In this “Rotating Snake” illusion, its NOT rotating, yet our brain tells us it IS rotating. So which “reality” should we believe?
It’s pretty easy to “freeze” these. Even if you don’t, they don’t look like the’re rotating, but oscilating a bit. My brain does not tell me they are rotating. Too bad you’re in England, Mick. I could use some of that acid you’re taking.
It can been seen as rotating so it is . . . real
Scientists telling me my brain is producing an illusion is. . . real
The illusion is . . . a real illusion.
ect. . . is real.
infinite demensions of realness.
This joke is funny.
Time will make it funny, if not now, later.
If not to you, then him.
If not to him, then them,
If not to them, then it.
All of it . . . really funny.
The best thing to do is believe in everything. You may not win. But you can never lose.
“An artist, by taking advantage of the way in which the human brain processes visual sensory data, can make a static pattern appear mobile.”
That reality.
Or: “The intellect can be decieved, and the sensorium can be decieved, but rarely both together.”
Take your pick, Mick.
Mick read my thread on the Three realities.
mick…just read anything
I think you’re missing Mick’s point. What I think he is poking at is the metaphor that illusion illustrates. It certainly looks like it rotates (or oscillating or whatever verb you feel like using), and it of course is not. This is only a personification that thinks may seem, through our eyes or thoughts, as they really aren’t in this reality. Which provokes thought on the subject of how we perceive things, and whether that perception is accurate, or whether it’s just another ‘rotating illusion’ like he displayed in the opening post. Just my thoughts on what he meant,
-Daniel
Still some acid would be nice.
Indeed. 
I’d prefer Psilocybin Mushrooms, though. My head will go back to normal reguardless of what I do if I take 'Shrooms, not the same with acid. 
who is to say its not rotating…?
I say all three are real. The physical image, the illusion, the hallucination. But each is relative to the method of observation, including subjectivity or instruments of public demonstration.
That is to say perception is reality. Whatever is perceived, must hold validity on some level. One might argue that the only level feasible is reality observable by the majority (that is to surely say someone can look at the image without seeing the rotation), and is backed by scientific proof of material ability to actually ‘move’. Another might argue that all perceivable events are feasible regardless of their state, in one person’s mind or not. We could argue back and forth for hours. Let us begin! 
Uh oh… looks like we gonna have a showdown between materialsts De Holbach, Spinoza and Hobbes vs. idealists Berkeley and Hume, and maybe even Descartes too, with Kant telling everyone they’re wrong.
Let The Englightenment begin!
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Is there a difference between reality and actuality? because when staring at the illusion, my reality says it is rotating but actually it is not.