Spinning Girl Illusion

[BWK]

Ok everyone, I don't know how many of you have ever checked out this site before but I would like to do a poll on the spinning girl illusion they have on there. I see her spin counter clockwise and my wife and 2 daughters have me wondering if I am crazy. So if you all will do this for fun lets start us up a good old fashioned pole. When you go there you have to click on the girl to get her to open up on a fresh screen, and when you do it to someone else make sure to reload the page to get the correct start up as you did for comparison purposes.

Mind Illusions

 

[derekimo]

Ok everyone, I don't know how many of you have ever checked out this site before but I would like to do a pole on the spinning girl illusion they have on there. I see her spin counter clockwise and my wife and 2 daughters have me wondering if I am crazy. So if you all will do this for fun lets start us up a good old fashioned pole. When you go there you have to click on the girl to get her to open up on a fresh screen, and when you do it to someone else make sure to reload the page to get the correct start up as you did for comparison purposes.

Mind Illusions

I see her spin counter clockwise too. Left side of the brain thinker it says.

 

[z3r010]

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[noobvious]

Ok everyone, I don't know how many of you have ever checked out this site before but I would like to do a pole on the spinning girl illusion they have on there. I see her spin counter clockwise and my wife and 2 daughters have me wondering if I am crazy. So if you all will do this for fun lets start us up a good old fashioned pole. When you go there you have to click on the girl to get her to open up on a fresh screen, and when you do it to someone else make sure to reload the page to get the correct start up as you did for comparison purposes.

Mind Illusions

I see her spin counter clockwise too. Left side of the brain thinker it says.

I see her going clockwise,which they say makes me a right brain thinker. I actually think I am somewhere in the middle, but who knows?

 

[electrotune1200]

counter clockwise here.

 

[thefabe]

I think this has been posted once already and I have the same answer both ways. Fabe

 

[NinaJay]

How on earth is she going counter clockwise?

I'm obviously not logical nor mathematical.

Definitely clockwise here - if you think otherwise you are just crazy

 

[NinaJay]

HANG. ON. A. SECOND!

I was staring at it long enough and she started going the other way!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

What does that mean?

Aaargh, it's driving me crazy now...

 

[Dark Nova Gamer]

How on earth is she going counter clockwise?

I'm obviously not logical nor mathematical.

Definitely clockwise here - if you think otherwise you are just crazy

I could just be seeing what I want to see, but I believe she spins one direction for a bit then starts up the other direction.

 

[derekimo]

How on earth is she going counter clockwise?

I'm obviously not logical nor mathematical.

Definitely clockwise here - if you think otherwise you are just crazy

I could just be seeing what I want to see, but I believe she spins one direction for a bit then starts up the other direction.

Yeah she's doing that to me now too.:huh:

 

[NinaJay]

How on earth is she going counter clockwise?

I'm obviously not logical nor mathematical.

Definitely clockwise here - if you think otherwise you are just crazy

I could just be seeing what I want to see, but I believe she spins one direction for a bit then starts up the other direction.

Yes! Me too - when I look at it long enough she changes direction.

It is a trick I tells ya... a TRICK!

 

[Dark Nova Gamer]

How on earth is she going counter clockwise?

I'm obviously not logical nor mathematical.

Definitely clockwise here - if you think otherwise you are just crazy

I could just be seeing what I want to see, but I believe she spins one direction for a bit then starts up the other direction.

Yes! Me too - when I look at it long enough she changes direction.

It is a trick I tells ya... a TRICK!

Okay so.. we are just seeing what we want to see. Its designed to look like its spinning either way, based on how we think I guess? I still see it go either direction. Kind of creepy if you ask me.

My brain hurts now.

 

[smarteyeball]

I think this has been posted once already and I have the same answer both ways. Fabe

It was, and my answer too remains the same. She spins both ways depending on which hemisphere of the brain is active.

HANG. ON. A. SECOND!

I was staring at it long enough and she started going the other way!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

What does that mean?

Aaargh, it's driving me crazy now...

That it's driving you crazy?

 

[clunkfish]

She spins both ways depending on which hemisphere of the brain is active.

If you have an inactive hemisphere then medical assistance is indicated....

You can force yourself to see either direction of spin. The illusion depends on it being a silhouette - if the figure had any features the illusion would resolve into just one direction.

 

[pparks1]

I'm only seeing a clockwise spin. I've seen this before and I only ever see a clockwise spin. As much as I want to imagine it going the other way, it's not for me.

 

[clunkfish]

I'm only seeing a clockwise spin. I've seen this before and I only ever see a clockwise spin. As much as I want to imagine it going the other way, it's not for me.

You can do it - just keep looking and telling yourself it's anticlockwise. Very suddenly, it will switch (and then you'll have trouble getting back to seeing it clockwise!)

 

[madtownidiot]

It changes, sometimes clockwise, sometimes counterclockwise... must be programmed to do that.

 

[jfar]

She swings both ways, she reminds me of Cindy.

 

[Thorsen]

I focused and got her to spin counterclockwise, otherwise, my brain says clockwise.

 

[pparks1]

This site does a nice job explaining what some of us see.
NeuroLogica Blog Left Brain – Right brain and the Spinning Girl