By Vurdlak on December 11, 2009, with 225 Comments
This one’s so simple, yet so hard to see if you don’t know what you are looking for. I haven’t spot the optical illusion until I read the solution that came with it. Don’t worry, it’s nothing abstract. Just when you spot what is hidden in this image, you won’t be able not to see it after that anymore – ever. Even if someone showed you this very same image years from now. Most of the similar ones were linked in our previous Mystery Dots article, so head there if you liked this one. I can give you a slight hint, though. Check this category to adjust your way of thinking ;)
(69 votes)
Hint its on a map
Another hint
boot
I see it! its the Mediterranean Sea. I saw it as soon as I clicked on the image. An easy one for me, but nonetheless a classic!
Is it the Mediterranean Sea? I would have thought it was something more complicated. Maybe because I misread ‘you wont be able not to see it’ as ‘you wont be able to see it’.
I saw it near instantly. Recognised the boot of Italy instantly.
I have never seen this illusion before but no mater what you did to this picture I would recognise it without a problem,
I don’t like spoiling it for others so I won’t say its name is but I will say some of the very first empires started and ended in and around this famous body of water :P
lol, i live in canada and i couldn’t tell until i read the comments
how could i have missed Italy???
Its the Mediterranean and surrounding land, with a little bit of Atlantic and Baltic . If you look at the black is looks like a inkblot. As soon as you shift you focus to the white, presto!
Left sideways I see the grinch and his dog
If it is NOT the mediterannian sea, i’d be impressed :P
I see Italy now! Thanks guys!
I live in Canada too, so my knowledge about the other side of the world is limited (:
It Took Me a whle but when i saw italy (the boot) I figured it out
Hmmm… immediately when I glanced at it I saw a cow. Doesn’t anyone else see it? No I can’t NOT see it!
I got it right away; if fact I couldn’t figure out what the illusion was supposed to be. All I saw what a map of Europe, incl. Italy.
The boot in the middle got it for me!
That is obviously the Mediterranean.
nice one
I’ve been coming to this site for months now. At first I saw some pretty cool stuff. lately I see NOTHING that is interesting and if this is really just a map with the colors inverted, you must have lost your mind thinking it’s any kind of optical illusion. One other thing. Start making a link to an explanation. It is really frustrating when you don’t even bother to post what the illusion is SOMEWHERE on the site. I usually can figure out what the illusion is WHEN IT IS AN ILLUSION.
Mark
Only difficult if you’re no good at geography (American) lol, sorry Americans, only kidding, sweeping generalisation! I wouldn’t blame anyone for missing Spain tho, what have they done to it? It sure doesn’t look like Spain; only identifiable by it’s relative position.
I believe this same image has been shown at your site before, in some article including several of this kind of images. Can I be correct, or do I remember wrongly?
WELL I THINK ITS NOT ITALY …I FEEL THERE IS A PERSON WITH A BAG IN HIS HAND AND HE IS JUMPING FROM A MOUNTAIN OR A BOAT TO A DIFFERENT AIRBOAT CONTAINING LOADS OF PEOPLE IN IT….WATS SAY ABT THIS IMAGINATION
I guess it’s hard only for those who don’t live in the area. I’ve seen maps like that a million times it was impossible not to spot it.
haha, I was reading the description, and my eyes shot down for a split second in which I saw italy xD Otherwise I would never have guessed it :P
emm is that the illusion ?
the mediterranean map ? lol
All I see is the Italian Boot…., is there anything ellse I am missing?
My country on the right!
CYPRUS!!
It’s an American Indian looking downward to the left. Am I the only one who see’s it?
Yes, I see Italy, but I also see a cow. Does anyone else see it? Italy is like a white stripe down its nose. The black part under the boot is the tip of its nose, the northernmost island to the west of Italy is its eye, and the small bay further west is its ear. Am I the only one who sees it?
i guess it is a map but i think that is way to obvius like that is what they want you to think maybe it is something else
i knew right away that it was the Mediterranean, but i thought there was supposed to be something else….
i see italy !!!!!
Portugal is missing!!!!!!!!!
Because it shows only countries bordering the medditerranean it only shows spain portugal is gone highlight the map to see it better. check with other maps and you’ll see.
italy helps
COME ON! WHAT IS IT??
easy for italians… :P
the boot of italy gave it away
RE: Another Mysterious Fleck – moillusions.com
At first it looks like a view of europe, africa, india. then turning sideways it looks like The Grinch, a mouse, and bag of toys – the grinch who stole Chritmas! If this is a true vision it is an animation which is quite clever cute! It is different from head sculpt shown is the category clue.
all i understood was that it was a map, am i missing anything?
I don’t get it. is it just the mediteranean sea and we’re supposed to be geographically challenged?
LOL it looks like Colonial Sanders from KFC is you squint xD
hmmmmm… not the most amaising thing ever but still interesting
As the boot is Italy it must be an inverse map.
If you’re from Europe, you’ll recognise this immediately as a map of the Mediterranean Sea. And a pretty poor one too – north coast of Spain is missing, strait of Gibraltar too wide, Greek coast /islands missing – is that because it’s meant to also look like something else?
Pretty obvious is the Mediterranean Sea…
i dunno, i’ve no idea about the answer.. T_T
I do believe I’ll be able to see this years from now. If you start to look deeper in to this picture you’ll see two eyes and ………
Well, you are repeating yourself. It’s the same as the second picture in Some Psycological Test Cards
http://www.moillusions.com/2008/12/some-psychological-test-cards.html
Well thats annoying.. I saw Italy within the 1st two seconds, but I figured that was too obvious. What a scrap illusion…
Hm… so what is the solution? As hard as I tried, could only see the Mediterranean sea. Pretty bad map, with some artificial structures. Is that supposed to be a body of someone imposed on a map of Europe? What is it? Didn’t spot it yet :(
This one is about as bad as you have posted here. It’s not intersting at all.
easiest one yet
i got confused cause i thought it was new Zealand! rofl :P
I saw it immediatly
Too easy, there must be more than meets the eye.
Saw it after reading the description. Saw the boot, and figuered it out from there. i live in N.A., so it mite hav taken me a little longer
Turn the picture 90 degrees to the left and what do you see?
this was dumb =_=;;
Why is this an illusion? It’s obviously the Mediterranean Sea, though the creator got the shape of Cyprus all wrong and thinks that the Peloponnesus is an island.
ITS THE FREAKING MEDITERRANEAN MAP!!!!!
I don’t see the American Indian… Could you point it out, Jim?
I tried looking at it for 30 seconds then looking at the ceiling and I saw a fish next to a whale. But maybe I’m just weird like that…
Am I the only one who sees the cow?!
surely it cant just be the Mediterranean??? i live in Europe and this is a very poor geographical map….. im guessing there is somthing hidden and it is deliberatley like this …… but i cant see it – can anyone else? =$
there is a face on the top right corner
I just see a big fat guy holding onto a triangle figure that looks like it could be a snow mobile or jet ski, something of that sort, leaping across to the right towards the section in which the figure of the boot is located, I don’t see cow or american indian. I’m guess the reason this illusion is so significant is because of all the random things people see when the map is inverted like it is.
what the hell is this?
like… it makes NO sense.
i read the description and thought it would be like the dancers that were shown a couplr of months ago. as soon as i looked at it i saw the ‘big boot’ of italy…..
xD
worst. illusion. ever.
lame.
Some people are missing the point – what has been seen CANNOT be unseen.
I have the same problem looking at the moon – when I was 10 some one helped me see ‘the man in the moon’ because all I could ever see was craters, and now all I can see when I look at the moon is that damned profile. Is there any method to get your brain to ‘reset’ an image like this? I’ve tried everything and can’t get rid of that damn guy.
think outside the box.
yes it looks like part of europe asia and africa, BUT
there is an afterimage of a bird in flight.
I see the coast of the sea and sicily and italy
Its the europe map,easy
i could see it was Europe without you telling me
Actually, its not a map of Europe…
Its a piece of a map for sure, but not Europe.
Its the mediterranean sea.
now i see europe, italy gave it away
If it weren’t for Italy I would never have figured it out.
hey, i live in australia, basically on the other side of europe, so I had no IDEA!!!
i right away knew i should look at the white instead of the black but i couldnt really lol, had to read comments
Its a map I can see Italy
What the hell? I’ve just spent ages trying to work out what the illusion was. The fact that its an outline of the med is so obvious that I thought that there was something else in the image.
I’m really stumped as to why people take time to get it.
It’s a person I think. Lying down sideways. The two white spots are eyes. He’s wearing a strange funny big crown :D the rest is his body and deformed legs. Anyone agree?
And I thought there was something hidden INSIDE the map xD