Optical illusion stumps Facebook: ‘I’m at work staring at this like an idiot’

nypost.com:

oversaturated with optical illusions, we might have found an eye-nomaly: This ocular jigsaw depicting “giant lamps” is short-circuiting people’s brains with some puzzle fans claiming they’ve been staring at it like “idiots” without any lightbulbs going off.

The illusion allegedly first surfaced on Facebook Marketplace, but was reposted to Reddit, where it’s going viral.“How big are these Facebook Marketplace lamps?!” reads the description to the ophthalmological Rubix cube, which appears to depict two giant lamps sitting in someone’s yard like oversized lawn ornaments. Spoiler alert! The correct answer is revealed later on in this post.Needless to say, this mind-melting eye exam had users fumbling about like a moth slamming into a lightbulb. “That’s one of the most convincing illusions I’ve seen in a while,” exclaimed one stumped Redditor of the visual voodoo. “Took me long enough to figure out.”“I’m at work staring at this like an idiot — just figured it out,” wrote another, while one frazzled puzzler quipped, “I don’t think I would have ever got it, I just accepted they were huge.”“I still don’t see it haha,” said another.

In case you’re still stumped, the answer is that the lights are actually dangling from a wire in the foreground, but are shot at such an angle that they look colossal.