I remember being wierded out as a kid by this illusion. Seeing a static image change directions randomly without knowing how I did it just gave me the same feeling as watching liminal spaces as an adult.
Don't know if this will work for anybody else besides me but focusing on the area between the knee and foot of the middle leg helps so much in granting control over the illusion. It's like the limbo between the two states clockwise and anti-clockwise. At one point the two states switched between eachother so seemlessly that it seemed like she was just wagging her leg at me. Super trippy!
Bro, seeing this after so many years and realizing that I still don't know how to change the direction it turns is something that makes me very nostalgic
Cover her body with your hand and look at her standing foot, there are two points where you can't tell which way her foot is pointing. After one of those points occurs she may finally go the other way for you
If I keep my eye on one spot on her body, like her butt, she doesn't change direction for me. I have to shift my focus for her to change direction and then I have to shift my focus again for it to change again.
Ok, wow. I remember this from over 10 years ago. It seems like back then it was easier for her to switch directions this or that way randomly. Now for me she spins almost exclusively clockwise and I need to really concentrate to see her spinning counter-clockwise even for a short time and the picture starts trembling when she does that.
Love the fact you can't change the way you look at this in free will. As soon as your eyes see it spinning in one direction, it doesn't change unless you think about some crazy thing to make it switch. Kinda weird how we can't control our bodies like this.
FOR THOSE HAVING TROUBLE: I found watching her knee closely was the key. Your mind will pickup the rythm of the feet spinning round and round and their distance from one another. Keep watching her knee and let yourself space while keeping the image in clear focus. In my peripheral vision i began to see an obvious disruption to the original "rythm" of her feet going round and around. This lead to my mind changing the direction in an effort to "resync" her feet to that original pattern. It took the entire video to see the swap. May have to redo it a time or two.
As a person with very clear 3D Imaginations, its literally impossible to see it spinning in any other way as I see the depth in this depthless image. Edit: I love all your responses bros, I am still unable to see it go another way but hey please do continue commenting some of these made me laugh in ways I never knew was possible.
Probably the issue I'm having. She only goes one way to me. I'm trying to trigger the optical illusion but I'm just seeing a darkened 3d model spinning.
@@Dalton_Boardman2000 try to scroll down so you only see the foot spinning, then you maybe get it to look as if it spins the other way, and then scroll back up
For those who are curious (from my understanding), this is because things that are depicted as 3d but drawn in 2d can be perceived differently. Artists use this when trying to draw figures from the back even if they do not have much experience drawing from the front. You mark out how the body would be resting, and then instead of drawing frontal features like the face that would normally be facing towards the viewer, you draw the back features such as the hair facing towards the viewer. It sounds odd, but it really helps train the mind's eye when making art in 2d.
No matter how much I concentrated, it is still clock wise :(( Update: i have done all of the suggestions below but nothing changes. It seems my mind was too fixated on the fact that “she will only go clock wise”. Even if i use my mind “power” to try and imagine the other possibility, it still wont work. I guess my mind was already set from the beginning of her rotation. Edit 2: After receiving countless of comments, i decided to take several advice, i ended up managed to make her change direction by blinking for 1 minute, though the result is quite unsatisfied. She changed for a split second, then went back to my initial playout.
@@microvvaveoven no it is not shadow, nor legs. The illusion i caused by her face. I couldn't see her rotating in other direction, because face didn't match. I saw her face rotating clockwise, and even if i saw body doing conterclockwise rotation, the face still kept me seeing otherwise. Now, once i realised that, i can switch it with no problem. Just have to "see" face rotating other direction. All this type of illusions work like that. There is a second one with the horse. The illusion is made by the face. I saw face pointed right, then pointed in my direction, then pointed left, then pointed away from me. This is caused in this video by her ponytail. In my case, to "switch" you have to start seeing ponytail instead of face when she is pointed into your direction, to switch rotation.
I found this the best way to make her spin in the opposite direction to what she appears to be spinning at first. Put your finger in front of the picture and spin your finger round focus almost entirely on your finger then spin your finger in the opposite direction. Just keep doing that and the illusion can almost change direction at will.
I struggled with it quite a lot but what I found helping was, if you want her to spin clockwise look right (so you see her in the corner of your eye and if she starts spinning that way try slowly moving your eyes to the center again). If you want her to spin other way look left.
This is amazing. I moved my eyes to the right so I could see her in my peripheral, and slowly panned my eyes back to her while telling my brain I see her front leg spinning counter-clockwise. She then was spinning counter-clockwise. And then at random intervals it would just switch. These illusions are insane!
Rotating my phone counterclockwise onto it's side so the picture is crooked is the only thing that would make her go counterclockwise and if I went back it would go back to clockwise. So maybe if you see it the other way do the reverse?
I was reminded of this earlier this evening. Been staring at it for longer than I care to admit. I’ve well and truly broken the illusion for myself and I’m very happy cause I can now switch her direction on command! My childhood goal finally achieved!
There are 4 interpretations and none of them is the absolute correct one. Spinning clockwise, spinning counterclockwise, swiveling side to side facing you, and swiveling side to side facing away.
To get it to switch I just get it in my peripheral vision (so look at a point to the left side of the screen instead of directly at the screen) then look at points around the screen (starting left, then above, then to the right, then below) it usually reverses direction at some point in that process.
For those who struggle, I have finally found a way: Basically just cover the silhouette until you can't see everything above the thighs, including the hands. Now cover the bottom feet. It should now look as if 1 leg "sweeping" & her back is turned against you. Release your cover on whichever direction you want it to spin towards to. Work smarter not harder.
For anyone that can't see it both ways: imagine that when she is spinning in one direction the foot that is on the ground is her left foot. Now imagine if that foot was the right foot.
This worked for me but only after I paused the video first. I had to pause the video on a frame where it made sense in my head that the planted leg was her right leg, then I'd hit play and she changed to counter-clockwise.
@@takigan what worked for me is I looked away from the video and imagined which way she spinning. Then look at the video and she will be spinning that exact way.
Idk why it was so easy for me as a child to to see it change directions. Took me a few minutes to really get the hang of it. If you figure out how the animation works. You can see through it and actually use those small moments to trick your mind into believing it's reversing. I did this by focusing on the legs and arms. The body and head animations are too smooth for my brain to decide just on that
If you swing your phone from left to right, to where your phone is almost vertical on either side, and you continue to stare at her you can see the change in spin right before your eyes. Amazing.
For those who are trying,the trick is to blink your eyes fast, while seeing and you can see her change directions. It's just when the hands disappear and when you catch them appear again with open eyes.
Ok, here's how to get the ballerina to change directions (in your mind). For me, when I first watched it, she was going counter clockwise and I couldn't understand how people thought she was going clockwise until now. If you want to see her go clockwise, pause the video and convince yourself she is standing on her right leg. If you want to see her go counterclockwise, pause the video and convince yourself that she is standing on her left leg.
Wanna learn how to switch the girl spinning. Pause the picture, it’s really hard to make the switch while she is spinning. Also if you see one leg in the front try and switch it to the back. That’s the easy part. Once you can do that the image should switch and once you unpause the motion should switch aswell.
I love this illusion so much. I was worried for about 2 minutes as i was unable to accomplish it.. then it happened. And then it happened again. Fascinating.
Try imagining the foot on the ground as the right foot when her actual right foot is pointing to the left making it look like a black 2d figure. Imagine it turning in another direction and focus hard, will snap in a few seconds
I am watching her now for more than one year I can't see both directions. I heard at some point it will happen. I can't believe it it will, but I still hope. It has something to do with your left and right brain.
When I first heard about this illusion, I never thought it actually worked because it never worked for me but when it’s in a higher resolution like this, it does and it’s so trippy 😵💫 I am very impressed like when it changed I skipped back to the beginning and it was the way it was after it changed
@@ironmandave3000 you can see her sides. Click on pause when you think she's from the front and focus, you'll see she's also from the back but in an other direction
@@morinette8162 What's your point? Get 10 people together and watch it at the same time. Some will see clockwise some will seek counterclockwise some will watch it change both directions. Have a nice day.
UPDATES: I learned to see her rotating in both directions... and it's simple! I just need to click in the video timelapse at another moment and if she starts with the leg in the right i can see her rotating clockwise and viceversa. 🤩
I usually see it clockwise by default. The way I change it is I look away from the screen and try to watch the spinning from my periphery and concentrate on the counterclockwise spinning, you will eventually see it spinning that way in your peripheral sight in a few seconds and then just watch it directly and there you have it spinning the other way.
It spins different directions for me, depending when the animation starts. If it starts with the extended hand on the right side, she spins clockwise. If I start the animation with the extended arm on the left side I see her spinning counter-clockwise. Very fun image...
You are mistaken. Perhaps your thought process luxury primarily in one hemisphere of your brain but if you expand your thought process you can access both left and right Hemisphere and see your spinning both ways. Are you familiar with Jill bolte Taylor my stroke of insight?
appreciate u for this . This was a preety good illusion for those who don't know how to do it focus on the leg ( not on booty 💀) the leg which in on the ground and it will be going from like a 360 degree spin to a less than 180 spin and as u lose ur focus it starts doing 360
So the way I like to think of how she spins one way or the other is determining which foot is on the ground, her left foot or her right foot 🦶. Since she is leaning backwards, her spin would naturally fall toward the leg that's sticking out. If her left foot is on the ground, then her right leg is sticking out. Thus, she naturally falls clockwise, using her right arm to maintain her balance. If her right foot is on the ground, then her left leg is sticking out. Thus, she naturally falls counterclockwise, using her left arm to keep her balance. This all comes into place due to the way she is leaning. It would be practically impossible to turn clockwise if her right foot was the one on the ground. When I insist that a certain foot is on the ground, my brain takes a bit to realize the orientation of the other parts of the body. Once, I subconsciously determine it's impossible to turn the way I saw she was turning before, it switches directions.
For me it was the opposite. For ages I could only see her moving clockwise, it was when I tried ignoring the lower foot I finally started seeing her turn anti clockwise.
It took me like ten minutes... u almost gave up. I finally got her to spin counter clockwise by only having her feet in my peripheral vision while reading text comments underneath. Then, BOOM! just like that she was spinning counter clockwise. My brain switched it back to clockwise gaming pretty quickly though.
The reason it appears to be spinning different ways for different people is that the video actually can be interpreted both ways, since it's shot without perspective and one or more of the leg overlap frames have been removed. Because it's rendered as a blank sillhouette in orthogonal perspective, either rotation arc can be interpreted as either the left leg in front of the right or the right leg in front of the left. It's sort of like when you rotate a flat plane without perspective, it would just appear as a rectangle getting thinner and wider.
For me the easiest way to get the dancer to change directions was to hit the back or forward 10 seconds button. Some times I would have to hit it twice to make the switch for the dancer to be in the proper position for my brain to switch it.
This is very interesting, as a very skeptical person i thought the video was edited so when you reached certain moment she changed directions. With this logic each time you reached that part of the video she changed directions at, you would see it, bur this didn’t happend, she changed directions in diferent moments of the video, even after taking notes of the specific seconds i believed she changed directions in, my notes weren’t consistent and then i realized that yes, i can actually convince my mind that she spins in the other way. I very much enjoy this, i cant stop making her change directions.
I've kinda mastered it... This sounds weird but here's how I can change it on command.. *FIRST:* I close my eyes, go inside of my mind and convince myself that I'm superhuman and I can control my reality with my mind. *SECOND:* I imagine it spinning in left. When I get that imagine in my mind, I open my eyes and it's spinning left. *THIRD:* I close my eyes again and imagine it's spinning right. I keep my eyes closed until I have the image clear in my mind of it spinning right. Then I open my eyes. (If it doesn't work, I keep trying until the image is crystal clear.. So clear that it's almost difficult to determine if I'm actually looking at my phone screen or if I'm still imagining it) *FOURTH:* Close my eyes then repeat it for the left. After doing this about 5-10 times, you can get so fast that you can switch every second with 1-2 super quick blinks. I know I sound like a complete nerd but I love psychology. Hope this works for somebody. *UPDATE:* after reading this and trying again.. It didn't work.. For about 1-2 minutes. It's bc I lost my self belief. The key is to having absolute pure belief that you have control over the image. Like it's nothing. The more I believe that, then I can flip the image just by blinking.
I can switch direction by moving my eyes form Side to Side 👀 If you want her Clockwise - move eyes to the Right, pointing them on the edge of the picture, and vice versa 😉 It's much easier when you use your PERIPHERAL VISION. Another hint - you can start blinking A LOT until you see her moving opposite way.
She spins clockwise for me. If I focus on the shadow below her foot, I can make that go counterclockwise, and the whole image follows suit. Until I lose my concentration, and then she is clockwise again.
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I remember being wierded out as a kid by this illusion. Seeing a static image change directions randomly without knowing how I did it just gave me the same feeling as watching liminal spaces as an adult.
numa liminal
It's not a static image, but I get what you mean.
@@googlewolly yeah you're right
This is a good parallel, it gives me the same kind of trippy anxiety
@raspberry63088 Yeah, anxiety is a good word. Combined with the awkward silence, it definitely can feel a little uncanny.
Don't know if this will work for anybody else besides me but focusing on the area between the knee and foot of the middle leg helps so much in granting control over the illusion. It's like the limbo between the two states clockwise and anti-clockwise. At one point the two states switched between eachother so seemlessly that it seemed like she was just wagging her leg at me. Super trippy!
YEAHH it worked for me! THANKS for the tip
I read multiple comments and this is the one that the easiest for me
You gonna give me a semi again? Lol
"Middle leg"... You've unlocked this illusion's real secret, the shadow peen.
For me focusing on head worked
Bro, seeing this after so many years and realizing that I still don't know how to change the direction it turns is something that makes me very nostalgic
Look at the shadow and shell start going counter clockwise
Cover her body with your hand and look at her standing foot, there are two points where you can't tell which way her foot is pointing. After one of those points occurs she may finally go the other way for you
If I keep my eye on one spot on her body, like her butt, she doesn't change direction for me. I have to shift my focus for her to change direction and then I have to shift my focus again for it to change again.
@@doodoo2065 I could achieve it
@@thelastgreyhawk2161 thanks
Ok, wow. I remember this from over 10 years ago. It seems like back then it was easier for her to switch directions this or that way randomly. Now for me she spins almost exclusively clockwise and I need to really concentrate to see her spinning counter-clockwise even for a short time and the picture starts trembling when she does that.
Same
For real... Why is that? Have we became realists more?😂
@@N19htcatwho knows man
maybe the 3rd eye or smthing 😂
@@nachosconqueso6595 i thought it would have a better use lmao
You need to focus more.
I like it when you learn how to make her change and you kinda feel like you have mind powers😂
Maybe practice for a few years and you will have some 😉
@@CBAN_ kkjj
IMAO! MEE TOO 😂😂😂
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But you actually have mind powers
Love the fact you can't change the way you look at this in free will. As soon as your eyes see it spinning in one direction, it doesn't change unless you think about some crazy thing to make it switch. Kinda weird how we can't control our bodies like this.
you can if you go frame by frame and learn the image. still fun
As I read this it changed and won’t go back
If you look at the shadow of her foot as it goes up and down, you will be more easily able to switch.
Is this real or scam?
At First it was right only
But then i switched direction at my will or made her feet stuck in middle
Fast left right
This is good for the brain
It's crazy how many times you see it changing its direction and yet you still can't believe what's happening
FOR THOSE HAVING TROUBLE:
I found watching her knee closely was the key. Your mind will pickup the rythm of the feet spinning round and round and their distance from one another. Keep watching her knee and let yourself space while keeping the image in clear focus.
In my peripheral vision i began to see an obvious disruption to the original "rythm" of her feet going round and around. This lead to my mind changing the direction in an effort to "resync" her feet to that original pattern. It took the entire video to see the swap. May have to redo it a time or two.
*_REALITY CAN BE WHATEVER I WANT._*
Dankerino TM Nope, but your brain can convince you what you want is reality.
Ye boi
How do you chang it?
@@MaynorMayHam thanks? 🧇
@@James-sr1pv you concentrate on her shadow
Lmao I focused so hard that the ballerina stopped moving it just went left right left right but never a full rotation
Me too
I have been able to make her arms and legs spin in opposite direction but only for a brief moment because then the illusion breaks.
If you pick a side, left or right and follow her then that's how you learn to switch directions
When I first saw this illusion I thought she was going side to side. Now I can’t get that back.
@@qualcunodietrounpcpc6201 or just concentrate on her lower base foot
As a person with very clear 3D Imaginations, its literally impossible to see it spinning in any other way as I see the depth in this depthless image.
Edit: I love all your responses bros, I am still unable to see it go another way but hey please do continue commenting some of these made me laugh in ways I never knew was possible.
I KNOW RIGHT I FEEL SHES SPINNING CLOCKWISE
Ya. That’s exactly
In her knee lies the glitch
Probably the issue I'm having. She only goes one way to me. I'm trying to trigger the optical illusion but I'm just seeing a darkened 3d model spinning.
@@Dalton_Boardman2000 try to scroll down so you only see the foot spinning, then you maybe get it to look as if it spins the other way, and then scroll back up
For those who are curious (from my understanding), this is because things that are depicted as 3d but drawn in 2d can be perceived differently. Artists use this when trying to draw figures from the back even if they do not have much experience drawing from the front. You mark out how the body would be resting, and then instead of drawing frontal features like the face that would normally be facing towards the viewer, you draw the back features such as the hair facing towards the viewer. It sounds odd, but it really helps train the mind's eye when making art in 2d.
I love your explanations, hope more people see it.
No, they are different video clips stitched to gether so good that the transition looks smooth.
No matter how much I concentrated, it is still clock wise :((
Update: i have done all of the suggestions below but nothing changes. It seems my mind was too fixated on the fact that “she will only go clock wise”. Even if i use my mind “power” to try and imagine the other possibility, it still wont work. I guess my mind was already set from the beginning of her rotation.
Edit 2: After receiving countless of comments, i decided to take several advice, i ended up managed to make her change direction by blinking for 1 minute, though the result is quite unsatisfied. She changed for a split second, then went back to my initial playout.
Think counterclockwise so front is back and back is front
That means you are a left brainer
@@kabirsingh3959 Bs
Same
Kabir Singh there is literally no such thing but ok
Fun fact: You can control the direction she moves in by looking at her shadow then squinting your eyes.
This is actually true
You were more independent in your thinking back then. And right brain
It worked!
WOA YOU'RE RIGHT LOL
Now I can't change it back, help
There is absolutely no chance she is spinning counterclockwise
yes she’s only spinning clockwise for me
Loot at her shadow, it worked for me. The instruction's misleading, dont concentrate on balerina and she will change direction randomly.
I thought the illusion is that her legs moves faster and wider. Lol
@@microvvaveoven no it is not shadow, nor legs. The illusion i caused by her face. I couldn't see her rotating in other direction, because face didn't match. I saw her face rotating clockwise, and even if i saw body doing conterclockwise rotation, the face still kept me seeing otherwise.
Now, once i realised that, i can switch it with no problem. Just have to "see" face rotating other direction.
All this type of illusions work like that. There is a second one with the horse. The illusion is made by the face.
I saw face pointed right, then pointed in my direction, then pointed left, then pointed away from me. This is caused in this video by her ponytail. In my case, to "switch" you have to start seeing ponytail instead of face when she is pointed into your direction, to switch rotation.
@@DarthShpan Nah, shadow of a leg works better for me. It is the most "flat" part of a figure, easier to make it change direction
All optical illusions aside, she has some very good dance moves.
I found this the best way to make her spin in the opposite direction to what she appears to be spinning at first.
Put your finger in front of the picture and spin your finger round focus almost entirely on your finger then spin your finger in the opposite direction. Just keep doing that and the illusion can almost change direction at will.
works
Best version yet
Holy crap that worked with a delay of less than a second
I struggled with it quite a lot but what I found helping was, if you want her to spin clockwise look right (so you see her in the corner of your eye and if she starts spinning that way try slowly moving your eyes to the center again). If you want her to spin other way look left.
This is amazing. I moved my eyes to the right so I could see her in my peripheral, and slowly panned my eyes back to her while telling my brain I see her front leg spinning counter-clockwise. She then was spinning counter-clockwise. And then at random intervals it would just switch. These illusions are insane!
Damn finally it worked for me but now i can't get it to work again
Corner of the eye trick worked for me too
Rotating my phone counterclockwise onto it's side so the picture is crooked is the only thing that would make her go counterclockwise and if I went back it would go back to clockwise. So maybe if you see it the other way do the reverse?
Thanks to you i discover the trick. Now i have fully control over her 😂
I was reminded of this earlier this evening. Been staring at it for longer than I care to admit. I’ve well and truly broken the illusion for myself and I’m very happy cause I can now switch her direction on command! My childhood goal finally achieved!
she is turning right. Period
i was able to switch direction in the past like 2 or 3 years when i first heard about it. now when i try it i just cant wut
SAME
try to fucos and you can do it agaib
Same no matter how hard I try lol. Guess we just grew out of it
@@thedeakins1704 focus on her foot
Focus on the shadow on her lower foot
If i close my eyes for a couple of seconds and imagine her spinning the other way, then she will spin the other way
The moment somebody said it's how the animation works, I instantly realized she's only moving left and right. She's not even making full rotations.
There are 4 interpretations and none of them is the absolute correct one.
Spinning clockwise, spinning counterclockwise, swiveling side to side facing you, and swiveling side to side facing away.
To get it to switch I just get it in my peripheral vision (so look at a point to the left side of the screen instead of directly at the screen) then look at points around the screen (starting left, then above, then to the right, then below) it usually reverses direction at some point in that process.
For those who struggle, I have finally found a way:
Basically just cover the silhouette until you can't see everything above the thighs, including the hands.
Now cover the bottom feet.
It should now look as if 1 leg "sweeping" & her back is turned against you.
Release your cover on whichever direction you want it to spin towards to.
Work smarter not harder.
You saved me! I was seriously getting frustrated at not being able to turn her BUT IT WORKED!
Its easier if you skip foward and backward at random times
*LOL, can't believe that actually works.*
Wow it worked,ty bro
Oh my god it worked
I was too down bad to ever focus on which way she was spinning 😳
oh god hahahhah
You’re sick Asf 💀
Game & Watch got you acting up?
God i love this girl alot. She's so kind that it will resume on the same rotation you left it at!
when you see it, you cant unsee it
This is the best illusion I’ve ever seen. I can not wrap my head around this shit
Imagine the ballerina stops moving and just stare you at your eyes.
bro cmon man its 3am i cant move
reply pls
help
@Venom i felt like my sanity has left my body already
@@filesstorage6809 pun intended?
She syncs up perfectly with the ticking of a clock, which accurately reminds you how much time you're burning while watching this
Turn the speed in to 0.25, you can control the direction
Thank me later
I was so confused
Yea, we can see the leg always in front
The reality: your brain is only cannot control the illusion speed
Even harder for me now
For anyone that can't see it both ways: imagine that when she is spinning in one direction the foot that is on the ground is her left foot. Now imagine if that foot was the right foot.
This worked for me but only after I paused the video first. I had to pause the video on a frame where it made sense in my head that the planted leg was her right leg, then I'd hit play and she changed to counter-clockwise.
@@takigan same here
@@takigan what worked for me is I looked away from the video and imagined which way she spinning. Then look at the video and she will be spinning that exact way.
Oh, it worked!
Thanks! That and focusing on "grounded" foot. Now I can get it flip back and forth at will - weird.
Idk why it was so easy for me as a child to to see it change directions. Took me a few minutes to really get the hang of it. If you figure out how the animation works. You can see through it and actually use those small moments to trick your mind into believing it's reversing.
I did this by focusing on the legs and arms. The body and head animations are too smooth for my brain to decide just on that
As an adult, it’s how you put sense into the way her leg and arm is pointing… you don’t point forward in a spin like that
@subject_changed4690 It's just how your brain is wired. For example I'm a massive creative genius and it's hard form me to make it go left.
You can try focussing on the shadow of her leg. It is easier to imagine rotating in the anti clockwise dirn
I've managed to get it spinning in reverse, but now I can't get it back to the original spinning direction lol 😂
Me who just paused and stared at her.😏
If you swing your phone from left to right, to where your phone is almost vertical on either side, and you continue to stare at her you can see the change in spin right before your eyes. Amazing.
For those who are trying,the trick is to blink your eyes fast, while seeing and you can see her change directions. It's just when the hands disappear and when you catch them appear again with open eyes.
My eyes hurt from doing that
omg it worked now im scared
worked
Can confirm 2 years later
didnt work for me
I imagine the extended leg as a metronome and then it turns to the right.
JPQ Studios same
Holy shit you’re right!
Finnally a tip that actually works
Thanks 4 years later
This works
Imagine painting a real ballerina in Vanta black and doing this illusion in real life 🤯🤯
Naked too.
0:48 edited she literally switches the direction
Okay, you got me with that one.
No lol
it didnt lol
Turn your phone flat and look at it from your port charger then focus on what way you want it to spin
Ok this one works on first try 😂👌
Omg this actually worked!!!!
OMG I WAS SO SHOCKED BC I MADE HER KEEP GOIN BACK AND FOURTH
thx dude
omg this worked! thank you
Ok, here's how to get the ballerina to change directions (in your mind). For me, when I first watched it, she was going counter clockwise and I couldn't understand how people thought she was going clockwise until now. If you want to see her go clockwise, pause the video and convince yourself she is standing on her right leg. If you want to see her go counterclockwise, pause the video and convince yourself that she is standing on her left leg.
This works omg
I didn't have to do that
OMG THENK YEH
I can't do it
It’s weird because I just have to think of the word switch and it works most of the time
For me I just mashed my left and right arrow keys while thinking where she'd spin to and so far I got a 95% success rate of making her spin that way
This worked for me. This is so weird. It changed direction and now I cant see it go clockwise anymore.
After 10 years I can only see her spinning counterclock, I fail
I literally said in my head “Go left” or “Go right” and it did💀
Ikrr
I said "Stop" and "Now, undress." And she did.
And everyone clapped
I tried it but there's a bit of a delay
@@spinoz2319 Sir.
Wanna learn how to switch the girl spinning. Pause the picture, it’s really hard to make the switch while she is spinning. Also if you see one leg in the front try and switch it to the back. That’s the easy part. Once you can do that the image should switch and once you unpause the motion should switch aswell.
I did it for 5 seconds
This did nothing but bring on my vertigo.
I love this illusion so much. I was worried for about 2 minutes as i was unable to accomplish it.. then it happened. And then it happened again. Fascinating.
I tried all the tricks and now I think that everyone saying counter-clockwise is part of a massive conspiracy
Try imagining the foot on the ground as the right foot when her actual right foot is pointing to the left making it look like a black 2d figure. Imagine it turning in another direction and focus hard, will snap in a few seconds
@@floseatyard8063 u mean the shadow??
@@cvlbukater1248 ye
OMG FINALLY AFTER SO MANY YEARS I MADE HER SPIN THE OTHER WAY AAAAAA
I am watching her now for more than one year I can't see both directions. I heard at some point it will happen. I can't believe it it will, but I still hope. It has something to do with your left and right brain.
When I first heard about this illusion, I never thought it actually worked because it never worked for me but when it’s in a higher resolution like this, it does and it’s so trippy 😵💫
I am very impressed like when it changed I skipped back to the beginning and it was the way it was after it changed
Turning my head slowly to the left and then to the right while continuing to look at her made it work. It's a trip!!!
The way the made each frame is really smart actually where it could be argued that she is facing either forward or back based on the silhouette
Austin Berryman well there are a couple things about humans that can stand out ya know... particularly women
She's not even turning. She's making 90 degree rotations to either side. We only see her back. It's so trippy that it works.
GdaTyler I made her spin faster with my mind somehow :/
Her back? I clearly see her tits.
@@ironmandave3000 you can see her sides. Click on pause when you think she's from the front and focus, you'll see she's also from the back but in an other direction
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What's your point?
Get 10 people together and watch it at the same time. Some will see clockwise some will seek counterclockwise some will watch it change both directions. Have a nice day.
@@ironmandave3000 i'm not talking about clockwise or counterclockwise read the main comment of the other guy again.
UPDATES: I learned to see her rotating in both directions... and it's simple! I just need to click in the video timelapse at another moment and if she starts with the leg in the right i can see her rotating clockwise and viceversa. 🤩
You fools! You all fell for it. It subtly changes 2/3 of the way in.
It changes first at 0:30 and a second time at 0:49, he got them well lol.
You talking like a Disney villain
She never ever changes for me at all
I usually see it clockwise by default. The way I change it is I look away from the screen and try to watch the spinning from my periphery and concentrate on the counterclockwise spinning, you will eventually see it spinning that way in your peripheral sight in a few seconds and then just watch it directly and there you have it spinning the other way.
When i shake my head while thinking of the direction it happens.
I've looked at this on and off for the past few years and it still only goes one direction for me lol.
Yes! Looking at her shadow helps me really change her spinning direction 👍🏼
Plot twist: You think you're the one that made the direction change in your mind but actually the video changes
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You can go back and it's the way it switches to
I’ve Tried it, the video does not change, it’s just our mind that is weird XD
Nah i can testify that that isnt the case considering ive been trying this for 10 minutes and still cant see it
Yep, she switches at 0:21
Just spin your hand in a certain direction (clock wise or anti clock wise) and the ballerina will follow. Try it yourselves.
Thanks!! That worked!!
Bs. Its the video that does it.
I got so crossed-eyed at this that she actually stopped spinning
My space perspective is too good. I can't see it other than clockwise
It spins different directions for me, depending when the animation starts. If it starts with the extended hand on the right side, she spins clockwise. If I start the animation with the extended arm on the left side I see her spinning counter-clockwise. Very fun image...
SHE CAN ONLY BE GOING COUNTER CLOCK-WISE!!! Look at her foot's shadow.
Thank you, you heard it here FIRST
The shadow changes
Ericers omg thank you
You are mistaken. Perhaps your thought process luxury primarily in one hemisphere of your brain but if you expand your thought process you can access both left and right Hemisphere and see your spinning both ways. Are you familiar with Jill bolte Taylor my stroke of insight?
This is reallyyy cool !
appreciate u for this . This was a preety good illusion
for those who don't know how to do it focus on the leg ( not on booty 💀) the leg which in on the ground and it will be going from like a 360 degree spin to a less than 180 spin and as u lose ur focus it starts doing 360
So the way I like to think of how she spins one way or the other is determining which foot is on the ground, her left foot or her right foot 🦶. Since she is leaning backwards, her spin would naturally fall toward the leg that's sticking out.
If her left foot is on the ground, then her right leg is sticking out. Thus, she naturally falls clockwise, using her right arm to maintain her balance.
If her right foot is on the ground, then her left leg is sticking out. Thus, she naturally falls counterclockwise, using her left arm to keep her balance.
This all comes into place due to the way she is leaning. It would be practically impossible to turn clockwise if her right foot was the one on the ground.
When I insist that a certain foot is on the ground, my brain takes a bit to realize the orientation of the other parts of the body. Once, I subconsciously determine it's impossible to turn the way I saw she was turning before, it switches directions.
Best tip, focus on her leg if you wanna see the other direction
That's amazing
There's flickering moments where it's like I can almost see *through* the illusion - like there's a glitch just before it goes in either direction
I can literally feel the left and right hemisphere of my brain when she spins 1 way or the other hahahaha
OMG I SAW IT SPIN BOTH WAYS tip just look at the hands
it spins both ways + shrink and collapse on itself simultanously.
everybody can see it if they think in 2D instead of 3D.
Whenever I blink it switches lmao
I Control Her!!! LOL!
Just like all women
no she control you and your marriage ;)
Baldoxxx4000 simp
@@rohungupta8435 youre all degenerates
first i saw it counter-clockwise, and when i saw it spinning clockwise i couldn't unsee it again lol
For anyone with trouble seeing it both ways, playing frame by frame in reverse, then forward again. Helped me.
I don't know why but this scares me it gave me chills for some reason
I can’t make her change. She can only turn clockwise for me...
Help
Focus on the lower foot
For me it was the opposite. For ages I could only see her moving clockwise, it was when I tried ignoring the lower foot I finally started seeing her turn anti clockwise.
Try skipping around the video a ton
Look at lower foot is clockwise. To change direction, look at the shadow of the lower foot it change to counter clockwise.
It took me like ten minutes... u almost gave up.
I finally got her to spin counter clockwise by only having her feet in my peripheral vision while reading text comments underneath. Then, BOOM! just like that she was spinning counter clockwise. My brain switched it back to clockwise gaming pretty quickly though.
The reason it appears to be spinning different ways for different people is that the video actually can be interpreted both ways, since it's shot without perspective and one or more of the leg overlap frames have been removed. Because it's rendered as a blank sillhouette in orthogonal perspective, either rotation arc can be interpreted as either the left leg in front of the right or the right leg in front of the left. It's sort of like when you rotate a flat plane without perspective, it would just appear as a rectangle getting thinner and wider.
if you think you have a "3D mind" and can only see it one way thinking its correct, I hate to break it to you but you just got played.
I remember seeing this as an ad whenever I play at a flash game website
For me the easiest way to get the dancer to change directions was to hit the back or forward 10 seconds button. Some times I would have to hit it twice to make the switch for the dancer to be in the proper position for my brain to switch it.
This worked holy shit lol
😂 congrats🎉🎉🎉🎉
This is very interesting, as a very skeptical person i thought the video was edited so when you reached certain moment she changed directions. With this logic each time you reached that part of the video she changed directions at, you would see it, bur this didn’t happend, she changed directions in diferent moments of the video, even after taking notes of the specific seconds i believed she changed directions in, my notes weren’t consistent and
then i realized that yes, i can actually convince my mind that she spins in the other way. I very much enjoy this, i cant stop making her change directions.
I blinked, and it started spinning the other way.
For years I've been able to change the direction at will and fairly easily. Now I'm 62 and find it much harder to do and harder to hold on to.
we are getting slower! train!
It’s cap the video shows reversed in certain time stamps
0:20 so u can restart without stupid text
I've kinda mastered it... This sounds weird but here's how I can change it on command..
*FIRST:* I close my eyes, go inside of my mind and convince myself that I'm superhuman and I can control my reality with my mind.
*SECOND:* I imagine it spinning in left. When I get that imagine in my mind, I open my eyes and it's spinning left.
*THIRD:* I close my eyes again and imagine it's spinning right. I keep my eyes closed until I have the image clear in my mind of it spinning right. Then I open my eyes. (If it doesn't work, I keep trying until the image is crystal clear.. So clear that it's almost difficult to determine if I'm actually looking at my phone screen or if I'm still imagining it)
*FOURTH:* Close my eyes then repeat it for the left.
After doing this about 5-10 times, you can get so fast that you can switch every second with 1-2 super quick blinks.
I know I sound like a complete nerd but I love psychology. Hope this works for somebody.
*UPDATE:* after reading this and trying again.. It didn't work.. For about 1-2 minutes. It's bc I lost my self belief.
The key is to having absolute pure belief that you have control over the image. Like it's nothing. The more I believe that, then I can flip the image just by blinking.
The trick is to look at her foot. You can literally change her direction by sheer willpower. It's all about that foot.
Whichever way she’s spinning, it must be damn cold in that room…
I can switch direction by moving my eyes form Side to Side 👀
If you want her Clockwise - move eyes to the Right, pointing them on the edge of the picture, and vice versa 😉
It's much easier when you use your PERIPHERAL VISION.
Another hint - you can start blinking A LOT until you see her moving opposite way.
I was able to see her spinning the other way by occasionally rapidly blinking my eyes, then looking again. Cool illusion.
I just see her turn clockwise
This is driving me crazy
Are you sure it can be viewed both ways? No matter what I do she always spins clockwise.
What helped me was closing my eyes, imagining which direction she turns and then opening my eyes again. The only way I can control it.
Overtime, you learn how to manipulate the illusion and can even make it go back and forth at will.
She spins clockwise for me. If I focus on the shadow below her foot, I can make that go counterclockwise, and the whole image follows suit. Until I lose my concentration, and then she is clockwise again.