Beach photo shows unusual illusion: "it hurts my brain"

A photo on the Internet shows a woman on a beach. She gives a speech at the sea. But something seems to be wrong with the picture. Do you see it right away?

• A  photo of  a woman made the rounds on the Internet.
• Then she gives a speech on the beach in formal clothes .
• Something about the scene is extremely  mysterious - until you finally  look again .

Munich - Curious snapshots and photos that circulate on the Internet are piling up like sand at the sea: Most of them become viral “photo hits” and make millions of viewers worldwide laugh or wonder - in many cases both. 

This picture of the beach has caused a similar reaction . You can see a woman giving a speech, the sea in the background. Something immediately stands out that cannot be at all. Until you look a second time.

Mysterious beach photo: Something is wrong with the woman - until you look again

The optical illusion itself immediately catches the eye when you discover the photo. This is followed by total irritation . This ultimately leads to the fact that you simply have to look again. Because only then you get to what illusion it is.

The scene is clear at first: A woman, dressed in formal clothes, stands on a beach and speaks into a microphone. Apparently she gives a speech in front of an audience, which was cut off by the photographer. But what is wrong with the surface on which the woman is standing?

Mysterious beach photo: speaker stands on a beach towel that is floating

The speaker stands - it seems - with her microphone in front of the sea on a beach towel that hovers in the air like the flying carpet from Aladdin! How can that be? The second look reveals it.

The brain was deceived : the woman is standing on a thicker mat that lies normally on the sand floor. The shadow of a flag, however, which - accidentally or intentionally by the photographer - is a few meters in front of the mat, is the answer to the puzzle. At first it seems as if it is thrown from the surface onto the sandy floor and thus gives the impression of the "flying" beach mat. The users of the Reddit platform are definitely enthusiastic about the picture: "This is a completely new world" or "It hurts my brain, haha", one reads in the comments.

Quite tricky for the synapses: But it is at least the proof that everything was probably right. Well, if this snapshot is not a small everyday refreshment for the head. 

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