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Which way is the dancer spinning, clockwise or counter-clockwise?



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Clockwise?

Ive done this before, I can see her going both ways counter clockwise and clockwise :p

I can only see the clockwise direction, although I squinted myself silly. Must be the boobs, I keep staring at them

You mustn't have stared long enough soaK that dancer totally goes both ways *snigger*

Oh Elljae, you're such a card

Try as I might, I'm with soaK.. I can only see her swinging one way - clockwise. According to the site this came from, if you can see her going clockwise, you're using your right brain... anti-clockwise left brain. If you can make her switch at will, it apparently means you're a genius. Which is just stupid, but meh, good for you unknownZ

As a further thought, why is everything always happening at will. Switch at will? Fire at will? Poor Will, what did he do to deserve the abuse? Oh, and Bill Posters... he's always being prosecuted. Anyone know what he did?

lol grok good idea putting this in the forums grok, I didn't think of that, but I have been amusing my family with it and we're all got pretty adept at controlling it

oh btw if anyone wants the read original page
http://www.readnrock.com/?p=38

Dammit, you had to say that, Gob, didn't you? Now I'll try to spend the rest of my day(s) trying to make her change direction

/me scampers off into the nerd coner, sobbing uncontrollably

All I have to do to get her to change directions is blink. She's fun...and addictive.

How the hell does anyone see her going counter-clockwise?!!?! I can only see this clockwise...i'm so confused!

Same Sporty. Welcome to the right-brain club. Apparently we're just not smart enough.

Counter-clockwise here

I just imagine her going the other way and she switches, a little trick is to mirror the movement with your finger then to change your finger to go the other way and genrally the image will follow well at least that works for me

FINALLY managed to get her to go anti-clockwise... by covering everything but her head with my hand and concentrating really really hard.

Logged in today and she's spinning clockwise.

THIS IS A SHAM!

thats what we thought but I can confirm I have had me and my sister looking at it at the same time and seeing in go opposite directions.

i say she is turning clock wise

I think the problem I have with seeing it going anticlockwise is that the shadow of her feet shows one foot coming closer to the viewer during a rotation, which could ONLY happen if she was spinning clockwise. If she was spinning anticlockwise, then the shadow would appear further away. Wouldn't it?

I say we put a slug in her head and see which way she topples...

You know I just realised she has very perky... umm.. it must be cold.

lol gob is guess it does look pretty cold in that room of greyness, took you a while to notice that though

Gobberwart wrote:You know I just realised she has very perky... umm.. it must be cold.

heh. I was wondering how long it would take for someone to point that out. And I am totally not surprised that it was Gobber!

I'm disappointed it took me that long.

Hah, today it suddenly worked. Dunno why though.She just changes direction

And for the records: I was the first to mention boobies in this thread. Rest assured that any appendages were given ample consideration.

so we can conclude soak's mind is far dirtier then any guy

Cool. I've been staring at this for a while, and I've finally managed to switch her spinning by complete will. Sometimes it takes a few extra revolutions, but it's really neat. And rather disorientating. The biggest problem is when she's spinning clockwise, your perspective is from slightly above her waistline, but when you switch to anti-clockwise, the perspective switches to just below her waistline and she'll start leaning a little to the left. Because the dancer completely changes orientation, your brain does not want to accept that and keeps her spinning in the same direction. Focus on just her foot that's extended out. You'll see it moves in an elliptical pattern. When spinning clockwise, if the foot is in the higher position, it is perceived to be behind the dancer. When the foot is in the lower position, it appears to be in front of her. To get her to switch, focus on the foot, but tell yourself that when the foot is in the lower position, it's behind her, and when it's higher, it's in front. Hopefully that'll work for you. It's how I do it.

Yeah I was focusing on her foot when I first saw her change direction. And I wouldn't say soaK is dirtier than any man, she is just fond of what she likes and she likes teh boobs

BUT WHAT ABOUT THE SHADDDDOOOOOOOOOOOOW? *SOB*

I agree with Gobb that the shadow is a relatively significant matter...however, I disagree with him in regards to why. Actually, I don't REALLY disagree with him about WHY it's significant, only that the shadow makes more sense if you see her spinning counter-clockwise(that's right, I refuse to play your Australian Let's-Change-All-The-Words-Just-Because-We-Want-To-Be-Different-From-The-Rest-Of=The-World-So-We-Can-Feel-Special-Kangaroo-Didgeridoo-Put-Another-Freakin'-Shrimp-On-The-Barbie game). After watching for a minute, switching her direction a few times(yes, I'm a genius, but we all knew that already), the shadow started to look all wrong when she was going clockwise.

Thank you Ell. Also how dare anyone call boobies dirty? They're awesome, wonderful, adorable and did I mention awesome?

I love you soaK.=o)

no boobs could never be dirty, but a mind can be also I never said that's a negative thing soak

Boobs CAN be dirty.

Two words: mud wrestling

Wrong again, Gobb. That's also awesome

Finally I made her turn directions!!!!! The secret to get her to switch for me was to watch the foot and the shadow.
Now I am a genius too. Woot!

No one said it wasn't awesome soak...just dirty

I can only see clockwise, I'm myopic and colourblind, which may be why I'm biased on the clockwise side.

ZOMGWTFBBQ!!!ONE Thanks Jazzy, that works for me

JazzyCat wrote:Finally I made her turn directions!!!!! The secret to get her to switch for me was to watch the foot and the shadow.
Now I am a genius too. Woot!

Spoilz0r.

Actually I just close my eyes, imagine the direction she's turning, open them and there she goes ^^

I feel inferior now
My pathetic excuses for eyes won't...let...me...see...it! Gaargh.

If trying to make her change direction frustrates you so much you ought to do something more rewarding, like staring at her boobs..

mmmhm... boobies

Meh, my pseudo-girlfriend has bigger and more realistic ones. "More", he says XD

I'll ask her to spin round for me at Xmas, then we'll see

I have figured out this puzzle. It's both. But what I mean is although you can mentally make her shift directions if you focus of her chest (:D) Or waistline at the moment she stops she goes counter clock wise.

Well I just called the other half over to stare at this with me, we are both seeing her move completely differently. Anticlockwise for me, clockwise for him, and then she started switching around on us!
He was getting very frustrated at me Yelling at me that she was facing me when she wasn't and so on!

I made her put some damn clothes on.........

Why on earth would you do such a silly thing, Sally?=op

like all woman in my life she is swing both ways in more than one way.....

oh, look. I just saw this today.

Believe it or not, when I took the Mensa test this was one of the questions. "Is this an optical Illusion? If so, why?"

Just so you know.

-jB

Counter-Clockwise only, i can't get past the fact that the leg sticking up only rotates to the right. lol.