# Help me find this (visually disturbing, but SFW and not TMI) image

**URL:** <https://boards.straightdope.com/t/help-me-find-this-visually-disturbing-but-sfw-and-not-tmi-image/537030>\
**Category:** Miscellaneous and Personal Stuff I Must Share\
**Created:** [April 22, 2010, 9:06pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/help-me-find-this-visually-disturbing-but-sfw-and-not-tmi-image/537030 "2010-04-22T21:06:28Z")\
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**Author:** ![Mangetout](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/mangetout/32/19_2.png) [@Mangetout](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Mangetout)\
**Post date:** [April 22, 2010, 9:06pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/help-me-find-this-visually-disturbing-but-sfw-and-not-tmi-image/537030/1 "2010-04-22T21:06:28Z")

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No, it’s not Lotus Boob this time.

A while back, I can’t remember where - but somewhere online - I saw an image of a woman’s face that had been photoshopped so that it had double the normal set of features - so two pairs of eyes, two noses, two mouths - stacked up so that one set was above the other.

It wasn’t even slightly scary, sick or anything like that, but it did have the peculiar quality that it was almost impossible to look at - if you try to focus on it, your eyes can’t make sense of it and they flit uncomfortably back and forth across it without being able to settle, or make sense of it.

Can anyone help me find it?

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**Author:** ![ZipperJJ](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/zipperjj/32/211_2.png) [@ZipperJJ](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/ZipperJJ)\
**Post date:** [April 22, 2010, 9:11pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/help-me-find-this-visually-disturbing-but-sfw-and-not-tmi-image/537030/2 "2010-04-22T21:11:40Z")

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Ack, [this](http://cgi2.cs.rpi.edu/~hollingd/it/hw/hw6/double_face.jpg).

I saw this as someone’s Facebook profile picture the other day and was confused by it as well.

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**Author:** ![Renee](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/renee/32/287_2.png) [@Renee](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Renee)\
**Post date:** [April 22, 2010, 9:13pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/help-me-find-this-visually-disturbing-but-sfw-and-not-tmi-image/537030/3 "2010-04-22T21:13:10Z")

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Wow, that’s awful.

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**Author:** ![Hampshire](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/hampshire/32/4887_2.png) [@Hampshire](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Hampshire)\
**Post date:** [April 22, 2010, 9:24pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/help-me-find-this-visually-disturbing-but-sfw-and-not-tmi-image/537030/4 "2010-04-22T21:24:14Z")

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That reminds me of another image from back in psych class.  
It looks simply like an upside-down image of Queen Elizabeth 2. Nothing out of the ordinary.  
But if you flip it rightside-up you notice that they cut recatangles around the eyes and mouth and turned them upside-down. It looks absolutely ghastly.

[Here’s something similar with Clinton](http://www.cs.dartmouth.edu/farid/illusions/clinton.jpg).

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**Author:** ![Infovore](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/infovore/32/420_2.png) [@Infovore](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Infovore)\
**Post date:** [April 22, 2010, 9:46pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/help-me-find-this-visually-disturbing-but-sfw-and-not-tmi-image/537030/5 "2010-04-22T21:46:36Z")

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> [@Hampshire](#):
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> That reminds me of another image from back in psych class.  
> It looks simply like an upside-down image of Queen Elizabeth 2. Nothing out of the ordinary.  
> But if you flip it rightside-up you notice that they cut recatangles around the eyes and mouth and turned them upside-down. It looks absolutely ghastly.
> 
> [Here’s something similar with Clinton](http://www.cs.dartmouth.edu/farid/illusions/clinton.jpg).

\<shudder\> Damn, that’s creepy!

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**Author:** ![Mangetout](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/mangetout/32/19_2.png) [@Mangetout](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Mangetout)\
**Post date:** [April 22, 2010, 10:15pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/help-me-find-this-visually-disturbing-but-sfw-and-not-tmi-image/537030/6 "2010-04-22T22:15:45Z")

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> [@ZipperJJ](#):
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> Ack, [this](http://cgi2.cs.rpi.edu/~hollingd/it/hw/hw6/double_face.jpg).

That’s the one! Thanks

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**Author:** ![thelurkinghorror](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/t/7c8e57/32.png) [@thelurkinghorror](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/thelurkinghorror)\
**Post date:** [April 23, 2010, 1:43am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/help-me-find-this-visually-disturbing-but-sfw-and-not-tmi-image/537030/7 "2010-04-23T01:43:32Z")

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> [@Hampshire](#):
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> That reminds me of another image from back in psych class.  
> It looks simply like an upside-down image of Queen Elizabeth 2. Nothing out of the ordinary.  
> But if you flip it rightside-up you notice that they cut recatangles around the eyes and mouth and turned them upside-down. It looks absolutely ghastly.
> 
> [Here’s something similar with Clinton](http://www.cs.dartmouth.edu/farid/illusions/clinton.jpg).

You sure it wasn’t Margaret Thatcher? Anyway, [Thatcher illusion](http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Thatcher_effect).

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**Author:** ![Taomist](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/t/53a042/32.png) [@Taomist](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Taomist)\
**Post date:** [April 23, 2010, 1:53am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/help-me-find-this-visually-disturbing-but-sfw-and-not-tmi-image/537030/8 "2010-04-23T01:53:42Z")

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> [@ZipperJJ](#):
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> Ack, [this](http://cgi2.cs.rpi.edu/~hollingd/it/hw/hw6/double_face.jpg).

Time for a new prescription! \<rubs eyes\>

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**Author:** ![Autolycus](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/22d042/32.png) [@Autolycus](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Autolycus)\
**Post date:** [April 23, 2010, 2:21am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/help-me-find-this-visually-disturbing-but-sfw-and-not-tmi-image/537030/9 "2010-04-23T02:21:13Z")

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> [@Mangetout](#):
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> That’s the one! Thanks

Hey, just think of the blowjob potential.

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**Author:** ![Hampshire](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/hampshire/32/4887_2.png) [@Hampshire](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Hampshire)\
**Post date:** [April 23, 2010, 2:45am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/help-me-find-this-visually-disturbing-but-sfw-and-not-tmi-image/537030/10 "2010-04-23T02:45:02Z")

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> [@thelurkinghorror](#):
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> You sure it wasn’t Margaret Thatcher? Anyway, [Thatcher illusion](http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Thatcher_effect).

My bad, it was Thatcher.
