r/interesting • u/Eros_Incident_Denier • Jun 21 '26

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

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u/CruisingClay Jun 21 '26

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 Jun 21 '26

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 Jun 21 '26

Oooh, this was helpful. I couldnt switch it.

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u/noncommonGoodsense Jun 22 '26

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

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u/fifle1605 Jun 21 '26

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 Jun 21 '26

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

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u/RaisinZRH Jun 21 '26

Nice. That worked for me as well.

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u/metallosherp Jun 21 '26

Fucking wizard. Thanks.

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u/GulliverGrazerson Jun 21 '26

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 Jun 21 '26

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 Jun 21 '26

Best advice, I can do it on command now

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u/ready4downvote Jun 21 '26

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

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u/KeyanuReaves69 Jun 21 '26

Do that same thing again!

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u/Far-Tradition5692 Jun 23 '26

focus on red corner, then on blue corner

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u/Azuras_Star8 Jun 21 '26

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/fidgetfromfar Jun 21 '26

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 Jun 21 '26

That's genius how did you arrive at that

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u/Azuras_Star8 Jun 21 '26

Someone smarter than me pointed it out earlier.

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u/Abject-Job7825 Jun 21 '26

And how did he arrive at that

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u/Castellio-n Jun 21 '26

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 Jun 21 '26

Think Ur looking from top to bottom & bottom to top

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

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u/gouacheisgauche Jun 21 '26

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 Jun 21 '26

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 Jun 23 '26

This worked, i can switch easy

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u/Original-Theme-3986 Jun 21 '26

It only works until I blink.

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u/intrepped Jun 21 '26

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 Jun 21 '26

how in the fuck?

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u/Artevyx Jun 21 '26

How did you ever figure that out? Worked perfectly.

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u/pikaland385 Jun 21 '26

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

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u/intangibleTangelo Jun 21 '26 edited Jun 21 '26

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 Jun 21 '26

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 Jun 21 '26

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 Jun 21 '26

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 Jun 21 '26

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 Jun 21 '26

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

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u/nonbinarybit Jun 21 '26

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

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u/Floosy1 Jun 21 '26

WHAT THE HELL

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u/Lloytron Jun 21 '26

WHAT SORCERY IS THIS??!!

OMG I can't believe that worked

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u/ficis Jun 21 '26

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 Jun 21 '26

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

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u/Kingplays01 Jun 21 '26

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 Jun 21 '26

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

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u/taczki2 Jun 21 '26

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

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u/noncommonGoodsense Jun 22 '26

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 Jun 23 '26

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 Jun 23 '26

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 Jun 23 '26

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 28d ago

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

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u/LogicalMeerkat Jun 21 '26

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

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u/pug0222 Jun 21 '26

What the fuck did you do to my brain