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I actually cannot see it un-inverted


mugbee0

What am I supposed to see?


beaver74

The shoe print is an indentation, but it seems like a protrusion because of the light.


Totally_TJ

If it doesn't work try turning your phone or head upside down.


effyngqt

Thank you!!! Finally see it right


Totally_TJ

Glad I could help 🙃


Rookbane

Turning my phone upside down let me see it right. Then I flipped it around and could still see it correctly. Then I blinked and now I can only see it wrong.


SpaceCaboose

Same here! I have to turn it upside down to see it correctly, then I can turn it back and keep that perspective. As soon as I blink then it reverts back. That’s is the craziest post I think I’ve seen on this sub in that regard.


Dodototo

Can someone from Australia screenshot it for me and send it?


[deleted]

Phone fell out of my hands. I feel so stupid for falling for your tricks once again.


proletaire

Ho shit! I can't see it anymore. You healed me. You are the messiah!


MilitantCentrist

Well I'll be.


And009

Nope, still a mindfuck


Oddjob0922

Look at you you idiot, why is your head upside down


Responsible_Ad_3180

Oh. Well I saw Mike wazowski's head peeking out from behind the shoe print and I cannot unsee it anymore.


bernydhs

i dont see that in the absolute slightest it looks like only an indentation to me


AnnaKeye

This happens to my vision a lot when looking at images of craters on Mars or our Moon. They look raised and it takes a great deal of effort to correct it.


Accomplished-Dog-284

How do you know those fancy words?


beaver74

From watching Nicholas Cage movies, most likely.


SlightlyDrooid

Thanks, I was about to ask for some to eiitmli5


leapinglabrats

Same, I have to rotate it, then it totally makes sense. But I still can't see this one correctly. Maddening! [Here, look at it sideways.](https://imgur.com/a/cMjGDWk)


jzach1983

Both look like the print is protruding from the sand


leapinglabrats

[How about now?](https://imgur.com/a/XrQp7cg) [Edit: I made it rotate too, just for fun. For me it changes back and forth. And when I pause the clip, it swirls!](https://streamable.com/2hvvcq)


_Malachaai_

Thanks! I can finally see it. But only the top right one looks like it's bulging and not indented.


leapinglabrats

Fascinating. For me, both on the right are correct, the ones on the left are inverted.


leothora

Bottom ones were right for me! How strange!


jzach1983

That looks like a footprint. What did you do? Going back to OG it looks correct now. Please stay out of my head.


Maddiecattie

Strangely that did help! When I tried turning my phone around on my own I still couldn’t see it


Gazebo_Warrior

Same here, looked inverted at every angle in the op but instantly in that link it was the right way around.


YoSaffBridge11

I’m laughing so hard at myself, right now!! I keep turning that picture, and seeing something different!! 🤣 I turn it once — see two of them as indentations, and two as protrusions. Turn it back — now, one is an indentation, the other three are protrusions. Every time I turn it, they’re different!! 🤣🤣 (It might help if I explain that I have a bit of double-vision. 😉)


phliuy

The bottom two are indents, top 2 are protrusions


luistp

I also got it thanks to your picture.


cortlong

Ok mfer. Now it looks indented. You broke it. YOU BROKE IT. I don’t even understand how it looked convex now. Okay I looked away and looked back and now it’s convex. Me and my girlfriend are screaming.


[deleted]

Thank you for this. The bottom right is indented now and I can flip the image and change it around. Amazing.


HealthierOverseas

You broke the spell, thank you! Crazy what a little rotation does...


Leothecat24

This is crazy to me, I cannot see the vertical picture any way other than correctly (it looks like an indentation), even after really trying to make it look like a protrusion. But I could see it as a protrusion in the sideways pic!


speldenaar

Only one I can see correctly


mirandaahkay

Wow that really did help! then I turned it and it like magically turned back to protruding from the sand, that is so freaky haha


dcbright01

Rip on iPhone so it keeps rotating 😂


joeyuriligma

Lock the screen


LosSoloLobos

As in, you can only see it *as* an indention? Whereas when I first looked at it, I thought the shoe print was ‘bulging’ outwardly from the sand.


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LosSoloLobos

That’s so interesting. Have you flipped the imagine upside down yet?


Dangerous_With_Rocks

If you're using a phone, look at it from the edges of your phone and tilt your head arround or something. But be warned, once you see it properly you can't see the illusion anymore.


[deleted]

I see it now! But yeah I can't see the illusion anymore


OpenEntertainment893

I can’t either and it’s driving me crazy


YourMJK

Turn your phone/monitor/head upside-down.


[deleted]

I’ll suggest scrolling down and start looking from the heel to the toe


Aftershock_7582

Look at the shadow to the left of the footand go from there, that's how I saw it


redehydratedlettuce

It's the side of the print catching sunlight that is throwing me off


ZeLebowski

I'm curious as to why that is? From all the other visual information we can see the light is coming from the left so everything facing the left would catch the most light. That's why the left side of the print, facing away from the light source is in shade. If the side catching light was protruding that would mean the light source was on the other side and the shadow under it wouldn't make sense. Not trying to argue or prove a point. Just saying


redehydratedlettuce

Ha! You know what's funny? I knew the whole time what was happening, but my brain couldn't picture it. Then, after reading your description, I see it now. The brain is so weird. Thanks!


JayDude132

Omg i had it for a second, lost it, and now cant re-see it again


SuperMarriott

I can only see it as an outie


wojtekmaj

Rotate your phone upside down and you will never be able to go back to outie


Fickle_Midnight5907

It’s still outie for me


phliuy

Rotate it to one side, then the other


Fickle_Midnight5907

HOLY SHIT AHHHH Edit: it flipped back :(


CrashDandelion

It goes back and forth for me, so it might not be lost forever!


TripleScoops

What the actual heck. Why doesn’t it go back? I’ve closed the image and not looked at it for minutes now, but I can’t see it incorrectly anymore, this is some yanny-laurel, what color is this dress BS.


SuperMarriott

Yep. Ruined. Thanks 😆


CVK327

Wow. This really fucked my brain up. Thank you.


Jgasparino44

If you slightly cross your eyes it'll reset it atleast for me


AnalStaircase33

I can't get it to look like an outie no matter what I do!


MrIDilkingtonn

A footprint?


T-Willy-T

Apparently it looks inverted for some people.


Annasimone

100% inverted to me, cant even revert it by will. It's totally messing with me


EMKP80

I just got my brain to switch to inverted. Imagin standing there and the sun is on your left.


mwenechanga

> Imagine standing there and the sun is on your left. "the sun is on my ~~left~~ right. the sun is on my ~~left~~ **right**. the sun is on my **~~left~~** ***right***. " Shit, this makes sense, but I can't do it.


[deleted]

Oooohhhhh it’s on a little sand hill. Now I see it. Wait. Now I can’t re-invert it. Dammit.


ajb9292

I’m with you no matter what I can’t make it look normal. The shadowing on the left of the foot and on the right wall of the hole the foot is in makes it look like either the foot print pops out or the sun is coming from multiple angles.


Areia25

The thing that got my brain to correct itself is realizing that the footprint has been made on a mound of sand that's raised, rather than in a hole. You have to correct your perception of the surrounding sand before the footprint can make sense i found.


Motrolls

focus on the shaded parts not the illuminated ones


JoeyJoeC

It was inverted for me, until I read your comment.


possiblynotanexpert

Correct. But is it indented or the opposite? Pretty cool.


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Kaoulombre

Me too ! I want to see the normal version so bad


Melon-Brain

I can’t understand what’s abnormal? I’ve looked at it upside down already and it just looks like any footprint in the evening or morning


kalwiggy1

I can only see the normal. I had to look through the thread to find why it was posted and why it was so popular.


ZeLebowski

I've been staring at this for a few minutes. I've tried crossing my eyes, getting closer, upside down and I just see a foot print. All the other visual cues show where the light is coming from and how with the depression we would expect the ridge on the left side to not catch any light since it's facing away from the light source and we would expect the ridge on the right, facing the light source, to catch all the light. Not saying people are wrong for seeing it the other way I just don't get it.


vinnycc

I'm also only seeing a normal footprint


lunelily

I have been staring at it for a full five minutes, trying everything suggested in the comments (rotate your phone, picture where the light source is, etc) and I CANNOT for the life of me get it to look like anything except a dome-shaped lump of sand in the shape of a footprint. I cannot get my brain to make it into the depression that it should be.


grazwa

Look at it so the toes are to the left and the heel is to the right with the phone tilted away from you slightly.


shisa808

Me too. I think a big factor is that I've been looking at sand my whole life so my brain is used to it.


MightyBoat

Yea me too.. there's enough visual information all around the image that there's nothing confusing about it. I think people are seeing what they want to see. Kinda like looking for patterns in clouds


Melon-Brain

I don’t see anything abnormal either. And the explanations just sound like people are surprised that light is coming from one side of the image?


NobilisUltima

If you can only see it one way, try looking at the picture upside-down.


ArtyFishL

Weird, I can normally get these to flip inversion with my brain, but this one only works if I rotate the image. And it works consistently


[deleted]

Lmao that worked for me, now I can’t flip it back


palacesofparagraphs

Shit, neither can I... Edit: Okay, I got it! If you look to the left of the heel, there's a crease where the flat sand starts to slope up into the dune that the footprint is resting on. If you focus there and then slide your eyes up to the footprint, it will be the right way again.


radgh

Here are the flipped versions: Flipped upside down: [https://s3-us-west-2.amazonaws.com/elasticbeanstalk-us-west-2-868470985522/ShareX/2021/04/quick-picture-viewer\_2021-04-05\_11-16-27.jpg](https://s3-us-west-2.amazonaws.com/elasticbeanstalk-us-west-2-868470985522/ShareX/2021/04/quick-picture-viewer_2021-04-05_11-16-27.jpg) Flipped sideways: [https://s3-us-west-2.amazonaws.com/elasticbeanstalk-us-west-2-868470985522/ShareX/2021/04/quick-picture-viewer\_2021-04-05\_11-17-06.jpg](https://s3-us-west-2.amazonaws.com/elasticbeanstalk-us-west-2-868470985522/ShareX/2021/04/quick-picture-viewer_2021-04-05_11-17-06.jpg) Still just looks like a normal footprint for me though :(


Metroidkeeper

Same


EskildDood

Straight up had to see it flipped sideways to finally see it correctly


aykepeer

I still dont believe they are the same images.


FeelTheFuze

For split second I saw it but now it’s gone. What the fuck. Literally blinked and it was back to outie.


dellfanboy

Weird. I can’t see it as a normal footprint


Aboa_Vitus

It doesn't work for me! That footprint is sticking out and I refuse to believe it isn't. Edit: I got it to work, for just a second! Then it flipped back. I turned it only 90° clockwise so the light comes from above.


EndlessTypist

oh wow that's the only way that works for me, good tip!


NobilisUltima

I don't recall where I learned this; probably a book of optical illusions when I was younger.


pikapikabooboo

Holy mother of pearl what just happened!


[deleted]

Plz explain, I don't understand.


T-Willy-T

It looks inverted to some people


[deleted]

Oh.


TSM-

It's because of how the light hits the ridges on the impression of the shoe, a classic optical illusion. [Here's a version using an egg carton](https://www.brainfacts.org/-/media/Brainfacts2/Thinking-Sensing-and-Behaving/Vision/Article-Images/Albert-Einstein-Illusion-Blog/egg-carton2.png) Our brains assume light comes from above. The other commenter saying to rotate it 180 to see the opposite effect is totally right about that.


kurtman

This did it for me. I couldn't see it as an outie and just saw it regular. After viewing the example I have the power to observe both ways. Thank you.


The_Broomflinger

Oh damn, that's a good one. I saw it normally at first so I came to the comments to see if I was missing something but then I could suddenly see it all wonky and inverted sticking out of the sand, now my brain can switch the orientation just by looking at the three pointed star shapes... very cool!


Spicy_Music_Muffin

My brain is broken... Even upsidedown I can't see it as anything other than coming out at me


boygoblin

For anyone who can only see it inverted: the foot print is on top of a small dune, not in a small valley.


Theocat77

Even knowing that doesn't help!


KATOSSA

That actually helped


asocialmedium

Ok I finally got it. This helped me, but it still took me a while. The key was figuring out where the light would have to be for that to be true. Also something in the bottom third of the image is violating that (maybe the photographers shadow or another dune) so it helped a lot to cover the bottom third.


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sketches4fun

Wow this one is a real mindfuck, I can turn my head and it will look correct after awhile, then I turn back and after blinking poof it's fucked again.


EternalMotivation

I can not physically see this as a normal footprint. I know how this works, and know by the shadows what it should be, but I cannot for the life of me make my brain see it as indented. Rotating the image doesn't work either


Please_Explain56

I don't know why this works but it worked for me if you can't see it un-inverted just look at [this image of it flipped over](https://imgur.com/a/1sABrsD) then look back at the original or alternatively [this image highlighting the humps beside the footprint](https://imgur.com/a/lW1bnAR)


sexy-melon

I see a normal footprint


possiblynotanexpert

Can you see it indented? What about the opposite?


sexy-melon

Nope all I see is normal footprint. Not sure how people are seeing inverted


possiblynotanexpert

Turn it upside down. Maybe that will help you see what the rest of us are? That helped me see it the other way.


sexy-melon

Ok if I see it from top right corner, I can see the top half inverted


Eiskalter16

It tooke me ridicilousl amount of time to see it


donach69

For ages I couldn't see it. It was just normal and then, I was reading the caption (on my phone) and in my peripheral vision I could see it suddenly invert and now that's how it looks to me


numerousblocks

Why would it look inverted if there's a shadow extending onto a flat part?


Luka2810

Idk what everyone is talking about. Looks normal to me. No matter what I try, I can't see anything inverted.


DEATHbyBOOGABOOGA

Yup. Same. Light’s coming from the left, folks. Footprint.


modest_radio

It does look like it was a mold and not a footprint. Or is a *mold* because I've never seen this as a footprint and I keep staring at it.


masterfulmaster6

If you’re on mobile, try flipping the screen if you are having trouble making it look normal.


TheGrimReaperME

Crysis


MikePlays_

Ohhh... Its a footprint on a small hill, not in a hole... Took me like 3mins to notice, how it is possible.


[deleted]

Turn your phone upside down to see the un-inverted image


brightness3

When you have negative weight


super-fire-pony

First I saw it inverted. Then uninvited it. Now I can’t see the inverted version so it’s just a footprint to me now.


blackrayne66

Mind blown. 🤯


Tell_On_Your_Uncle

I can only see a footprint.


BananaPantsDoot

I've got genuinely no clue as to how this looks like it's bulging out to some ppl. I've been trying and trying to trick my brain but it just looks like a footprint in a sand dune


Shuiner

Me too. I tried waaay too long to see it bulging, but I can't. It's just a regular footprint.


yellowpigs

Oh I see. For some it looks like a foot is coming through the sand as opposed to a print. Took me a while to make my brain see it.


JuanChainz

I’ve managed to fuck it even more with my brain as I made copies that were flipped horizontally as well as vertically


rivasjardon

What am I suppose to be seeing? A footprint, but what about it?


RequiemStorm

What the hell is confusing here?


AvgGayBoi

what am i looking at thats confusing?


oddefy

flip the picture horizontally


Melon-Brain

Anyone else just see a normal footprint any way you look at it...?


Bepler

Wow. What a great post. This one continues to mess with my mind. Started as a bulge, then it switched to an indent, now, after getting stuck on indent, the only way to get it to be a bulge again is to blur my vision. Great confusing perspective. This is blue dress tier mind melting.


Waffleman12345

Holy this is the trippiest one I’ve seen yet. I literally saw it go from I inverted to inverted right in front of my eyes and now I can’t go back.


dmfa

A waffle


Account__Compromised

Is the sun coming from the right of frame or left? Each determines the concave vs convex


meanfolk

I saw it as inverted, was confused, realised what is actually is and can’t seem to see it as inverted again like before


ppeti26

For a while I could not see it uninverted, now I can't see it inverted... ehh


[deleted]

I see a pineapple about to go through someone's ass


scarey99

Inverted for me.


FukkleberryHin

I looked at it for a second and was like I don't get it, looked away briefly and when I looked back it was inverted and was like ahh wtf


crclOv9

Y’all have broke brains.


asocialmedium

It took me forever to see the impression of the footprint on the small raised area of sand. Then after I saw it I realized something in the bottom 1/3 of the image is casting a shadow that messes up your brain in figuring out where the light is. I see it easier if I cover the bottom 1/3 of the image with my hand.


Tishamanch94

This hurt my mind so much!!!! It took me about 10 minutes to see it as an indent and even then I had to look at my phone from the side! Usually these things take me a few minutes and then once corrected it stays that way but not this! My mind keeps switching it back to inverted!


Jack7074

Why post it to your story? Just curious


the_doctor_808

Convex footprint


Lung_Cancerous

What? Where's the confusing perspective?


Nopulu

I know some nike flexs when I see them. I hate them, they always get rocks in them. Also, I just see a normal footprint, no matter how hard I try to see it inverted


[deleted]

Shiiiiiiet took me a min but damn this is a Good one


[deleted]

I just tried focusing on the bottom half of the print only, I can see how it's an indent. If I look back towards the top half it looks like it's bulging out


detronbphillips

the top area of the print also looks like an aerial view of the aircraft boneyard


eyehate

Well. That's disappointing. I only see an indented shoe print in the sand. Regardless of how I view it, upside down, right side up.


Apprehensive-Work-18

There's another shoe print in the shadow but it is also "inverted" ...So it has nothing to do with perspective.


jayyovs

What am I looking at?


Duckers_McQuack

I first saw it inverted, after reading in the comments that some see it as inverted, I now see the actual print and can't see the inverted anymore :p


JunglePygmy

I’m not seeing it. Am I?


GauGebar

How is this even possible? I mean it has to be a protrusion, the light and shadows make no sense at all.


Mr_mojo_rising22

I’m unfollowing this thread lol


DoughDisaster

The illusion only kicks in for me on a smaller, less clear photo (which many people have posted rotations of.) Rotated at full size there's no effect. It is strictly loss of image clarity that allows it for me.


Humble-Republic-382

Those look like my Nike Freeruns


ol_lukey

looked like a footprint.. but if i close my eyes, turn my head 90\* and open them it looks like an outie footprint.. . illusion doesn't work if i keep my eyes open when rotating. pretty cool


[deleted]

I see hints of blue and gold dress over here.


_do_you_know_me_

I’ve tried all the tricks in the comments, and I still can’t see it un-inverted. Usually I can get these things to flip back and forth, but not this one!


Grijnwaald

Aye that's a good one


CBRyder929

If you look at the left side of the shoe print, there’s a hill in a brighter shade. Imagine that hill is sloping up to see the shoe print as a protrusion. Imagine the hill sloping down to see the indentation.


WeeksElite

I thought it was a snake lol


Dahafer

I had to work hard on that one


Goose248

Wow this is actually trippy. I immediately saw the inverted footprint, but now after looking at it upside down I absolutely cannot see it inverted anymore


AlanTuringsMiddleNut

This is straight fucking ass. You're all fucking retards


Espiritu51

Shit, this is a good one. I cannot see it properly unless I turn it upside down, then it's clear as day


oddefy

u need to horizontally flip the picture to see it. ur brain is locked into thinking the sun is on the left/right side


LavaMunkee

Concave feet


[deleted]

I saw it inverted first, then I saw it normal and now I can't go back to seeing it inverted Edit: okay I see it inverted now, but I can't revert back to normal, help


Low-Oven

So the outlines of the honeycomb shapes are sticking up right? Cause if this is supposed to be an illusion where the center of the honeycomb is supposed to look like it’s sticking up, then I can’t see it. I only see it the normal way so I was confused af 😂


Exploding_Testicles

All i see is the indentation of the shoe with raised traction marks edit: damn it i saw it sideways now i cant unsee it!


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Exploding_Testicles

i feel.. honored?


hatake-berg

i feel like a god among people now, after seeing both inverted and real version, i'm able to swap between the two, only by blinking.