Is it a black vase, or two white faces? Classic optical illusion!
(This post is a preview of my weekly Newswithviews column.)
It was a clear plastic trash bag full of, well, trash. I knew that. But sitting outside today, on my special chair, I saw it as a face. A weird face: big goggly eyes, fishy mouth, shiny silver earring. Look away, look back–and that face was still there.
I asked my wife to take a look. She saw it, too. Same as the face I saw. I also asked my next-door neighbor–and she couldn’t see any kind of face at all. Same information, different results.
Human nature is very hard to understand.