He’s turning heads! Mind boggling optical illusion shows man’s head separated from his body as he goes for swim
- Video shows Micah Wallace, 30, swimming in Barbados as wife Sarah films him
- His head is sticking out the water but his torso is separated and facing other way
- Viral footage was viewed 7.5m times with some users being confused by illusion
This is the mind boggling moment a man’s head appears separated from his body due to an optical illusion in a swimming pool.
Footage shows Micah Wallace, 30, going for a swim in Barbados when his wife Sarah, 32, captured the hilarious moment.
In the video, his head is sticking out of the water, but the glass pool shows his detached body further away.
Footage shows Micah Wallace, 30, going for a swim in Barbados when his wife Sarah, 32, captured the hilarious moment his head and body appear separated in an optical illusion
He can be seen in the pool facing straight ahead, but his torso and legs are turned towards the camera.
Sarah walks around the edge of the pool saying: ‘They’re not uniting,’ as the two parts of Micah’s body still don’t connect.
Eventually when the pair are standing facing each other, the man’s head appears to be reunited with his torso.
The office assistant from Brooklyn, New York was celebrating his honeymoon when his wife captured the hilarious moment.
He said: ‘My wife saw my head was completely separate from my body and thought it was hilarious, so then she started filming and I started performing.’
Micah’s head and torso still appears disconnected until wife Sarah faces him and the two join up again in the pool
The bizarre optical illusion was created by a scientific incident called refraction, the bending of light, due to the swimming pool’s curves.
Micah can’t believe the reaction his video has had from the public.
He said: ‘When I saw it for the first time, I couldn’t believe how I looked but I had no idea people were going to respond as much as they have.
‘Most people are confused and the other half are people educating others about the science behind refraction.’
The video was posted to TiktTok and has since been viewed more than 7.5million times and the couple can’t believe the reaction it has got
The video was posted to TiktTok and has since been viewed more than 7.5million times.
Users were confused by the optical illusion, and took to the platform to comment on the hilarious video.
One wrote: ‘I thought somebody was holding their breath for a really long time.’
Another said: ‘I’m too drunk for this and I don’t even drink.’
A third said: ‘My brain could not process this.’