Get out of my head

The forks? The pepper shapes? What am I supposed to be looking at?

Well, my experience was that at first, I didn't see the forks at all. (That is to say I didn't recognize them as "forks". Or even as "things".) The forks looked like some blurry, nondescript background and the "pepper shapes" looked like foreground items hanging from something unseen off the top. The shapes didn't look really like anything I could identify. That lasted for a good 30 seconds before, very (very) suddenly, it crystalized and I could only see the forks on a purple background. Really uncanny how rapidly and entirely it shifted. After a good amount of effort, I was able to shift back to the first perception, but it took considerable effort along with looking away and back a couple of times. And once I achieved it, it felt hard to maintain. Very strange experience. Far more so than most "bistable" sort of optical illusions I've seen.
- I saw it as forks immediately. Your description helped me to see the picture ”the other way”, with the pink döner in the foreground.
- Took me a moment but yeah I see the forks, but with little effort can revert back to the first view.
- I noticed it's easier to shift back to the "pink döner" first perception if you hide the top half of the pic.
- Coming from someone that's carved a pretty nice (and even functional) wooden fork before, I couldn't see the forks until you mentioned it.
  Sigh, if only I knew how to chrome plate wood, I would have seen it much sooner..
- Samesies!

No clue how there can be seen anything else here but forks.

I was wondering what those dangling purple things were, but after i noticed the forks, I can't see what I first thought I was seeing, just as the caption says.

I can flip it back and forth in my brain. But yes, I saw the negative space as the object at first view.

I unsaw it

I was expecting loss

Er, wut?

4 forks. Is there something else?

Ah yes, a collection of pink döner

They brought pink sauce to turkey 😭
/s

Initially thought it was some closeup of a micro-fluidics experiment.

Leaving a comment so I can come back here when someone explains

E: I get it, the fact that it lived rent free in my head was the broken brain thing

- my dumb ass giving myself an aneurism by trying to force a "magic eye" illusion onto an image not made for it
- It's not supposed to be forks?
- Well shi I didn't think about it like that
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For forks sake

May the fourks be with you

ok that was kinda cool

Nothing to see here, moving on..

How is this loss?

This reminded me of Bev Doolittle's art.

Homer... Use the forks

Are you guys having dementia or something? It's 4 forks on a pink background. If your brain needed time to process it, god there's something wrong with it.

At first I saw the pink as the foreground and the forks as some kind of weird, wet background. Then I noticed the shape of the forks and everything flipped!
Yes, failing to see through optical illusions are a sure symptom of dementia.
Pink towel*