I'm so going to steal this post!!

I see here spining to clockwise. Which is no surprise to me.

I stared for a really long time and saw her reverse direction for a few seconds but then lost it and cannot "trick" my mind into seeing her spin the counter-clockwise anymore.

This is totally freakish. She keeps changing directions.

That is really cool. I just tested the guys in my office and all the graphic designers said clockwise and all the programmers said counter-clockwise. I guess it really does work.

If the direction I see her spinning changes back and forth does that mean I have a balanced brain?

I logged on, stared at her for the longest time and the only direction she would spin was counterclockwise.

Then I spent way too long composing a response to Mike in a thread below, finally posted my comment, and now she's spinning clockwise and I can't get her to spin counterclockwise.

I saw this a couple days ago and I think it depends on HOW you've been thinking before you look at it. When I've been doing graphic design she spins clockwise and when I've been working on administrative stuff for Revolution she spins counter clockwise...and I can occasionally make myself see her spin whatever way I want.

fun!

OK - that's freaking me out. It keeps changing. Brilliant.

OK - I figured it out.

It's all in the shadows.

If you watch the (foot) shadow in the middle, she'll spin counter-clockwise.

If you watch the foot shadow on the side, she'll spin clockwise.

I am REALLY confused. no matter how long I look at her, she is spinning clockwise. I can not seem to even begin to entertain the reality that people see her spinning counter-clockwise.????!!!

Oh, and mike, I am guessing you would see her as spinning counter clockwise?

Funny. The first time she was spinning clockwise. Now I can't get her to stop spinning counter-clockwise!!! Aah!!! This is crazy.

so I've been trying all day and I can only see her spin clockwise.

Julie, she flipped for me in the middle of the afternoon - and I think Makeesha might be on to something - I was working on spreadsheets at the time.....later in the day she went back to clockwise, and she's still clockwise.
The other thing that worked was when I closed my left eye and watched it. LOL.

Here is a simple proof.

Spin is a conserved quantity in quantum mechanics.

Therefore, she only spins clockwise, and cannot change spin.

QED.

(Quantum Electro Dynamics produces Quad Erat Demonstratum)

Except, Steven, prior to the .gif being loaded, she is spinning in both directions at once, and she is also entangled with another woman who is also spinning in both directions at once but is at the same time spinning in the exact opposite direction from the first woman.

Steven, I find your explanation strange, but charming.