I’m still not hundred percent certain why I kept this optical illusion private, but somehow I never gained enough courage to share it with you – my audience. Probably because the topic was somehow edgy, and balanced between SFW (safe for work) and NSFW. Anyhow, here it goes… The picture you see below circled the internet few months ago, and was more than popular in those days. Apparently the lamp pictured inside the photo could be understood in more than one way. Not only was it funny – it was extremely sexy too! But wait… there’s more! If this was the whole story I wouldn’t make so much fuss about it. More interesting part is what happened afterwards. The real twist came month later, when the “original author” published the second photo which revealed the truth. You can see it below the first one, but I hid it inside the expandable box so I don’t ruin the effect. Be sure to check it out, but only after reading this text and figuring the previous image first. Theory about second twist exists as well, but it relies on Photoshop theory – which (in this case) isn’t important at all.
There is something extremely sexy about this lamp! What if the pic was turned upside down...?
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so it really isn’t a lamp… hahaha… cool…
what the..
LOL now That’s funny! xD
Who would’ve guessed? =D
Wow that is crazy. first i was like i dont get it its a lamp then im reading click the box wtf! I thought was a lamp!
Lol:P “is a lie” ^_^ heh
Although yeah on my iGoogle i could tell that it was something to do with that(the solution), i actually just thought the right way up, laid back with legs up… but i guess not huh? :D Haha nice illusion of a lamp lol
That thong, th, thong tha thong!
Oh wow! Really nice one Vurdlak. I thought that it was a sexy lamp as soon as I saw it but that second picture really just left me with my eyes wide open ._.
Obviously to those in work today that second picture isnt recommended >.>
Wow! I would love to have that lamp in my room!
i don’t see it
Fascinating
jajaja, I refuse to see the lamp!
bad taste!!
When I was scrolling down I saw first the white part of the “Lamp” and the tan of the “Walls” and for some reason my first thought was Oh’ it must be woman’s legs designed to look like some thing else, then I looked at it fully and said dang. I then toght it must be painted or something. And now I realize How close I really was!
HAHAA!!! I laughed my ass off all day. Cause I have optical illusions on my google homepage..got me everytime!
“Oh, behave!”
HAHA THATS HEARIOUS!!!!!!!!!!
omfg! the truth is revealed at last!! =O
ok dats just disturbing, n all that time i convinced myself dat it was a lamp, kind of a let down..
O_o omg…I can see a black panty >_>…
…and a couple of bears with christmas hats O:…and…
…
3 seconds later after open da link..
O_o…omfgosh!
da lamp is an ilusion D:!!!
Da black panties are real @_@…
Woah there!
Oh my. Lol. I really thought it was a lamp when I saw this on one of the Facebook quizzes.
WAAAAAAAAHAHAHAHA LOL I SEE IT!!!!!!
I guess is one more twist:
http://thelampisalie.com/thelampisalieisalie.jpg
Hahah, I just cant believe this!
Dude its getting annoying to have to see that “lamp” everytime i open firefox (with igoogle) and gross things coming to my mind for already 3 days, its very disgusting.
Is that a reference too Portal? ( The cake is a lie?)
Freaking awesome.
Freaking awesome!
I’m sorry, but I’ve never enjoyed this type of illusion. They’re kind of sick. I would suggest, instead of it appearing on my desktop when I get home, that you have another picture posted on all the blogs. I really wouldn’t want to answer questions from young children if they saw that on my computer. Thank you.
I don´t wonder why you haven´t posted it earlier. If you look at it first it really looks strange :o)
xD great motivational!
But i still think this was photoshopped….the curves simply don’t look natural.
But all in all, this is really an awsome one, in my opinion! =D
nice but obviously photoshoped
I’m surprised no one’s commented on this already. When I first saw this illusion, I was instantly repulsed. My mind must be dirty. :P
After a while of staring at it, I decided that it must be a lamp. How could it not? Then I saw the twist, and realized that my first assumptions were correct.
Quite an illusion.
The thong is a lie. The lamp is real.
I can’t believe anyone actually believed it was a thong. It’s a nice image manipulation, but it is still clearly just a lamp.
woah!! I thought it was really a lamp. I was studying what looks like the stand of the lamp and i thought it was really a lamp!! so cool!!
Thank you Nestor for that link!
The first time I saw this pic I was like, “Omg a thong!”
Then I got the joke and was like, “Oh, I get it.. it was just a lamp! Duh!”
Then I saw the second picture and thought, “Wow, it really was a thong! Although it might be photoshopped..”
Then saw YOUR link and thought, “So it IS photoshopped!!”
I like how it’s a combination of the thong & the lamp in the photoshopped pic xD. So which came first?
Rawr @ all the twists & turns.. It really is a good illusion, though. Thanks for clearing it up!
Ok, so my question is why a woman would get a tattoo of a teddy bear wearing a santa hat next to something else, possibly another animal in a winter hat, UPSIDE DOWN on her butt??? I think this is just the perversion of the lamp that makes the horny people see perverse dreamings. ;) (And I went to the link to see if I could be misinterpreting the tattoo thingie, nope. It is a teddy bear in a santa hat upside down.)
wait a second, the other picture, her legs r too skinny. she is bow legged, or photoshop
This is way older than just a few months. The lamp has been around for years. The thong is a lie, it’s so obviously a photoshop manip of a thong’ed girl and the lamp (as per link above in comments).
The photoshop pic has a couple of very telling errors: 1. There’s no crease between the butt and the thigh, which only would happen if she were very flat back there. 2. The tattoo is in a very awkward position, again, where the crease of the thigh/butt would be. It’ wouldn’t lie flat like that. 3. The ‘crotch’ area looks too distented, that yould only happen if she were pregnant and carrying low or was overweight with a low hanging belly (which is obviously not the case).
The first pic (of the lamp) is a cool illusion, if an old one. The second pic is a lie, not an illusion at all.
Er… it’s obviously a lamp because you can see the curvature of both the lampshade and the stand around the edges, and the stand is perfectly rounded.
This is actually a cup of sorts sitting underneath the sun… I’m guessing that the other thing is a statue… or that it’s been photoshopped onto a womans body….
WOAH!!! I was wrong!!!!
pathetic…but ridiculous
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you have to have a horrifically dirty mind to see anything sexy in this.
its a lamp bikinis dont look like that…
If you look at the pic of the lamp… it looks like teddy bears wearing christmas hats.
Nice, I’ve got that exact lamp in my living-room. Get it cheap from IKEA. http://www.ikea.com/us/en/catalog/products/10139879
there is no way that the lamp is actually underwear in the original pic there’s teddy bears to the side… now why would a girl have upside down dingy teddy bears (in christmas hats) tattooed on her bottom?? and if anyone know anything about the female anatomy… then they’d know that her … um.. ‘parts’ wouldn’t be located that low (from that view). she looks pretty thin, so her ‘parts’ wouldn’t be so low and wide like that. and anyone notice the pancake-flatness of the cheeks? gosh there is no way to explain it without being diry. but yeah… it’s just someone being a weirdo.
but it could be real if the girl has a 2-dimensional butt, upside down christmas bears on her bottom, and a strangely glowing private area…
photoshopped
and the cake is the true lie
ITS A LIE!!!!!!!! D: