Are you in your right mind (or left)?

[MikeB]

Gestalt psychology tried to come to grips with how our minds handle ambiguous perception way back in the 19th Century– check the link below. Its a little heavy, but the pictures are cool (sorry, no nekkid ladies!) The technical term for what is happening is “multistability”. MC Escher’s prints have great examples of multistability (albeit static) .

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gestalt_psychology

Of course at 2AM, if your watching a nekkid lady spinning around on your computer screen, who cares which way she is turning

[3 Hawks]

Gestalt psychology 😯 😯 😕 😕 🙄 🙄

[-cheeto-]

the page talks about clock wise and “anti-clockwise”… not sure what anti-clockwise is.. sorry don’t mean to offend the british, ahem counterclockwise… carry on..

the illusion is actually appearing to turn in 3D space which is not like a “clock” at all.

As you can see in this image, clockwise would refer to an object turning as shown:

The naked woman is spinning/rotating on an axis, not really turning…

Maybe that means I am neither left-brained or right-brained or maybe I am just nitpicking on the journalism..

-cheeto-

[Doc.]

Sooo…..then what direction did the anti-christ spin????? :-O

[Doc.]

I’m quite sure that the term “anti-clockwise” was coined right after Salvadore Dali painted “Persistence of Memories”. One of my favourite painting in the world!

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