# Rotating Illusion
**URL:** https://www.ilovephilosophy.com/t/rotating-illusion/22829
**Category:** Non-Philosophical Chat
**Created:** [October 31, 2008, 1:18am UTC](https://www.ilovephilosophy.com/t/rotating-illusion/22829 "2008-10-31T01:18:57Z")
**Posts on this page:** 20
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### Author:  [@Pandora](https://www.ilovephilosophy.com/u/Pandora)
#### Post date: [October 31, 2008, 1:18am UTC](https://www.ilovephilosophy.com/t/rotating-illusion/22829/1 "2008-10-31T01:18:57Z")
This is a pretty cool illusion:
[youtube.com/watch?v=BpdiVcmo … re=related](http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BpdiVcmoZ5k&feature=related)
When you first saw the video, did you see the dancer turning clockwise or counter-clockwise?
You can “catch” her dancing the other way if you start reading the text on the right (it seems to work for me to make her switch directions).
Also, notice that when she turns clock-wise, it’s her right leg that is raised. And when she turns counter clock-wise, it’s her left leg that is raised.
!!!
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### Author:  [@Xilivai](https://www.ilovephilosophy.com/u/Xilivai)
#### Post date: [October 31, 2008, 8:02am UTC](https://www.ilovephilosophy.com/t/rotating-illusion/22829/2 "2008-10-31T08:02:06Z")
I couldn’t get it to turn clockwise… How exactly do I do it?
Edit: I got it. Just stair at the dancer’s feet for awhile. Took me like five minutes. Once I made it change directions, I couldn’t make it turn around again though.
Edit: All you have to do is exercise either the left side of your brain or the right. I read the text over on the right about three times then it switched back. Really cool illusion and interesting.
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### Author:  [@d0rkyd00d](https://www.ilovephilosophy.com/u/d0rkyd00d)
#### Post date: [October 31, 2008, 3:45pm UTC](https://www.ilovephilosophy.com/t/rotating-illusion/22829/3 "2008-10-31T15:45:36Z")
I’ve only seen the dancer rotate one way…I’ll have to try this when I get home and see if I can get her to rotate the other way.
Gogo tiny dancer.
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### Author:  [@Ed3](https://www.ilovephilosophy.com/u/Ed3)
#### Post date: [October 31, 2008, 4:42pm UTC](https://www.ilovephilosophy.com/t/rotating-illusion/22829/4 "2008-10-31T16:42:17Z")
Hi Pandora,
That is scary freaky. Good for Halloween!
First she was going clockwise, and then I glanced down at the play bar. Big mistake, because then she was going the other way.
I feel like I am losing my mind, because the turning appears to be random. Very weird. I had to turn it off.
DON’T DO THAT TO ME AGAIN 😲
Ed
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### Author:  [@xzc](https://www.ilovephilosophy.com/u/xzc)
#### Post date: [October 31, 2008, 4:49pm UTC](https://www.ilovephilosophy.com/t/rotating-illusion/22829/5 "2008-10-31T16:49:08Z")
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### Author:  [@Eclipse](https://www.ilovephilosophy.com/u/Eclipse)
#### Post date: [November 1, 2008, 10:54pm UTC](https://www.ilovephilosophy.com/t/rotating-illusion/22829/6 "2008-11-01T22:54:51Z")
I love this illusion. Saw it a while back.
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### Author:  [@Unreasonable](https://www.ilovephilosophy.com/u/Unreasonable)
#### Post date: [November 1, 2008, 11:08pm UTC](https://www.ilovephilosophy.com/t/rotating-illusion/22829/7 "2008-11-01T23:08:38Z")
I can interchange the illusion at will. What does that mean?
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### Author:  [@Xilivai](https://www.ilovephilosophy.com/u/Xilivai)
#### Post date: [November 2, 2008, 8:21am UTC](https://www.ilovephilosophy.com/t/rotating-illusion/22829/8 "2008-11-02T08:21:21Z")
> [@Unreasonable](#):
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> I can interchange the illusion at will. What does that mean?
Your only exercising one part of your brain perhaps? I’m not entirely sure. If it’s turning anti-clockwise, stair at the feet for a minute or two. Worked for me. And for clockwise, read somthing. Otherwise I can’t just change it at will either.
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### Author:  [@sangrain](https://www.ilovephilosophy.com/u/sangrain)
#### Post date: [November 2, 2008, 9:30am UTC](https://www.ilovephilosophy.com/t/rotating-illusion/22829/9 "2008-11-02T09:30:24Z")
For clockwise, stare at the pointed toe and imagine it going clockwise.
For anti clockwise, stare at rotating shadow and imagine it going anti clockwise.
Go get some popcorn and have fun.
As you do all of this you’ll be thinking about Pandora the whole time.
You will then relate this image to Pandora for the rest of your life.
Only then, will you realize you just opened Pandora’s box.
… or you just figured out how to rotate the image in any direction … at will, whichever comes first.
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### Author:  [@Faust](https://www.ilovephilosophy.com/u/Faust)
#### Post date: [November 2, 2008, 12:40pm UTC](https://www.ilovephilosophy.com/t/rotating-illusion/22829/10 "2008-11-02T12:40:30Z")
I just made her do a backflip!
I have got to get that prescription refilled!
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### Author:  [@RebelEpsilon](https://www.ilovephilosophy.com/u/RebelEpsilon)
#### Post date: [November 2, 2008, 2:15pm UTC](https://www.ilovephilosophy.com/t/rotating-illusion/22829/11 "2008-11-02T14:15:13Z")
All I see is clockwise, don’t know what the hell you guys are talking about. 😆
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### Author:  [@AnitaS](https://www.ilovephilosophy.com/u/AnitaS)
#### Post date: [November 2, 2008, 3:50pm UTC](https://www.ilovephilosophy.com/t/rotating-illusion/22829/12 "2008-11-02T15:50:16Z")
Did anyone else see the dancer and shadow turn in opposite directions? I mostly saw the dancer turning clockwise, but if I stared at both the standing foot and the shadow of that foot at the same time, after a minute the shadow started to go counterclockwise while the dancer continued to go clockwise.
I think I feel a migraine coming on. 😆
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### Author:  [@Ed3](https://www.ilovephilosophy.com/u/Ed3)
#### Post date: [November 2, 2008, 4:44pm UTC](https://www.ilovephilosophy.com/t/rotating-illusion/22829/13 "2008-11-02T16:44:39Z")
Hi Anita,
It took a while, about 30 seconds to a minute, but I did see it.
Ed
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### Author:  [@sangrain](https://www.ilovephilosophy.com/u/sangrain)
#### Post date: [November 2, 2008, 6:52pm UTC](https://www.ilovephilosophy.com/t/rotating-illusion/22829/14 "2008-11-02T18:52:48Z")
Hey Faust, they do prescriptions for homegrown these days? How times have changed.
Anita, it was due to that disparity that I figured out how to rotate her in either direction (shadow and pointed toe).
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### Author:  [@Faust](https://www.ilovephilosophy.com/u/Faust)
#### Post date: [November 2, 2008, 7:00pm UTC](https://www.ilovephilosophy.com/t/rotating-illusion/22829/15 "2008-11-02T19:00:25Z")
Oh, yeah. I forgot I was high.
That happens, sometimes.
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### Author:  [@sangrain](https://www.ilovephilosophy.com/u/sangrain)
#### Post date: [November 2, 2008, 7:15pm UTC](https://www.ilovephilosophy.com/t/rotating-illusion/22829/16 "2008-11-02T19:15:16Z")
That was funny.
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### Author:  [@AnitaS](https://www.ilovephilosophy.com/u/AnitaS)
#### Post date: [November 2, 2008, 7:21pm UTC](https://www.ilovephilosophy.com/t/rotating-illusion/22829/17 "2008-11-02T19:21:08Z")
> [@YouTube](#):
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> IT’S the Great Right Brain vs Left Brain Test … do you see the dancer turning clockwise or anti-clockwise? If clockwise, then you use more of the right side of the brain and vice versa. Most of us would see the dancer turning anti-clockwise though you can try to focus and change the direction; see if you can do it.
> LEFT BRAIN FUNCTIONS uses logic detail oriented facts rule words and language present and past math and science can comprehend knowing acknowledges order/pattern perception knows object name reality based forms strategies practical safe
> RIGHT BRAIN FUNCTIONS uses feeling “big picture” oriented imagination rules symbols and images present and future philosophy & religion can “get it” i.e. meaning believes appreciates spatial perception knows object function fantasy based presents possibilities impetuous risk taking
I’d be curious to know how many of us that saw mostly clockwise (right side of the brain) are left-handed? I am, anyone else?
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### Author:  [@RebelEpsilon](https://www.ilovephilosophy.com/u/RebelEpsilon)
#### Post date: [November 2, 2008, 7:57pm UTC](https://www.ilovephilosophy.com/t/rotating-illusion/22829/18 "2008-11-02T19:57:10Z")
I’m just plain ol’ right handed, my left hand is just there for balance. In fact everything on my left is inferior to my right.
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### Author:  [@sangrain](https://www.ilovephilosophy.com/u/sangrain)
#### Post date: [November 2, 2008, 8:03pm UTC](https://www.ilovephilosophy.com/t/rotating-illusion/22829/19 "2008-11-02T20:03:11Z")
How about if you are just confused? What does the illusion look like then?
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### Author:  [@AnitaS](https://www.ilovephilosophy.com/u/AnitaS)
#### Post date: [November 2, 2008, 8:08pm UTC](https://www.ilovephilosophy.com/t/rotating-illusion/22829/20 "2008-11-02T20:08:04Z")
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