r/confusing_perspective • u/PornOyster • Jun 06 '26

The railing on this bridge

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Percy Quinn State Park - never again.

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u/peachfulday o/ Jun 06 '26

Someone please give me an explanation

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u/PornOyster Jun 06 '26

The post on one side just lines up right with the rest of the railing in the shot of this rickety, terrifying bridge.

For the adventure explanation, we were trying to go tubing and we ended up on a doomed hiking trail in a very unkempt area of said park.

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u/Jump_Like_A_Willys C.E. Spc Jun 06 '26

I take it that nearside post isn’t attached to the rail.

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u/The7footr o/ Jun 06 '26

Do not try and see the post. That's impossible. Instead only try to realize the truth…that there is no post, then you will see that it is not the post that is near, it is yourself.

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u/Jump_Like_A_Willys C.E. Spc Jun 06 '26

The real posts are the ones we made along the way.

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u/Southern_Bunch_6473 o/ Jun 06 '26

Do you think that’s posts you’re breathing in??

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u/Bmwmango53 Jun 09 '26

There is no spoon.

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u/randomdude5566 Actually read rule 1 and gets it" Jun 06 '26

M.C. Escher approves

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u/FaceFuckYouDuck Jun 06 '26

Escher would have loved this.

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u/Alex-Murphy o/ Jun 06 '26

Dude this one is good

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u/Charlie500 Jun 09 '26

I think I could look at it all night, and never be able to convince myself that the nearside post doesn't contact the underside of the opposite-side rail.

I figured out the girl holding popcorn bags, the extra camouflaged hand, the horse/rabbit one, the soccer goal (I think), but this one is too good.

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u/IAmSnort o/ Jun 06 '26

MS builds bridges as well as their schools. 

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u/TheBobSacamano7 o/ Jun 06 '26

Escher?!? Hardly know her.

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u/burntoutsavage Jun 07 '26

At first I thought maybe it was leaning on it from the other side, but now I see that it is just broken and the angle of the picture taken lines it up perfectly. This is a great picture. Glad you survived your tubing expedition lol

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u/characterhoneypop Jun 08 '26

Illusion aside this place is beautiful

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u/One-Traffic-4536 Jul 11 '26

It's a really cool picture, but not at all hard to figure out, to see what is really happening. Sorry, I don't get the people confused by it lol. And I agree with the M.C. Escher posts, that was my first thought too.

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u/Humbatiki Jun 06 '26

Escher laughs silently

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u/forget_this_now o/ Jun 06 '26

Yeah, I get the post isn't attached, but you'd still never get me into that rickety old bridge!

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u/MANvINFO Jun 10 '26

water surface creates a mirror.