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[–] 48 points 1 year ago (9 children)

The forks? The pepper shapes? What am I supposed to be looking at?

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  • [–] 67 points 1 year ago (8 children)

    Well, my experience was that at first, I didn't see the forks at all. (That is to say I didn't recognize them as "forks". Or even as "things".) The forks looked like some blurry, nondescript background and the "pepper shapes" looked like foreground items hanging from something unseen off the top. The shapes didn't look really like anything I could identify. That lasted for a good 30 seconds before, very (very) suddenly, it crystalized and I could only see the forks on a purple background. Really uncanny how rapidly and entirely it shifted. After a good amount of effort, I was able to shift back to the first perception, but it took considerable effort along with looking away and back a couple of times. And once I achieved it, it felt hard to maintain. Very strange experience. Far more so than most "bistable" sort of optical illusions I've seen.

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  • [–] 2 points 1 year ago

    Ah very good guide, thank you. Did not see the forks at all.

    I find I can make them go away if I focus on the center of the image and lightly unfocus my eyes. But you're right - it's not without effort.

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  • [–] 18 points 1 year ago (1 child)

    Ah yes, a collection of pink döner

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  • [–] 32 points 1 year ago (1 child)

    No clue how there can be seen anything else here but forks.

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  • [–] 15 points 1 year ago

    I can flip it back and forth in my brain. But yes, I saw the negative space as the object at first view.

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  • [–] 12 points 1 year ago

    Er, wut?

    4 forks. Is there something else?

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  • [–] 9 points 1 year ago

    I was expecting loss

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  • [–] 9 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago) (5 children)

    Leaving a comment so I can come back here when someone explains

    E: I get it, the fact that it lived rent free in my head was the broken brain thing

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  • [+] 9 points 1 year ago (4 children)
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    [–] 7 points 1 year ago

    Nothing to see here, moving on..

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    Initially thought it was some closeup of a micro-fluidics experiment.

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  • [–] 6 points 1 year ago

    How is this loss?

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  • [–] 3 points 1 year ago

    This reminded me of Bev Doolittle's art.

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  • [–] -4 points 1 year ago* (3 children)

    Are you guys having dementia or something? It's 4 forks on a pink background. If your brain needed time to process it, god there's something wrong with it.

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