Marshall Brain's Blog

Does anyone know why this happens? Look at this photo, which was on the front page of the local paper recently:



What do you see? Here is what my brain saw:

• There is the guy on the left in the black coat
  
• He is holding a doll, which is mounted on a base.
  
• The man in the tan shirt on the right is worshipping the doll

Only after about 5 seconds did my brain get its act together and figure out that the guy with the machine gun is not a doll, but instead a person standing on the roof of the building in the background. Yikes!