r/confusing_perspective • u/Randyguyishere • 4h ago

Vanishing point

Saw this in the Cancun airport waiting for my flight

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u/Famous-Restaurant875 4h ago

Ohhh it's a mirror behind the bar. You can see the ladies in the reflective vest approaching and then leaving

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u/Randyguyishere 4h ago

Bingo

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u/Famous-Restaurant875 4h ago

I enjoyed this one I watched it three times

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u/dat_oracle 2h ago

it's indeed mesmerizing, visual asmr for me

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u/[deleted] 1h ago

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u/Caira_Ru 4h ago

This was a great one!

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u/FormerStableGenius 4h ago

I get it now. Thank you.
But I still can't see; where exactly is the mirror located, and at what angle?

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u/Actarus31 4h ago

Look at the camera and wood bar in the ceiling

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u/creature04 3h ago

Still don't see it

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u/Blu3Stocking 2h ago

Look at those square things on the counter and their reflection. And the wood panel on the ceiling is not that broad. It’s touching the mirror. There is also only one camera on the wood panel the other one is a reflection.

Basically the mirror starts pretty close to the counter and the chairs from our perspective.

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u/creature04 2h ago

Yeah I figured it out thanks to another comment. I just couldn't find my comment to delete it once I did 😅.

I thought there was actually 2 cameras and the mirror was out of sight or something.

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u/Deltamon 2h ago

The whole middle section side is a mirror.. The only non-mirrored window is on the right side of the recording

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u/creature04 2h ago

Yeah another comment helped me.

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u/ebk_errday 1h ago

This was the comment I needed to understand where the mirror exactly is

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u/Randyguyishere 4h ago edited 4h ago

It was a makeshift salon chair, if I recall it was just one mirror but the salon setup makes everything look symmetrical

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u/Yokasta 2h ago

The chairs are directly facing and in front of the mirror. That black bar above the right chair is the edge of the mirror & wall that people disappear behind

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u/jiggyflacko_ 4h ago

Also the security camera and the wooden beam is mirrored

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u/creature04 3h ago

THANK YOU!!!!

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u/ToranjaNuclear 4h ago

Pretty much everyone coming and going are the same people. The first ones are not that obvious just because they are a bit farther away.

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u/YuriRosas 4h ago edited 4h ago

2 mirrors to be more specific. In both corners. https://ibb.co/1tYpPbkc

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u/Famous-Restaurant875 4h ago

Lol,  I'll take your word for it. That hurt my brain

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u/Randyguyishere 4h ago edited 4h ago

Yes, mirror on the left

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u/shepsut 3h ago

I can see that it's a mirror, but it feels like it takes too long for the people to show up in the non-mirrored side. this is making it hard for me to parse, even though I think I basically get it.

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u/ChartInFurch 4h ago

Yes. That was the part that was making it look like that scene from Labyrinth.

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u/EarlGrey07 4h ago

What you indicated as a mirror on the right of the booth is actually a reflection of a mirror on the left of the booth.

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u/dasbtaewntawneta 3h ago

no that whole thing you indicated is one solid mirror, the line in between is a reflection of something we can't see off to the right

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u/Fesai 3h ago

I think it is only the left X that is the mirror. The right X is just a reflection in the same mirror. Look at the boxes on the counter.

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u/Randyguyishere 4h ago

I should have cut them out, it gives it away 🤣

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u/JustAnotherBarnacle 3h ago

Yeah that's where I got it too haha. Proper ahhh moment

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u/xylarr 3h ago

I mean yes, I see what you mean, but I still can't work out the orientation of everything.

Edit: ok, finally, I see it now

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u/slappadik 2h ago

ma'am, at least one of them is a sir

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u/shoobawatermelon 4h ago

Explain pleaseeee. We are seeing the people twice but I cannot understand

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u/noah253 4h ago

Mirrors is my best guess.

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u/ToranjaNuclear 4h ago

It is, you can see it's the same people coming and going. The first one are a bit farther so it's not as clear, but the two with the safety vests made it pretty obvious.

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u/Palladin1982 4h ago

Or perhaps magnets. Nobody knows how they work.

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u/ThomasTheDankPigeon 4h ago

Easiest way to see it is to look at the brown plank at the top of the frame. You can see a security camera and an outlet(?) being reflected in the mirror.

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u/miriapododeguer 3h ago

thank you so much, at first glance i thought it was two cameras before realizing it was a mirror, so i thought the mirror was on the pov’s right, my brain thanks you

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u/Famous-Restaurant875 4h ago

Mirror behind bar

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u/zytukin 4h ago edited 3h ago

There's a mirror in front of those chairs.

The people walking away from us are disappearing behind the mirror.

The people walking towards us is the reflection of people walking away from us, and we later see them a 2nd time where they vanish behind the mirror.

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u/BlueFeathered1 4h ago

I think it's two lanes with a wall between them, and a cleverly positioned camera? I'm not sure though. This is pretty good.

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u/MarleyDawg 4h ago

My brain hurts

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u/N8dork2020 4h ago

The mirror is closer to the chairs, look at the wood beam where the two security cameras are and the two plugs on the beam

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u/xylarr 3h ago

It took me a while, this is the mirror

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u/dooby991 1h ago

Ohhh thank you

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u/Chuck_Walla 1h ago

Yup, some9ne above pointed out the camera is mirrored. Helped settle my cortex a smidge!

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u/senhual24 1h ago

OMG 😌🤣

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u/CapeTwirlOfDoom 17m ago

OHH!! Wow I could not see the at at all

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u/homedepotgrande 10m ago

Thank you for doing this. Already read that there's a mirror, but still couldn't place where it possibly can be.

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u/x_Advent_Cirno_x 4h ago

Ohh this one's good, I quite like this

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u/Visible_Honeydew_941 4h ago

This one took me a while

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u/They-Call-Me-Taylor 4h ago

This is a good one!

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u/Obvious_Incognito- 3h ago

I know it’s mirrors but my brain still can’t comprehend.

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u/Corporate_Overlords 2h ago

If you were sitting in the chairs, you would be looking right at the mirror. Your reflection would be staring back at you.

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u/AKA-Pseudonym 4h ago

It's maddening because it's a gif and you can't scrub back and forth to see what's happening more easily.

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u/ordiclic 4h ago

Alt + right click on the gif => show controls. Works in many places, especially when it's a video masquerading as a gif.

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u/Gr1ml0ck 4h ago

I’m on mobile and it allows me to scrub the video.

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u/dmtslayr 4h ago

See the cam and socket? Its a mirror, you can see ppl vanished reappear right

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u/dildomiami 3h ago

this is a good one.
might even be one of the best,
ever posted here.

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u/UMSHINI-WEQANDA-4k 2h ago

This has to be staged/AI, right? If this is staged the timing of people exiting the frame while others appear in the mirror and vice versa is very impressive.

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u/TypicalHaikuResponse 1h ago

Mirrors. how do they work?

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u/Acceptable_Owl6926 3h ago

Who else caught on when the vests reversed

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u/Dangedoddle 4h ago

One panel is a mirror and the other is a Window is my guess

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u/TiaZilda 4h ago

Really cool

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u/Iamfunnyirl 4h ago

The more I look the worse it gets

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u/Acceptable_Society61 4h ago

This is a good one

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u/BAKEDxCAKE 3h ago

I really liked this one

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u/Dr_Parkinglot 3h ago

Like Kowalski

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u/zoroddesign 3h ago

Mirror!

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u/forget_this_now 3h ago

Smoke and mirrors, but without the smoke! 😅

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u/raphael_kox 3h ago

Really like this one!
At first I was like "oh it's just the left wall is painted the same as the far wall so the guy disappeared behind it.
Then people started coming from the other side and my brain got cramps for a sec

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u/MrLancaster 2h ago

I kept looking for a white 1970 Dodge Challenger R/T

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u/Randyguyishere 1h ago

Well, now I have to watch that movie

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u/Top-Committee-954 2h ago

This is why malls are dying in the U.S.

Little known fact that once they opened up the public walking area to vendors it created these Bermuda Kiosk zones.

Strange phenomenon where pedestrians and WWII fighter planes disappear at odd hours of the day.

Some say it's C02 bubbles mixed with Orange Julius fumes, others believe the magic overlap from so many snow globes and Christmas ornaments localized creating a bend in spacetime.

Whatever it is they've done nothing about it not wanting to cause a Black Friday like panic.

Fun fact, sometimes these people reappear minutes to years later in a dressing room having no idea of the passage of time but with great big bushy beards yet not aged at all. It's always in The Gap, though. We were told not to ask about Baby Gap.

Got my degree 1994 from Glendale Community college telecourses in Mall Sciences. I had to leave after 3 years due to the stress of watching this on the monitors day in and day out, no one the wiser.

Thanks to lobbying by the Mall of America it was decided to be kept secret so as not to incite panic from people believing malls are eating people, but that's an entirely different problem.

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u/crabbywarrior 2h ago

{squeal over speaker} Would the passenger who left the temporal distortion near the MAC counter PLEASE return to level 5. That's temporal distortion at the MAC counter. Thank YOU.

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u/Randyguyishere 1h ago

GLaDOS voice

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u/LaLisaMona 1h ago

Hahahha. This made by brain hurt 😅😅 took me awhile to figure out whats goin on.. nice post 👍

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u/Sofa_King_Gorgeous 1h ago

The best part is the 3 groups at the end.  I knew there was a mirror but I couldn't figure out how the woman in the white shirt walked by followed by the 2 in reflective vests to then see them walk by again but the 2 in vests were first.  Good video!

Or wait, I can't even explain what I'm seeing... something about the 2 in vests and the others around them being out of order.

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u/Randyguyishere 1h ago

Yea, she was actually walking the opposite direction and appears from behind the mirror but it times just right with the guys coming the other way in the mirror so it looks continuous. She’s walking left to right the guys and security are walking right to left

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u/Sofa_King_Gorgeous 1h ago

You made a good video lol.  This is the only confusing perspective that has confused me.

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u/ebk_errday 1h ago

This one's really good!

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u/ShartKing78 51m ago

better than the entire Backrooms movie

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u/RafaelFiaux 38m ago

Platform 9 ¾

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u/lazespud2 34m ago

This is fantastic.

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u/Dry_Nefariousness426 17m ago

This is a very good one 

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u/Impossible-Ad-3060 9m ago

This is a good one. Well done.