By Vurdlak on June 21, 2006, with 212 Comments
Can you guess what does this image show? No? Don’t worry, it isn’t one of those Sigmund Freud testing cards. I can assure you it is actually an original (old) photograph, made in black and white technique, and wasn’t digitally tempered in any way. The solution is quite simple, in fact.
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I see a cow. The faded grenade. Also the clouds with a tree in the bottom right corner.
But I originally saw a teenage boy from behind, in a cloth jacket from the 80′s looking up while blowing out cigarette smoke. He’s holding the cig in his right hand which is slightly extended.
However many interpretations there are, there is only one ‘correct’ one because it is in fact an actual photo. I’m not saying mine is right or wrong, just pointing out a fact. (: Curious..
I also see the boy looking up, but I first saw the skull. I don’t see a cow. Most of you guys are just saying you see a cow because its in the tags.
I say it’s a cow.
Clouds. I’m sayin clouds.
It’s definitely a skull. Sideview, with the teeth and eyes facing to our left. The best way to view it is to use a photo imaging program and turn the image into a negative.
i see a turtle
i see a turtle with one foot
I see a skull.. No cow in sight, where is it?!
I see dead people **Pulls up covers**
Caboose-I see a room.
Sarge-And? What’s in the room?
Caboose-There are some walls, and some ceilings. Wait! Just one ceiling.
Okay, but really I saw two people facing each other one with like a plaid jacket or something. The jacket is the fence/grenade.
Wheres the cow?
Its a deer !
I got no imagination , i don´t see nothing
It is a cat
WHERE IS THE COW????????????????????????????????????
I JUST see the cow…;) Unable to see anything else (at least so clear!) The dark spot at upper left is it’s right ear, lower spots it’s nose (forget the ‘grenade’ shit at left) and it’s left eye is coincident with left ear of that grotesc rotated to left cat (the bigger dark spot at upper right corner). It’s mainly the HEAD of a cow staring in our direction and a bit of it’s body
This was another of the old illusions I used in my brain’s perception section of my class. It was from “Psychology and Life” 1959 coyright date.
anyone else notice that in the tags it says cow? its really a giveaway
It’s the crash of the Hindenburg.
look at the tags its a cow
First a skull…
Then a cloud…
Then, FINALLY, (with help from the comments), a cow…
Then a boy smoking a cigarette…
Wow, this is one cool optical illusion.
hahahahahaha some of these replys are sdooooooooooo funny
ok the whole picture is a cow on the left that is in a fence with the holes of the fence are 1×4 inches each. On the right is a man that has his right arm reaching out and on the cow’s ear. The “trees” that are seen are just part of his jacket or something. So now you all can relax, that is what is in this picture =)
It’s a cow.. . :-)
it’s a rock
First I saw a scull… but then the cute cow appeared, haha! :D
There’s definitely a tree. I think the black is smoke.. Then either people or a building..?
I see a skull. I dun have any ideas about this thing :P
turn it90 degrees clockwise,its the hare and the tortoise…
A cow is the first thing I saw, literally within about half a second of seeing the picture. Don’t understand how people aren’t seeing this?
its a very old picture of a cow… and nothing else is there.. becoz of the oldness the picture is not so clear… thats y ppl see different things there.. but believe me nothing else is there but a COW!!
yo i see a cow and it is at the mid bottom area, almost a profile of it’s front right.
Wow! I see a pig. If you go far enough from your monitor you can see a the face of a pig looking up to the camera.
… no my bad. it’s a cow! :PP
yeah it looks like a pig!
A pig with a cow nose!
I believe it is a country like a globe. The black is water and the white is land. I used the Solarize effect on my phone camera and held it up to the picture and it looks like a country.
I’d say skull left, landscape right side. OR… If the tilt your head to the right, the gap between the “teeth” of the skull is a tree, looks like a mountainish landscape.
Oh and to help see it better ideways, on the bottom right, or top right if you are leaning right. it looks like over hanging branches of a tree. just hanging barely in view.
i saw a tree like structure in the down-right corner
I see a person being lynched….
I see a pretty calf.
i see martha stewart
I studied this and couldn’t see most of what people were throwing out there. Then I shrunk the picture (CTRL-mouse scroll) almost as far as I could and I immediately saw the cow. With a fence that runs behind his head.
Moo.
I’m only going to comment when I see the boy…