Optical Illusions

[alwaysunny]

Got bunch of these from a Yahoo headline http://custom.yahoo.com/braingames/brain-teasers. Pretty cool stuffs, but there is one illusion I don't get. See if this works for you:


"A variation on a classic illusion, this cat can be perceived as rotating in either direction. With practice, you can make it switch at will!"

I mean wtf is this? It's CLEARLY rotating in one direction..

[alwaysunny]

WOAH. That ****ed me up. I was like you, all "Uhhh, it's only going in one direction" then it just clicked and it was rotating the opposite direction.

Pretty cool.

Edit - Damn. Once you get it in your mind going one direction it's hard to see it going the opposite way.

Edit again - ****ing A, that's a pretty awesome illusion. I was just able to make it "switch directions" a couple of times. Feeling a bit nauseous now though.

can you teach me lol

[bagelred]

I've seen this one with a woman. It's hard to get it to switch directions. But once you "figure it out", then it becomes easier.

I can only see it rotating counter clockwise right now.

EDIT: Got it. I switched it.

It's a right brain/left brain thing. If you are left brained, try to think of somethign creative, like painting a picture or something....it'll switch. It's weird but that works for me.

[Jasi]

It's easier to switch directions if you focus on one single element.
The raised leg for the girl in the classic illusion... You can use the cat's tail here.

[Sarcastic]

For some reason I can't get this one to switch. I was able to do it with the girl dancer one, but this cat has got me stuck.

[Jasi]

Ha, now I can't even see the cat do a complete revolution in one direction. As soon as it's almost at a 180 my mind just flips it to rotating the opposite direction. ****ing weird.

Yeah that's exactly what happens when I choose to keep switching direction.

It's funny because there's a little bouncing effect when it gets to the "point of no rotation", does this happen to you also?

[JerrySteakhouse]

I see it going clockwise only. I saw another one of these before and I was able to switch the direction, I lost my ability.

[hateraid]

I can make it stop!












Shyt, that's just my comp freezing

[BlackJordan]

Cool

[JerrySteakhouse]

I can make it stop!












Shyt, that's just my comp freezing

[PowerGlove]

I can make it stop!












Shyt, that's just my comp freezing

[miller-time]

It's a right brain/left brain thing. If you are left brained, try to think of somethign creative, like painting a picture or something....it'll switch. It's weird but that works for me.

no its not, that is just some pop-psychology mumbo jumbo. the effect is caused by a lack of information for our brain to make a 'correct' interpretation up of the visual stimulus. it is ambiguous so the direction (we percieve) it is travelling is assumed.

[Kungfro]

can you teach me lol

Close your eyes and imagine the cat rotating in the other direction. Works for me.

[B-Low]

New one:

At first glance it looks like you have a 70-win team, but when you REALLY focus and think hard about it you realize it's not at all

[Jasi]

New one:

At first glance it looks like you have a 70-win team, but when you REALLY focus and think hard about it you realize it's not at all

this might be the funniest single post I ever read in this forum