Here's one of classic examples how our brain can easily be deceived. When you first look at the image below, red stripes seem to move in one direction only. Try focusing on the central dot... See how the stripes started moving in the opposite direction? You can repeat this process as many times you want, it works all the time! Enjoy!





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  1. Anonymous Neath 

    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.....

  2. Anonymous anon 

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

  3. Anonymous mina 

    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

  4. Anonymous dandra 

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

  5. Anonymous Nette 

    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.

  6. Anonymous Hai 

    whoa! super awesome!

  7. Anonymous hh 

    I could make it change. It was really funny

  8. Anonymous blake 

    thats cool man

  9. Anonymous Ace Decade 

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

  10. Anonymous DBL VSN 

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

  11. Anonymous ME! 

    omg same here Ace Decade!

  12. Anonymous M 2 the H O 

    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

  13. Anonymous Jessica 

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

  14. Anonymous kristen 

    sometimes as theyre spinning the stripes seem to widen

  15. Anonymous Qntoine 

    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

  16. Anonymous BurninRubber 

    They spin counter clockwise

  17. Anonymous Nachos Yummy 

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

  18. Anonymous Shrimpy 

    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.

  19. Anonymous Chris 

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

  20. Anonymous kt 

    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

  21. Anonymous bill 

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

  22. Anonymous Pandas 

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

  23. Anonymous kimmery 

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

  24. Anonymous Mitchell... 

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

  25. Anonymous AHHHH!! 

    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

  26. Anonymous Anonymous 

    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

  27. Anonymous Anonymous 

    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

  28. Anonymous Anonymous 

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

  29. Anonymous Mozilla 

    It switches directions. It's just an animation lol

  30. Anonymous L337 H4xx0rz 

    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.

  31. Anonymous human 

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

  32. Blogger blacksquirrel09 

    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.

  33. Blogger Meg 

    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.

  34. Anonymous Anonymous 

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

  35. Anonymous blah... 

    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.

  36. Anonymous Anonymous 

    I can make them change direction at will

  37. Anonymous Anonymous 

    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.

  38. Blogger AWS_SK83R 

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

  39. Anonymous Anonymous 

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

  40. Anonymous Anonymous 

    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.

  41. Anonymous elkeleeesgay 

    that's a gif animation.. is so fake

  42. Anonymous makoto 

    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

  43. Anonymous Anonymous 

    woah...




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