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Is this girl spinning clockwise or counter-clockwise?

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BEARS.
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ive been told some people see this spinning clockwise and others see it spinning counter-clockwise. but for the life of me i cant see it going counter-clockwise.
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^gotta click that.
May 14 2010 1:21AM
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BrewskiJr
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Both. The trick is looking at the foot and its shadow. If you try hard enough you can flip it back in forward. Complete and udder mind fuck
May 14 2010 1:23AM
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Shadows
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this used to be a fuckin pop up ad. youre really posting a pop up ad? its a trip, thats the point.
May 14 2010 1:24AM
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mark.p
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counter-clockwise dude
May 14 2010 1:24AM
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BrewskiJr
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Ok. just figured out an easy way to switch. Hold your hand up to the screen and cover the girl all the way down to her ankle thats on the ground. Force your brain to see the foot turning the opposite way. Once you do this, slowly move your hand up forcing your brain to match the spin of the foot
May 14 2010 1:26AM
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BEARS.
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now that i see it going the other way i cant go back the clockwise. WTFFFF
May 14 2010 1:28AM
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Holte
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Yeah, after trying that, I can only see her spinning rightside now.
May 14 2010 1:42AM
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PimpingPanda
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Dude, wtf?? She is spinning clockwise, and at 12 o clock she does a jump clockwise! HTW does anyone see her doing counter clockwise??
May 14 2010 2:08AM
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dynodonkey
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i see her nipples
May 14 2010 2:33AM
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Skipig25
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or when her leg crosses the other one, imagine it is behind instead of in front, and she will switch rotation
May 14 2010 2:52AM
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derbski
Posts: 3173 - Karma: 62
This gif shows the difference between the two interpretations your brain can make
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what confuses me is that I understand how the legs can appear to overlap in a way that can make it look clockwise or counterclockwise, but I don't get how her ponytail follows suit.
May 14 2010 2:52AM
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Skipig25
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haha, if I look back and forth, I can keep her facing me or facing away the entire time
May 14 2010 2:55AM
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derbski
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oh yeah, forgot to mention to cover up one of them at a time, otherwise it is basically the equivalent of crossing the streams, which according to bill murray and dan aykroyd can have dire consequences.
May 14 2010 2:59AM
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zerospinskier
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Wow it took me a while to make the switch the first time. Then, once it switches it is hard to switch back the other way.  Squinting a lot works to help switch it for me.
May 14 2010 3:46AM
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EastCoast315
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this thread is fucked
I'm so confused. Our brain is amazing
May 14 2010 5:57AM
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derbski
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our brain is pretty amazing, but in this case it is just a crafty set of repeating pictures, not our brain, that is doing this. If you save the .gif to your computer and look at the separate frames, you see that for any frame besides the one where you see her side profile, depending on whether you decide to call the straight leg the right or left one (it could be either) it could be a picture of her facing towards or away from you. Basically, if you look at it when it is paused, however many degrees you perceive her to be facing away from her side profile, the picture could plausibly represent her facing that many degrees towards or away. This explanation sounds way more complex than it is, just try clicking and dragging to stop it from moving and you will see what I mean.
May 14 2010 7:01AM
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Click_Here
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the only correct answer is counter clockwise.  you children miss the day of pre school when they taught that?
May 14 2010 8:47AM
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HIRO
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I saw her turning counter-clockwise, then blinked and now I only see clockwise and can't change it :(
May 14 2010 8:57AM
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spen-cer
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you're an idiot. people can see it both ways (including myself). Depending on what way i want myself to think she is going, she will turn that way.
May 14 2010 9:00AM
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Click_Here
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oh yeah? well look at her hand and foot. the only people  here that are idiots, are those who think shes spinning clockwise
May 14 2010 9:09AM
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OhMyBosh
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You're an idiot.
May 14 2010 9:10AM
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BrewskiJr
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whoa whoa whoa Grammar Police!!! Excuse me and let me correct myself sir for I feel like a fool!

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May 14 2010 10:56AM
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.Natty.
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jeez, its just an optical illusion

like this

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and this

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May 14 2010 11:06AM
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1337
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holy shit, after i finally got it, i could watch both of them going opposite ways next to each other. i win
May 14 2010 11:20AM
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nickyp
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I only got Clockwise.
May 14 2010 11:25AM
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ForrestW
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that is crazy... for about 5 minutes of seeing it go clockwise and trying to see it the other way i closed my eyes and imagined it going counter-clockwise. when i opened them she was, it was like i was seeing a whole different picture.  if you can only see it one way try closing your eyes and imagining it the other way then opening your eyes, its the only way i can get it to work.

May 14 2010 11:35AM
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Bar_Down
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lol seriously, the first minute i was like wtf theres no possible way for it to look like shes spinning counter-clockwise, and after i did that trick, now i can only see her going counter lol
May 14 2010 12:23PM
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1337
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haha now i can play ping pong with her leg
May 14 2010 12:34PM
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prontocuts.com
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i can make her stand still, sup
May 14 2010 12:44PM
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find
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utterly mind-boggling
May 14 2010 12:56PM
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blong131
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ive stared at this for so long i cant get her to go counter clockwise at all
May 14 2010 1:09PM
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no_steeze
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i can easily get her to go both ways...like a bisexual

but seriously, just zone out, stare at her foot, close your eyes, and look back and she'll go a different way. get into a different mindset, clear your head
May 14 2010 1:15PM
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s.parker
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this makes my head hurt
May 14 2010 1:28PM
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Jahseph.
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What the fuck did you just do to my head?
May 14 2010 1:29PM
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soulskier
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boobies!
May 14 2010 2:42PM
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Scolson
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The gif actually changes the direction.
May 14 2010 3:14PM
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derbski
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the gif just happens to do it at really random intervals, or when it receives brainwaves from the person watching it telling it to change direction?
May 14 2010 3:28PM
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Peter.
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i'm just getting counter clockwise
May 14 2010 3:35PM
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pCletus
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i see both ways

May 14 2010 3:38PM
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anxju
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supposedly if she goes clockwise youre more right brain oriented (like pictures, art, creative imaginative thinking, charts, etc)

and if you see it going counterclockwise youre more left brain oriented (like lists of text, math problems, science, not creative but can problem solve, logic, etc)


funny cause i saw it clockwise and im nasty at art and im creative but i can solve math problems well cause im asian!
May 14 2010 3:41PM
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.d.
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this is confusing the hell out of me cuz i cant tell if its clockwise from this view. IF i looked at her from above i would be seeing counter clockwise, but if i looked at her from below then she would be spinning clockwise.

HOw do you guys determine which way she is spinning, as in i see her spining from left to right.
May 14 2010 3:55PM
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gigi.d
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Clockwise
May 14 2010 4:07PM
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adamlukowski
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i just stared at this for like 5 minutes, so you need to look at the shadows, and when they dissapear and come back, after awhile she will switch, and the more you look at it you can control which way she goes!
May 14 2010 4:09PM
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fountain.
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the first time i looked, i saw her counter clockwise, then i looked away and she was clockwise. now i cant even figure out which way she is spinning
May 14 2010 4:14PM
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*monsterskier*
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^^
May 14 2010 5:10PM
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p.jones
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crazy!!!! for me i can make her switch directions pretty easily, you just gotta focus real hard and think about it
May 14 2010 5:28PM
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JahJahBinks
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I saw clockwise.
May 14 2010 5:31PM
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Slinger1x1
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she has perky tits
May 14 2010 5:33PM
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AdolfShitler
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Wait what? She's spinning right..
May 14 2010 5:41PM
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highindasky55
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it's you whos the idiot. seriously just sit down, shut up and stare at her foot till it switches. damn retard
May 14 2010 5:43PM
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yojimbo
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she spins vertically for me
May 14 2010 5:46PM
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