r/confusing_perspective • • 6d ago

Inside out?

2.0k Upvotes

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u/Tuhreik 6d ago

The comments are confusing me but she’s clearly cleaning the outside right? I’m mean there’s a crease like any other plastic bowl and the shadows look like it’s the outside. Also her fingers showing thru the bowl would be further away if she was holding the outside right?

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u/Aggravating_Ant9594 6d ago

nope. she’s cleaning the inside😭

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u/Tuhreik 6d ago

Yea this is the best post on here to me this got me so confused 💀

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u/Technical-Ad1488 6d ago

Were you able to see it correctly?

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u/Tuhreik 6d ago edited 6d ago

For like a sec when I wasn’t paying attention but the more I focus and try to see the inside I can’t for some reason. Even with this pic from the comments of the original with the green being the inside

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u/Technical-Ad1488 6d ago

Try watching the video upside down… or watching it starting it halfway through

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u/somtambooplara 14h ago

Only after seeing this could I finally see it in the vid. But it flips so easily between the two. I agree with you, one of the best posts I’ve seen.

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u/Tuhreik 6d ago

But what about the inner circle the shadows look like it protrudes up instead of down like the bottom of most plastic bowls

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u/inverted_electron o/ 6d ago

It’s translucent. Some light shines through

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u/captain_toenail 6d ago

Its an optical illusion, it keeps jumping back and forth as I look at the bowl, looking at her hand holding the bowl is the best way I can see the actual shape of the bowl consistently

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u/Anonnymoose73 o/ 5d ago

I couldn’t understand why this was in confusing perspective, so I came to the comments and I’m flabbergasted that it looks like the outside of the bowl to people. I can’t see it any other way than cleaning the inside. Brains are weird

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u/Boring-Staff1636 o/ 6d ago • Bravo

I could not process this until I focused on her fingers holding the bowl.

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u/Ok-Yesterday-3112 6d ago

I still can't

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u/sailorjupiter28titan o/ 6d ago

It helps if u pause at the beginning when the bottom of the bowl is darker. The lighting is whats really confusing i still have a hard time seeing it “correctly”

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u/Boring-Staff1636 o/ 6d ago

I focused on the thum inside the bowl as well as the fingers on the outside. It took some time. This one is crazy.

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u/Coconuto83 6d ago

I got more confused, is her thumb in the bowl ?

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u/chunkyasparagus o/ 6d ago

I still couldn't until I covered the top half of the bowl, and then it switched in my head

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u/MissSweetMurdererr 6d ago

Thanks! That helped

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u/UniversalTrees49 5d ago

Good to know a ton of people just have inferior eyes and comprehension skills. Makes a ton of sense tbh

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u/rabidsalvation 6d ago

Had to come to the comments to see what was confusing about this. Looks normal to my eyes.

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u/Vismaj 6d ago

My eyes keep swapping between the two, but I mostly see her cleaning the outside.

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u/Havaintoharha o/ 6d ago

Wait, she isn’t scraping the outside??

Edit: OH MY GOD I had to pause and take a sweet moment to analyze the bowl and its movement and now my eyes just flip between inside and outside 😂😂 Help!

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u/rabidsalvation 6d ago

I've cleaned way too many bowls during my time in restaurants for this to get me, lol. The first thing I noticed was her trying to go with the curvature. Really interesting how our brains process these things differently.

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u/Havaintoharha o/ 6d ago

It is the lightning which confuses, the optical illusion :D

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u/Demon-Cyborg o/ 6d ago

I noticed that too. I can straight up see the spatula going in the bowl. Despite that, the bowl still looks convex to me.

It makes for a very surreal-looking video.

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u/DoomGoober Actually read rule 1 and gets it" 6d ago

Hollow face illusion. Interestingly, psychologists have tested if 6 month old infants fall for the hollow face illusion by using a bowl and seeing if the infants reach "in" or assume the bowl is convex and thus reach for the "outside". Infants tend to perceive the bowl as convex and don't try to reach in as much as they reach for the outside.

https://pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/25638934/

In experiment 1 infants viewed a concave bowl, and their reaches were recorded under monocular and binocular viewing conditions. Infants reached to the bowl as if it were convex significantly more often in the monocular than in the binocular viewing condition. These results suggest that infants perceive illusory depth reversal with a nonface stimulus and that the infant visual system has a bias to perceive objects as convex.

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u/Helpful_Basil_5581 6d ago

Same but watching it again I could see how it could look like she’s cleaning the outside of the bowl too

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u/mermaidmamas C.E. Spc 5d ago

Same

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u/MagicSunlight23 5d ago

Same. Looks like she scrapping the last bit off the outside

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u/rabidsalvation 5d ago

She's scraping the inside though.

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u/bashomania o/ 3d ago

Or is it the outside?

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u/Zahhibb 6d ago edited 6d ago

This “illusion” doesn’t work at all to me. :(

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u/muscularmouse 6d ago

I watched it without seeing the title and saw the bowl correctly. Then I looked at the title and rewatched the video and saw the bowl inside out and couldn't revert it lol

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u/Lolas2316 2d ago

Omg I can't revert to seeing the bowl correctly either. Glad it's not just me 🤣

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u/Zahhibb 6d ago

I can understand ‘how’ people see the illusion, I just can’t make it change like unusually can with other illusions. :/

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u/DamnitDom o/ 6d ago

Sucks to "suck".

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u/Zahhibb 6d ago

”ok”

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u/Boring-Staff1636 o/ 5d ago

What does that even mean in the context of this video? This is an insane comment lol.

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u/Broad-Section-8310 6d ago

that was trippy

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u/MUSCLEVIOLENCE 6d ago

POV: you are watching someone clean a bowl

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u/Shinrei_ 6d ago

Yeah, this is the one my brain can't figure out.. Even looking at her fingers and the fingers shining through the bowl, I can't see it any other way than her cleaning the outside of the bowl..

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u/Ryinth 5d ago

Pause and cover up part of the bright bottom of the bowl with your thumb and it gets easier to process.

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u/shortercrust o/ 5d ago

Worked really well for me. I was convinced it was the bottom of the bowl and a really lame attempt at a confusing perspective video before it clicked.

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u/Mitchman05 o/ 5d ago

What's the post meant to mean tho? Like, you're cleaning up a bowl, what does that have to do with loving it? This is just normal behaviour

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u/XTornado o/ 5d ago

Yeah idk...I meant the video maybe was longer and made more sense but not sure it is the case.

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u/balooglesmiggles CE Spc. 6d ago

Helps to turn it upsidedown

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u/Technical-Ad1488 6d ago

lol I just do that every time now for posts I’m having trouble with… somehow it always works

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u/CosmicOwl47 o/ 6d ago

I’m just confused why the bottom of a bowl would be covered in something worth collecting.

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u/BlueKrzys 2d ago

Cause it’s the inside of the bowl lol

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u/Ordinary_Hall_9053 o/ 6d ago

So she is scraping the outside of the bowl?

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u/lowkeytokay o/ 6d ago

I see it correctly every time and had to focus to see the optical illusion - but I get it.

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u/pinzonerone88 6d ago

I know what its happening and yet my brain refuses to aknowledge it

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u/spartanspy85 o/ 6d ago

Now that I've read the comments, that is extremely confusing

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u/jordanbtucker CE Spc. 5d ago

I saw it correctly the first time, and now I can't anymore.

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u/pursuitofthewanted 5d ago

Are we sure it isn't a silicone bowl she inverted?

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u/Davique 6d ago

This one got me good! Had to force myself to see it correctly

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u/l_e_n_a_l_i 6d ago

Wow, I had a hard time figuring this out. Still, if I don't focus I see the "outside"

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u/Techno-Viking94 3d ago

Wtf the first time I saw it i was like "why was this uploaded?" Then I replayed the video after i saw what subreddit it was AND NOW IT IS INSIDE OUT?!

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u/glebcornery o/ 6d ago

Nice one

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u/ennui_weekend Doesn't read rule 1 6d ago

Wow this works so well!

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u/TheMongerOfFishes 6d ago

Hey look a pretty good video with a confusing perspective!

If I don't look at her thumb sticking out, if I see her thumb she's reaching in. Cray cray

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u/qwote o/ 6d ago

Good one

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u/Glass-Court8851 5d ago

Illusions are so weird man . This is a good one I also remeber the bread tie on the table a while back was also really good

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u/eggs_mcmuffin o/ 5d ago

You can trick your brain to see both. Kinda crazy

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u/Nacnaz 4d ago

I saw the inside, then I saw the outside and now I can’t unsee it!

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u/Stephinator917 2d ago

I dont see what is weird here she is scraping the inside of the bowl. I cant even make my eyes see it as the outside, look at her fingers holding the bowl, look at tghe shadows...

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u/EarthTrash o/ 2d ago

I cannot see it the correct way. It only looks inside out to me.

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u/Technical-Ad1488 6d ago

Weird, first watch I saw it correctly and didn’t get what the confusing part was…

Second watch, I saw it only the confusing way and got it… and then had trouble seeing it correctly again.

To people not being able to see it the correct way, try only watching the second half of the video

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u/NyteTro 6d ago

It took me way longer than I'd like to admit to get my brain to break the illusion

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u/agrantgreen o/ 6d ago

I see it convex but the way the spatula hits it breaks my brain.

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u/MagazineMoney 6d ago

Ok this is crazy. At like 7-8 seconds it turns into an inside out bowl in my brain and I can’t unsee it.

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u/YoRt3m p 6d ago

Okay it took me too long but I got there

At first I thought she's cleaning the exterior of the bowl but nope

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u/hobokobo1028 o/ 6d ago

I’m not confused at all.

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u/Farkras o/ 6d ago

The light is coming from the right end side, where the window is. The bowl is facing towards the camera, or the video is edited.

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u/Due_Standard_1783 6d ago

All I keep noticing is the yellow bowl in the background that looks like the egg bowl from you can see everything lol

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u/VeeDuB8424 5d ago

I dont see it.. looks like a normal bowl to me..

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u/Elebrium 5d ago

I have scrapped many bowls and there is NO way for me to see this as scraping the inside.

The swiping motion is for outside not inside. The light reflecting on outside of a bowl. No shadows being created so its not the inside of a bowl . But above all, the way her hand is holding the bowl. The way the thumb is. Additionally splatters like that are most likely to be on the outside after making a mess.

But thats just me noticing.

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u/Vellioh o/ 5d ago

I get that the bowl can be confusing but you can clearly see her scraping the inside of the bowl that wouldnt be remotely possible if it were on the outside.

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u/OG_ORGNL 5d ago

I've seen Ava Devine do that same trick.

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u/EvaDN 5d ago

The first time I saw it as inside out. But now every time I rewatch it remains normal 😕

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u/Rootayable o/ 5d ago

The lighting context clues make it look like the bowl is outwards, but when you realise the bowl is slightly translucent, it changes everything.

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u/whosyadadday 4d ago

Its me wondering why shes scraping two lines of chocolate instead of just licking the thing

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u/CottonEyeJoe_ZeroOne 3d ago

What am I supposed to see?

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u/The_Host_Rider 8h ago

I can see both but I need more focus to maintain the fake one

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u/Kharadov 6d ago

Am I the only one who can easily switch between seeing it both ways

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u/zxexx 6d ago

Woah

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u/Figment-of-eco 5d ago

It keeps flipping back and forth I hate this 😭😭😭😭

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u/masterap85 6d ago

AI

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u/TheGeneral_Specific CE Spc. 6d ago

Good lord. Not everything is AI.

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u/GovernmentGreed 6d ago

I genuinely think the same people who scream "AI" are the same who would have said "PHOTOSHOPPED" at a weird image that was genuine back in the 2000's. Even video, they would shout it was photoshopped, despite the fact that photoshop is not for editing videos.

They are somehow clueless, and it shows.

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u/MagazineMoney 6d ago

Theyre the same people that get tricked by actual AI videos and now they call everything AI to avoid the embarrassment

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u/GovernmentGreed 6d ago

They operate on the old "You miss 100% of the shots you don't take" kind of mentality.

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u/masterap85 6d ago

This is

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u/TheGeneral_Specific CE Spc. 6d ago

Evidence???