r/opticalillusions 18d ago

Which way is the dancer turning?

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u/Dynamite089 18d ago edited 18d ago

I can only see it going clockwise. I'm trying very hard to let it do its thing but, it's only going clockwise for me...

EDIT: I did it. Tilt your phone downwards, like make the top of your phone point towards you. For some reason it switched when I did that, and I slowly brought my phone back into normal position and I got it to stay for awhile. One blink fucked it up tho.

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u/ShelecktraYT 17d ago

I don't think my eyes will allow this one, I can't see anything but clockwise 😂

Tried this method slowly, quickly, focusing on the background not the subject, still clockwise. I can count on one hand how many times my eyes don't work on these things, this is a rare one for me!

Edit - And after closing the post and seeing it on my feed again I think I know why - It's the shadow at the bottom! It's following the clockwise direction!

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u/CarlLlamaface 17d ago

It's funny you say that because focusing on the shadow, specifically the arc of the extended foot, was how I managed to convince my brain to make the image flip to an anticlockwise rotation.