Oddly enough I found that it seemed to switch back and forth. It would clockwise for a while, then switch and go counter clockwise for a bit, then back the other way.....

After a while, I found that I could "will" it to go one way or the other.

same here, anon, i could practically tell it to go one way or another, not literally of course but i could say in my mind that 'its going left' or 'its going right' and it would look like it was going that way. youre right too neath, cause if you just look at the stripes they change direction.(also,if you move your pointer slowly over the stripes back and forth they seem to change direction

i also noticed for me anyway if i tilted my head left or right it would go in that direction.

well when I actually payed attention to it it did seem to go back and forth as if in a rocking motion, but in such a motion that it would spin half way left then half way right. Not making a complete circle on either side.

whoa! super awesome!

I could make it change. It was really funny

thats cool man

I can control the red stripes! I say "Left" and they spin left!!!
I am the master of red stripe!

I have double vision and can see them moving in different ways at the same time. It is absolutely amaziing.

omg same here Ace Decade!

anon ur right, its like a clock.
if you want to hear tick instead of tock you hear tick! vise versa! THIS IS SO COOL, but im off 4 a pint

They are just simply blinking lights going from red to white and back again making it seem like they are moving .

sometimes as theyre spinning the stripes seem to widen

yea... when u look at the stripes, they go one way, and once u stare at the dot for a sec or two, the stripes turn around the other way

They spin counter clockwise

Its like if you try you can control it! THIS IS MY FAVORITE! (besides the evil ninja kung-fu karate bunny! lol)

It does not matter which way they appear to be spinning. They will do so whatever way you follow them. If one of the spots was different than the rest then it would matter which way they appeared to spin.

This is sweet... I can "will" them and all but when I use the arrow keys, it responds to those, too!

lol i forgot it was animated at first and al i thought was wow this is the best illusion ive ever seen, it really doe slook like is movin

it isnt going either way, it flashing. think about it

good point bill. anyways, i can make them go either way without even looking at the dot. ooohhh, beat that people!!! haha

HA HA HA HA i made it go backwards and forwards by changing my eye movements!!!! so cool

It's sorta like watching a cars rim spin really fast,( some times it changes direction!)

its not spinning!!! the red stripes are simply alternating places which gives the illusion of spinning. if you cover all but a small portion of the wheel (say about 3times the width of a red stripe) you can clearly see the alternating

people! it is an animation. so, that means it does go one way. Try counting the seconds in between switches... it should be regularly spaced. That's because they are only spinning one way at a time. It's a gag

i found if you slightly moved your head right the wheel would turn clockwise and if you turned your head slightly to the left the opposite would happen

Cool, I can make them change too. Now I can even do it without looking at the center dot.

It switches directions. It's just an animation lol

also if you move your eyes back and forth over the top of the circle, it will move in that direction. I figured out how it works too! It really just blinks back and forth, giving the illusion that it's moving.

This is Cheap!!!
i think it is not our mind. the wheel is changing direction every so often.

I noticed that it's not so much willing. Be careful of your eyes. If your eyes stray even a little bit, it seems that it will move back to clockwise. I think you need to keep your eyes DEAD center on the dot, or else it won't switch, or you'll switch back and forth.

i could see them spinning in either direction or just flashing, each rectangle alternating between red and white without looking in the middle

... by the way i know they are not actually rectangles.

if you make yourself go crosseyed then you can watch 2 circles spin in opposite directions....
Tres cool

If you say left it goes left because you THINK it goes left.
when you make your head go to the right it GOES right because you think it does.

I can make them change direction at will

This is cool because it isn't switching back and forth by it self really it is your brain because I saw clockwise and forced my brain and saw counter- clockwise.

tilting your head back and forth makes it switch direstions on command!!

If you look a little above the pic, like at the words, move your eyes from side 2 side... Cool, huh?

I found moving anything would spin the image, moving your hand across the screen would spin it to the right / left, focusing from red to white could change direction, and inside my head I could change the way it spun, by simple commands. Also blinking changes it.

that's a gif animation.. is so fake

nice..
it might just be me but when the thing is spinning counter-clockwise it looks like the background color of the stripes turns slightly teal which i thought is really cool :D

woah...