After 3 Weeks I Still Can't Figure Out This Dang Optical Illusion. Plus A Redneck Test.

Howdy folks and greetings from the Great Plains of North Texas!

This one drives me nuts. lol. It's a mind-bender. At least for me. Let's see if you can do better, which I'm sure most of you smarty pants can.

Here it is. Very simple right? Just a set of bars lying there. Well, count the bottom ends:

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And you get 8 bars, right?

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But then count them from the top..

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And you get 7. What the?? It gets better though. There are actually just 6 bars!

If you count from the top there are 5 complete bars. The bars you think you see after that are actually disconnected lines, and there really is a gap until the last and 6th bar.

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Psychologists tell us that our brains are so determined to make connections and form pictures that they’ll see bars where they don’t exist, just to keep a pattern going. lol.

I just see sets of complete bars so I guess my brain is very stubborn. What do you guys see?

Okay, here's something simple

A Redneck test. Yeah...see this beautiful cliff photo?

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Well, if you see a big glass of beer you might just be a Redneck!

Thanks for stopping by folks, God bless you all!
-jonboy
Texas