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Try looking 3 to 4 inches left of the picture (not looking at the picture). I can then see it turning left to right then right to left instead of rotating.  After your mind is set, slowly moving your eyes to the picture may help you...

Yey, I can spin both ways. :-)

Took a bit of work. For a while I was convinced anyone who saw anything but clockwise must be bonkers or lying.

To switch from clock-wise to anti, I relaxed my eyes so they stopped looking at the shape (stared at just the centre of the black) and whoosh, suddenly she was going anti-clockwise. For a while, I was convinced it was a trick and the image was actually changing. But after a bit of practice, could keep switching directions, just had to blink and relax each time to do it.

I also had the same experience as Nathalie and Sharon.... It was rotating anti-clockwise, but them I was reading the text and it switched to being clockwise...

Just another report - I'm only 41 but I can definitely spin her both ways.

That sounds vaguely dirty, doesn't it?

Sorry!

Yep...showed this to my family and we see it clockwise...but, turn the screen so you are looking from the side and then, presto, she rotates in the other direction..weird but fun!

vaguely

Wooo hooo - I can do it at will.

I stare just below the image so I only have a sense of the foot sweeping past my eyes. I find I can easily switch between the foot moving from left to right (anti-clockwise spin) or right to left (clockwise spin). Once I decide which way I want it to go I slowly let my gaze wander upward and there she is, spinning around in my chosen direction:)

Ian

One way of getting the image to change direction is to cover the reflection at the bottom.

Try to get her doing a figure 8 with her right, or is it left, then again, could be right foot.

My initial, and therefore default reaction to this was clockwise (right brain), but with a bit of practise you can get her to go both ways.

Using the 'magic sausage' technique I.e. eyes de-focused helps.

'You may say I'm a dreamer, but I'm not the only one'

I'm 47, I got the picture to change directions fairly easily. Judging by the previous comments, I'd say the audience here has to use both sides of their brain rather frequently as opposed to other groups that would tend to focus on one side or the other (like painters and musicians).

A little while ago James discovered a fun little app ( SP-Studio )  for SouthParking people. 

LOVE IT! I could only see it one way at first, and when it changed I was certain it was a hoax. I had my husband look at it with me and we saw it opposite at one point. CRAZY!! Then it kept flipping back and forth for me (I guess my brain kept shifting gears?).

VERY cool - thanks for sharing! See you tomorrow at Tech Ed!!! :-)

Woah.  What a video! I’m catching up on my RSS feeds, email and admin as all of my team are out