By Vurdlak on May 20, 2010, with 110 Comments
Here are two simple ones I got hold of today. It would be shame to pass them, despite their easy explanation and visual simplicity. When you look at the first one, you immediately think of letter E. But why is that? None of the lines presented depict letter E even closely! Our brain immediately presumes this is something known to us, and tries to connect the shadowy outlines with the known symbol. What if we were born in a society where this symbol wasn’t used, and is nowhere to be seen at all? Could we then see the lines without making presumption of what they represent? Can you force yourself just to see some random lines instead of E? Try it! For the other one, it depends how you look at it – you can either see remains of an apple, or two faces looking at each other? So which one is it?
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I see some random line first instead of 3D “E”..Is that normal?
I didn’t see E until I read the article, I was wondering why one was an illusion while the other wasn’t
I didn’t see the E until I read the caption. Even then I had trouble not seeing just random lines.
I didn’t see an E…
I saw the ‘E’ but i could force myself to see a bunch of random lines.
lol i saw random lines, but after staring at it, it became an E
actually i couldn’t figure out what those lines were till u told me it was an “E”. Now that is all I can see. :(
Same here.
wow i saw the faces in the apple straight away i stared at the otherone for at least 30 seconds and had no idea. untill i read the blurb lol
I saw the lines first. It took me a while to see the E
I saw just the lines first then I read your explanation and saw the letter E. Now I cant see the lines only the E
The apple core/two faces reminded my of the vase/two faces.
i can see the E fast on the first look and the 2 faces looking each other :)
if you look closely at the apple you will see another set of faces twords the bottom
I didn’t see an “E” and I had to read the description to understand the lines and finally see it!!! o_0
I see both the face and the apple remains at once.
damn i totally cannot see an E! how do many of you actually see it immediately?
I cant see it eather.
the first thing i saw was random lines
I saw a maze rather than an E, and both faces and an apple.
It is said that not seeing the “E” right away, your brain is thinking with its “verbal” side. The opposite is for those that see it right away, your brain is thinking with its “non-verbal” side. I could not see the “E” right away, I actually had to like move to one side of the screen to see it.
^^ I knew that I had saved the website where i had read this information!
http://viewzone2.com/bicamx.html
All I can see are random lines
I had to force myself to see the E , I had only seen the lines at first , until I read your description then had to try hard to see the E
when I first saw the E …….now i can’t make myself not see it O_O
I didn’t see the E until I read the description and the illusion was pointed out, now i can’t stop seeing the E
the first 1 is e 3d the 2nd one is 2 heads.
@Raluca I did the same thing- read the comments till i found out what the first one is XD
i didnt know hwat the first one was until i read it…and when he did i couldnt get the e our of my head…
I didn’t see the E but I saw the apple then the faces quickly.
at first all i saw were random lines… until i read the description lol XD
it seems that most people didn’t see the E first, FAIL, lol :D Me neither. I didn’t even see the E after i read the description, then after looking at it for a while i realized the “E” in it :D the other one is just way too easy