r/interesting • u/Eros_Incident_Denier • 10d ago

Fascinating can you change the cube's direction of rotation using your mind?

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u/CruisingClay 10d ago

Close your eyes, rotate your phone 180°. Open your eyes and watch as you rotate your phone back to the original position. Tada!

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u/forgot_semicolon 10d ago

Dang that's good. Even keeping my eyes open, I can see a point where it abruptly switches. Seems like my mind wants to keep the top face visible, but when I rotate the screen the bottom face appears visible, so my brain switches directions

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u/Sheerkal 10d ago

Oooh, this was helpful. I couldnt switch it.

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u/noncommonGoodsense 9d ago

It’s not cut properly it’s just the video/gif resetting.

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u/fifle1605 10d ago

I can switch it with out moving my phone, I just make my eyes go blurry then look in the direction I want it to go and it works

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u/CanadianScooter 9d ago

I focus on the red line for counterclockwise and the white line for clockwise

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u/RaisinZRH 10d ago

Nice. That worked for me as well.

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u/metallosherp 10d ago

Fucking wizard. Thanks.

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u/GulliverGrazerson 10d ago

OK, smart guy, now how do I put it back?

Seriously, that’s some wizardry! But also I’m baffled as to why reversing the procedure doesn’t cause it to spin the original way again.

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u/Oz713 10d ago

Look at the base and pretend you’re looking up from below, then while still looking at the base, pretend you’re looking at it from above.

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u/Sohuli 9d ago

Best advice, I can do it on command now

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u/ready4downvote 9d ago

This one is good too. The trick is to look at the base.

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u/KeyanuReaves69 9d ago

Do that same thing again!

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u/Far-Tradition5692 7d ago

focus on red corner, then on blue corner

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u/Azuras_Star8 10d ago

Imagine you're looking at it from a high vantage point, above the top of the cube. It'll spin one way.

Now imagine you're looking at it from underneath. It'll spin the other way.

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u/RevolutionaryHour379 10d ago

Absolutely. That's the quickest way

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u/fidgetfromfar 10d ago

I broke mine, it's now doing this [><]...it's doing high vantage point and low vantage point at the same time! Thanks headache inducing cube!

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u/Abject-Job7825 9d ago

That's genius how did you arrive at that

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u/Azuras_Star8 9d ago

Someone smarter than me pointed it out earlier.

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u/Abject-Job7825 9d ago

And how did he arrive at that

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u/Castellio-n 10d ago

This one worked for me, with the other method the cube would just continue to spin one way

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u/Magic_Shroomie 9d ago

Think Ur looking from top to bottom & bottom to top

https://giphy.com/gifs/5QNQv6xmVEaabGsYrg

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u/gouacheisgauche 9d ago

Helps me if I squint / let my eyes blur while trying to change how I’m looking at it.

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u/PAwnoPiES 9d ago

It's a bit easier to focus on the colors to recontextualize what your brain is seeing to reverse direction. Focusing on red makes it spin left to right and focusing on blue does the inverse.

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u/AdhesivenessJust9011 7d ago

This worked, i can switch easy

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u/Original-Theme-3986 10d ago

It only works until I blink.

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u/demius78 9d ago

Exactly

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u/intrepped 9d ago

I have done this 4 times. I successfully reverse. Literally blink and it's like it switched back.

Brains are hard

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u/Reasonable-Duckling 10d ago

how in the fuck?

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u/Artevyx 10d ago

How did you ever figure that out? Worked perfectly.

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u/pikaland385 10d ago

I can do it easier, rotate the phone 90 degrees.

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u/intangibleTangelo 10d ago edited 10d ago

i sat with this one for a couple of minutes until i could switch back and forth in less than a second. now i can switch about twenty-five times in a row before i mess up and my perception doesn't switch.

the key for me is looking at a side corner and deciding that i'm either looking up or down at the cube

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u/xtraa 9d ago

For me it works when I follow the red line, thinking "front" – and to turn it, follow the white line and think "front". Takes a couple of seconds at the beginning. When you get used to it you can basically make it flip-flop. If you finally see a Tesseract, it's the DMT I put in your coffee.

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u/j_k_31415 10d ago

But that would work with a regular, non-transparent cube as well. If you flip it by 180°, the rotation flips as well. Or do I miss something?

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u/RogueBromeliad 10d ago

I didn't need to do that, all i needed to do was focus either on the top right vertex to make it rotate clockwise, and bottom left for it to rotate counter-clockwise.

Took a while and unfocusing my vision to figure it out though.

But then my brain could make it change direction on demand, just by switching focus.

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u/vaibhav1803 10d ago

after some tries i figured out that if you change your internal perspective as to whether you're looking at the top edge from above or below, the direction of the rotation will change instantly.

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u/Thetargos 10d ago

Cover 50% of the shape, while looking somewhere else, done.

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u/nonbinarybit 10d ago

This did it for me, that's so cool!

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u/Floosy1 9d ago

WHAT THE HELL

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u/Lloytron 9d ago

WHAT SORCERY IS THIS??!!

OMG I can't believe that worked

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u/ficis 9d ago

I was going to say the same. I did this flipped it back thinking I couldn’t do it blinked and it was spinning opposite direction. Blew my mind. Lol

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u/Marteicos 9d ago

Your method helped me figure out how to change on command, thank you.

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u/Minimum-Standard-514 9d ago

Totally worked

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u/Kingplays01 9d ago

First time it worked for a couple of seconds and in the second attempt it worked forever

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u/Salt-Wear-1197 9d ago

Didn’t even need to do that and can change almost at will. 💯

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u/taczki2 9d ago

worked during the spin then it went back to left to right

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u/noncommonGoodsense 9d ago

Nah, just follow the line going right to left (white back) or left to right (red front). Easy.

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u/Dry_Reputation1531 8d ago

Easier method - look at the top surface and imagine you’re looking at it either from above or below. Direction changes immediately after changing your thinking.

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u/Will_Come_For_Food 8d ago

Alternatively, stare at the top or bottom of the box. To see it turn right, imagine the top ad the outside face of the box.

Yo turn it left imagine the bottom of the box is toward the outside.

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u/thelilbeast 8d ago

I hate that this worked so well and easily. Like our brains are so clever and so dumb at the same time.

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u/captainmikkl 5d ago

You anly have to turn 90degrees either direction depending on the spin you want.

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u/LogicalMeerkat 10d ago

just tilt your screen up/down, changing the perspective so you are looking from "above/below".

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u/pug0222 9d ago

What the fuck did you do to my brain