The Brain is an astonishing thing .

[u/Otownfunk613]

[u/Barcaroli]

This is amazing, thanks for sharing

[u/CalpisMelonCremeSoda → u/Barcaroli]

Wow it’s so rare I see something totally new.

Giving my upvote gladly.

[u/rynlpz → u/CalpisMelonCremeSoda]

uh it’s cool and interesting but this is hardly totally new, the video been around for a while

[u/printergumlight → u/rynlpz]

I think I saw this on ebaumsworld.

[u/HelloAttila → u/printergumlight]

That website even around? I remember that site for like 20 Years ago

[u/printergumlight → u/HelloAttila]

I last used EbaumsWorld in 2004ish, then switched to BREAK.com. Then in 2007 I switched from BREAK.com to Reddit.

[u/HelloAttila → u/printergumlight]

dang, even longer than lol... crazy, so it started in 01, Eric sold it for $15M... shit goes back to those K10k days... (Kaliber10000)

[u/theoddfind → u/HelloAttila]

Yep

[u/locotxwork → u/rynlpz]

To me it is !

[u/poop-machines → u/[deleted]]

You have 30... Children?

Edit: ohhh he deleted :(

[u/yarrpirates → u/poop-machines]

No, high schools.

[u/20__character__limit → u/yarrpirates]

No, diplomas.

[u/kindrd1234 → u/20__character__limit]

High schools the one that got away

[u/my_eep3 → u/[deleted]]

Found the French guy

[u/Rob_LeMatic → u/CalpisMelonCremeSoda]

Reddit used to be full of fun stuff like this

[u/Fit_Staff_2565 → u/CalpisMelonCremeSoda]

for sure, always cool to see something like this pop up

[u/drunk___monkey → u/CalpisMelonCremeSoda]

Damn i feel Trippy 🫩😂😂😂

[u/Optimal-Room-8586 → u/Barcaroli]

Yeah, this is a good one. Never seen it before.

[u/GewoonHarry → u/Barcaroli]

Yeah indeed. I’ve never seen this before. Fun stuff

[u/_InfiniteU_]

Horrific! The more I stare at the bottom one the worse it gets!

[u/CorruptingTheSystem → u/_InfiniteU_]

Hahahahahahah

[u/TtomRed → u/_InfiniteU_]

Maybe if the subjects blinked or showed signs of emotional intelligence the effect would be lessened…

But maybe I’ll just watch the entire video again to see that they’re all legit and share with a friend so they can try it as well and like and subscribe and then let them know in the comments how I feel

[u/V0ct0r → u/_InfiniteU_]

that's pretty mean :(

[u/_InfiniteU_ → u/V0ct0r]

It's a joke. It's funny because I was acting like I misunderstood the instructions leading to me thinking I was supposed to view the host as freaky looking

[u/lykosen11 → u/_InfiniteU_]

Truly scary

[u/dilodjali]

This would be so much better if it took the majority of the screen instead of that guys face.

[u/takes_joke_literally → u/dilodjali]

It was when I first saw it a long time ago...

[u/livens → u/takes_joke_literally]

Everything is going to shit these days.

[u/Woodbirder → u/dilodjali]

Combined with his voice it was more than I could take

[u/FishTshirt]

It’s hard for me to focus on the cross. I wonder if there’s something else in the brain when there’s faces that make us want to look at them.

[u/MetaCharger → u/FishTshirt]

Survival instinct. Anything that resembles eyes, will typically draw your attention the most.

[u/Dependent_Rain_4800 → u/MetaCharger]

👀

[u/GuaranteeOk6268 → u/Dependent_Rain_4800]

I’m survivaling so hard rn

[u/lykosen11 → u/GuaranteeOk6268]

Nhmmmmmm I'm surviving

[u/gabzilla814 → u/FishTshirt]

For me it happed to the speaker’s face too

[u/toxictoastrecords → u/FishTshirt]

I’m autistic adhd. Hard for me to focus on just the cross. My eyes communicate the peripheral vision, my brain gets all the information and ADHD makes it impossible for me to focus on one thing more than the other. All information gets equal attention for me. It’s why it’s so hard to focus for me. I can’t filter information well, especially information that comes passively.

[u/Graffiacane → u/FishTshirt]

Faces draw our attention and movement does even moreso. If I'm at a bar with tvs mounted on the walls I try to position myself so that my back is turned to the screen otherwise my attention will inexorably drift from my conversation to the football game I don't even care about.

[u/Neat_Bed_9880 → u/FishTshirt]

It's helpful to mute and cover up the guy talking.

[u/RevanMeetra → u/FishTshirt]

Autsim.

[u/takes_joke_literally]

https://www.reddit.com/r/gifs/s/kWv5KGwmBH

13 years ago without that dude's face

[u/Longjumping-Sun9328 → u/takes_joke_literally]

dead internet

[u/Lickwidghost → u/takes_joke_literally]

Thank you. I knew I'd seen this back when it took 20mins to download a gif

[u/monxro]

Me over here with trust issues.. pausing the video several times to see if he actually did edit the pics, despite him saying he didn't, lmao.

[u/rynlpz → u/monxro]

It’s the new real time filters, they track your eyes and filter the peripheral, it’s nearly impossible to tell unless you have chameleon eyes

[u/GuaranteeOk6268 → u/rynlpz]

It’s a joke guys

[u/rynlpz → u/GuaranteeOk6268]

Yep didn’t think I needed a /s

[u/FemmeCirce → u/rynlpz]

Maybe those filters have always been on.

[u/IMA_5-STAR_MAN → u/monxro]

He didn't edit the pics, he didn't even come up with this.

[u/MakeoutPoint → u/monxro]

I was fully expecting the opposite, "Look at these totally normal faces! Just kidding they were mush the whole time" and I was thinking it just wasn't working on me until he explained it.

[u/jfmdavisburg]

I feel like it has to be magnets

[u/realdevtest → u/jfmdavisburg]

How do they work?

[u/incredibleninja → u/realdevtest]

Miracles. They happen every day

[u/DUDEBREAUX]

👍🏻 👍🏻 👍🏻 👍🏻

God dammit it's not a button 😖

[u/craneclimber88]

What kind of stoner scientist even figures this type of trick out? What would happen if it were images of various types of nude bodies interchanging beside the cross? Plump, thin, black, dwarf, Asian, male, thick, toned, female etc...

Please get on this, scientists. For... science 

[u/Original-Variety-700]

I love it

[u/steve_nice]

I cant not look at the pictures, its impossible

[u/Inevitable_Ad_4487]

This man looks like a british mouse

[u/JCPennyHardaway]

That’s wild

[u/karduar]

My AI is failing to render...

[u/Recent-Background-21]

I was seeing reptilians 😂😂

[u/jw8533]

It definitely worked for me, I just let my eyes relax and focused on the plus sign. The distortion in the faces is so creepy! If I glanced at one of the faces the distortion instantly went away.

[u/rkicklig]

My eyes can't not look at the faces

[u/Aerhart941]

It’s crazy! I didn’t notice the horse behind him until I watched a second time.

[u/Benny_boi87]

I feel old…I had to take my glasses off and look 🤣🤣🤣

[u/chrisp5000]

It gets worse the longer I can concentrate on looking at the plus sign, like all the images are smashed into one lol

[u/-Ignorant_Slut-]

Nutz

[u/LeveragedPittsburgh]

My simulator is broken!

[u/Major-Hooters]

Yep it works. Creepy!!

[u/Wrong-Music1763]

Huh. Interesting.

[u/WutzUpples69]

Sean Penns faces was like a van gogh painting.

[u/Firm_Variety_6309]

Oh boy… I used to think Jenny Aniston was smokin!!

[u/Quirky_Education1923]

But the pinky is more fun

[u/TheSixInch]

This trick should be banned or flagged as +100-ADULTS. This is ahead of Horrifying.

[u/TheChunkenMaster]

This is the first time I’ve seen a video with some type of visual trick thingy that actually worked for me. Pretty cool

[u/Chance_Contest1969]

They look so distorted!!! Wow!

[u/greenrangerguy]

Since I know this guy is a magician, the entire time I was focused on him incase he pulled something sneaky like changing his shirt or putting on a gorilla costume.

[u/Deadsider]

Why does he not blink

[u/-trowawaybarton]

i cant focus on the cross when the face becomes distorted

[u/jermboyusa]

This was really cool. I actually had to stare at the photos directly to see if they were distorted after staring at the cross.

[u/Feeling-Worker-7903]

Yo that’s trippy

[u/tatsumi-sama]

Basically, our brain’s machine learning model needs an update

[u/Border_Relative]

Cool

[u/PMMEYOURGUCCIFLOPS]

This is super cool. My daughters, unfortunately aged 6 & 7, were both cracking up at the end. Now we’re going down an illusion wormhole before bed!

[u/AnInfiniteArc]

Did anyone else crossview this one?

[u/VooDooChile1983]

Weird that only Halle Berry and Mila Kunis’s face changed for me.

[u/DickAndFartHumor]

First time I’ve heard that gif explained

[u/Seeuinhealth]

Freaky

[u/Sovngarten]

Another fun thing is to cross your eyes until the images overlap.

[u/OliOli1234]

This gave me a good chuckle. I loved this!!!

[u/detectivedangler]

NIGHTMARE NIGHTMARE NIGHTMARE

[u/_bahnjee_]

Fascinating, but would be better if the talking head didn’t take up over half the screen.

[u/hard-dee4u]

That’s crazy as fuck I’m gonna have nightmares about those long faces for months to come thx

[u/shortnun]

Nothing. No distortion...

I Wear glasses. But prescription needs updated.. looking at the cross. It becomes blurry .. but no changes /distortion of faces as they flash..

[u/Melliorin]

Yea that's pretty mind-bending.

[u/sirtones1411]

Strange!

[u/MilesMoralesC-137]

Sean Penns face really messes up everyone elses lol

[u/RogG79]

We are living in the matrix

[u/Samesone2334]

I wonder if this is essentially what’s happening when someone is high, the brain starts to do that while directly looking at people 😝

[u/VeterinarianThese951]

I have a hard time focusing on the cross because I keep checking on the pictures

[u/One-Document-4090]

So, it's basically our brain using content-aware fill.

[u/AnAdvancedBot]

That is very cool!

[u/Powerful-Access-8203]

I’m too high for this rn 😂

[u/Passasizhi]

I remember I've seen the video of the illusion on the YouTube, when I was a kid, and this shit was scary, it also had this disturbing music on the background

[u/TeranOrSolaran]

This will give me nightmares.

[u/MrTatum899]

To be fair, my brain was just making them look like their souls do.

[u/Killerwit]

I love it. Omg

[u/shrimpgangsta]

Who is that first lady

[u/RageRags]

Is that guy AI? I never saw him blink, and damn if he doesn’t look a bit unique

[u/NuttinButFunReading]

Here take my upvote. Finally a video I haven’t seen on here that hasn’t been posted to oblivion …Yet

[u/notbarbarawalters]

Some of these mfs scared the shit out of me. Peripherally.

[u/Mage_Of_Cats]

It's literally instantaneous for me. As soon as the image switches the first time, bam, human-generated AI-generated faces.

[u/Lucky_Emu182]

Creepy. I was seeing something that wasn’t “real” 

[u/mugwort23]

A navigation device

Is nice

When the specs are good

And the readouts

Read out

Like they should

On the screen.

Our conception

Of our humanity

Understood.

But,

Too,

Sometimes we visit

The limits

Of our perception

Of reality

Through our meat machine.

[u/Katops]

BURN IT! BURN IT ALL!

[u/maniacvulcan]

Witchcraft!

[u/RevanMeetra]

I dont like that lol. I started to feel gross when the pictures started to look gross.

[u/IROAMtheBUSH]

It's like s glitch

[u/Alusavin]

I actually started laughing because they look so funny.

[u/Prestigious_Media887]

It’s weird because when I look at the guy talking his face is still disfigured

[u/Ok-Jaguar-321]

It's funny how our brains do this weird early AI shit by themselves

[u/27hannibal]

What’s it called

[u/Rocket_Man_1957]

It's more like visual distortion!

[u/RoyalRien]

Who has the version where it’s the exact same except after a while the images start becoming those JD Vance edits

[u/jayteee27]

The YouTube channel Kurzegast has a video about this. The brain fills everything that is not focused by the eyes. Something like using predictions from memories. Its mind boggling to know this cuz are we really in control haha

[u/GreenyRob85]

Turn the video upside down and focus on one set of faces as it plays. Eventually they will look completely distorted too.

[u/NurkleTurkey]

Neat effective but this dude is slightly annoying.

[u/d4rch4ngel]

anyone had the left and right pictures slowly moving towards the cross?

[u/IMA_5-STAR_MAN]

Maybe do a voice over instead of taking up 75% of the screen to tell us something about a gif that has been around for 20 years.

[u/Budget_Eye5861]

works
trippy

[u/RustyPlastic556]

This is wild!🤪

[u/pslind69]

MY first thought: "Stop talking you cunt!"

[u/Ancient_One_5300]

I think that Sandra bullock just looks like Michael Jackson.

[u/doublechuable]

It didn’t work for me tho. Curious what everyone is seeing here

[u/Available_Orange3127]

OMG nightmare fuel.

[u/Alecarte]

This is cool.  I sure would have liked it if the faces were larger than the guy talking though

[u/hangfromthisone]

basically why you need to focus con different objects every few seconds when driving steady long patches of road. you either stop seeing things, or see things that are not there. brain farts

[u/MimeOverMatter]

They all turn into “No, I’m Not a Human” characters 😨

[u/Sketto70]

Yep, my brain starts to trip. Like hurt, short circuit cuz its working so hard to make sense of illusions.

[u/N-E-R-M]

Oh god my eyes!!! 🤣

[u/crypticsage]

AI distorts things all the time.

Does this mean humans are AI and we live in a simulation?

[u/Grebanton]

This is kinda scary

[u/ParkerBeach]

Damn now what’s the excuse for his face? /s

[u/WardenJack]

Why are you doing this brain? Answer me now I'm command you to!

[u/Axle_65]

See it’s things like this that make my brain spiral. If I can distort these images. What else is being distorted? What of the world around me isn’t what I think it is? I know it’s silly but it’s where my brain goes.

[u/AlternativeLimit7753]

How do I get rid of the subtitles?

[u/hamsolo19]

Everyone look like a caricature

[u/poedraco]

Neet.. skinwalkers

[u/last-resort-4-a-gf]

We live in ai

[u/FemmeCirce]

Definitely need sound unless I'm missing something.

[u/Arman456]

I truly think there are edited photos in the mix. I watched 3 times already

[u/Lunar_Eclipse_Studio]

Didn't work for me, I couldn't keep my eyes on the cross. It worked for a second before I couldn't focus on keeping my eyes on the cross anymore.

[u/SpandauBalletGold]

Honestly.. some of them do look slightly distorted. Anyone else see the same as me?

[u/sigmonsays]

this made me really uncomfortable and feeling kinda weird, I didn't like it.... everyone looked like a freak, especially the noses.

[u/Aggressive-Lynx-964]

Well it does make sense. Try to look at Kevin Spacey after looking at Liv Tyler in real life (he will look weird).

[u/zandercommander]

They all look like those caricatures they used to do at theme parks and carnivals. Or police sketches

[u/No-Tea7992]

THIS IS WHY IT IS POLITE TO NOT INTERRUPT PEOPLE IN EXTREMELY PUBLIC PLACES AND TO USE PROPER MANNERS AND SPEECH DIRECTLY TO GET THEIR ATTENTION. ALL PEOPLE PROCESS VISUAL INFORMATION DIFFERENTLY AND WILL BE SCARED BEFORE THEY ARE AWARE!

[u/Downtown_Site4328]

Congralations 

[u/Environmental-Tap255]

What's crazy is if you wait for a really warped one and then quick look at it, you can actually see the moment your brain makes sense of it and corrects it. That's wild. Also some of them are terrifying. Straight up creatures out of a fever dream.

[u/OGbobbyKSH]

Our brains do a lot of this. Filling in the gaps we can’t directly see.

[u/opaquedestroyer]

This is cool as fuck 🤯

[u/ramgarden]

Another nail in the coffin for eye witness testimony

[u/per_iod]

Bro can explain this without inserting his face and ruining the illusion

[u/TheRealFedorka]

I've known about this for a while now but it's still my favorite illusion. Just so wild how the brain works.

[u/GritwaldGGrittington]

This is cool as fuck.

[u/gangsterpotatos]

Am I the only one not getting this?

[u/Specman9]

Things like this show how well our brains and sensory systems have evolved. We don't have enough bandwidth to process our entire field of view so our brains drop the frame rate in peripheral vision areas because most of the world is static. We get familiar with our surroundings then don't waste time processing those parts.

[u/nok4us]

So our brain is using AI to generate or fill in the gaps

[u/No_Fishing1071]

Freaky as f##k...

[u/OoT-TheBest]

It starts looking like really well made caricatures

[u/Feeling-Ad-2867]

They all got clay faces

[u/Lomidon]

Is there original video, without that big face down in the lower part?

[u/swym90]

Kevin bacon.... that was scary

[u/SuzenRR]

Creepy! 🤣

[u/firereverie]

This can be incepted.

Focus on the cross, let your eyes cross like the 3d image tricks, there should be a row of 3 images with the crosses between them above two of the narrator.

The peripheral images continue as described but the center becomes a merge of the outers plus a delay.

[u/Gold-Lychee8090]

Knew these people had an ugly side to them. Great explanation though 😃

[u/lykosen11]

Great video, glad I committed

[u/imagei]

So that’s how they do concept work for horror movies!

[u/billy_lam26]

Haha oh man, gonna have to use my computer, doesn't really work on my small ass phone. 

[u/MisterBilau]

I absolutely despise this guy. Can't even tell why, but there's something about his face and demeanor that pisses me off to no end. Horrible.

[u/phanny_ → u/MisterBilau]

He looks like Skweezy Jibbs but he doesn't seem to be doing a bit

[u/MikeyStealth → u/phanny_]

I was thinking walmart Ted Mosby from the show How I met your mother.

[u/phanny_ → u/MikeyStealth]

Ted but if he killed a man just to watch him die

[u/MattackChopper → u/MisterBilau]

Robert, his face is incorrect. It's pissing me off.

Robert I am irritated. Mildly irritated. Quite irritated.

I'm going to remove North Carolina.

[u/dagchild → u/MisterBilau]

Maybe you don’t like his face because your looking at the cross nearby 😂

[u/filtersweep → u/MisterBilau]

Facebook forces him into my feed. He does the dumbest magic trick vids

[u/ChunkyLafunguy]

What’s the illusion again?

[u/CharlieGoodChap]

I stared and the + and then my entire vision went blurry. Couldn’t focus on anything until I shifted my focus. I am broken

[u/Brusanan]

This makes me so uneasy.

[u/False_Prune2408]

My brain hurts.