I can’t see them as face down.
It all looked like pills to me until I read the text. Couldn’t even see plates for a while.
Anyway, I noticed that the top right rectangular one doesn’t match the perspective when seen as face down. All the other ones are round, so they don’t insinuate a perspective at all. That’s why that plate is the key.
Shadow says its face up though. There should be a thicker bright line down the side if it was flipped over. The shadow should not have the same depth as all the other dishes.
Sort of. This plate sticks out because in order to create a shadow and light this way when facing down it would have to be angled in a way that doesn’t match with the others when also assuming that they’re all placed on the same surface. It only looks right with the others when seen as face up. The trick here is that we normally assume light to come from the top when given no other clues, but this assumption doesn’t match with our assumption of placement. The text also suggests the wrong way first.
If the picture had been presented upside down, it might have been difficult to even ee it any other way than the correct one.
Me neither. They were all face up from the get go for me.
They all started as face up to me as well. The one that stood out to me though was the rectangular plate in the top right. That plate looked face down to me which then triggered all the plates to look face down.
I have tried some of the “tricks” in the comments and none work for me. Try as I might, I can only see them as face up and nothing else. It doesn’t make sense to me that they could ever appear face down because the lighting wouldn’t make sense.
I got to see them upside down for a moment and it does not look correct. They are actually face up in the picture but it is possible to trick yourself into seeing them as upside down but they don’t look like they would if they really were
I can back and now I can.
All the plates are face up. Period.
God damn it worked on me
Me too; almost made me jump when it worked so well!
They’re all face-up with the lighting from the right.
If I try to see them as face down they become distorted. The lighting is wrong.
It almost worked. I first saw medicine pills and then plates
Hypothesis: they are really all face up, but if you read about them being face down before paying attention to the picture your brain turns them face down until one of them triggers the correct position.
My brain must be stupid cuz I looked at the picture first and they looked face down :/
No, it’s just that there is no reference, so it is perfectly possible to see them facing down in the first place before reading.
All I see is a pile of various allergy pills
They were always face up?
Finally! This is the first time this illusion worked for me.
No joke, same here. The middle was face down then I saw a cup and it all flipped
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It’s a badly JPG’d picture of segmented dishes, but the description says they’re face down… which is wrong, given the way the light hits them. This is just a bad post.
Wtf
I can’t see any of them as face up.
I can flip them back and forth at will, I think I finally found my super power!
I think it’s the shadow cast onto the largest round plate by the lower divided round plate
Without that shadow, the plates could be face-down and illuminated from the left, but the shadow would only exist if the light source is on the right, so it snaps everything to conform to that
For me it was a bottom small one that snapped them to right-way-up. With practice and effort I can flip them upside down again, and confirm that I don’t struggle seeing the big one as upside down, but still struggle with some of the bottom ones.
I think this is a reminder to not trust our mind in any way
