwise - it’s a fact.
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this is obviously not fake. if you look at the foot at the bottom, you can slowly see it as a back-and-forth motion. then, by refocusing on the whole picture, you can change the direction of the girl at will. Dan, Bb, mha, Marathon, brad, Bob’s wife, LOL, Vijay, Foxie, and Silver, you are all simply wrong. Not everything you see must be proven false. If it can be changed at will, it cannot be controlled by a preset system, can it? Also i find it funny how some of these morons try to act as if they’ve some sort of superior intelligence.
btw, how do politics relate to this anyway? definitely not saying i support mccain, though.
Great thing impresses a lot
I could swithch with both………. maybe i can use bth brains