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Optical Illusion - very cool! (Original Post) Ohiogal Dec 2018 OP
Wow, I love these. dewsgirl Dec 2018 #1
Coo! InAbLuEsTaTe Dec 2018 #2
Wha!!!?? Eko Dec 2018 #3
they all look right-side up to me flibbitygiblets Dec 2018 #4
me too Demovictory9 Dec 2018 #17
This message was self-deleted by its author Rainbow Droid Dec 2018 #5
They all look right-side up to me. NBachers Dec 2018 #6
They looked right-side-up to me too. I rotated them 90 degrees and now I see the illusion. erronis Dec 2018 #7
Weird ... GeorgeGist Dec 2018 #8
Trippy! Floyd R. Turbo Dec 2018 #9
So! Anon-C Dec 2018 #10
Don't freak me out man! Floyd R. Turbo Dec 2018 #11
Proof that our eyes play tricks on us even when we're sober wishstar Dec 2018 #12
what is this sorcery? JuJuYoshida Dec 2018 #13
Shadows give it away. If they were all upside down, there would be no shadows. Fla Dem Dec 2018 #14
Damn, i'm usually pretty good at illusions.....not this one.... a kennedy Dec 2018 #15
The optical illusion only worked on me for a moment Brother Buzz Dec 2018 #16
They all look right-side up to me, too. red dog 1 Dec 2018 #18
Worked for me after turning it 180 degrees Zorro Dec 2018 #19

Response to Ohiogal (Original post)

erronis

(15,286 posts)
7. They looked right-side-up to me too. I rotated them 90 degrees and now I see the illusion.
Thu Dec 27, 2018, 09:13 PM
Dec 2018

I believe that once we are told ahead of time that we'll see them right-side-up in the original presentation our brains will make sure that's how we see them.

Rotating or otherwise changing the image will make the optical circuits need to reset.

GeorgeGist

(25,321 posts)
8. Weird ...
Thu Dec 27, 2018, 09:32 PM
Dec 2018

the first time the trigger was the square plate in the lower right. Then I refreshed the image and it was the bowl in the lower left.

wishstar

(5,269 posts)
12. Proof that our eyes play tricks on us even when we're sober
Fri Dec 28, 2018, 04:09 AM
Dec 2018

Amazing how they appear to shift back and forth in appearance

Fla Dem

(23,677 posts)
14. Shadows give it away. If they were all upside down, there would be no shadows.
Fri Dec 28, 2018, 12:36 PM
Dec 2018

The light is coming from the right. Shadows are formed from the edges and separations on the plates/bowls. If any of them were upside down, there would be nothing to create the shadows as all the surfaces would be flat. I could see none of them as upside down.

Brother Buzz

(36,440 posts)
16. The optical illusion only worked on me for a moment
Fri Dec 28, 2018, 06:21 PM
Dec 2018

Then I studied it a bit more and it flipped, and now I can't mentally reverse it. Weird, because I usually can usually switch back and forth on optical illusion like this.

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