Strange and interesting tricks of the mind

[rushthatspeaks]

This is the oddest thing I've seen today, courtesy of xsmoonshine.

It really does work, and it isn't a computer trick; if you pause the picture (click and drag, but don't drag) you can see how the art is ambiguous. After a while of focusing, I could get it to go either way at will, despite a very strong initial preference towards clockwise.

Comments

[marith.livejournal.com]

*blinks* I can only see it going clockwise! I've tried pausing it and then trying to see it in the other direction, but no go. It looks very definite to me.

[marith.livejournal.com]

ObParanoidThought: Wouldn't it be interesting if the figure *does* only go clockwise, and the article is a sort of psych experiment?

[telophase.livejournal.com]

I've seen this before, but it had nothing to do with right brain/left brain and was just considered an experiment in perception. I expect someone tacked the brain-side stuff on later.

And she eventually starts going the other way for me if I just sit and watch her.