r/woahdude • u/based_lunatic • Feb 07 '25

video INSANE🤯

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u/OddRollo Feb 07 '25

I think it has something to do with persistence of vision like with how we perceive tv and film to be moving, but they’re just rapid stills. In this case your brain is attempting to connect the faces together as one object, but as they flash to different images the size and location of features changes so what you perceive is not the actual face but a morph between them. When you look instead at the faces and not the dot, your conscious mind perceives that the faces are actually different and thus no distortion.

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u/Send_Your_Boobies Feb 07 '25

I covered half the screen and looked slightly away from the images on one side and the effect still happens. It doesn’t have to do with the brain trying to connect them.

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u/regman231 Feb 07 '25

I think theyre talking about our brain trying to connect two consecutive ones on the same side though

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u/iamkhanqueror Feb 08 '25

The effect still happens if you pause the video and cover one of the faces while you stare at the red dot. Trippy

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u/Send_Your_Boobies Feb 08 '25

Yep. Someone wrote something about a similar thing happening when you look at yourself in a mirror for an extended period of time. Weird stuff

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u/the_joose Feb 09 '25

I've done this for like 10 minutes and it got terrifying at the end