New Optical Illusions

You see a cloud. When you turn your head around, you still see a cloud. When you squint your eyes and look at it, it still looks like a cloud. Now your neighbor who worships the baba tells you it looks like him. When you look at it again you see your third-grade classmate making out with your college roommate in your study room, messing up your books and spilling your hidden stash of study wine.

Harry Potter as a hero. This is the most disturbing illusion, so I advise you check it out only if you're certainly certain you can handle it.

A stranger. You are positive you've never heard/seen him before. She tells you that's her brother. He is still a stranger. Then you meet him seven years later, and you find out he's the first person that speaks your language you've met in two years. You go for drinks to an expensive bar, and talk about things-- his sister surprisingly never comes in the conversation. He leaves with someone from the dance floor, you go back to your wife. He is still a stranger. You realize that it was an illusion to think this was an illusion. Bummer.

Something to do with cute bunny slippers. And toenails.

Rabbits. A magician pulls a rabbit out of the hat, but that's an optical illusion, because that rabbit is an euphemism for your lost dreams, hopes and desires, and the hat is an euphemism for something that happened the other night, that you now wish didn't happen. There was no magician either.  Oh wait, the rabbit was real-- it was the Rabbit that was pulling the magician out of the hat, and you superimposed your emotions on real life and experienced that illusion. Psych! Also, the rabbit has dog biscuits for meal. They're not euphemisms for anything-- they're actually dog biscuits that the rabbit eats.

You. Look at yourself closely in the mirror. WHOAA! Psych!

Rainbow-colored houses and people. You wonder if it's a dream because either it has to be a really elaborate illusion, or you're going crazy. Then one of those houses comes to talk to you and tells you need to increase your intake of minerals or you'll get sick soon. The house with poor plumbing complains about the sad situation of public water facilities and recommends you write a petition to the mayor. You just want momos, and perhaps something to smoke, and maybe drinks, if they are cheap enough. Maybe an attractive waitress who you can flirt shamelessly with too. You stare and the houses and people for a long time, and it's only close two parallel lines that are definitely parallel to each other, no doubt. There's a clown between the two lines.

A girl with a really short skirt on. You turn around, you still see a girl with really short skirt on. Except maybe you like her a little more or little less.

A picture of a walrus eating an elephant. Except if you look at it closely, you see a stout man selling cigarettes in New Road, hoping to marry away his three daughters of marriageable age from the money, who doesn't know that one of them is almost-pregnant, and one is ready to run away with her girlfriend from high school. You look at it again, and it becomes an expensive rolex watch in city center, waiting to be sold to a New Zealander with thick mustache who owns a walrus that will eat an elephant.

Something to do with cute bunny slippers. And toenails.

A deck of trick cards that your floormate shows you before doing the trick. Except, it turns into a flock of flying flaming-red flamingos that defecates on you as it escapes. Now you are covered in birdcrap, but if you are looked at a slightly different angle, the birdcrap is covered in you.

Normal people.

The three dwarfs of the Melrose street. The middle one is actually shorter than the other one. Check it with a meter rule if you want to.

Inspired, obviously, by this: http://www.newyorker.com/humor/2012/03/05/120305sh_shouts_guterman

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