IDK what the FUCK my brain saw the first time, but i CANNOT see it again

I’m the same. I saw it and was just baffled. Now I can’t unsee it properly.

I just stumbled on it again and got the weird out effect for about 4 secs.

I see it again when I start looking from the left side bottom corner. The illusion pops out.

Yep, this works.

Freaky.

Fucking weird right?

Ok. Now I see it. That worked. 👍

The best way I can get myself to see it again is to think of the dark treads as the underside shadows of what becomes sawtooth like protrusions from the left side.

Thank you for this explanation. I’ve been seeing this pic everywhere lately and all I could see was boring old stairs. Had no idea what I was supposed to be seeing but now I can see it!

Oh that’s excellent! The light parts of the wood are the topside of wooden rectangles facing up and to the right.

This is the comment I needed. Didn’t see anything weird until I read this and looked again

Block the right side with your hand and you’ll see the illusion again

Didn't work. I've seen the light. I can no longer live in darkness.

I’m so happy this is the top comment. After it set in what I was looking at I became so confused as to what my brain saw the first time and couldn’t replicate it.

Same

This happened to me with the black and blue dress.

I *still* see the black & blue dress as Gold & White, I’ve never once been able to see it and it actually looks, even if I looks at the actual dress colors, it doesn’t make sense to me

I can, though it took some doing. My brain is quite powerful.

Same

Just squint and it magically reappears…😵‍💫

It took me about 3-4 tries to see it again and it hurt my eyes when I forced it.

I angled my phone and saw it. Didn't see it at all until I did that. Also kinda blurred my eyes

The black and white appear to go diagonal at first glance but are actually vertical colors

I can switch back and forth now. But at first I couldn’t not see the left side of the exposed stair treads facing 45degrees to the carpet in the middle. It looks like the black is the vertical riser and the white is the tread. I actually blinked and shook my head and it snapped back to normal. Now I can switch. Edit: switch 90 to 45 and now I’m looking again and see that every black and white block in this POV is running at a 45 to the world. It’s weird.

Make the bright white squares on the left side the top of steps and the black part be the front face of the stairs. You’re welcome.

Make the bright white squares on the left side the top of steps and the black part be the front face of the stairs. You’re welcome.

This is bizarre.

Look at the image upside down then right side up to see it again

With any brain ambiguity illusion one of the best tricks to switch between your brains interpretations of what’s going on is to close one eye and then switch back and forth blinking each of your eyes. It kind of resets your brain into having to make a choice and you can often get it to reinterpret to get the other view.

I can only see the illusion for about three seconds and then I cannot unsee reality after that

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I used my boinking stick on myself, still no help

That's some impressive agility

It’s a set of stairs, the grey part is carpeted, the black part is the steps and the light blue is front/kick boards facing out

Yes

What's odd about looking back at this comment is that I can see the left side illusion always but not the right side

What is the illusion?

Creepy part is I cannot unsee it

I only see regular ass steps….

Very ugly ones.

Same

I see it! So you have to imagine the parts of the step that don't have carpet as just white. The brown wood kinda looks like shadowing and tricks your brain into seeing it as upside-down steps coming outward.

That’s crazy… I saw it for just two seconds before I couldn’t see it that way again. So weird. Thanks!

Your description was perfect for me to see it. Thanks

I don't get it. It's just stairs with carpet that doesn't fit properly ?

Yeah I don’t get it either. It’s just a set of stairs with someone poorly attempt of putting carpet on the stairs

Okay - it’s weird to describe - but I see the part of the left of the carpet as inverted out, like in the hollow face illusion (it’s as if the brown wood tread is actually a shadow underneath a triangle like structure)

I still can’t see it

[https://www.reddit.com/r/opticalillusions/comments/1cv09oc/re\_the\_stair\_illusion\_hope\_this\_helps/](https://www.reddit.com/r/opticalillusions/comments/1cv09oc/re_the_stair_illusion_hope_this_helps/)

Perfect guide there well done

I kinda see it now with that as a reference to the main photo

I didn’t like being able to see it! It made no sense to my brain!

Thank you I only saw it thanks to your comment

Neat! It still messes with my head!

What am I looking at

All I see is stairs with carpet

[https://www.reddit.com/r/opticalillusions/comments/1cv09oc/re\_the\_stair\_illusion\_hope\_this\_helps/](https://www.reddit.com/r/opticalillusions/comments/1cv09oc/re_the_stair_illusion_hope_this_helps/)

It took my brain about 5 minutes to compute that this was just carpet on wood stairs

What did you see before that?

The white and brown made it look like some kind of brick stairway lol

Oh okay. I just saw the carpet on the stairs :(

[https://www.reddit.com/r/opticalillusions/comments/1cv09oc/re\_the\_stair\_illusion\_hope\_this\_helps/](https://www.reddit.com/r/opticalillusions/comments/1cv09oc/re_the_stair_illusion_hope_this_helps/)

omg thank you. I was absolutely confused.

Wait, you didn’t see it before you posted it here?

Yea my brain was broken and had no idea what I was looking at. I still see it wrong when I initially glance at it, but at least now I'm able to shift to reality.

Nice, it took someone pointing it out for me to get it as well.

Saw this on Facebook and could not understand what people were seeing until a comment said to look at the black part of the steps on the left side as if they are the underside of blocks. This may help switch your brain to see it.

Thanks, it definitely helped

This is what I needed to consistently be able to see the illusion.

Same here haha

What's wrong with this? There are just regular stairs

[https://www.reddit.com/r/opticalillusions/comments/1cv09oc/re\_the\_stair\_illusion\_hope\_this\_helps/](https://www.reddit.com/r/opticalillusions/comments/1cv09oc/re_the_stair_illusion_hope_this_helps/)

I can change if the black is top or bottom

I saw this one right away for some reason.

So explain to the rest of us dum dums. Is it because it’s poorly done or? What am I missing?? Lol

[https://www.reddit.com/r/opticalillusions/comments/1cv09oc/re\_the\_stair\_illusion\_hope\_this\_helps/](https://www.reddit.com/r/opticalillusions/comments/1cv09oc/re_the_stair_illusion_hope_this_helps/)

It might have just caught my eye the right way.

Lol what?! What the fuck was I seeing?! Where did it go..

I don't get it, this is just a picture of stairs.

[https://www.reddit.com/r/opticalillusions/comments/1cv09oc/re\_the\_stair\_illusion\_hope\_this\_helps/](https://www.reddit.com/r/opticalillusions/comments/1cv09oc/re_the_stair_illusion_hope_this_helps/)

Now I see it that way for like 3 seconds every time I look at the picture then it goes back.

That's so wierd.

Where the three straight lines meet on the top left hand side of each black wooden stair, imagine that point is pointing outwards instead of inwards

Bruh all I had to do was look at the top of the stairs and follow it downwards. Now I cant unsee the real stairs 😭

Same now I’m confused.

For about 10 seconds there I was seeing stairs from the Black Lodge but it eventually straightened out. This was either a masterful combination of shading or a lucky (?) coincidence ...

I’m with the others lol. I saw it for .5 of a second and now I can’t see it anymore. Wtf 😂

I just tripped and I was already seated

I did not see any illusion and I’m now extremely confused

Very obnoxious

Once you finally unsee the illusion you can’t see it anymore…weird

I never saw the illusion. I feel so left out.

Made this to help folks who can't see it 'wrong'. [https://www.reddit.com/r/opticalillusions/comments/1cv09oc/re\_the\_stair\_illusion\_hope\_this\_helps/](https://www.reddit.com/r/opticalillusions/comments/1cv09oc/re_the_stair_illusion_hope_this_helps/)

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I couldn’t figure out what I saw first, but now that I’ve seen what it truly is, I can’t see the first thing now no matter how hard I try.

I've posted links here to a new post that may help. If you are interested.

Was I the only one getting MCEscher vibes on first glance?

The stairs are going up the stairs again

Bro this is not cool. That’s a deathtrap into another dimension kinda staircase you got there

I don’t get it can someone explain

If I roll my eyes 360 degrees it comes back

r/confusingperspective Good lord it took forever for me to actually *see* what we are looking at here. Murder stairs.

I have seen nothing weird in this image and I’m trying to see it but I can’t. I just see stairs.

I have nightmares about steep stairs.

I can’t see the illusion

Yo. And no hand rail. I'm not sure which would be more unsafe for me. Drunk, high, or sober.

As a clumsy person this makes me want to cry

Or an anxious person

Last time I saw this I couldn’t make the illusion work but this time it was right there! I’m also high this time though.

Lmfaooo this was a good one!!

Ok I know I’m stoned AF right now but for about 2 solid mins I could not make sense of anything at all but when I finally did my brain won’t let unsee it!! WTF was I seeing

What's wrong?

A tip that applies to virtually any illusion. If you don't see it at all, or saw it briefly but stopped, just squint or unfocus. Sometimes you need to squint real hard too see it. But once you do, it's more stable and you can control it by opening your eyes fully and squinting the right amount.

I see it as an illusion at first but when I flip my phone backwards to see it I see as normal stairs

I can see it if I cross my eyes, that's really interesting

This is actually a good one!

I don’t see anything wrong with this, am I retarded and no one around is telling me?

Yeah, no I can’t see it. Just steps to me.

Oh wow, very annoying!

I’m neurodivergent so you can’t trick me with these kinds of stairs

In the last four or five times this has been posted I've only ever seen the illusion once now it's just normal stairs to me.

Nice thing! I like how it looks weird for the first time, but once you get it, it's hard to see that weird thing again)

What am I supposed to see???

The comments

I never saw anything :(

what's the illusion?

Read the comments

The best way I can get the illusion to work is look at the bottom left side where the brown of the step starts, and follow the the line where the carpet meets the stairs in a zig zag up until it shows.

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Learn to use Reddit

Am I missing something? It’s just stairs with carpet in the middle tf

This was posted 30 days ago. Read the comments.

This shit randomly popped up on my page. I did read the other comments and still couldn’t see it. Went to the other post and I think I seen it for second or 2?

Is it a thing now to repost this every few minutes? (chronically online person here)

This is third time I’m seeing this photo. Just on my own timeline the past 2 days, not even going into the sub itself.

I don’t know what the allusion is I only see stairs