Can you figure out what's going on here?

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  1. Ronni

    Ronni Hardy Maple

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    t took me FOREVER to realize that this was a very normal picture. I was told it was, and I tried and tried to see it, but for the longest time all I could see was a hideously deformed creature!!! And even now, my brain will tend to flip back to the deformed creature view, even though I KNOW it's not right! 47679650_10217717867514396_296189478832177152_n.jpg
     
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    eileen Resident Taxonomist Staff Member Moderator Plants Contributor

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    I see a dog (looks like a Staffie) lying on its side and looking at the camera Ronni. Nose on the right and ears on the left. Our dog lies like that!!
    However, now that I look at it again I'm beginning to see your hideously deformed creature - freaky!!
     
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    Yes!! That deformed creature was ALL that I could see, for the longest time!!! Even now, every time I look at the image, I have to TELL MY BRAIN to look at it a different way. I have to tilt my head to the side, and focus on one small portion of the image, telling my brain what it is that I'm actually seeing, before my brain obliges and then suddenly the image is flipped to being just what it is. But if I look away, and then look back, I have to go through that whole process over again!!! It's the strangest thing!
     
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    eileen Resident Taxonomist Staff Member Moderator Plants Contributor

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    I asked Ian to look at it and he thought it was something really weird too - just like you did. Took him a while to see it the way I first saw it. He thought the bottom ear was a mouth with a tongue hanging out and the right eye was a nose. Now all I can see is the 'freaky' image first when I take a look. :headscratch::shrug::smt101
     



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    Gail-Steman Young Pine

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    @eileen I agree with you and it is a staffy lying on it's side but the picture as been made distorted to make other's think it's terrible...mind you it does look weird :eek:
     
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    it took me quite a while to see it, too. all I could see was scaaaaaaaary. now my brain processes it to what it should be. a dog rolled on its back and its left ear is on its right side and its mouth is where the left ear should really be if it was in an upright position. you have to look at it with part of the photo covered up to "get it".
     
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    Jewell Incorrigible Gardener Plants Contributor

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    :confused:That pic wouldn’t make it into my photo album. :oops:Took me forever to figure it out even knowing it was something common. Slow brain here for sure :whistling:
     
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    Gail-Steman Young Pine

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    Join the club ;)
     

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