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Earlier, kaige_of_ct posted this, and the more I look at it, the more fun it is. It's an optical illusion featuring a silhouette of a woman spinning in circles, and the question is, which way is she spinning?
The blurb below the image posits that which way you see her spinning depends on which hemisphere of your brain is currently dominant; logical left-brain activity leads to perceived counterclockwise spinning, while creative right-brain activity leads to perceived clockwise spinning. I was initially very skeptical of this claim, but it's now seeming strangely plausible.
When I first looked at it this morning, in the course of planning my day, she was definitively spinning counter-clockwise, and I couldn't convince my brain to reverse it. I looked back at the page when I got back from work (after 45 minutes of singing in the car), and she was spinning clockwise, and again, I couldn't convince my brain to reverse it.
Just a few minutes ago, I checked again after dancing around my living room for 20 minutes--still clockwise--then got curious and started analyzing the illusion. In the process of said analysis, I glanced away from the screen for a fraction of a second, and when I glanced back, darned if she wasn't spinning counterclockwise. So I started playing with phrasing for a fluffier post on the subject. I clicked on the url to copy it; clicking paused the image for a fraction of a second, and when it started moving again, it looked like it was moving clockwise.
Somewhere in the midst of writing up this sequence, I glanced up, and she's back to spinning counter-clockwise. And I still can't make the image reverse through sheer concentration, like I can with most two-way optical illusions.
Is it tracking this way for anyone else?
The blurb below the image posits that which way you see her spinning depends on which hemisphere of your brain is currently dominant; logical left-brain activity leads to perceived counterclockwise spinning, while creative right-brain activity leads to perceived clockwise spinning. I was initially very skeptical of this claim, but it's now seeming strangely plausible.
When I first looked at it this morning, in the course of planning my day, she was definitively spinning counter-clockwise, and I couldn't convince my brain to reverse it. I looked back at the page when I got back from work (after 45 minutes of singing in the car), and she was spinning clockwise, and again, I couldn't convince my brain to reverse it.
Just a few minutes ago, I checked again after dancing around my living room for 20 minutes--still clockwise--then got curious and started analyzing the illusion. In the process of said analysis, I glanced away from the screen for a fraction of a second, and when I glanced back, darned if she wasn't spinning counterclockwise. So I started playing with phrasing for a fluffier post on the subject. I clicked on the url to copy it; clicking paused the image for a fraction of a second, and when it started moving again, it looked like it was moving clockwise.
Somewhere in the midst of writing up this sequence, I glanced up, and she's back to spinning counter-clockwise. And I still can't make the image reverse through sheer concentration, like I can with most two-way optical illusions.
Is it tracking this way for anyone else?