RSS Twitter Newsletter Widgets

July 9, 2006 by Vurdlak | Share  

Martin Clifford sent in this illusion, and I think it’s best to quote him, since he did a great job in explaining it. Here’s What Martin wrote: “Hi, I love your illusion site. The other day I was taking a picture and I thought it looked slightly different than it was. I fooled a couple of people with it and also a couple seen it. Any way, some people thought the dog was coming down the stairs and I was taking the picture from the bottom of the stairs. Its not the bet illusion ever but here it is for you anyway.” Thanks Martin!


Going Up or Going Down?

Comments

82 Responses
  1. bowmchikawowwow says:

    dudes… if it was going down it be standing on the sides of the stair, not the top part, wchich we walk on

  2. Anonymous says:

    It is prety obvious that the dog is going up, but it is still cool.

  3. jamie says:

    i dont know how to explain it but the dog is deffinatly going up the stairs, and i think that the person taking the picture is standnig above the dog looking down. but thats my opinion :)

  4. Anonymous says:

    he’s going down because at the top left corner there’s a door! so yeah

  5. Anonymous says:

    hes going up! notice how his front paws are on the stair? he couldent go down the stairs like that!

  6. ciara says:

    ya anonymous, he HAS to be going up! he would break his neck going down like that! the person probably took the picture from the top of the stairs with his dog looking up. that’s why everyone thinks he’s going down, and door that you see has got to be the front door because there is no way he’s going down!

  7. the almighty Dave says:

    that bottom of the pic is the top, cuz if it was the bottom of the stairs then he wouldn’t be able to stand like that

  8. Anonymous says:

    Oh my god you guys!!!! it is easy to see hes going up because if he was going down his feet would be in a different position!! look at his feet and you will see

  9. Anonymous says:

    he is obviously going up. if he was going down, at that angle he would fall

  10. Anonymous says:

    he is obviously going up becuase if he was going down he would be defying gravity.

  11. Anonymous says:

    The dog is definatley going up. if he was going down he would be under the stair and would have fallen flat on his face.

  12. Anonymous says:

    IT IS OBVIOUS THAT THE DOG IS GOING UP, IF HE WERE GOING DOWN HE WOULD BE STANDING WITH HIS FEET ON THE RISER INSTEAD OF THE STEP, IMPOSSIBLE

  13. Gracey says:

    The dog isn’t moving! He’s stopped and is looking at the guy who’s taking the picture. ;)

  14. parsmad says:

    of course its going up, look at the dog’s legs, if it was going down it would be standing on a vertical surface and would have fallen over by now

  15. hottie gurl says:

    He is goin up and the person is takin a picture above him

  16. Anonymous says:

    how could it possibly be going down?
    look at it, it just isn’t.

  17. Anonymous says:

    If he is going down he must be able to defy to gravity because there is no way that dog could stand like that unless he was going up. If he was going down his paws would be on the horizontal part of the stair, not the vertical part.

  18. Nimfoodle says:

    how in gods name could he be going DOWN? he would have to be spider dog

  19. Anonymous says:

    up, see how the stairs curve?

  20. Anonymous says:

    CHIC is wrong, that could be a picture frame,he’s going up.:p.+if
    0 he was going down, he
    0 0 couldn’t step on the side:P
    0 0
    0 0 0
    0
    0
    0

  21. Samuel says:

    Actually the dog seems to be just stood there wagging its tail, thus neither going up nor down! But he is clearly facing up the stairs, and the camera is pointing down at him.

  22. Ralph CA says:

    Absolutly, the dog is UP STAIRS. Only a blind can say viceverse.

  23. Julia says:

    he has to be going up unless gravity doesnt apply to him look more closely.

  24. Naivion says:

    uyer definatly up cause other wise he would be standing on the side of the stairs… its good hehe

  25. Anonymous says:

    wow i thought the dog was going downstairs at first but then i realized it was going up!!

  26. Nebbit says:

    Why is everyone saying things about this “door”? Look at the dogs legs – There on the top of the steps (quite obvious to people with half a brain), if the dog was going down, it would fall flat on its face because it would be stood on the side of the step…

  27. Nebbit says:

    OR MAYBE… the dog is in mid fall over, and this picture was taken during its bail…

  28. Matt says:

    that’s the floor dumass

  29. riely says:

    dude, UP! so obvious! us girls are always right

  30. Miera says:

    i know! we are and the dog is going up!

  31. Ella says:

    It’s very well done- though the dog is obviously going upstairs. Its just the angle it was taken at.

    Cute dog.

  32. Clafferty says:

    Definitley up or else he defies gravity.

    But still i thought it was really cool and intresting in my opinion!

Speak Your Mind