You know how when you wake up in the middle of the night and you glance at the silhouette of the pile of laundry on your desk chair? Does your mind go right to “That’s just my laundry on a chair” or “Holy s**t there’s a demon in my room”? Why is that? It’s because your brain is a tricky little sucker and is always playing tricks.
The subreddit ‘Confusing Perspectives‘ is all about that experience — the experience of going from pure confusion and terror to laughing your pants off once you finally realize what you’re seeing.
Here are some of the best and funniest optical illusion tricks from the subreddit recently: