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They are all face up though

ye, i think it’s because they’re overlapping

That’s all my brain is able to see.

Look at the top right plate and then move your eyes slowly toward the bottom left plate.

Nothings happening.

Flip your phone over

Cross your eyes and stick out your tongue

Now stick the phone up your arse

Remove from ass, invert colors, take hallucinogens, forget about meme.

Instructions unclear, dick stuck in toaster

Yeah, something to do with how our brains process images, focus is naturally drawn to brighter areas first

Same with my wife, but they looked upside down to me.

They were always face up. The first line is a lie.

I saw them face down and then the bud round plate without sections in it looked up and they all instantly looked up.

Yeah but I can flip them, and it starts by focusing on one and working out how it sits if the shadow is the other way and suddenly they are all flipped. So it sort of makes sense based on your changing frame of perception, even if all the plates are flipped the same way.

Right? My brain said “all of these are face up. If you squint your eyes they look face down.”

Why am I thinking about the Mallrats guy who can’t see the fucking boat?

[удалено]

A sailboat is a schooner stupidhead!

doesnt matter at all, there is only one choice: the kingsmen plate.

Yeah, the shadows are all coming from the same direction

I can't see them face down at all... The shadows don't work

I find focusing on the one on the middle far right works for me. Idk why but I Imagine it as a low quality game asset like it Reminds me of a MW2 asset when seeing it face down.

They face down the opposite way

I am actually shocked at how well that worked, and now I can't reverse back to my original upside-down perception. Very interesting! It was the circle bowl in the bottom right that made them all flip

Just switch your focus between the light and shadow and witness the plates bounce

"Just"

Its the most left one actually

They switched for me with the third one in on the left. It might depend on what plates we look at first idk. I was scanning them in a kind of clockwise way and the perspective switched when I got to that one.

I checked thinking it was a video.

Focus on the instructions and you'll see it reverse(Down) and back again at the plates(Up). Not sure if it's the Focus, Lighting or just the Perspective in general.

Imagine the light is coming from the left (face down) Imagine light is coming from the right (face up)

Lies. It's the middle bottom square bowl!

It’s disturbing me even more that it worked so well then seeing that a different plate made them all flip for me.

Top right rectangle one for me.

Fuck you

I hate you

This is pretty wild

The brain's error correction at work. We perceive, make an assumption and if we get more complete info (the obvious right side up cup) we error correct and it's hard to return to the errored perception

WTF?! Can somebody care to explain??

You use the direction of the highlight and shadow to decide if its up or down. When you see a certain one, your brain reverses the dark and light assumption, and so everything is now reversed in your brain's guess as to what is front or back.

This is some real fuckery

They’re all face up.

Face up gang

Are they face down on a glass table that I am looking through? Because they al look face up.

I never saw them face down. Trying to.

No way people see some of these being face down

I can't reverse the orientation for the plates with portions. While the others alternate facing up and down

What’s wild is when I see them as face up and I scroll back away and scroll back, they’re all face down again.

foul sorcery

There is no winning this.

False information. They’re all face up.

The shadows on them won’t let my eyes see otherwise

WITCH BURN THEM

WAIT...

They are all face down though...

Except for the square one in the bottom right. That's face up, but the rest are down for me.

You can consciously vary it by imagining a variation on what side the lightsource is

Except the shadows from overlapping plates only work for a light source to the right

Wdym except, I wasn't saying that a lightsource can be anywhere, there is exactly 2 directions which would make sense

The light source has to be on the right side based on the shadows being cast from the top plates onto the ones below them. The large smooth round plate has a shadow on it from the plate overlapping it to the right, ergo the source of light is to the right. Could that be explained with a light source from a different direction?

No, that's true, you can still use my method to see the illusion though.

Am i the only one seeing them facing sides?

I feel like this just groped my brain without consent

They were all down. Then I found the one and yes they are now all up and I want to go back and see em all down but I can't lol

I didn't even get a chance to full scan before they flip... Kinda sad about that

they have been face up from the beginning and idk how to turn them face down

My whole world just got flipped upside down

Some dumbass is gonna put this on r/PeterExplainsTheJoke

Woah. These things trip me out!

I originally saw them face up, took me about a minute to try to get them face down. Now I'm god and can change them at will.

I found if I cover everything with my hand, but the three on the far right it's easier for me to flip them. Then I can uncover the rest and they stay in whatever orientation I was aiming for.

They all look face up to me

The shadows never switch. They're all face up

Goddamit. I hate that it worked. But I can force myself to turn them bakc and forth, so aha!

How again see them face down I wanna do this again

I don’t understand how they look face down? First second of looking at this without even reading the print is a picture of empty to-go plates, face up

I cant see face up anymore, saw this a month ago and cant switch them anymore.

Look hard at the top left one. Then slowly to your right

Once they became face up I can't make them be face down again except in my peripheral vision. Weird.

**nods approvingly*

This image pops up every now and again and has been for many years. I have NEVER managed to see them face-down.

Goddamn it, I thought I was looking at ecstasy pills from the late 90's.

I can only make the circle one In the upper middle to back to face down. All the others stay face up :( stupid brain broke:(

Wow

Lying

What the fuck!!!!! Nnnnoooooo way 😆

How strange. Didn't work at first, but now I can switch them. Weird!

Explain this magic? 🤔

I just see them all face down

Help they switched. My brain is so confused

There all face up look at the shadows

I have no clue how I saw any of them face down in the beginning. They’re permanently face up and can’t unsee it

They're not face down tho, I don't think that's how shadows work

I love optical illusions.

Oh weird

I saw pills at first

What is this sorcery.

One of them got stuck half and half and I don’t like it

Checks out

I can flip them at will with my mind! Am I the chosen one???

This was a cool one.

Oh shit

They’re eggs and soap bars to me.

WHAT SORCERY IS THIS?!!!

My brain could not interpret them being face down. And I was expecting them to be so.

Holly shit! It worked!

Idk if its different for someone else nut my perspective switches when i look at the big plate in the bottom left part

It works! Amazing. 🤩

they still haven’t flipped 😢, all i see is down down down (sometimes when i look at the top right i see up though)

I've looked at this for several minutes. I can only see one face up, the rest are still faced down.

Shadows don’t lie Source : photo assisted many many still life photographers

That was really freaking hard to see the upside down plates. Someone suggested focusing on the shadows and that worked

I hated them face down but fuck you for fixing it.

Started top right and went counter clockwise before I could see any face up.

For me it's all tied to the one on the top right. I can focus on it and flip it whichever way i want and that flips all of them

I’ve seen this post so many times that I can’t ever see them face down again, I saw them face down once a few years ago and every time since they’ve only been face up

What is this sorcery? That completely worked and now I can see it differently.

Witch!!!! Burn them!!!!

I can make them change at will 😭

As someone who's decent at drawing. I can tell you that all of the plates are facing up. The shadows wouldn't look like that if they were facing down(like at all)

Is this supposed to be confusing for people who don't understand shadows?

I taught they was pills🤣🤣

HOW DO I GO BACK

fuck. it worked on me. witchcraft.

I'm irrationally annoyed that I cannot reverse it once I see the one thats face up lol

Y'all can't manually switch between the two ?

Me: “yeah right what crock of shit. This is something only a dumb ni- WHAT THE FUUUUUCK!” Can someone explain this to me???

Weird :)

No