Wednesday, January 6, 2016

What's your best Mind fuck question?



[–]RamsesThePigeon 5415 points  
How many wild birds do you think you've seen twice?

[–]ThePerfectSubForYou 5131 points  
Queue is just the Letter followed by 4 silent letters?
Edit: I made it a question
[–]I_like_doughnuts 6121 points x2 
They're not silent. They waiting their turns to speak.

[–]BeefMitts[🍰] 4908 points  
How many random people's vacation photos am I in?
edit holy shit. I've never had a comment blow up like that. A bunch of you have some good stories that have kept me entertained today. Then there's a bunch of redditors that say they never leave, or that think I live in my mom's basement lol.

[–]big_s0rry 4838 points  
Is it crazy how saying sentences backwards creates backwards sentences saying how crazy it is?

[–]Tomaytoed 4712 points  
Do you realise in 4 years, 30 years ago will be the 90s?

[–]babzen 4455 points  
My friend told my that the study of physics is actually atoms trying to understand themselves.
That twisted my brain.
EDIT: Woah, this certainly blew up! And I hardly ever comment. I understand that this applies to several other areas such as chemistry as well, and that it's not really a question. But it is mind blowing nonetheless

[–]timlardner 3960 points  
Has anyone really been far even as decided to use even go want to do look more like?

[–]PipIV 2632 points  
Why is it that we can easily identify ourselves through a mirror but see a completely different us in a picture?
[–]shixxor 3894 points x2 
  • You usually see yourself every morning in the mirror with the same light and same shadows. Your brain gets used to this look, since seeing yourself in other lighting circumstances doesn't happen so often. Here you see how different a face looks with only changing the position of a light source. Intesity, diffusion, hue, size and distance from a light source affect the look substantially aswell.
  • The image in the mirror is reversed horizontally so all of your facial irregularities which you are used to, are on the wrong side if you look at photos which aren't reversed and make you think you look weird.
  • When you see yourself in the mirror, you see a 3D image with your depth perception. On the other hand a photo is usually two dimensional and flat.
  • When looking in the mirror you are always seeing yourself with the fixed focal length and field of view of your eyes at the same distance every day. Camera lenses though have various focal lengths, they affect the perspective distortions of your face dependend on the distance between you and the camera as seen in this example.
  • In the mirror you're almost always visible front side only. On photos there's always a slightly different vertical and horizontal angle of point of view which you are not used to see in the mirror.
All these together create the effect of seeing a strange self in photos. It helps a lot to get more self-conscious about your look in photos, if you imagine that all the people that see you in real life and in photos, pretty much perceive you the same way as you perceive yourself when looking in the mirror - they got used to your look exactly how you got used to your look in the mirror. If they'd see a mirrored picture of you, it probably would look unusual to them.
So don't worry, you look great!
EDIT1: Typos
EDIT2: Thank you guys so much for the gold! First time it was ever given to me.
EDIT3: Since you guys got hooked on the trippy gif, here's the source video! Thanks /u/blanketswithsmallpox for the link.
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