Charlie Chaplin

This is a great optical illusion - Charlie Chaplin - it gives you a brainspin!

33 comments:

Anonymous said...

Wow nice illusion, good explaining too.

Anonymous said...

Actually, no it is not impossible to see it hollow. I had to try seeing the back of it sticking out.

Anonymous said...

You see that in the Haunted Mansion at Disneyland. As explained on the 'Doombuggies.com' site. As you pass an inverted face image on a wall, it seems to turn and follow you.

Anonymous said...

The first couple times I saw it, I saw the mask as hollow. I had to wrap my brain around what he was saying before I could see the 'pink' face....But now that I CAN see the pink face, I can't go back to seeing the mask as hollow. Weird.

Anonymous said...

WTF....I wasted 2 minutes of my life on that, they could have got the point across in 30 seconds

Anonymous said...

And you wasted another two minutes with that pointless comment.

Anonymous said...

he's looking at me!!!!!!!!!!!!

Anonymous said...

I'm with Noah... thats EXACTLY what happened to me

Anonymous said...

the first time i watched it...it looked hollow to me, it wasn't til i could hear through his accent that it was suppose to look like a full face, did i see it

Anonymous said...

The placement of the lighting is probably important. The illusion comes from how those subtle shadows are being cast, especially of the nose. Not to mention the guy talking seems to be a hypnotist. His voice. There. You see. Yes. Quack like a duck. QUACK! QUACK!

Anonymous said...

All of a sudden I feel the urge to quack... Hoink what have you done to me?

Anonymous said...

Good Stuff

Anonymous said...

This is the same illusion thats at Disney in the Haunted Mansion. They use masks of presidents and place them on the wall and it looks like they are moving when thay are not.

Anonymous said...

Okay....QUACK!
Are you happy now?

Anonymous said...

Same thing - I didn't see the face until the third rotation - I was seeing the inside of the mask. Now I can't see it as hollow any more!

Anonymous said...

It kind of reminds me of the dragon illusion.

Anonymous said...

That was the scariest thing i have ever seen!! very trippy

Anonymous said...

Each time the mask rotates the light changes so that the room becomes dark and another light strikes the mask so that it looks as if it pops out.

Anonymous said...

everybody's gotta friggin answer...yadda yadda yadda

Anonymous said...

Man I saw it right away. I must just have a more powerful brain. Haha yeah right.

Anonymous said...

The exact same thing happened to me as with Noah. I saw the hollow inside of a mask the first three time and had no clue what the narrator was talking about. Suddenly I saw the other face, and now I can't make it hollow anymore! :-(

Anonymous said...

I think they do the same thing on the Hauntede Mansion ride at disney. They put the masks backwards so that they seem like they are following you.

Anonymous said...

If you want to see it as hollow again, focus only on his tie as it rotates and then look up. You can see it as hollow for a split second before your brain "compensates"

Anonymous said...

That gave me the smallest hard-on I've ever had. Thanks.

Anonymous said...

Charlie Chaplin sucks.

Anonymous said...

I really really really love cheese.

Anonymous said...

they are playing with the light if you didnt notice!

Anonymous said...

Actually the "changing light" is the automatic white balance correction of the camera. The inside is light and the outside is dark, so the background looks like it changes light.

You can test it yourself if you have a camera or a webcam, just put a white sheet of paper in front of it and watch the background light change...

Anonymous said...

Great wideo.

Anonymous said...

cool. i especially like the point about how your brain works.

Anonymous said...

Owowowowow...my head hurts!

Sofia said...

That was the scariest thing i have ever seen!! very trippy

tatil said...

everybody's gotta friggin answer