15+ Confusing Pictures That Are All A Matter Of Perspective

That's right, that's the cat's tongue and it hasn't somehow grown creepily human-like lips. So I guess that's the good news.

At least, that's not what you'll encounter if you ever find yourself on this French street.

Instead, we're seeing the results of this street light shining through some drooping tree branches.

Except this isn't actually an explosion, as you might expect.

Because while I suppose these two could very well be cool enough not to look at one happening behind them, we're really just seeing the sun illuminate the side of a mountain.

In that moment, all we can see here is a tiny Tim Conway leaning in front of the poster of a movie that doesn't look very good.

Of course, once we're back to reality, it's a lot clearer that most of that figure is just Seth Meyers' microphone.

Either the dog is dangling between the sides of this chair, it's got the same seemingly impossible balancing skills that cats and mountain goats do, or there's a pillow on this chair that's the same color as it.

The answer is up to you, I guess.

But you'll see that it gets a little clearer when you look at this photo upside down. Apparently, both the bike and the scenery are just reflections in the water next to those rocks.

While the way this photo is laid out makes it unlikely that it's just closer to the camera than it seems, there's something proportionally weird and artificial-looking about its head that suggests we're not looking at a real duck.

Perhaps it's a big plush that someone put next to this rink.

Instead, this tall grass is completely intact. It's just being crossed by a shadow that gives us the impression that it's been cut in half.

With that in mind, it shouldn't be too hard to understand why someone would get a little startled after seeing this eye suddenly staring at them.

Of course, it's not really an eye. Part of the uploader's headset just happened to reflect off their monitor stand.

While I suppose I could see him enjoying rock climbing, the apparently stretchiness of this arm is just an illusion.

Instead, the hood of this person's sweatshirt is making it harder to figure out where their shoulder really is.

If that tiny piece wasn't visibly connecting this balloon-shaped ornament to this storefront, we'd have no reason to suspect there was anything but the moon in the way.

Sure, it makes the most sense for these to be a restaurant's oddly-shaped awnings. Nonetheless, it's still hard to force myself to not see them as hovering umbrellas.

Naturally, the fact that another woman's hair is behind the two of them doesn't make it any easier to tell where this guy's girlfriend is even when you realize he's the one sitting down.

Her head is not really visible in this picture but you can see her hair peeking through next to his face.

So if you're wondering how pieces of a different sky could cut into the real one, the answer is apparently pillars that are entirely covered in mirrors.

They're just showing us the parts of the sky that otherwise didn't fit in the picture.

If they had zoomed in and cropped their photo just a little differently, it would be impossible to tell that we weren't looking at the moon from a cave.

Yet since they didn't, it's very clear that we're just looking at the floor through a hollow piece of scrap metal.

After all, we probably would have heard about a lizard that's big enough to take up so much space on a roof, right?

And indeed, if you compare the size of the leaves on the real trees in the background to the windows on these houses, it becomes clear that the lizard is climbing on a model.

If you're wondering what's happening here, it helps to know that the design is triangular.

I suppose that means that this building looks similarly flat from the other side of this corner as well.

Although the similar coloration of their shirts would make it look like they're holding hands, we're really just seeing one of them clasp his hands behind his chair.

Granted, the fact that one half of his body seems to be in a completely different environment than the other makes it obvious that half his body is covered by this design.

That doesn't make the effect we're seeing here any less amusing, though.

Although there's probably a market for a dog this massive, we'd probably find that this one is much smaller than it appears if we met it.

So what happened here? A blizzard simply hit this area hard enough to give the dog an avenue to touch the top of the fence that wouldn't otherwise exist.