This is one weird illusion... Its the dark cloud on the top. the white cloud makes out the face though :)

Ohh I see it

no i think it looks like a rabbit... no a duck!!!

I outlined the monster.
http://i37.photobucket.com/albums/e98/durasell93/clover.jpg
I apologize for my bad outlining skills, but you get the idea.

i see the monster in the cloud i think, the two darkish blobs at the top are its eyes, and then theres a noseish looking blob under it. and its mouth is just under all of that. its a darker spot in the middle of the clouds. the middle of the mouth is behind the statue or liberty's arm. it doesnt seem like a very good illusion though.

wow. are you serious? there is no illusion in this picture. it is just a poster advertising the movie Cloverfield. there's no monster in the clouds... your just trying to force your imagination to see something that is not there. duh.

the movie is about a monster that wrecks new york city. kinda like the newest godzilla movie but its more like a giant walking whale monster.

i think the outline anon drew for us looks more like a sock puppet monster! sorry anon, i agree this is fairly lame. but do you all see the punk kid in the clouds coming from the inside of libertys' right arm?
wow, you can see anything you want in clouds...

I saw the movie last weekend and loved it! It's a home video found in Central Park after the monster attacked the city. It shows a group of people's experience when it happened.

no your all wrong its there you just have to take a mirror and look at the image side by side mirror side. here i did it here

http://i3.photobucket.com/albums/y82/amaranth12345/yeah.jpg

Oh! Notice that the statues head is missing? Right above it is an apparition of her head in the cloud. And the the water and smoke resembles her hand holding the torch with smoke coming out.

I don't see a monster, but I see a man's face

well i might not see the monster in the corner but i can sort of see a face in the buildings in the bottom left corner. i dunno maby someone else can see it too.

okj. so i dint see the monster in the top right corner but i did notice what might be a face in the lower right corner in the wrecage of the city. dunno if anyone else has noticed this tho...

i cant pick out the monster in the clouds.(personally i dont think it exists.) but i do see a face in the wrecage of the buildings in the bottom right cornerish area. dunno if anyone else has noticed it or not but i sure do...

if you see that then your trippen balls

there's another illusion with the poster: if you put it right next to its mirror image with the white cloud in the middle, the cloud forms a much more obvious monster face.

yeah, i have friends who saw the movie, heard it's good. see it for free at watch-movies.net

i also see a the liberty statue in the smoke far away in the smoke too

His outline does sort of look like a sock puppet (sorry, no offense) but you get the idea of where it is....and it's alot easier to see if you have seen the movie- you kinda know what to look for.

i see it!!!!!!!! it looks like a snake...

I can see plenty of monsters in these clouds but none of them look like they were put there on purpose- they just seem like the kind of things you see in ordinary clouds.

Do we actually know there is meant to be a monster?

if you look at the bottom right of the picture, along the water line, you can see what looks like half a mosters head, if you were to mirror it, it would look a bit like this:

http://nymag.com/daily/entertainment/2007/08/30/images/monster.jpg

sorta looks like amoster to me

Not really an illusion but a great picture.I LOVED THE MOVIE. but in the onterest of fairness a lot of people were complaining at the end of it. I think the ending bummed them out.
Anyways its not a regular movie. its more lie a home video that happened to record a love story during apocalyptic events....anyways I hope this helps...

I think it's the black "darker" cloud, it either looks like a giant "dragon" mouth going to bite the arm, or it a demon looking thing with wings spread...

As for as answer to your question,
"Is it worth watching?"

No... No it isn't. I saw it last weekend, and you spend 80% of the time wondering why you paid money to look at some guys shoes, or the wall that the camera is looking at when they "set it down" to do something (all the interesting stuff) off screen.
I've said it before, and I'll say it again. There can never be a good horror or thriller flick rated PG13. If it's not rated R, it's not worth it.

Plus they tacked on some silly love story.. Blah.

I honestly don't believe this monster "illusion" is intentional. But it's a cool picture, nevertheless :-)

The picture that Me outlined looks like a rabbit.

The "real" monster actually extends to the left of his outline. Monsters nose points to the torch and his eye socket is that white hole above the torch.

Worst illusion ever!!

Cloverfield looks like its gonna be a good movie, its from one of the writers of lost definitely worth a watch.

But seriously this is no optical illusion!!

Pareidolia - http://skepdic.com/pareidol.html

Not an illusion, just your brain seeing patterns. This is a rubbish example of it too, might as well have a picture of the face of Elvis on a piece of toast. My favorite is the face of Lenin on a shower curtain:

http://www.badastronomy.com/pix/lenin/face_440_hilite_inset.jpg

I see the monster, it doe look like it is eating the arm of the statue of liberty... And I watched Cloverfield, its a brilliant movie, I suggest it to everyone. Its great.

No I don't see it where "Me" outlined it.. it's a big-foreheaded face just up the torch , frowning to the statue; it looks like an alien !

Bluey91,I dont think any of those are correct. Look just to the left of the arm and you'll see 'devil' looking things head kinda 'lunging' for the torch. I think that both of your pics are good though.

Me and some mates noticed a sort of gremlin face right of the wrist holding the torch up! The white bits of cloud are the ears!
We had to zoom in though...

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=X0_cCM2y38Q&feature=related
But it's NOT like the real monster...

I don't see the monster, but the movie was AWESOME!

if you look in the clouds for a long time, i see a dragon head there are two eyes two nostrils, and a jaw protruding more towards the left of the picture. Im pretty sure its a dragon

Yes this was a fantastic movie and i saw it twice, i don't normally c movies twice so this was very good

In addition to the "sock" puppet, there is half of a face of a monster, The big long white cloud makes the browline, the dark right triangle an eye, then the lighter clouds stemming off of it outline a nose and a mouth.

However the mirror image makes an extremely accurate outline of the monster, right down to the face details and the bone structure. However since you have to mirror the imae to see it, I don't really consider that much of an illusion.

Most likely the artist took monster-like forms and used them as inspiration for the cloud formations. As an artist, I've done that before. By making those clouds resemble the monster, in the back of our minds we see it, but consciously, it looks like nothing. That's the beauty of it, its the oldest trick in the book to make a viewer really be attracted to an image.


And Cloverfield WAS good and WAS worth it. If you got sick from watching it, then it was successful in immersing you and you just have a horrible constitution and don't know how to truely look at moving images. The fact it was like a home video made it much more realistic then one of those all-too-common monster movies where people scream but will then stop to explain to you everything about it before they get killed. For the first time in awhile I saw a movie where the little love connection actually made sense and was important as part of the movie but not over dramatized. As long as you pay attention and have working brain cells, its easy to figure out what's happening, see what the monster looks like, and there are continual hidden messages telling you everything else. Unless you only like the typical American shows where everything's Hollywood-ized and does the thinking for you, then it's definately a go-see.

Seems like no one saw the real optical illusion. If you look at the right bottom corner, from the smoking building you can see an eagle (Uncle Sam's pet?). A litlle USA touch maybe?

Yes I saw this movie, and yes it was awesome. Maybe I thought it was the coolest movie ever made because I just turned thirteen and I could watch the movie with my friend without my parents. It was freakin' awesome. I could see the snake/dragon/lizard in the corner, but let me tell you, it doesn't look like the monster in the movie at all. Stop drawing conclusions about crap without seeing the actual proof that this coincidental cloud formation is the actual monster. IT'S NOT. SEE THE MOVIE.

it took me a while but i did see the monster. if you look up in the sky, about couple of centimeters down from the top right corner, you will a face with long neck and open mouth, its the side view of the monster.the outline,eye of the monster is made by the darker clouds and the white cloud make the image it self look 3D. hope that helps.the other 2 examples are fairly good.

hey
I think anon's right, it's a dragon-typed thing.
I'm in Canada and the movie is big here right now. It probably hasn't hit Europe yet though. It's about a sea-monster that attacks NYC. There are all sorts of warnings out that the camera movement is weird and making people motion sick...they're throwing up in the theatres!

I SEE JESUS!

Anybody but me think this is just a regular picture where people are reading too much into it? Yes, clouds look like stuff, and I'm certain CG clouds do too.

On the left part of the clouds there are to eyes and a nose. That's probably not it, though. It's just what I see.

I saw this movie. It is definitely worth seeing. But if you get motion sickness easily, you should see it on a smaller screen.

The movie was not that great...the home footage was very bouncy in a blair witch project way (one of the people I watched the movie with had to look away for the most part to avoid the motion sickness) and the actions of the people were bordering on the ridiculous...neat idea i guess

yeh i found a better one. if you look at the hand of the statue, go down about 1cm and if you go left and right you see a smile, then if you look 1 cm from the top of the hand you see a eye, then 1.5cm to the right you see the second eye. :)

the head and a portion of the upper body of lady liberty are missing and smoldering. her framework, looking much as the framework that remained of the twin towers after their collapse, is exposed and bent.

Here is a link to what i think is a head of a man
http://i254.photobucket.com/albums/hh93/dk00111/image001.jpg?t=1201903665

Right above where her head should be is the Burger King bighead dude, wearing sunglasses. He's looking toward the left of the picture.
I'm sure that's the monster because that guy creeps me out!

I don't see a thing beside some distorted sort of face looking thing and that doesn't seem like an illusion to me

You misspelt "Cloverfield" and as for the film itself... it's filmed in the style of blair witch... so camera angles make you dizzy... in my opinion it lacked a plot. As for your illusion... isn't it interesting that whenever we look at clouds we always see something else.

If you look at the water above the date and to the left of the wake you can see what looks to be a woman screaming or a skull.

it looks like ET xD

No it is the monster in the movie and it is an ok movie it is all in the form of a camcorder

To me it looks like a snake head with a wide open gaping mouth. Sort of sock puppetty yes, but if there is a monster its there. The white cloud on the right starting just below the corner and extending downwards towards the torch.

I don't think this is an illusion. Clouds look like many things if you look at them. They're just clouds that happen to look a little like a face. I don't think it was intentional...

The trailers were all the hype JJ Abrams needed :)

I spotted it! Pretty scary there. Some hints for those who haven't gotten it: it is a skull look, both the eyes are the most apparent ones (that's the things you'll notice right away if you look closely, because I did). Next is the mouth that look an x-ray with full teeth. Nice illusion to the sender and the poster.

i see the monster in the cloud
and i can also see a person weirdly enough like standing on the ripples on the water whose hands are pointing at the building on the left of the smoke covered area
anyone else seeing that?

look at the lighter steak coming down diagonally from the top right corner as the neck of a serpent with a forked tongue pointing right at the statue's elbow...a snake with a dark eye and dark spots on its back...

Yhe statue hasn't its head. But if you look at the white cloud above the statue it looks like a head with the mouth opened and crying

i see it as the blotch on top is the eye, the bottom one is the mouth, and the rest of the white is the nose. that looks more like the monsters than what that other kid outlined. and to answer your question, 50-50 on whether or not you'll like it. i didn't like it, it's like blair-witch projects cuz it's all on a guy's video camera, the monsters are like the ones from the mist, and the screenplay is like godzilla.

this is really cool. I can clearly see a golom-like face peering at the right hand.

did you also notice, that right above where the head of the statue is supposed to be, there is a 'head' in the clouds? you can also see the the torch above it and to the left a little bit... just as if you were looking at it from the front...

Here's a good video on YouTube which outlines the image in the poster:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=X0_cCM2y38Q&feature=related

I don't see anything in the normal picture, but in the mirror photo I see a little demon baby thing in the exact middle near the bottom where the smoke conects, and at the top I see a man in the clouds with his arms extended out.

Uhh, wow, that's not much of an illusion at all.

As for the movie, I saw it and it was ok. It's kind of hard for me to look at it in a positive light since I had severe motion sickness from it, at one point thinking I was going to have to leave to vomit, and afterward needing to take breaks and look away from the screen when the action lulled.

And the thing is, I've never gotten motion sickness before from an entertainment product! If you want to see it, I suggest you take some dramamine / gravol before going (oh, and don't order an obscene amount of butter on your popcorn like my friend and I did).

interesting...was this movie good?

i dont see the monster in the top right hand corner but when u look at the smoke coming from the buildings if u mirror it

http://nymag.com/daily/entertainment/2007/08/30/images/monster.jpg

Well, I think I see something like a huge head... the eyes and nose are atop the torch...

Saved a copy of the image at
http://smg.photobucket.com/albums/v380/morcalavin/clover-1.jpg

I'm not a good outliner...

There looks like a skull half hidden under the dark green cloud and there seem to be smaller skulls to the left of the large skull in the background. The movie was terrible the end totally ruined the movie

i c it
another popular thing i saw was if you wirror the poster
and put the mirrored and original side by side
then you can see a monster

http://nymag.com/daily/entertainment/2007/08/30/images/monster.jpg

who ever did that is smart!

i hate this one
it gives you an completly wrong idea about the movie
the movie itself is ok
but the monster is way different

YES!! this movie is AMAZINg. you must watch it!!!!! ... and yeah i see the illusion. pretty cool. BUT WATCH THE MOVIE!!!! you won't be dissapointed!

this is not an illusion, people found monsters in these clouds for months... check youtube you'll find a million videos "showing" the cloverfield monster in the clouds while playing Lux Æterna... if you don't know the movie, it's the highest grossing first weekend premiere in US history.

Of course, there is a monster in the clouds...

http://dump-it.fr/upload/images/849834207091368a3c75c6e723178f62.png

but you can see another one :

http://dump-it.fr/upload/images/d03fe234aff04f3349b353d61bbf61cd.png

or a little variation :

http://dump-it.fr/upload/images/648ab287446b04e4b7213edbd5432177.png

You can also see this scary one :

http://dump-it.fr/upload/images/46fd6bcbe4b4a962df5c4df2b332cb2c.png

If you're more scared of plane falling on new-york, you can see this one :

http://dump-it.fr/upload/images/f79608930580915bcb048b7e593403a6.png

And as a little bonus, here is r2d2 is the clouds :

http://dump-it.fr/upload/images/a15f32337d7517ff031e6ce28e11827b.png

Hi all,

I agree with Me. The moster is easier to see in a smaller picture. I have put a detailed view here:

http://picasaweb.google.es/rodrigo.ruiz.aguayo/OpticalIllusions/

This is what you're supposed to see. And it's not actually meant to be there, its just your brain making you think something is there. http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=X0_cCM2y38Q

This is hardly an illusion! Looking at the sky right now I can see a monster too. COME ON!

well, to me it looks like the snout of a horse or dragon with steam coming out. just my two cents.

It's a dragon. The heads were the old head of the Statue of Liberty was. That's cool.

Oh there also might be a weird skull face. So a dragon and a skull face? The tail could be the mouth.

I see the monster and it kinda looks like the one from the movie..

and yes the movie is worth watching its the first time we arent the miltary we are hopeless civilans not knowing what goins on just trying to stay alive... great the whole movie feels like you are there!!! just the worlds shittest ending!!!

this movie really sux btw not worth seing it, just watch it when a friend rents it

No, the illusion is there. The people talking about the two pictures mirrored are right. The Cloverfield monster looks like this:
http://patrick.ripp.eu/images/cloverfield_monster.png

And this link with the mirrored image shows its arms and face and crap:
http://nymag.com/daily/entertainment/2007/08/30/images/monster.jpg

Could be wrong, but makes a little sense. It kind of seems a little planned, but whatever. It's a pretty crappy illusion if there is one.

I dont see anything

It kinda looks like either a dragon head or an evil horse's open mouth.

i'm gonna have to disagree with everyone else
here's what i saw
http://i244.photobucket.com/albums/gg33/pattonlee/cloverfield.jpg
but the outlining i did kind messed it up :]

I c I c!!!

I think you must be blind if you cant see the "monster cloud", stands out like a sore thumb. My mate saim cant see it but hes a muppet.

I really don't think any of these 'illusions' were put there intentionally. When you go outside on a nice day with some clouds, you can imagine the world out of them, and it's not mother natures intention!

Beautifull picture, but no illusion!

oh yeah go to
http://i37.photobucket.com/albums/e98/durasell93/clover.jpg
and youll see it

are you kidding, it is a steriogram

it has verious monsters made from clouds and dust in it

WOW!!!

what a crap illusion! its not even a illusion its like a thing!!!

Wow, poster 85 is right! The mirrored picture looks very similar to the monster. Similar enough that I don't think it's a coincidence.

The first picture that he showed though, which supposedly shows the actual monster, looks nothing like it though.

There isn't an Illusion in this poster. If anyone is seeing anything it's just your mind making faces in the cloud much like people did with the Super Smash Brothers Brawl pictures awhile back. Then again I guess your mind seeing things in the clouds that arn't there could be considered an Illusion. The creators didn't put anything there though. I, along with many many others, have followed the viral websites and screen notes and such for this movie since it was first previewed before Transformers in the states and while many believed there was a monsters in the clouds here at first all of it turned out to be nothing.

This movie is very good however, but if you go to watch it expect nothing but action as there are no answers to any of the big questions that come up.

If you look at it at an angle (tilt your head to the left) you can see a vague skull in the clouds.

I think this one is an optical delusion THERE'S NOTHING THERE!!!!!

I dunno about a monster but I see an eagle in the bottom right hand corner near the towers...

OMG! I can see the dragon on the right of the torch... but also I can see a skull on the left of the torch!! I've traced out them: look HERE

try again, look at this then look at the original, its hard to notice, but you can deffently see the details when you know where to look

http://i32.photobucket.com/albums/d14/cosmicfool311/clvrfld.jpg

I can see an evil face, the nose by the torch, and the eye after that, and then the mouth below that. Scary...

Look closely above the beheaded statue of liberty, a few centimeters
left to the torch, it looks like the head of the Statue of Liberty.

I see a mans face in the statues elbow, and a arm crossing the chest.