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July 18, 2007 by Vurdlak with 299 Comments

This image you see today is created by Rupert Sheldrake, and was part of a TV experiment in 1983 with 2 million BBC viewers. Sheldrake wanted to test his theory of morphogenetic fields, and from this theory, the knowledge of other people can influence your own. In other words, if many people know what this picture is, you would also recognize it easier. The best part is that the results were surprising… I found this image on planet perplex, and believe it or not, had some hard time figuring out what it represents. How long did it take you to see the hidden meaning? Let’s make test of our own ;)

BBC Experiment Optical Illusion

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299 Responses
  1. Anonymous says:

    i see pandas

  2. MeMe says:

    it’s true- you said panda, i saw a panda.. but i don’t think it’s that.

  3. MeMe says:

    easily influenced ya see

  4. MeMe says:

    Read more comments, see man and woman dancing.

  5. Anonymous says:

    I see a man and a women dancing as well, in the very center.

    The long vertical piece is his left leg/the shadow covered part of her dress. The piece to the left of that is his other foot and the white pieces in between are the woman’s legs.

    If that was the “hidden meaning” then I found it as soon as I looked at it.

  6. dylangibbs says:

    Umm, i see a load of dots. Does that count?

  7. Eric says:

    i see 3 pandas

  8. jessi says:

    i see a tree with a panda in the tree and one on its back on the ground.

  9. Bitty says:

    I see a man and a women dancing.
    Weres the panda??

  10. scut says:

    i thought pandas as soon as i looked at it aswell but that doesnt seem like a hidden meaning to me

  11. yes all of yous are right there is a panda and also a man and woman dancing

  12. OWNAGE!!! says:

    I see a panda, a dog and a man and a woman dancing.

  13. Reece says:

    i totally agree with dylangibbs on this one. i though i saw ppl dancing at 1st, but now im not sure

  14. jojo says:

    Spot the couple in like 5 seconds..not kiding..;)

  15. Ms.Observant says:

    I SEE A GENIE LAMP AT THE TOP!

  16. clarrisa says:

    i dont see anything.it looks like a weird tree.actually, it the two big blobs at the top look like a deformed dino killing another deformed dino.

  17. ninart says:

    at first i saw 2 roses. then i read the comments and saw 1 panda in a tree watching another panda stangling a third panda. could be because i just finished reading a murder mystery.

  18. I saw a panda too! but i didn’t see the comments

  19. Brazzer says:

    Suicide bomber?
    I’m being flippant because I never see the hidden picture in these. I could stare at them for hours, squinting, closing one eye and making them go out of focus, but always the same result – nothing! Even when the desired result is pointed out I rarely see it!

  20. Megu says:

    I see a panda with its mouth open and one of its ears floating around beside it.

  21. Jim says:

    Dang… others see pandas and dancers… I just don’t see it. I see a peacock!

  22. Aiden says:

    i see shattered glass… lol

  23. Ben says:

    I see the couple, but then are all the rest of the shapes around them just nothing?

  24. karla says:

    it’s a man and a woman dancing

    http://www.planetperplex.com/en/item176

    click on the picture to see what it really looks like

  25. KERHAN says:

    i see dead people!

  26. Amanda says:

    I see a happy ant dancing disco!

  27. corholio says:

    i see kelly clarkson

  28. clover says:

    i saw a man and woman dancing immediately after looking at the pic. i didnt even read the text and just thought ‘oh look they are dancing’. how strange

  29. Piruz says:

    I see a panda and a woman dancing. Dammit.

  30. Celabril says:

    First I saw a panda, then, in a reflex I noticed a dancing couple.

  31. anders says:

    wwf logo (panda)

  32. i see woman dancing (white gown)
    and a man with black tuxedo

  33. Euphoria says:

    I see the mand and the woman dancing in the middle and then johnny bravo on the left…

  34. Jez says:

    I see the man and woman! took me a couple of minutes. All I could see were the pandas.

  35. harleybiker1982 says:

    I see a mutant wolverine/badger…?

  36. marie says:

    I see a man coming out of a cave…

  37. aliciia says:

    I see a woman and amen dancing

  38. Dan says:

    I see a bunch of black images against a white field. Now tell me I’m wrong. Of course it could be one big white image with holes in it against a black field.

  39. jose says:

    i see a butterfly in the middle…

  40. me says:

    okay so this is definatley a man and woman dancing, at least that’s what It was meant to be!!! But all of your comments are right in their own way!!

  41. blogatoy says:

    i wasn’t influenced. the first thing i saw was panda too. Not sure if that is what we are suppose to see. =^__^=

  42. dwain says:

    its called force of sugestion i see a panda then you see a panda, i see people dancing then you mind makes that image out of the picture.

  43. marleny says:

    i see a couple dancing.

  44. Erik says:

    I see a dude exploding 0.o

  45. Josh F says:

    I saw the man and woman dancing rather quickly… I thought it was pretty easy to figure out, but I guess everyone else is seeing a panda? I don’t see any pandas… I think you’re all seeing a panda because pandas are black and white like this, though I don’t think the image is supposed to be taken so literally. (actually, I know it’s not, because… Well, because it’s clearly two people dancing, and not a panda…)

  46. GirlFriend says:

    I see three pandas and the final is thinking

  47. Philz says:

    I see the four faces of Mt. Rushmore!

  48. DaEgg says:

    pandas.

  49. Taneer says:

    I see a Great Horned Owl.

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