Do most be really see it counter-clockwise? I can see it both ways...but the first way I saw it was clockwise. I have to force myself to see it counter-clockwise. I can almost change it at will. Weird.

I just can't see it turning counter-clockwise...I must be so horribly horribly right brained.

initially i saw it turning clockwise....but it took me awhile before i could see it turning the other way. The trick is to focus on the legs first then move up...

I could NOT get it to spin counter clockwise, until I scrolled down... Once I could only see the legs, then it looked like it was going counter. You're right Stack, focus on the legs and you'll see it counterclockwise.

Cool exercise elbandido

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Most people I've met primarily (or only) see it turn clockwise. Which is odd, because most people are right handed, which is left brain.

It's not a perfectly neutral image, either. If you watch the woman's extended foot, the one that makes the sweeping circle, you'll see it's higher at one point passing the center than it is at the other point passing the center. From the vantage point of the viewer, that would seem to make her foot father away at the high point, and closer at the low point, which forces the interpretation of the direction of rotation of those whose minds notice such things.

For the life of me, I cannot see her turn the other way, although I have seen other similar visuals where I could. And according to tests I've taken, my left and right hemispheres are about equal (neither right nor left brained).

I can see both, but I can't control it - every time I look at it, her direction changes.

I'm messed up. /sniff

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Hopelessly right brained. It took me minutes to force myself seeing her spin the other way around.

But I think the image is just switching periodically. If you leave it running for a while, you'll eventually see it go both ways.

i should lay off of something that i eat, cause it's affecting me real badly.

it takes me like 2 minutes of STARING at her to see her the other way, then i have to start all over to see it go back. and repeat that process everytime i want to see her change direction.

what's that a sign of? lol
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try to read some text while looking at the picture

try not read text and look at the picture as a whole

Yeah, I'm pretty sure it is.

i saw this a few weeks ago, and i'm still seeing it the same way:

initially, i see it turning clockwise, but i can make it change directions whenever i want

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I thought it was rigged at first. It took me a while to see it both ways. But I have looked at it with my wife and we see it turn in different directions at the same time.

I thought it was going back and forth to start with. I am ambidexterous though, maybe that has something to do with it... very easy to control.

Somebody brought this article to my attention:
http://scienceline.org/2007/10/29/ask-hsu-spinning-girl-right-left-brain-hemispheres/

ladies and gentlemen... this i not just a fun exercise any more, but a complex neuro-sociological experiment that crosses ethical, social and scientific values. This is BIG. Let go of your mouse and pick up a mirror, look into it and ask yourself: If your left and right brain were to fight each other to the death....which side would win? I just did it and my left side kicked some ass.

Look fast enough to the left side of the dancer and shift to right continuously to the point where you will be able to control her rotation.

Very weird.

If I were that chick I WOULD BE VERY nauseous by NOW! Lol

I just didn't concentrate on anything in particular and she switched sides. . .

nice rack though! lol

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i can't see it counter-clockwise at all no matter how i try.

If you look on the shadow the foot shows the direction (back and forth as well as left and right). If the foot is pointing from back to left to front to right and back again it has to be counterclockwise! Only if you see the upper part it could be clockwise.

Clockwise for me too. I was looking too hard perhaps because all I noticed after a while was her nipples.

I had a bad time with this..... i see it clockwise all the time... until i step away from the monitor... got u ... counterclockwise now....

Holy something or other. Shawn is absolutely right!

I too could not see it turn counter-clockwise, and thought you were all being a bit daft, but after concentrating on the reflected legs, it happened -- I too became just as daft!

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I just blinked to match some frame speed and I can see it counter-clockwise !
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It took a moment to get the counter-clockwise, but initially it's clockwise. Incidentally, my 8 year old saw counter-clockwise, then clockwise, then counter again and back to clockwise. It said it was just switching backing and forth. Poor kid.

The animation is programmed to switch directions after some time.
When turning clock-wise, the right leg is in the air with the right arm extended outwards more than the left. When counter clock-wise the opposite happens.

The user cannot control the direction!!!!

Tried with some collegues. Some saw cl-wise others ccl-wise at the same time. And it switched at different times for the guys. Someone never saw it changing direction. If it turns clockwise, close your left eye and do something with your right hand, without to much concentrating on the turning lady. If she turns ccl-wise, close your right eye and do sthng with your left hand. That should make her change direction. Maybe you reach the point where the leg only slings from one side to another... fun... but I don't think this has sthng to do with the fact, that you are left or right 'brained'.

I can make her go either way just by concentrating on her swinging foot or the shadow. For clockwise I concentrate on her foot and make it go behind her leg, for counter, I just look at the shadow and it seems to go naturally counter for me so she switches. It took a few minutes of practice, but I can make her spin either way at will. The user can control the direction, and it is not rigged, not just the upper part, it really works.

I'm assuming that the perception of direction (clockwise/counter-clockwise) is based on if one is viewing from the top. To me, the issue is whether it is moving left to right or right to left. I perceive it moving counter clockwise, which would be spinning from left to right.

Please tell me that I'm not the only one who feels this way.