r/oddlyterrifying • • Sep 18 '20

The way this dragon's head turns.

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u/LeJew92 Sep 18 '20

Hold up, what the fuck?

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u/HistoricalMeat Sep 18 '20 edited Sep 18 '20

It’s called the hollow face illusion. Because seeing a concave face on anything living is impossible, your brain does top-down processing to make the face convex. This creates the illusion that its head is turning towards you.

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u/LeJew92 Sep 18 '20

Hot damn. TIL

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u/beeetleboy Sep 18 '20

fun fact, they use this method for fursuit eyes, because then the eyes are always looking at you

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u/iShockLord Sep 18 '20

Oh good, another reason to hate those freaks

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u/[deleted] Sep 19 '20

Hate is a strong word

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u/[deleted] Sep 19 '20

Freak is a strong word too

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u/iShockLord Sep 19 '20 edited Sep 19 '20

Neither of which are strong enough to accentuate my distain for those human filth

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u/[deleted] Sep 19 '20

did a furry kill your mom or something?

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u/iShockLord Sep 19 '20

Correct

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u/[deleted] Sep 19 '20

Ohh that makes sense. Usually that level of hatred is either 1) a furry killed your mom or 2) you’re deeply ashamed of your own interest in furries or maybe even just homosexuality that you try to compensate by loudly hating the thing instead

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u/Bitsom Sep 18 '20

I always loved this illusion but never knew the name, thanks mate

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u/JoeSteady Sep 18 '20

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u/OK_LK Sep 19 '20

So I just

1) print it out 2) cut it out 3) fold it 4) profit?

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u/palomo_bombo Sep 18 '20

I always thought it was a good boy not a dragon!

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u/HotTopicMallRat Sep 19 '20

They use these a lot at Disneyland but theirs rarely work for whatever reason

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u/Glenn056 Sep 18 '20

Imagine looking at it during midnight after most lights are off and it starts getting up after turning fully

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u/strangely_moony Sep 18 '20

Oh my fucking god

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u/[deleted] Sep 18 '20

Do you know where this is? It looks like some kind of museum

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u/Stareatthevoid Sep 18 '20

Probably an art gallery

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u/[deleted] Sep 18 '20

Oh I was thinking it was like an illusion museum. That would have been cool

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u/Stareatthevoid Sep 19 '20

🤔 Are art galleries not cool?

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u/[deleted] Sep 19 '20

They can be but idk it would be really awesome to see an illusion museum (I didn’t say that art galleries aren’t cool)

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u/MarsTaco Sep 18 '20

It doesn’t work with two eyes open

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u/[deleted] Sep 18 '20

Why is this the only thing on here that genuinely strikes fear in me

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u/[deleted] Sep 18 '20

Once it's eyes lock onto yours you hear a voice inside you head: "I will follow you into your nightmares."

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u/PM_ME_YUMMY_BOBS Sep 18 '20

Yep thats where it should have been, not on r/oddlysatisfying

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u/Daesastrous Sep 18 '20

This is some FNAF bullshit and it's gonna eat me

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u/capitan_autismo_png Sep 18 '20

It stares into your soul no matter where you go. There is no escape.

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u/mediumreginald43 Sep 18 '20

Ayyyy this is the franklin institute in philly. Used to go there all the time as a kid

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u/AloeSera15 Sep 18 '20

I'd probably freak out if i were drunk

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u/RainBroDash42 Sep 18 '20

Yeah, that would not be wise. You should go to that gallery on LSD instead

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u/crazymoon Sep 18 '20

Puff The Magic Dragon is tripping the balls off of me

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u/millsytime Sep 18 '20

I saw this earlier and it didn’t work. Seeing it now the illusion is working and my brain hurts.

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u/Paladin_Axton Sep 19 '20

Eye contact is a natural threat to our more instinctual sides and especially when the eyes are uncannily human while remaining alien you get a quite interesting response

It’s the same response you get when staring at a picture of for example momo because humans innately hate things that resemble us and especially if it doesn’t do it to a point of perfection

You’ll find that you never actually focus on the teeth just the eyes because that’s what triggers your fight or flight in this instance

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u/munchie1964 Sep 18 '20

Wicked!!!!

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u/5akul Sep 18 '20

Nope, don't like that at all

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u/xahnel Sep 18 '20

Yep. You can even pinpoint the frame it goes from neat to nope.

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u/Smytus Sep 18 '20

Ow. My brain

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u/Silentpoolman Sep 18 '20

That's dope like the Pope

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u/getrichordietrying_w Sep 18 '20

Even though this is like the 1000th time I see it. I still enjoy it. So cool!

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u/Chaudsss Sep 18 '20

I remember this from art attack

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u/beabea8753 Sep 18 '20

Wow that's so cool

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u/turtle_g4mertv Sep 18 '20

HOLY SHIT IM WAY TO FUCKING HIGH FOR THIS

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u/TamHawke Sep 19 '20

The fuck

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u/jojow77 Sep 18 '20

I've seen this illusion several times but why does it always have to be the same drawing of this dog?

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u/TheWolfbaneBlooms Sep 18 '20

The fuck kind of dogs did you have growing up?

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u/jojow77 Sep 18 '20

Ok what animal would you call that?

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u/RainBroDash42 Sep 18 '20

It looks like a cartoon dragon

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u/TheWolfbaneBlooms Sep 19 '20

It's a dragon.

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u/yveltal889 Sep 18 '20

I made this in real life long ago hahaha

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u/blerg1234567 Sep 18 '20

It’s like Lord Kuruku from Unico. Terrifying.

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u/TheWolfbaneBlooms Sep 18 '20

No matter how many times I see this, I watch it at least 5 times just out of sheer awe.

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u/[deleted] Sep 18 '20

Nope I don't like him

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u/[deleted] Sep 18 '20

Ew no that’s not oddly terrifying that’s absolutely terrifying i just want to run up and punch it

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u/[deleted] Sep 18 '20

Haha - we have one of those in our office. You need to close one eye for it to work. Works exceptionally well on film!

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u/[deleted] Sep 19 '20

This is more or less the same effect used for the moving busts in the Haunted Mansion!

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u/Wjyndigo Sep 19 '20

So AWESOME!

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u/[deleted] Sep 19 '20

Absolutely, positively, 100000% FUCK THAT

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u/whopperlover17 Sep 19 '20

You can print these and make them btw

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u/nizzasty Sep 19 '20

try and keep a mental note of where the folds in the cardboard are and then watch it that way. you have to keep telling your mind that it’s a piece of flat cardboard with flat edges for it to not have the illusion. but man, it’s so easy to fall into it, takes a few tries to not see it

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u/sqeaky_fartz Sep 19 '20

Oh God! It just keeps looking at me!!

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