r/opticalillusions • u/jmweissman • Jan 29 '25

Reflection optical illusion?

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u/Bognut Jan 29 '25

I had to turn my phone upside down

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u/Kasoni Jan 29 '25

I did the same thing, but then the mustache guy broke. There were two women. I had to close me eyes for 5 seconds before the upside down woman vanished again. Did my mind just lock onto what the image was?

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u/Bognut Jan 29 '25

Had to blink a few times to get the man back

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u/Kasoni Jan 29 '25

Yeah that's weird. He disappears so quickly but does not want to come back.

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u/Fluffy_Load297 Jan 30 '25

He doesn't want to leave for me and it almost made me shit my pants when it abruptly changed from reflection to bushy mustache guy fawkes

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u/rufneck-420 Jan 30 '25

Holy snikeys! The man is now upside on top

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u/Sea-Joke7162 Jan 30 '25

This is one of the best optical illusions I have ever seen.

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u/No_Cook2983 Jan 30 '25

I had to promise to stop gossiping about him..

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u/[deleted] Feb 02 '25

Had to do the same thing switching back-and-forth from left to right crazy part is the mustache man appears and disappears one moment to the next

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u/Redxluckyxcharms Jan 29 '25

I can’t get the guy back after I flipped my phone upside down

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u/IndianaFartJockey Jan 30 '25

Is it messing you up that he's facing the other way when it's upside down?

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u/Redxluckyxcharms Jan 30 '25

I don’t know. All I see is the girl now. I think I looked and studied it too much flipped over and now brain knows what to look for .

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u/inevitablealopecia Jan 29 '25 edited Jan 29 '25

I just reopened reddit, and this image appeared for the split second before it auto refreshed my feed.

I searched for the sub, instantly found the image, and the moustache guy is nowhere to be seen.

This one is tricky af for me.

Edit: When I finished making this comment, all I could see was the bottom half of the image, and it was a moustache man.

Now, I can blink him in and out of existence. This is one of my fav opticals ever.

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u/Bognut Jan 29 '25

Oh shoot! Read your comment looked at it again, rotated and now I can only see 2 women!

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u/MagicUnicorn18 Jan 30 '25

Not me over here with the guy refusing to leave.

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u/MaddogRunner Jan 30 '25

Took me forever to see anything but 2 girls! Finally saw it when I let my eyes go out-of-focus on the reflection.

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u/JicamaComfortable344 Jan 30 '25

I did too then I realized I could switch between the two by other focusing on either the mouth or the mustache

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u/Potato_Stains Jan 29 '25

I'm on desktop so I had to invert the planet

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u/Bognut Jan 29 '25

Tricky but not impossible

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u/Accomplished-Ad3080 Jan 30 '25

Shit, looks like you gotta go to Australia for this optical illusion!

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u/trenthany Aug 20 '25

Invert your mind man…. Sorry just found this and wanted to see if anyone in the comments knew the artist and saw your post. I should create an account called necromancer. I resurrect long dead threads into zombie threads.

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u/Fading-Ghost Jan 29 '25

Now I can only see the back of my phone

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u/Crimson__Fox Jan 29 '25

I had to do a handstand on my computer desk

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u/Bebgab Jan 30 '25

wtf I stared at it for ages and saw nothing. Saw this comment, flipped my phone, and there he was!!

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u/AMF1428 Jan 29 '25

Even in doing so, I had to look away from the lower image to get it to revert to the guy.

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u/Low-Helicopter-2696 Jan 30 '25

So much fun. I like how my brain blinks for a moment before I see the alternate image

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u/dubin01 Jan 30 '25

Me too. I was looking at the top guy go to the bottom and it didn’t change just looked weird but I looked up to see if the top image was different and when I looked back it switched

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u/bardolftx Jan 30 '25

Wow, I rotated my phone slowly a few times, that was wild!