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:

http://l.yimg.com/ep/wpprod/12/2010/10/optical-illusion-kitty.gif
"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.:ohwell:

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 :cheers:

[JerrySteakhouse]

I can make it stop!












Shyt, that's just my comp freezing

:lol :roll:

:cheers:

[PowerGlove]

I can make it stop!












Shyt, that's just my comp freezing
:roll:

[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

http://www.flystylelife.com/wp-content/uploads/2010/07/bosh-wade-james.jpg

[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

http://www.flystylelife.com/wp-content/uploads/2010/07/bosh-wade-james.jpg
:oldlol: :roll: :oldlol:
:roll: :oldlol: :roll:

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

[NastaMaverick]

I stared at the cat for like 10 minutes with no luck...:(

[duscrapiron]

this is trippy.

tip: i could only see it going clockwise at first, what i did was place an object (remote control) right in front on my monitor and i began to turn my remote counter clock-wise with the cat in back round and voila, i was able to see it move counter clock-wise

[shlver]

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

[clipse026]

Man, I saw this one a while back and after 30 minutes I had no luck. I just clicked this thread now and I can switch it on command. Crazy stuff.

[hayden695]

I don't know how long I looked but I couldn't get it to go clockwise.

[Stuckey]

i got it, when the cat turns to you just picture hims pun 180

eventually you can make the cat only swing from 10 - 2 o clock

[gigantes]

http://img.izismile.com/img/img6/20131104/1000/hypnotic_optical_illusion_gifs_that_are_just_too_c ool_07.gif

[gigantes]

http://img.izismile.com/img/img6/20131104/1000/hypnotic_optical_illusion_gifs_that_are_just_too_c ool_10.gif

[gigantes]

http://img.izismile.com/img/img7/20140124/1000/wow_this_is_truly_amazing_14.gif

[Patrick Chewing]

http://img.izismile.com/img/img7/20140124/1000/wow_this_is_truly_amazing_14.gif


I was about to post the video to this one. This one is so awesome.

[gigantes]

I was about to post the video to this one. This one is so awesome.
they're pretty easy to make, too!

great stuff to take to a bar / restaurant when you're solo or with a date or whatever. that and little magic tricks. but i'm such a lazy mofo, because i never get around to it. :lol

[BrownEye007]

Has anybody else noticed that the right foot is pointing down when its going clockwise and the left foot is pointed down when it counter-clockwise?

[JohnnySic]

Took a while but I got it. What worked for me was not looking directly at the cat.

[gigantes]

i like this one too


http://img.izismile.com/img/img8/20150123/1000/daily_gifdump_764_07.gif

[ILLsmak]

Took a while but I got it. What worked for me was not looking directly at the cat.

My brain is ****ed. lol. I can't do it. Nothing suggested works. Maybe I have schizophrenia.

-Smak

[Thorpesaurous]

Only once have I been able to get the dancer to switch, and this one I couldn't get at all.

That head moving dinosaur is from a youtube channel called Brusspup that has a bunch of good ones.

[Jasi]

I don't think the last gif is supposed to switch.

The dancer, I manage to switch at will

[Practice?]

http://img.izismile.com/img/img6/20131104/1000/hypnotic_optical_illusion_gifs_that_are_just_too_c ool_07.gif

These are always cool.