This is really weird

[Don S]

The mind can play some funny tricks on us. Look at the picture below. The same picture of the girl was flipped upside down on the right, all except for her mouth and eyes. They are still the same direction as the one on the left.
Notice how it still looks fairly normal to your minds eye.

Now, save the picture to your computer, and rotate it 180? and have a look at her expression.

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[Cofe]

Re: This is really weird

You don't have to download the picture and flip it, just turn you laptop upside down....

 

[QC]

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That is weird. What the subconscious fills in for us is amazing

 

[rbh]

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Just focus on the whites of they're eyes.

 

[sam60]

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I turned my head to about 90* out of plumb and got what Don is saying, and a neck ache. :facepalm:

 

[southkogs]

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... wow. That's the same thing that happens when I flip my OMC manual upside down.

Cool illusion Don.

 

[TilliamWe]

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... wow. That's the same thing that happens when I flip my OMC manual upside down.
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Now that's funny right there!!!!

 

[BoatBuoy]

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You don't have to download the picture and flip it, just turn you laptop upside down....

Can't do that with an IPad.

 

[QC]

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You can stand on your head. Works with a Desktop too . . .

 

[Don S]

Re: This is really weird

Can't do that with an IPad.

Lay the ipad down on the table, walk to the other side of the table and look at ipad. :facepalm:

 

[oops!]

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lol... did you catch this don..... or did you find it somewhere?...... this is really weird !

 

[Don S]

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It was Photoshop tutorial. That one is the original, I have done it myself on another picture and it looks just as strange.

 

[Shamfarlango]

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Crazy illusion, i wasn't expecting anything so drastic

 

[kenmyfam]

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Good one to see.

 

[marcoalza]

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Could you imagine chatting to her in a bar, getting all friendly, taking her home, laying down and.............arghhhhhhhh!

 

[coastalrichard]

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Can't do that with an IPad.

sure you can...just gotta be REAL FAST:facepalm:

 

[CheapboatKev]

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Can't do that with an IPad.

Sure ya can..disable the auto rotate

 

[Bob_VT]

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I just stumbled across the reason for this starage effect and thought I would pass it along...... it even has a name!

The Thatcher Effect

The Thatcher effect is a phenomenon where it becomes difficult to detect local feature changes in an upside down face, despite identical changes being obvious in an upright face. It is named after British former Prime Minister Margaret Thatcher on whose photograph the effect has been most famously demonstrated.

The Thatcher effect is illustrated by two originally identical photos, which are inverted. The second picture is obviously altered so that the eyes and mouth are vertically flipped, though the changes are not immediately obvious until the image is viewed in normal orientation. This is thought to be due to specific psychological processes involved in face perception which are tuned especially to upright faces.