40 Weird Pictures that Will Trick Your Brain
From boats that can float on water to a dice stack that defies gravity, we count 40 weird
pictures that will trick your brain!
40 Here’s a photo of a tropical parrot in a
tree.
But, wait!
Look a little closer and you’ll see it’s actually a strategically posed woman in colourful
body paint!
Former world champion body painter Johannes Stoetter is behind this impressive optical
illusion, which took four weeks of painstaking planning.
39 The force is strong here.
Or should that be the horse?
How about both?
In this photo, a young recreational horse rider appears to be living every pre-teen
boy’s dream: wielding a lightsabre!
He’s also dropping his jaw and looking off camera, as if he’s just seen his first pair
of boob, so it looks like a good day for the young Jedi.
38 In this perfectly timed backyard snap we see
that someone’s successfully trained their golden retriever to breathe fire.
We always knew you could do it, Lassie.
37 Put your hands in the air like you just don’t
care!
Yep, all four of them.
This guy’s clearly on the team ’cause he plays amazing defence.
36 This landscape photo’s not quite as obvious,
but with a bit of lateral thinking you can see these islands make up a sideways violin.
The main island makes up the violin’s body, the water is the neck and the two trees on
the right resemble tuning pegs.
This amazing trickery is caused by symmetry in the water’s reflective surface.
35 The image, titled ‘Momentarily headless’,
features gymnast Katherine Coronel of Venezuela performing her routine at a rhythmic gymnastics
competition in Colombia.
Her supporters say she has a good head for gymnastics.
34 Sometimes when you gotta go, you gotta go
– doesn’t matter if you’re surrounded by a hundred strangers or are seated two metres
from an elderly woman.
This should coin the expression ‘to pee like an oscillating sprinkler’.
33 This photo is known as the hovering boat optical
illusion and requires a very particular set of conditions to work.
It’s taken somewhere in the crystal clear waters of the Carribean and, as you can see,
the boat appears to be hovering in mid-air, rather than floating on the water.
Pretty cool!
32 This piece of brain trickery is what you get
when you cross a rocky island, a sprinkle of black magic, and a photographer with an
insane eye for detail.
It’s a horse, of course!
31 This image of a triangular dice stack looks
impossibly put together.
In fact, the longer you focus on it, the more your brain screams in protest, begging to
know the secret before it leaks out your ears.
Those responsible insist the image isn’t photoshopped, which begs the question: what
David Blaine voodoo is this!?
30 Right, so here we have a group of smiling
ladies on what appears to be a ferry, and…
Hang on!
What’s that in the background!?
Why is that small jockey riding the woman on the left!?
It takes a close inspection, but the small-looking man is actually in the background of the photo,
and the black line that looks like his leg is actually just a pattern in the woman’s
shirt.
This is just a perfect moment of accidental hilarity – proof that the giant octopus
controlling the universe from space has a sense of humour.
29 If you needed any further proof that cows
are a holy animal, check out this divine creature and its impressive butt-flame.
Clearly this cow stumbled across the TM for Flamethrower, or maybe it learnt from Lassie
in the earlier photo.
Very a-moo-sing.
28 This sunbathing woman must have a splitting
headache.
I wonder if this guy axed her nicely if he could take this photo?
No, put down that axe!
I promise I’ll cool it with the bad puns!
27 Here’s a smattering of pictures featuring
accidental dongs.
Looking at these will no doubt make you feel self-conscious next time you take a photo.
Be aware of where all your limbs are!
26 Because it’s fun to test our depth perception,
here’s a photo of a man-sized seagull and seagull-sized man.
Imagine how insatiable his appetite for chips is!
25 This photo is proof of why you should never
invite Sub-Zero to play ice hockey.
He never plays fairly.
24 In this happy post-wedding snap, we see a
man and centaur walking off blissfully into the sunset.
So beautiful.
23 This little guy’s burning up the soccer
field with a gender-bending ponytail hairstyle.
Even if he loses the game, he wins at life.
22 As if giraffes weren’t strange enough, this
picture was taken at just the right moment to give the illusion of two heads.
Some creatures are just too beautiful for this world …
… and, uhh, some aren’t.
21 In this photo it’s virtually impossible
to distinguish whose legs the guy on the left is holding.
Is it the leggy blonde or the leggy brunette?
20 This is an award-winning photo of what appears
to be a man straying dangerously close to a cliff edge.
He’s actually just walking along a riverbank inside the canyon.
The photographer is just playing with perspective.
19 Here we see what looks like two players engaging
in hand-to-rectal surgery during an intense, no doubt low-scoring soccer match.
That’s a brown cardable offence, boys.
Australians will know this technique as the John Hopoate (pronounced ‘hop-o-wah-tee’).
18 Attention all train commuters: beware the
dreaded dog-faced woman.
This creature of legend can be seen riding the rails after midnight.
And she doesn’t buy a ticket!
17 Nothing beats sitting on a bench, stretching
out your strangely long, strangely feminine legs on a cloudy day.
Right, fellas?
16 This majestic-looking creature is the fabled
offspring of a deer and a Staffordshire bull terrier.
Or is it just a dog standing in front of a tree?
A magician never reveals his secrets.
15 In this pic, a tower obscured by fog looks
like a ghost ship sailing through the sky.
Pretty terrifying – especially for anyone who’s seen The Mist.
14 Here we see a uniformed guard murdering some
serious-looking banker woman with a rapier.
If that’s not what’s going on here then I have no idea!
Take that, shitty interest rates!
13 These pictures play on the male mind’s tendency
to find boobs in every situation.
Whether it’s instinctual hypersensitivity or wishful thinking, these photos show that
some will find eroticism in things as benign as trees and elbows.
In 2015, a high-end Argentinean lingerie brand called Jane Pain ran an ad campaign featuring
elbows, knees and armpits cleverly disguised as cleavage.
The tagline on a lacy-bra-clad elbow reads: “If it can make your elbow look sexy, imagine
what it can do in the right place.”
These poor horn-dogs!
Ad companies are toying with their emotions!
12 These creepastic photos of trees, rocks and
sand formation demonstrate the way our brains naturally perceive familiar shapes and faces
in objects.
The region of our brains responsible for this is called the Fusiform Face Area.
11 This cleverly orchestrated photo was captured
at the Salar De Uyuni Salt Flats in Bolivia.
Photos like this are taken here all the time because, as you can see, there’s very little
on the horizon to draw depth cues from this famous dry lakebed.
10 More trickery from nature!
Here we see some what looks like a gateway to heaven.
It’s actually a rare cloud formation called a “fallstreak” that has combined with
perfect sunlight-blocking cloud cover.
In another image, a setting sun at Yosemite National Park makes melted snow look like
lava flowing over a cliff edge.
Finally, for giggles, there’s a photo of flowers that look like bushes…
9 Introducing the sequel to dog-faced woman:
dog-faced man!
Dog-faced man is a highly competent action hero who can skydive, ride speeding jet skis
over ramps and roll over on command!
This is his Tinder profile picture.
8 Do you ever feel like the world is a topsy-turvy
place and that you’re walking to the beat of your own drum?
These guys do.
I love how the people in the background are looking on like it’s a possible crime scene.
Clearly not Inception fans.
7 Mirrors have been trolling us since they were
invented.
Check out this gender-bending bar-tending bowtie-trending individual.
He’s on cocktail duty because he makes them with extra sass.
6 This is Billy, whose hobbies include exaggerated
waving and reaching for things that are very high up.
No, if you look closely you’ll see Billy’s long arm is actually an illusion caused by
another kid doing something suspect under the table.
Mystery solved!
5 The trick of this illusion may be obvious,
but in the future we’ll probably all have bionic arms like this.
Hopefully there’s a model that comes without the tacky tattoos.
4 This is either water ballet, a weird twist
on the butterfly stroke, or a highly insulting whale impersonation.
Either way, it’s not good…
3 In this image, the woman on the right appears
naked thanks to the left arm of the rotund woman in the foreground.
It’s kind of awkward for both of them.
I highly doubt they would’ve framed this treasured memory…
2 When we look at a pack of zebras our eyes
often force us to do a double-take.
This is because their stripy patterns disrupt our ability to follow an object’s continuity
or detect edges.
Because of this, it can sometimes seem like zebras have two heads or multiple bodies.
1 Is it a young woman with her head turned,
or an old woman with her eyes downcast?
You may have to press pause to get your head around this one.
Thank goodness it’s easier to distinguish age in real life or the dating world be a
truly uncomfortable place.