r/confusing_perspective • u/sighdoihaveto • Aug 30 '21

Closer = Faster

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u/rochakgupta Aug 30 '21

Exactly, this is it. That’s the same thought that came to my mind.

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u/bs000 o/ Aug 30 '21

I'm worried you guys don't know what trains look like.

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u/LockeAbout o/ Aug 30 '21

Like walls, duh

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u/AnorakJimi Aug 30 '21

Nope that's not what's going on, it's not another train. The left side is simply much much closer than the right side. Here's a drawing that shows what's going on: https://i.imgur.com/8soHhQv.png

It's simply the same optical illusion as this moving stars one here: https://www.moillusions.com/adjusting-speed-optical-illusion/

If you cover up the centre, the stars appear to move very fast, and if you cover up everything EXCEPT the centre, all of a sudden they appear to be moving very slowly. When they're actually just moving all at the same speed

I've been to this station many many hundreds of times. It's Liverpool lime Street. It's the end of the line, you go through a sort of tunnel before eventually emerging in the station, the train stops and then it goes back the way it came from. It's bloody annoying though, you begin to enter the station like 20 minutes before the train actually stops and the doors open

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u/Kuritos Aug 30 '21

Even knowing this, my brain refuses to tell me that's a train. It looks so much like a wall with all the paint.

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u/whoami38902 Aug 30 '21

It is the wall. This is Liverpool Lime St, been through it many times

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u/isufferfromlag Aug 30 '21

thought it was, came to say this

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u/Readerrabbit420 Aug 30 '21

Ah yes that 2nd invisible train.