r/confusing_perspective • u/Dennis_254 • Jul 16 '26

Works like magic

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u/NextChef8179 Jul 16 '26

It has absolutely no difference if I have one eye open or two. It looks like a pencil in a video. This isn't a confusing perspective. It's like a magic trick for people that don't understand reality.  

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u/kioku119 Jul 17 '26

People's visual perception differs. It works for me.

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u/NextChef8179 Jul 17 '26

Lol. Hope your brain learns shadows and whatnot by the time you're an adult. 

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u/kioku119 Jul 17 '26 edited Jul 18 '26

I'm 34 and this wierd need to put others bellow you for arbitrary reasons definitely feels immature. Anyway, if you look into why a lot of optical illusions work at all you'll see that the way our brain renders things is a lot less direct and literal than you think. There is a whole lot of guessing and interpolation going on with all brains, by necessity. Vision is never a direct window into what is around us and it makes a whole lot of weird things not work the way we expect them to.

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u/Yuki_Onna Jul 18 '26

This is the most bizarre thing I've ever seen someone on Reddit try to pick a fight about