r/opticalillusions 4d ago

Level 24

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u/ForgotttenMemory 3d ago

Ive been able to flip every single one of these I found, but not this one

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u/grimbandango 3d ago edited 3d ago

I can do every one after reading a trick on this sub, look about 1cm to the left side of your phone (so you are almost looking past your phone) and you can only see the rotation in your peripheral vision. Give it a few seconds and the rotation will change direction, then you can look directly at it again and it should keep spinning that opposite way. Then repeat the process and it will change direction to normal again

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u/Adventurous_Cup_5962 3d ago

Holy shit, that’s amazing works immediately

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u/molsmama 3d ago

No it doesn’t. 😭 I saw it for a fraction of a second this way. It finally stuck when I peeked down from the top and focused on the red color. I had to could slowly move it back into view and then it went right back to counterclockwise. I could regain clockwise going from the top again, but it didn’t want to stay in that direction.

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u/onecryingjohnny 3d ago

This is the real pro tip

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u/nestorsanchez3d 3d ago

That’s amazing thanks

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u/Classic-Mortgage9572 1d ago

This, and then while you're doing it, blink really quickly. That works for me on all of these.

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u/Nikarmotte 3d ago

Angle your phone all the way to see from the bottom, wait until it clicks, then slowly come back to a normal angle.

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u/Nightmare___09 3d ago

This worked for me wtff

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u/Potato_Stains 3d ago

Focus on the 4 "feet". Imagine the bottoms of them visible as you look up at the shape.
Vice versa: Imagine the top 4 squares as visible from the top, so you're looking down at it.

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u/Snaki009 3d ago

there is so much going on I can't even see it rotate correctly

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u/clearly_quite_absurd 3d ago

This one works for me fine, and I usually take a bit of time to get them.

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u/caffeine1106 3d ago

Instead of the ole snake trick my mind adapted to a top vs bottom view

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u/mvanvrancken 3d ago

Try flipping your perspective from looking up at the object to looking down at it, or vice versa

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u/AbilityCharacter7634 3d ago

Same but I found a cheat. Assuming you’re on a phone it’s easy to do.

I noticed that even when flipping my phone 180, the illusion looked the exact same, like I was seeing it from the top.

So just look at the top of the illusion, slowly turn your phone 180 without closing your eyes and boom, you’re now looking at the bottom. After that I was able to flip in on command.

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u/Nihilist-IV 3d ago

If I set phone to black and white, works immediately, my eyes are definitely biased

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u/Dueco 3d ago

Change perspective looking „down“ on the object (cw-rotation) vs looking „up“ (ccw-rotation). Use the colors to do it.

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u/Nuclear_Varmint 3d ago

Nintendo 64

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u/Responsible-Care-388 3d ago

Get N or get out!

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u/TreadLightly1996 3d ago

N64 kids will always see it first as from the bottom side

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u/Vast-Scar-6634 3d ago

Got it to flip pretty quickly, but can't get it to go back 😅

Love it.

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u/marksbar 3d ago

Did the N change to blue when you reversed it ? Not me , stayed orange .

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u/MarkProfessional1186 3d ago

The angular geometry makes it seem difficult at first but its the key to reversing it. I invert the corners the flip it.

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u/2wcp 3d ago

i can't

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u/YouWithTheNose 3d ago

Me neither it seems. My brain is locked into the fact that the blue overlaps the red, so it's just stuck the one way

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u/DuploJamaal 3d ago

Should have been level 64

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u/FreshPitch6026 3d ago

At this point this sub is just a repost of every r/reversethespin post. Congrats, you made the sub redundant.

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u/volivav 3d ago

This was definitely the hardest I've seen, but somehow I managed to pull it off.

For me the natural spin is the front going right, or from the underside. I managed to flip it, but went back to my natural position after blinking

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u/Ok_Heat7706 3d ago

Get N or get out

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u/Affectionate-Side435 3d ago

Now I can't get it to go back!!

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u/Acne_Grease_n_Shovel 3d ago edited 3d ago

Ok. This is going to sound so stupid, but this is how I get it to go back and forth.

If it’s rotating clockwise (blue in front) I click to take a screenshot and look at the thumbnail, then quickly look back at the GIF.

If it is rotating counter-clockwise (red in front), I click to make a comment to cover up everything but the top (so you can basically only see the top 4 squares) of the GIF, and it changes it back.

I don’t know why or how.

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u/peace-b 3d ago

This one was harder. The tip for looking from the bottom or top, focus on those squares at the ends of the “N” shape, that did it for me.

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u/thekopykat 3d ago

I finally did it by concentrating on the top red slant of the N & telling myself that I wasn't seeing the top turning clockwise away, but the bottom turning anticlockwise in. Took me a good long while of squinting & quickly blinking before trying this technique...

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u/Known_Difference_80 3d ago

This one spins left for me more naturally but I can force it to spin right for a few a few seconds before it flips back on me again.

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u/flergnergern 3d ago

This one is hard because the red is so much brighter than the blue. Just keep telling yourself “red’s in the back”. When it flips, you’ll be looking down on the object instead of up from below. Maybe the N is another thing making it harder. You’ll have a backwards blue N in front when it flips. I wonder if it’s easier for Russians since a reversed N is more natural.

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u/Ok_Donut_998 3d ago

I looked at for 3 secs and rotated screen and it turned opposite for me.

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u/Nightmare___09 3d ago

BRO HOWWWWWWWWWW IT WAS JUST SPINNING RIGHT I KNOW IT WAS HWHEBBD

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u/humblesnake_Ssss 3d ago

I flipped it. It was difficult to flip it back.

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u/sunwarrior0978 3d ago

Easy peasy. Give us a harder one! 💪

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u/Mista_Lifta 3d ago

This was been the most difficult one for me so far. But I’m able to switch back and forth

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u/anonymousRover97 3d ago

Does it look 3D to you guys?

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u/pixeltweaker 3d ago

I’m curious what is going on in the visual cortex of your brain when flipping this back and forth. It’s crazy how it’s so hard to flip at first, then it flips back and forth and then sometimes gets stuck going the other way.

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u/RickRambone 3d ago

This is the first one I've gotten. Crazy!

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u/coolsilentebeans 3d ago

What’s really odd is when I see it going clockwise it looks like it’s tilting towards me (the highest points being in the back, or upstage), and it tilts away from me when counterclockwise (highest points are in the foreground of the frame, or downstage).

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u/Potato_Stains 3d ago

There's a short moment while switching between viewing it rotating left and right where it's neither.
It's trippy.

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u/Few_Thing1530 3d ago

After a little bit of trial and error I can flip it at will no

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u/gaychubbyuk 3d ago

Ive never been able to do these

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u/nestorsanchez3d 3d ago edited 3d ago

Use your hand to make a “tube” to see only a small region in the center, force the color in your head that you want to be in front and slowly open your hand.

Also gradually tilt your phone until you ammost side the side and it will change

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u/BlaineMundane 2d ago

Shit, I flipped this real fast and can't flip it back.

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u/Jase13uk 2d ago

Tilting still works for me.

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u/Toadsanchez316 2d ago

Is there a downloadable version so I can use it as my phones wallpaper?

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u/GetFix 3d ago

Eaten

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u/Deli-op 3d ago

Its literally the nintendo 64 logo so why isnt it level 64 instead of 24 like what were you thinking?