As you get older, your eyes are supposed to play tricks on you. But the young aren’t immune from this visual trickery.
As we’ll see, there’s no shortage of ways that the world at large can trip you up.
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Wait a second.
I could have sworn this pic showed a guy running away from the camera, Bigfoot-style. But a closer look reveals a doggo.
Take it easy.
This lump of peanut butter looks deeply miffed that it was extracted from the jar. I guess I’d be angry if I was about to be eaten, too.
*Game of Thrones theme intensifies*.
The stalk of this pumpkin looks exactly like a dragon’s head, or maybe the stylized prow of a Viking longship.
It’s a cafe.
It looks like a random, jumbled assortment of colorful shipping containers. In a sense, it still is. But they’re not being used for shipping anymore.
Screaming into the void.
This is a fossil of the earliest known deuterostome — a big family of animals — from 540 million years ago. But all I see is a screaming mouth.
Imposter.
Strawberries are sweet like candy, and red — like candy! This strawberry’s trying a little too hard to look like a Swedish fish, though.
Soup strainers.
This street sweeper thing has an adorably bug-eyed face along with a big mustache that’s frankly quite impressive.
Take home with you.
Take the left side of the image out of the equation and this just looks like a wooden cabin…a wooden cabin with wheels.
Still works.
This ancient phone looks just as surprised as I am that it’s still in good working order.
Lord, grant me some privacy.
It’s so frustrating when you’re just trying to use the restroom in peace, but your lord and savior is creeping on you from the door.
Anatomically correct.
If the human heart was green and textured like an old washcloth, it would look pretty much exactly like this.
Neigh!
It’s weird that the water pooled in some areas and not others, and weirder still that it took on the shape of a horse.
Mindbending.
Drawers need to be square or rectangular, right? Well, this parallelogram-shaped drawer clearly dares to be a little different.
My eye!
This portable power bank looks shocked, dismayed and wounded after being poked right in the eye with a charging cable.
I just think it’s neat.
This is a perfectly adequate duster, I’m sure. But its real value comes in the fact that it looks like an abstract version of Marge Simpson.
Getting hungry.
Sure, this is just a pic of an open purse. But just try and tell me that it doesn’t have you thinking about rotisserie chicken.
The most powerful crime lord in the galaxy.
Is it just me or does it look suspiciously like Jabba the Hutt is watching over this quaint winter scene?
Hippotatopotamus.
Hippos kind of look like gigantic, sentient potatoes. This potato is going the other way, looking like a tiny, non-sentient hippo.
The light is melting.
The icicles suspended from this light make it look like the light itself is melting. It’s like a bad trip.
The beach at sunset.
This looks like crashing waves, right? Look a little closer and the waves look a bit…hairy. Turns out it’s actually a dog’s coat.
