Turn your phone clockwise. 
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Oh man thanks for this. It was driving me nuts.
Thank you! All I could see was a zombie dog with a face melt
I find it interesting how I knew there was something going on I couldn't stop it from looking like a melted dog face. No matter how hard I tried to make sense of what was going on.
Then I look at this and I can see the original picture clearly. I wonder how much our brain distorts on a regular basis that doesn't get noticed.
if you can't see it after some time then...
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... Rotate the image clockwise 90°
I'm going to need even more help because in every orientation all I see is like a horrifically disfigured dog face.
The dog's face is sideways; what looks like its nose is actually its eye.
I still can't see anything but a deformed dog.
Took me a good 5 minutes to figure this out. By following the eye that is actually a nose. Then by tilting the phone to the right, the dog is also tilting it's head. Hard, too hard .
I think I need someone to literally draw on top of this for me to see it how it's supposed to be seen
Does this help?
Oh my god yes it does! Thanks so much. You have no idea how much this was bothering me
Mouth on the right, top of head on the left
I'd say
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rotate it 110 degrees. The "nose" is the left eye.
That... Actually kind of hurt a little?
It melted my brain a little, so I decided to pass the pain on to others. You're welcome.
I had to keep looking at it before it looked normal. Imprinted itself, so it took a minute.
I feel so foolish after trying to find the hidden "GAY SEX" or "SEND NUDES" messages for a bit too long.
The real hidden "Gay Sex" was inside you all along!
Can you post another picture of the dog in a normal position for reference?
This image has been reposted a million times all over the internet. I'm not sure where the original is from...
Rotate the picture 90 degrees clockwise.
Every fricken time, I have seen this image so many times and every fricken time it takes me so long to see it correctly. Brains are stupid.
I can rotate my phone and see it perfectly, but the instant I rotate back, my brain reverts.
I think it's partly bc the image is low res. In sharp focus it would be almost immediately apparent that the nose is on the right, but it's just poor enough that you can't quite tell why the "right eye" looks funny.
This is what the AI must feel like when it sees adversarial images (really cool subject btw, look it up if you're not familiar)
Well part of the reason is because there's a total of 12 pixels in that image.
There is a part of your brain responsible for "seeing" and recognizing faces. It's biased very, very strongly to see two dark spots side by side as eyes, a single spot in between and below them as a nose, and a horizontal linear feature below that as a mouth. It's why these work: 😀 You instantly recognize that as not only a face, but a happy/joyous one.
That bias is so strong that your brain gets it wrong sometimes, which is why people see Jesus in their toast, a man in the moon, or a weird abstract right side up dog in a messy low resolution picture of a sideways but normal dog.
It doesn't look like anything to me
Analysis mode
I think a contributing reason is that AI generated images exist, and it's really tempting to discount this picture as one of them
Weirdly, I saw it normally immediately. Then I stared at it until it made no sense at all, as I tried to figure out why people would be confused.
LOL. You're right. Me too.
That made my brain feel funny
What is the name of this thing? I remember reading about it years ago
It's called a dog.