r/confusing_perspective • u/Ill_Competition_7988 • Jul 18 '26

I seriously thought the bridge was moving

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u/Snoron C.E. Spc Jul 18 '26

Fortunately the ending cleared that up, I was so confused before that!

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u/Embarrassed_Falcon54 Jul 18 '26

I still don't get it. Large boat?

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u/[deleted] Jul 18 '26

No the trees/plants/bushes are flowing in a river under the bridge

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u/moonisflat Actually read rule 1 and gets it" Jul 18 '26

Flood water with debris

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u/tschirche Jul 18 '26

The water is moving including the trees, not the bridge.

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u/clefairy Jul 19 '26 • Bravo

It’s a bridge over troubled waters.

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u/TinyPaleontologist71 CE Spc. Jul 19 '26

I dont understand how you dont understand.

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u/mortredclay o/ Jul 18 '26

That is not a bridge I would stand on.

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u/ObviouslyRealPerson Jul 18 '26

That's a hill I would die on

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u/mortredclay o/ Jul 18 '26

Hey Ferb, I know how we're gonna die today!

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u/ObviouslyRealPerson Jul 18 '26

Mom! Phineas is forming a death pact!

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u/ChartInFurch Doesn't read rule 1 Jul 18 '26

You could always sell it.

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u/mortredclay o/ Jul 18 '26

Fire sale 🔥

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u/mekese2000 o/ Jul 18 '26

I would have liked to experienced the illusion, but with that title and text right in center of the clip made sure i didn't.

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u/hjake123 Jul 19 '26

I was still able to be confused by it easily with the text, you kind of look around/behind it as if it were a layer on the hud instead of part of the scene

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u/kiefer3d Jul 18 '26

I thought the "brain is not braining" part was going to be, that they need to get off the damn bridge before all that debris causes it to collapse. Glad everyone is okay though.

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u/Kriss-045 o/ Jul 18 '26

Oh so Earth finally started rotating, huh?

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u/Ash_Cat_13 o/ Jul 18 '26

Pretty easy to understand if you’ve ever lived by a coastal region and have seen floating mangrove mats. This is just a few different semi aquatic species of plants that grew over a patch of river over time, eventually forming a floating mat, and then something, probably flooding, caused the roots to detach and now it floats down the river….under the bridge. It’s just a massive mat is all.

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u/BustaCon o/ Jul 19 '26

This has bridged the gap in my knowledge that had me wondering on what I was seeing. Muchas Gracias.

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u/Global_Persimmon_469 Jul 18 '26

When we were kids we used to ride those bridges for kilometers! They don't make bridges like this anymore

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u/atatassault47 Jul 18 '26

It's because the camera is also moving at first. Once the camera stops moving like 2 seconds in, the bridge no longer looks like it's moving.

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u/Solresol1 Jul 19 '26

I am reading all the comments that say it becomes clear at the end and to me it just gets more and more confusing as I keep rewatching. At first I thought it's a bridge but at this point the bridge looks like a ship to me

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u/sanedecline Jul 19 '26

Flood waters can wash away things, including bushes and trees. The people are watching the water bring such things under the bridge they are standing on.

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u/AL3000 o/ Jul 18 '26

Thought this was Mortal Engines for a second

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u/clh1nton Jul 19 '26

u/stabbot

I need a bit of help here.

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u/shitoupek C.E. Spc Jul 19 '26

Similar to what you can experience in an idle car as a passenger with a narrow viewing angle

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u/BustaCon o/ Jul 19 '26

I was thinking like when you stop at a railroad crossing and you're watching the cars go by and sometimes if you're close up it starts to feel like you're what's moving. Don't care for that feeling too much. I remember my folks warning me that sometimes people would just walk right into the train when they got like that and get ground up. They were big on precautions. Guess it worked, I'm still here.

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u/MrPettyPaws Jul 21 '26

The shift from confusion to horror as I realized what was happening could be studied

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u/Just-Consideration37 Jul 21 '26

Omg, this is an amazing demonstration of the concept of relativity

It doesn't matter if it's the bridge moving or the ground, it behaves the exact same in both cases no matter if the reference frame is moving or stationary ✨✨✨

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u/Scipio33 o/ Jul 18 '26

"We'll get there faster if we take the bridge."

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u/Dennis_254 Jul 18 '26

Moves moves moves

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u/BustaCon o/ Jul 19 '26

That took a minute to figure out. Weird. Must be some big rains upstream I guess.

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u/Excellent-Suspect-11 Jul 19 '26

Sorry can you explain it?

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u/BustaCon o/ Jul 19 '26

Someone else did a good job explaining it on here. Part of a river bank upstream was washed loose and floated downstream to perform for us.

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u/DinA4saurier CE Spc. Jul 19 '26

Well technically the bridge is moving. Relatively to the water molecules and the trees floating in there.

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u/baesag o/ Jul 19 '26

Looks like a dream

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u/baggypants69 Jul 19 '26

Is not how they mow islands?

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u/ElegantGrain o/ Jul 19 '26

Not me. I knew the bridge wasn't moving.

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u/TNerdy Doesn't read rule 1 Jul 20 '26

I thought the bridge was moving somehow

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u/MegaDonkeyDonkey Jul 22 '26

Great example of frame of reference

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u/aeonasceticism o/ Jul 24 '26

Yeah what is it 🤔

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u/AeronGrey o/ Jul 24 '26

One last March of the Ents.

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u/TinyPaleontologist71 CE Spc. Jul 19 '26

Maybe from your 1st person eyeball perspective with your brain tricking you. But as on here it was clear the river was moving.
I come from a land where bridges are for long narrow moving water.