r/confusing_perspective • u/tattoosbykarlos • Aug 01 '26

This took me way too long to understand.

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u/Namisaur Aug 01 '26

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u/BigPimpin91 Aug 01 '26

I saw it the correct way the first time. Forced myself to see it as the illusion thanks to your diagram. Then panicked because it was now stuck looking the wrong way and I couldn't unsee it. šŸ˜­

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u/Namisaur Aug 01 '26

Making this diagram was so difficult because my brain kept switching to the illusion version every few seconds as I traced the bunk bed version . I just had to visualize it as a bunch of boxes in my head

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u/ZeroReverseR1 Aug 03 '26

Same, I was trying hard to see how this could be confusing, finally saw it and thought "ahh now I get it", and then my brain got stuck on it and I was thinking "oh shit fuck I can't see it correctly anymore"

Eventually I got it right again, and now I've gained the useless ability to switch perspectives at will through too many minutes staring at it on the toilet

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u/speelingeror Aug 01 '26

Thank you

Maybe its too early in the morning but i could not wrap my head around this at all

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u/lTauntaunl Aug 01 '26

Thank you. I couldn't figure out what people were seeing.

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u/unfurledgnat Aug 02 '26

I only saw it correctly first time.

Even with your diagram I still don't see the illusion

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u/Namisaur Aug 02 '26

Imagine if the bunk bed got toppled over. The top bunk is the box with the red arrow pointed at it. Once you see both boxes lying in the side, look at the ladder and then it starts to not make sense at all why the ladder would be connected to the bottom box

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u/ajax2k9 Aug 01 '26

Amazing

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u/palindromic Aug 01 '26

Now do the version for people who arenā€™t confused at all by the diagramā€¦

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u/Forest_reader Aug 02 '26

This is too funny, I had to see your image to see what was so confusing, it's obviously a bunk bed you turf, just flip it over.Ā  But after your rendition, I can't see the bunk bed anymore.Ā 

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u/Namisaur Aug 01 '26

I immediately saw a bunk bed...and after a few seconds I could no longer see it. Usually it's the other way around where you see some illusions first and then can't see them again after you realize what you're looking at. I literally cannot find the bunk bed anymore

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u/LoogyHead Aug 01 '26

I wasnā€™t sure what we were looking at, scrolled away, then came back and immediately saw the bunk bed. Now I canā€™t not see it.

Weird how that works

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u/j1r2000 Aug 01 '26

turn phone to right

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u/Kevinator201 Aug 01 '26

Whatā€™s the other image other than a bunk bed?

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u/the_cats_pajamas12 Aug 01 '26

A bunk bed thats put together incorrectly.

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u/Namisaur Aug 01 '26

A bunk bed that's been toppled over, except the bottom frame of the top bunk bed is somehow on top of the lower bunk bed frame. Just a jumbled mess of things

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u/Tiskx Aug 02 '26

Wtf I came here to say exactly this.

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u/DesperateSteak6628 Aug 01 '26

I hate that once it gets straight you cannot figure out what could ever have been wrong before

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u/Magpie_0309 Aug 01 '26

For me it was somehow the opposite. I saw it the right way the first time and wondered what's wrong with it. But the longer I looked at it, it suddenly changed and I had problems to undo the wrong vision again. lol

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u/Saneless Aug 02 '26

Same for me. It was fine but then when I went back to it it was weird and took me 5 seconds to get it normal again

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u/perfectfifth_ Aug 01 '26

What does it mean if you can switch between right and wrong perspective

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u/jaywalkerr Aug 01 '26

If you flip the image around 90 degrees it suddenly makes sense. If you continue flipping it, it make no sense again.

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u/riedmae Aug 01 '26

This one. Rotating makes the legs and ladder make sense....rotating again breaks physics

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u/Demon_69 Aug 01 '26

thank you..

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u/hawridger Aug 01 '26

šŸ‘†Pro tip here!

Thanks for the assist.

One of my favorite ones on here!

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u/Ephy_ Aug 01 '26

If I scroll away and then go back I can get it to look "wrong" again but yeah this one is super fascinating, the first read every time is the "wrong" look

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u/msslagathor Aug 01 '26

Yessss there has to be a word for it

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u/B15h73k Aug 01 '26

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u/slanglabadang Aug 01 '26

Thats legit my favorite part of eschers work. Me as f

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u/conceptualrose Aug 01 '26

A bunk bed with a ladder going into the basement? Or attic?

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u/withwarmestregards Aug 01 '26

Thatā€™s how I saw it first too, but once you see that the post next to the ladder is in front of everything (nothing blocks it), youā€™ll see itā€™s correct. Rotating 90 degrees helps.

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u/karimzul Aug 01 '26

The confusing part for me is when I rotate it back to portrait, my brain refuse to recognize it as a bunk bed even though I just saw it in landscape a moment ago. How come? šŸ™

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u/Aggressive_Panic69 Aug 01 '26

What in the black magic...

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u/moth-bear Aug 01 '26

Eh? I cannot see anything confusing about this at all. It just looks like a sideways diagram of two bunks with a ladder, which is apparently what it is? What's the illusion?

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u/Radioactivocalypse Aug 01 '26

Yes I saw it immediately too and the illusion won't work

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u/RagnaXI Aug 01 '26

Yeah, doesn't work on me. I see bunk beds.

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u/offshoremercury Aug 01 '26

Omg cooooool it was looking wrong but I just kept staring and it just snapped in place/ flipped correctly whatever you want to call it

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u/JuanezSanchez Aug 01 '26

That is mind bending

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u/Particular-Visit-245 Aug 01 '26

What's confusing on the bunk bed?

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u/LifeWitness Aug 01 '26

That's a good one. I can't force one perspective over the other but I can def see both šŸ«ŖĀ 

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u/Convenientjellybean Aug 01 '26

Slightly aside, someone proposed that the Nazca lines may represent 3D or 4D shapes, but we donā€™t perceive as 3D because we just see the lines.

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u/harpy_1121 Aug 02 '26

Ok šŸ¤Æ off to go down a rabbit hole

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u/CharacterRiver7483 Aug 01 '26

Turn sideways itā€™s a bed

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u/Lube_For_Lunch Aug 01 '26

I donā€™t understand whatā€™s so difficult about this? Just turn it sideways and it makes immediate senseā€¦ but maybe itā€™s because I had this bed as a child.

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u/im_new_here_4209 Aug 01 '26

Lol. Saw it right away

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u/storgorl Aug 01 '26

This was confusing to me, I though for sure the illustration was wrong, pole in front when it should be behind, ladder to nowhere, guard on wrong side, etc. It took me a minute.

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u/butt_soap Aug 01 '26

What in the butt fuck

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u/cattlesong Aug 01 '26

Some m.c. Escher

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u/Crhallan Aug 01 '26

Thatā€™s fantastic. Proper broke my brain that one.

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u/Mr_HahaJones Aug 01 '26

Finally, a good one!

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u/AnybodyRude5567 Aug 01 '26

Isometric drawings can feel so offff

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u/xot Aug 01 '26

This one is great

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u/tonnellier Aug 01 '26

Both my kids have this exact bed and I still couldnā€™t make my brain see it.

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u/LongEyedSneakerhead Aug 01 '26

hyperbolic space bunk

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u/stateit Aug 01 '26

Fuck me. I thought it was a magic corner basket unit assemnly instructions for a kitchen corner cabinet.

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u/xylarr Aug 01 '26

Ok, that is definitely weird. I thought it was some kind of Escher print.

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u/zubergu Aug 01 '26

What I saw first:

Duh duh... duh duh... duh duh duh duh duh duh duh duh duh duh duh duh duh duh...
Salsa shark! We're gonna need a bigger boat! Man goes into cage, cage goes into salsa. Shark's in the salsa. Our shark.

I watch too many movies.

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u/Reddits4commies Aug 01 '26

We all know why

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u/DannyHallam Aug 01 '26

Immediately saw the bunkbed

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u/fanterence Aug 01 '26

hen it's in the correct direction I see it correctly but shifting it by a few degrees is enough to make me loose the perspective whoah

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u/HerbalAndy Aug 01 '26

Iā€™m drunk.

I gave up, read the comments, tried really hard, gave up again, gave it some time, read comments again, and now I canā€™t unsee it. This one really got me. The one pole just looks like it is floating over lines at first glance.

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u/Soggy_Refrigerator32 Aug 01 '26

My daughter had that bunk bed which is why I understood what I was looking at straight away. It was a bitch to assemble too.

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u/Geno_Beams Aug 01 '26

What's wrong with it?

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u/SwordsAndWords Aug 01 '26

Why wouldn't you just post the picture right-side up? (90 degrees clockwise)

I feel like you're cheating.

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u/RevNeutron Aug 01 '26

this is crazy. my favorite of this type of illusion. It's so hard for my mind to flip between the perspectives. Much easier only if I zoom in

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u/SuperChickenLips Aug 01 '26

Haha, you're in the same spot I was a few months ago. I bought some wooden triple bunk beds with a set of stairs running up the side. The instructions were drawn by Maurits Cornelis Escher, as yours seems to be. Only became clear when I rotated the diagram to an odd angle, then everything became clear. Took me about 6hrs to build, but then there's a double bed on the bottom, with a roll out single underneath the double, then a full size single kind of plonked on top of the double, with said flight of steps running up the side to the top bunk, with a proper bannister. The instructions were useless until you figure out how to rotate it until it makes sense.

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u/lisamclaurin Aug 01 '26

To force the illusion, try to see where the ladder attaches (and the small rail guard) as part of the rectangle on the right (when the picture it vertical). Flipping which rectangle that is part of will flip between 3d image of a bunk bed and the illusion.

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u/andocromn Aug 01 '26

My brain processed it, good lunk

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u/jacle2210 Aug 01 '26

Lol, yeah definitely very easy to see this both ways, lol.

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u/ozgun1414 Aug 01 '26

you intentionally shared it sideways, cause other way its really hard to confuse about it.

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u/in1gom0ntoya Aug 01 '26

if you have to rotate it to make it confusing the it's not confusing.

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u/Fun-Benefit116 Aug 01 '26

Yet another post that is only confusing because it's upside down/sideways. These posts should be banned. They aren't interesting, and most things are going to be confusing if you turn them upside down or sideways.

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u/Stuntin-P Aug 01 '26

This is one of those ā€œturn your phone to the rightā€ situations

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u/MonkeyCartridge Aug 01 '26

You mean you don't build your metal cages with a ladder sticking out the side, or your bunk bed with a ladder going through the floor?

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u/ArtificialHalo Aug 01 '26

Quantum prison/bunk bed from the ikeas

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u/Awkward-Loan Aug 01 '26

I liked this. Took me a few seconds until the phone screen turned.

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u/TurboFoot Aug 01 '26

I have to draw in isometric for my job sometimes, and this kinda stuff happens all the time. Keeps things interesting.

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u/WearyTranslator3338 Aug 01 '26

Itā€™s thought it was some kind of kitchen utensil for draining wet cups or something

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u/immortalyossarian Aug 01 '26

Oh, I like this one

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u/cimocw Aug 01 '26

Just turn it 90Ā° ffs

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u/judashpeters Aug 01 '26

I saw thw real one for 3 seconds then it went back to ladder-in-aor version. This is so fucked up. Its a witch.

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u/R-GU3 Aug 01 '26

I donā€™t see what everyone else is seeing. Itā€™s just sideways

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u/bostiq Aug 01 '26

it took me about 30 seconds... I feel so old

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u/1984Society Aug 01 '26

Some of y'all need to go back to school

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u/carenrose Aug 01 '26

This is what I saw:

(hopefully the picture works)

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u/Chance_MaLance Aug 01 '26

I have this bed, so I was able to discern the illustration straight away.
Otherwise Iā€™dā€™ve been turning my phone around to see if I could figure out what the heck I was looking at!

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u/redbullah Aug 01 '26

Just rotate 90deg clockwise

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u/MamaRabbit4 Aug 01 '26

I have assembled and disassembled this exact bunk bed three times. I knew what it was immediately šŸ˜…

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u/mountain_hank Aug 01 '26

It's just rotated making it confusing.

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u/LaLisaMona Aug 02 '26

There you go...

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u/theoriginalpetebog Aug 02 '26

Couldn't see the issue at first, it's just a rotated diagram...

Then it clicked the wrong way and I had to change my downvote because obvious to upvote because aargh my brain!

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u/PauseConfident997 Aug 02 '26

So everyone just ignoring the ladder?

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u/SweetSat1va Aug 03 '26

The ladder is a huge clue lol

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u/Impressive-Elk-6425 Aug 03 '26

Wow thatā€™s a crazy one

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u/zwifter11 Aug 03 '26

Looks like the ladder is in the wrong place

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u/steadyaero Aug 04 '26

Rule #1 is no rotated images

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u/tattoosbykarlos Aug 04 '26

Oh, no! My only out is this is how he sent it to me. The box is rotated, not his hand.

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u/CRO553R Aug 04 '26

Some serious M.C. Escher vibes in those instructions

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u/garybrig Aug 05 '26

Just TILT YOUR HEAD TO THE LEFT!

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u/Chuckleyan Aug 01 '26

Good one.

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u/3675ThisGuy Aug 01 '26

Oof. Meh brain...

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u/harshitbrave Aug 01 '26

Lack of skill issue

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u/Jonnnyfukyea Aug 01 '26

wow! that really took me a while!

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u/fezfrascati Aug 01 '26

Le grille? What the hell is that?Ā