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jay-shi · Joined: 09 May 2004 Location: On tour

Check it out :

http://www.news.com.au/heraldsun/story/0,21985,22556281-661,00.html

It started out clockwise for me, so I guess I'm a right-brain person. I was able to reverse it though.

Fun and interesting stuff.

Ya-ta Boy · Joined: 16 Jan 2003 Location: Established in 1994

Fun.

If I look directly at her, she is turning clockwise, but if I look off to the left at the word 'see' in the sentence "Most of us would see..." then she is moving counter-clockwise.

indytrucks · Joined: 09 Apr 2003 Location: The Shelf

I think there's an echo in here. Look down the page.

http://forums.eslcafe.com/korea/viewtopic.php?t=101214

IncognitoHFX · Joined: 06 May 2007 Location: Yeongtong, Suwon

That's driving me nuts. I can't even comprehend how anyone would think she's moving counter-clockwise as I can only seem to visualize her as turning clockwise.

Any tips for making her move the other way?

I tried that "focus on the word 'see'" trick and had absolutely no luck.

*EDIT: Never mind, I figured out how to change her. Crazy.

VanIslander · Posted: Thu Oct 11, 2007 6:14 pm Post subject:

awesome

i saw only clockwise for minutes until i looked to the bottom left and noticed that in my peripheral vision she was turning counter-clockwise! then when i looked directed at it it would suddenly go in the opposite direction (back to clockwise). Then I noticed I could turn my head, focus to my left then look across to my right and see the image going counter-clockwise for a few seconds, longer if i relax and don't think about it

great example of how our brains create realities out of info: we don't see the world as it is! just the way our brains organize the sense data

ED209 · Joined: 17 Oct 2006

started of ccw then started staring at her feet which kinda of made it flip. Perhaps if you want to switch it you need to look at parts of the figure not the hole. Cool though, shame I can't show it to my students on account of her huge knockers and raspberries.

IncognitoHFX · Joined: 06 May 2007 Location: Yeongtong, Suwon

jinju · Joined: 22 Jan 2006

Damn, so this thread ISNT an optical illusion..I thought I was seeing double.

Quick question: why do people feel the need to post new threads about subjects that already have a thread...and on the FRONT PAGE, too.

Op?

jay-shi · Joined: 09 May 2004 Location: On tour

djsmnc · Joined: 20 Jan 2003 Location: Dave's ESL Cafe

I don't believe it has anything to do with the brain. what a quack theory. It's just the way your eyes see. If you need me to prove it, give me a f-in research grant.

SeoulShakin · Joined: 05 Jan 2006 Location: Seoul

At first I thought it would just randomly spin whichever way.

Then I showed it to my roommate. We both looked at it at the same time. I saw counter-clockwise. I asked her what she saw, and she saw clockwise. I saw her standing on her right foot. She saw her standing on her left. Fricken weird. She's left handed, I'm right.

I've figured out how to make her switch directions though.

mindmetoo · Joined: 02 Feb 2004

http://www.theness.com/neurologicablog/index.php?p=27#more-27

Here's a cogent explanation from a Yale neurologist.