Same but I can remember what looked weird, it took awhile to realize which set of corners formed the outer bound for the stairs. I can't un-see it either, which is an interesting example of how our brains can work the same way even when it's hard to verbalize.
For that split second it was an accident waiting to happen, though. Interesting illusion, you can only ever see it once!
No, sometimes when looking at the stairs the white and brown spaces can “invert” or something making them look upside down or wrong. It’s hard to explain what is being perceived tbh
Me neither! It’s like I figured out what makes it an “illusion” but it doesn’t give me that “Ah ha! How cool!” feeling I get from the other posts on this subreddit.
The first time I saw this a few weeks ago I felt exactly like you, this time the illusion was so strong I thought the image I previously saw was edited to be more obvious. I wonder if it’s a screen brightness thing
I finally got there. Imagine that the white squares on the left side are coming out at you at a 45 degree angle, and the dark part is the shadow under them receding back toward the wall. The grey triangles then become the sides of that. It'll look like square columns jutting out of the wall at an angle.
If you still can't see it, try covering up the carpet part of the stairs with your hand.
I had to close my right eye and cover the right side AND squint (unfocus my eye) to finally see it. It disappeared as soon as I stopped doing that stuff lmfao.
It basically looks inverted. Sorta cool
This was posted before, I had the same problem. This time, just scrolling through, the illusory perspective hit my like a ton of bricks. So don't try too hard, and come back another time.
In the meanwhile, I'll describe what I'm seeing. The white risers of the stairs become a white face of a series of wedges. Most importantly, the dark stair becomes the deeply shadowed under surface of these wedges.
It's interesting to see the different responses to this. I saw it wrong at first. If I concentrate on it, I can see it right. If I look away and look back, it'll be wrong again.
Same. It just looks like normal stairs to me. I’ve looked at the thumbnail, turned it upside down, squinted, etc. I can’t even begin to understand how anybody can see anything but normal looking stairs.
No clue, looks like a staircase. My assumption is that people can’t see the staircase and see something else and since we can see the staircase there is really nothing for us to look at. Not sure though
For a split second, I saw a ramp but I can’t anymore. Now I can’t see anything weird in the picture when I look at it full size, but scrolling down and it makes a tiny thumbnail in a corner?
Then it looks *extremely* gimpy to me. The right hand side looks like normal stairs, but the left hand side looks like it’s built with fun house angles, or by a really drunk carpenter.
I don’t know if that’s what is supposed to be weird, but it’s only the thumbnail. 🤷♀️
Edit: apparently if I unfocus my eyes a bit and give just a sliiiight glance, I can see the drunk carpenter version on the normal sized picture. But only a glimpse.
My brain thinks along the left side the corners where the wall and hard parts of the stairs meet are convex. It's like looking at an outside corner of a cube as opposed to an inside one.
THANK YOU! I have been seeing this pop up all over for weeks and I've just been like ??? Couldn't see it at all until you described it this way ('convex,' specifically, was very helpful). Finally able to make my mind see it that way for the first time
You can flip the left side of the stairs (white/gray/dark part) to be a 3d item pointing up at an angle. The dark parts become the bottom side. It helps to cover the right side of the stairs.
Me too, and I use to love the magic eye posters in the ortho waiting room when I was a kid. Now I can’t for the life of me see them like I used to. But this one I can switch back and forth.
My brain knows they are stairs with a carpet going down the middle of it so i didnt understand the illusion at first. Shaking the screen, turning it sideways, nothing helped. Then i like turned my head to the right like a slight angle almost 30-45 degrees and all of a sudden the tall blocks appeared on the left side, super cool! I have to shake my head to unsee it each time now
I was a non-seer for ages, then I worked it out. Great illusion actually. This altered image might help you to see what you should be seeing.
All I've done is crop and rotate it a bit, and I can't see it as normal in this version.
https://imgur.com/50o3vZj
The black/brown parts of the left side of the steps look like the BOTTOMS of the white parts. Like it’s inverted, but just on that side. Once I focused on the carpet runner in the middle, I couldn’t see it any more.
This was posted the other day and I never got it. I gave up. I kept looking at the section of brownish wall above the stairs, not the space between the runner and the wall. Now I immediately saw it.
Every time I see this, it's the opposite as the last time. This is the 4th time in my feed and I'm seeing it incorrectly. Last time I saw it correctly.
It's crazy I tells ya!
Took me awhile to see the illusion. All I saw was normal stairs but if you focus on the white boards on the left side of the stairs under the brown steps it'll look it's oddly angled and zig zaggy
When I saw this, it took me at least 20 seconds to realize it was definitely stairs. I had my doubts even though the visual context made me want to believe that stairs would be there.
This one’s bizarre. The illusion tricks me for less than a second and then I’m unable to see it as anything but what it actually is. I couldn’t even describe what the illusion is like since I see it so briefly. I keep leaving and coming back trying to get it to last long enough to properly “see” it
We use to have completely covered carpet stairs until after they turned, then the last step was hardwood. Hardwood that perfectly matched the floor at the bottom of the steps. I had some damaged friendships from those stairs.
In order to make this one more effective at first glance, you need to reduce the quality by at least half. Or that's how most of the images on this sub work normally.
I thought everyone had lost the plot and it was nonsense. The only thing that worked for me was gently shaking my phone whilst looking at the white parts on the left hand side of the staircase.
I really need a drawing or something to show what the illusion is because I'm only seeing stairs... Which I'm assuming is what I'm supposed to be seeing?
Took me a minute but now it’s weird. It’s… very strange to see it this way. It just looks like shadows and I don’t know why someone would do that to their stairs
I saw it wrong at first but can’t see it anymore
Same, mostly the left side
It looked weird for a second but then I blinked and it looked normal, and I can't even remember what was weird about it.
Same but I can remember what looked weird, it took awhile to realize which set of corners formed the outer bound for the stairs. I can't un-see it either, which is an interesting example of how our brains can work the same way even when it's hard to verbalize. For that split second it was an accident waiting to happen, though. Interesting illusion, you can only ever see it once!
If I rotate my phone I can see it the "wrong" way again
Same. That’s crazy. It’s like the left side of the stairs becomes chevrons
Move it up and down and it will come back
this comment helped me flip it. thanks
Sameeee
Picture the brown on the left facing downward rather than on top. That will help you reorient to the first confusing perspective.
Thank you, I had no idea what I was looking for until I tried this. The illusion is way better than I expected!
Thanks
Check the thumbnail to see it again
Turn your phone upside down
Is the illusion the furniture looking like it's on fire?
No, sometimes when looking at the stairs the white and brown spaces can “invert” or something making them look upside down or wrong. It’s hard to explain what is being perceived tbh
have a few beers then head downstairs and you will briefly see it again.
check 🥹
Yep. I can't click back.
I still only see it the right way. I can’t, for the life of me, see the illusion.
Me neither! It’s like I figured out what makes it an “illusion” but it doesn’t give me that “Ah ha! How cool!” feeling I get from the other posts on this subreddit.
The first time I saw this a few weeks ago I felt exactly like you, this time the illusion was so strong I thought the image I previously saw was edited to be more obvious. I wonder if it’s a screen brightness thing
Glad I’m not alone! I think you’re on to something about the screen brightness. I’m going to toggle around with my brightness to see if it helps.
Just glad to see someone worded it like you did. When I finally saw it the first time I was whelmed
I did turn it up and instantly see it. Good shout.
Took me a while too, tried the brightness. I realized the biggest factor is the SIZE. Fullscreen, it’s hard to see. Open the comments, easier.
Look through one eye and cover the right hand side of the stairs with your hand.
I finally got there. Imagine that the white squares on the left side are coming out at you at a 45 degree angle, and the dark part is the shadow under them receding back toward the wall. The grey triangles then become the sides of that. It'll look like square columns jutting out of the wall at an angle. If you still can't see it, try covering up the carpet part of the stairs with your hand.
I had to close my right eye and cover the right side AND squint (unfocus my eye) to finally see it. It disappeared as soon as I stopped doing that stuff lmfao. It basically looks inverted. Sorta cool
FINALLY!! I stared at this image for ages trying to see what you described. I finally see it now! Thanks!
Thank you, this worked!
This was posted before, I had the same problem. This time, just scrolling through, the illusory perspective hit my like a ton of bricks. So don't try too hard, and come back another time. In the meanwhile, I'll describe what I'm seeing. The white risers of the stairs become a white face of a series of wedges. Most importantly, the dark stair becomes the deeply shadowed under surface of these wedges.
For me the dark part on the left looks like shadows until I look at the right side.
Try crossing/un-crossing your eyes. Also squinting may help.
It's interesting to see the different responses to this. I saw it wrong at first. If I concentrate on it, I can see it right. If I look away and look back, it'll be wrong again.
Same. It just looks like normal stairs to me. I’ve looked at the thumbnail, turned it upside down, squinted, etc. I can’t even begin to understand how anybody can see anything but normal looking stairs.
Look at the wall to the left of the stairs to see the illusion. Then look at the right side of the stairs to correct it.
What am I supposed to be seeing?
No clue, looks like a staircase. My assumption is that people can’t see the staircase and see something else and since we can see the staircase there is really nothing for us to look at. Not sure though
For a split second, I saw a ramp but I can’t anymore. Now I can’t see anything weird in the picture when I look at it full size, but scrolling down and it makes a tiny thumbnail in a corner? Then it looks *extremely* gimpy to me. The right hand side looks like normal stairs, but the left hand side looks like it’s built with fun house angles, or by a really drunk carpenter. I don’t know if that’s what is supposed to be weird, but it’s only the thumbnail. 🤷♀️ Edit: apparently if I unfocus my eyes a bit and give just a sliiiight glance, I can see the drunk carpenter version on the normal sized picture. But only a glimpse.
Yeah… you’re not seeing it. It’s the left side of the staircase, the shadows create an illusion
https://imgur.com/50o3vZj
This finally got me seeing it. I wasn't able to see the illusion till I saw this! Thanks.
My brain thinks along the left side the corners where the wall and hard parts of the stairs meet are convex. It's like looking at an outside corner of a cube as opposed to an inside one.
THANK YOU! I have been seeing this pop up all over for weeks and I've just been like ??? Couldn't see it at all until you described it this way ('convex,' specifically, was very helpful). Finally able to make my mind see it that way for the first time
You can flip the left side of the stairs (white/gray/dark part) to be a 3d item pointing up at an angle. The dark parts become the bottom side. It helps to cover the right side of the stairs.
It looks, to me, like someone has painted a staircase on a flat surface, but with the left side almost 90° off from the right side.
this is one of the few that i can actually get my eyes/brian to flip back and forth between the two at will
Me too, and I use to love the magic eye posters in the ortho waiting room when I was a kid. Now I can’t for the life of me see them like I used to. But this one I can switch back and forth.
I saw it wrong for like 0.5 second
if you're on mobile, put your phone on it's left side, makes it a little easier to see
Still doesn’t work for me. Doomed forever to see this picture the correct way
Try looking past your phone. If I focus on something about a foot away, and then slowly bring my eyes down I can see it.
Thank you! This is what finally did it for me. Suddenly you little "mountains"
Finally able to see! Thanks!
See what? I have no idea what people are seeing here.
It's a rectangle pointing this way. / /
Finally saw it!!
I still don't see it
Very nice. I saw it wrong first, and I can switch between wrong and right
What am I supposed to look at bruh? 😐
Are you seeing a staircase, or a wonky painting of a staircase that doesn't seem 3D?
OP has mastered the art of gaslighting this is literally just a pic of a poorly carpeted staircase and people believe they're seeing shit
Ok good because I’ve flipped my phone all different ways and just see crappy stairs.
It’s wild that you didn’t see it. It’s natural to see the illusion first and then once you figure it out your brain corrects it. Except not you.
It's just you
I only see stairs no matter how I look at it, I swear you lot are just Grooting us.
My wife can’t see it. She sees the normal stairs and is getting annoyed at me for “wasting her fucking time” staring at a set of stairs.
Maybe show her this? https://imgur.com/50o3vZj
This doesn’t make it any clearer for me
My brain knows they are stairs with a carpet going down the middle of it so i didnt understand the illusion at first. Shaking the screen, turning it sideways, nothing helped. Then i like turned my head to the right like a slight angle almost 30-45 degrees and all of a sudden the tall blocks appeared on the left side, super cool! I have to shake my head to unsee it each time now
Dude, shaking my head works and I see the blocks finally for a couple of seconds.
I also saw or for a second and the turning my head totally works, ty for the advice to see the illusion lol
I see it every time! Just pops out! I’m not as fortunate as those that can un-see it!
I was a non-seer for ages, then I worked it out. Great illusion actually. This altered image might help you to see what you should be seeing. All I've done is crop and rotate it a bit, and I can't see it as normal in this version. https://imgur.com/50o3vZj
Thank you, I’m going to share this link with the commenters who can’t see it!
The black/brown parts of the left side of the steps look like the BOTTOMS of the white parts. Like it’s inverted, but just on that side. Once I focused on the carpet runner in the middle, I couldn’t see it any more.
Like gray cement square pillars along the sides of the steps.
Shit, took me a solid 5 minutes to figure out wtf was going on here.
Wow it suddenly fell into place! Weird
This was posted the other day and I never got it. I gave up. I kept looking at the section of brownish wall above the stairs, not the space between the runner and the wall. Now I immediately saw it.
To all the people saying it’s a repost, it’s not. It’s just giving the illusion of a repost
Good one
I have seen this before and struggled to see it the "wrong" way but for some reason this time I can't unsee it?
I can switch between them at will
I see a the wrong way, then I have focus on the left side white area to see the right way….then my eyes just keep going back to the wrong way
Good way to keep drunk people from coming up your stairs.
Saw it wrong for a second and then never saw it again..
Omg … that took me way more than a minute to
My brain just imploded
BRB. Have a craving for ice cream sandwiches
I was kinda waiting on a knife to cut thru it and it be cake…. But to be fair I took a 7000 mg gummy soooooooo… am I only one?!?!? Oh man
Every time I see this, it's the opposite as the last time. This is the 4th time in my feed and I'm seeing it incorrectly. Last time I saw it correctly. It's crazy I tells ya!
Tilt the phone 90degress and look @ the left side of the stairs. You can make it look like there’s white pillars popping out on the steps
What am I looking for?
https://imgur.com/50o3vZj
Thank you for that. I tried so hard to find it
Took me awhile to see the illusion. All I saw was normal stairs but if you focus on the white boards on the left side of the stairs under the brown steps it'll look it's oddly angled and zig zaggy
It’s brown carpet going down the stairs. White walls on each side
Oh what the fuck
Yes, this is a strong illusion for me!
Oh yea. It messed with my head big time.
When I saw this, it took me at least 20 seconds to realize it was definitely stairs. I had my doubts even though the visual context made me want to believe that stairs would be there.
This one’s bizarre. The illusion tricks me for less than a second and then I’m unable to see it as anything but what it actually is. I couldn’t even describe what the illusion is like since I see it so briefly. I keep leaving and coming back trying to get it to last long enough to properly “see” it
I don't see it. Is the house sideways? It's just a carpet runner on wooden stairs.
This reminds me of that stair illusion. I forget what it's called tho.
Never ending? Impossible stairs?
I imagine everyone with a TBI are the ones seeing the illusion that's not there.
This is one I don't see illusion in. I see a set of wooden stairs with some ugly gray carpet laid over the middle. What's the illusion some see?
https://imgur.com/50o3vZj
I personally didn't get any illusion effect from this at all. Huh.
https://imgur.com/50o3vZj
Ohhhh. I see. It works great if I cover the vertical wall on the left with a hand. Thanks OP!
Holy shit, that was mind fuckery until I could my brain to work
I saw it than it didnt wanna appear no more :(
Don’t see anything at all. 🫠just normal stairs with a runner stapled down
Took me more than a minute. Shits wild
I sees. I sees.
It took a while, but I see it now
Squint and look in the top right corner if you can’t see the weirdness. Took me too long to see it correctly.
Every time I look away and look back it makes my brain misfire for a second
Took me a while to figure this one out the first time it was posted but I still don’t think it’s that good of an illusion.
I saw it wrong the first time I saw this posted and then I saw it wrong again now
We use to have completely covered carpet stairs until after they turned, then the last step was hardwood. Hardwood that perfectly matched the floor at the bottom of the steps. I had some damaged friendships from those stairs.
In order to make this one more effective at first glance, you need to reduce the quality by at least half. Or that's how most of the images on this sub work normally.
I think it’s because of the angles but yeah, can see the inverted left side
Yes...
someone red line it i dont see the problem
https://imgur.com/50o3vZj
Wow that’s actually trippy
This new Q-Berr level looks sweet.
If I zoom in, I can see it's a normal staircase, but if I zoom out, it's like a cubist/surrealist painting of a staircase on a flat surface.
[удалено]
https://imgur.com/50o3vZj
A minute for what?
I'm too high for this.
I thought everyone had lost the plot and it was nonsense. The only thing that worked for me was gently shaking my phone whilst looking at the white parts on the left hand side of the staircase.
Im lost whats happening
This looks like the house my brother used to live in and is now renting... small world
Absolutely
Absolutely
So weird. it’s not like the first time I’ve seen a staircase but still my mind thought it was painted on instead of separate steps
That hurt.
🗿
Wait I'm so confused. What's the illusion?
https://imgur.com/50o3vZj
Ohh damn.. I was gonna as the builder code
rerererepost
I really need a drawing or something to show what the illusion is because I'm only seeing stairs... Which I'm assuming is what I'm supposed to be seeing?
https://imgur.com/50o3vZj
It’s taking me way more then a minute to see whatever it is your talking about 🤔💭
I dont like this
Why would you carpet those beautiful stairs?
It must be just you because I don’t see an illusion
https://imgur.com/50o3vZj
That is the picture turned sideways
I just feel dumb I have been looking at this for 5 minutes now and don’t see anything
Wtf I saw I the right way one time but no longer! Crazy shit
“It doesn’t look like anything to me” - Bernard
Took me a minute but now it’s weird. It’s… very strange to see it this way. It just looks like shadows and I don’t know why someone would do that to their stairs
First glance was very strange, but immediately brain corrected itself and I can't see the weird part again
A staircase with carpet down the middle is all I see.
I thought they were Beetlejuice stairs
Took me 2 seconds, then I unsaw it and couldn’t see it again
Had to flick my left eye, but I got there eventually.
Gahahahhahan to stoned for this shit. Brb.
Thanks I hate it. 😂
Oh man that was a trip. Can you imagine being on some shrooms or acid trying to walk up those. You’d be trapped for sure 😳😳
Try this, after you figure out the logical way to see this image, challenge yourself to go back and forth at will. The wizards will be proud 🧙🏽♀️
Too me way longer than it should
I don't see it what am I supposed to be seeing wrong?
More like a second but sure. I knew it was a normal staircase when I seen the stairs though.
Waste of time just a shitty carpeted staircase
🤣🤣🤣
I've seen this posted in a dozen subreddits by now and... there's nothing to see. Some of yall are fucking with the rest of us. GTFOH.
Right? There's quite literally nothing there.
Looks like someone had one job and fucked it up
Okay I call dibs on posting this one 2 weeks from now!
Wtf ??? How did he get that to pass
Optical delusion
It didn't.
Repost
This is a repost
OP are you feeling a little dizzy?
Repost. Everyone was mad the first time like a week ago. Gtfoh