50 Times People Noticed Something Dreamlike And Shared Photos On The “Accidental Surrealism” Group
For the most part, we find ourselves living in two separate worlds: the one that is real and the one we dream up. But sometimes, life throws us unexpected gifts of making our imaginations as authentic as experiences in our daily lives. From hazy landscapes to lobster-shaped telephones to impossibly absurd occurrences, we can witness these scenarios in real life. Does that sound a bit surreal?
You bet it does! Allow us to introduce you to one spectacular corner on Facebook called 'Accidental Surrealism'. Although the admins of the group state that the "name is descriptive enough", the photos are anything but. This art and photography-loving community has set out to share reality-defying examples of things, animals, and people they found by accident, and we can't seem to get enough.
To show you what we mean, our team at Bored Panda has scoured the community and gathered some of the best pictures to share with you all. So sit back, hold on tight, and try to stay grounded as we're about to ride down to fantasy land. Upvote the pictures you enjoyed most, and let us know what you think of them in the comments!
Psst! For more seemingly unearthly wonders, check out our earlier piece on another community with the same name right here.
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Like flamingos - they are pink because of the shrimp they eat! pink-flami...b0c4f9.jpg
I had a dog named Peaches because of her peachy coloring. I miss her.
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Load More Replies...I'd kill to know what this would sound like if someone played "balad of the birds" lol
If you look on YouTube, some people actually *have* had a go at "playing" bird notes! The results are pretty interesting.
Load More Replies...Me too! I didn't look at the caption before I saw the pic. I had to actively look for the birds before I saw them.
Load More Replies...For the first glance, I don't even know that they are birds. It is the caption that helps me.
Facebook may not be the first place many people look for examples of the unreal, but the 'Accidental Surrealism' group is bound to shake things up. Since the page was created in 2020, it has amassed over 128k members eagerly waiting for the new dreamlike posts to grace their feeds. It’s safe to assume that people become a part of this community to blur the line between fantasy and reality, to see just how quirky and unusual the world truly is.
Speaking of the draw of 'Accidental Surrealism', the oddities are definitely part of the appeal. Places like this are a great way to witness strange or captivating images that are always interesting for us to look at. One reason behind this is that we rarely meet these examples in our everyday life. Another element that contributes to our fascination is that we simply want to understand them.
Unusual occurrences coupled with our imaginations are often too intense for words, so our efforts to uncover the meaning is what keeps our mind busy. Because sometimes, we feel stuck in our day-to-day lives, and seemingly otherworldly images entertain, provoke, and mesmerize us whenever we come into contact with the extraordinary.
Hi Pandas, I think the moon has probably been "improved" in this photograph, although, there is a chance its genuine. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . LOCATION = Academy Rd. NE and Moon St. NE, Albuquerque, NM (near SW corner) . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . (drop Google's yellow Pegman to VERIFY ... change to 2019 to make sign match). . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . SHADOWS: During a Full Moon, the sun is 180 degrees opposite of the moon. This means if the sun was rising in the east, then moon will be setting in the west (and visa-versa). If this picture was unaltered, the shadows from the trees and traffic light would be pointing directly towards the moon. It looks to me like the shadows from the trees are crossing the road -- instead of pointing towards the moon. The shadows are about 70 degrees off from where they should be. ... Nice Picture Though. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . DIRECTION = Camera is pointing North-of-East / ENE down Academy Rd. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . TIME = 16:15 / 4:15pm. ... Because the camera is pointed "East" toward the Mountains, . . . . . . . (A) MOON IS RISING ("East"), ... (B) because the moon is full, the SUN must be SETTING "WEST" (C) Avg. Setting Time = 18:00/6pm, BUT THIS PICTURE = 16:15 / 4:15 pm. (in Dec.) . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . SEASON. Academy Rd. NE runs ENE towards the mountains. This picture would probably have to be taken in December because that's when the moon (not sun) rises ENE. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . It might be possible to get something similar to this photograph in December, but I think this picture was "improved" by what somebody saw. If the moon was illuminated a little more on the right side than the left (Waxing Gibbous ... somewhat "oblong", just shy of full), I'd be less inclined to believe it had "photoshopped". . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . TRAVELING PANDAS: Dec. 6, 2022 = your chance to see first hand how accurate this photo is.
Load More Replies...The irony of this picture is amazing, só there you have a war machine that looks like a fiery Angel, this is an amazing picture.
It’s not a war machine. It’s a Russian cargo plane.
Load More Replies...These are not missiles. It is a defense system designed to redirect heat seeking missiles or to great a field of flak to stop larger missiles.
“The puny protection won’t hold the beast for long.”
"Fortunately for Magneto, when Loki transformed him into a duck he failed to take away any of Magneto's powers - and that was a mistake Loki would soon regret."
Of course, this art movement is instantly recognizable for its dreamy qualities. But while enjoying all of these beautiful images, let’s take a moment to learn more about the origins and the meaning of surrealism, shall we?
According to an article on Tate, a network of four art galleries in the UK, surrealism is a twentieth-century literary, philosophical and artistic movement that explored the inner workings of the mind and the subconscious. It aimed to champion the irrational and the poetic and to revolutionize the human experience. Or, in other words, "It balances a rational vision of life with one that asserts the power of the unconscious and dreams."
It is said that Shakespeare got his inspiration for Romeo and Juliet from this very (pretend this photo is a) painting.
Load More Replies...I'm confused on why they're taking this photo in the first place. That's the creepier part of this, not the angel of death.
She mey be a relative, partner, friend and wanted to have a casual photo of her? Sorry if not up to your standards, but people take photos of whatever they like.
Load More Replies...I doubt if she saw anything weird from her perspective. But she probably freaked when she saw the photo.
Load More Replies...I need a cat like this, I have a jar I need him to open
Load More Replies...I call my beagle mix Thunder Paws sometimes because her feet are so huge, but she’s got nothing on this guy!😹
I used to call my dachshund Paddle Paws, for the same reason, lol!
Load More Replies...This sculpture by Bruno Catalano symbolizes the void created when one is forced to leave one's country, one's life. He exhibits them everywhere, outdoors, around the world, but this picture is quite stunning.
The top half of his body is held up by the arm holding the suitcase, which is joined to his leg. The placement of the sunset cloud is just fantastically timed and placed
Load More Replies...The stress from travelling too much started to eat away at his stomach. 😳
The movement swept the art world by storm. Surrealist artists like Salvador Dalí, Rene Magritte, and Max Ernst sought to channel the unconscious to unlock their creativity and freedom. Influenced by psychoanalysis, they found magic and strange beauty in the unexpected, the uncanny, the unreasonable, the disregarded, and the irrational. This way, they shocked us, the viewers, out of our comforting assumptions, values, and norms.
Please look at it again. The cat has its head resting on the other cat, both cats have their mouths closed!
Load More Replies..."I had this strange dream I was eating a fluffy marshmallow. Was covered in hair though."
Still looks cute, even if the gray cat looks like it's devouring the ginger cat.
The term comes from the French surréalisme, which translates into English as "super-realism". While it was first coined by the French avant-garde poet Guillaume Apollinaire in the preface to a play, it was André Breton, a leader of a new grouping of poets and artists in Paris, who made it stick.
In his Surrealist Manifesto (1924), Breton defined surrealism as: "Pure psychic automatism, by which one proposes to express, either verbally, in writing, or by any other manner, the real functioning of thought. Dictation of thought in the absence of all control exercised by reason, outside of all aesthetic and moral preoccupation."
I really didn't like it at first...then you said googly eyes 😁
Load More Replies...I've heard of growing square watermelons by using a mold. Is it possible to grow things with more complicated shapes using a mold? Or is this particular photo of a natural growth?
It helps to focus on the baby's hand and arm. Then you notice the slightly different skin tone and the smudge of shadow that is the baby's elbow resting on the father's elbow. But yeah, looking anywhere else in the picture it's pretty much impossible to *not* see the illusion.
Load More Replies...This caption still has me going even after seeing it for the 15th time, except Mega Hand was 'The Slap Master'
It's that the skin colour of the top of his arm is exactly the same shade as the baby's forearm. Wonderful
Bored Panda previously had a chat with art gallery director and art expert Shelby Bercume, from Florida, who enlightened us about the success of one of the most prominent names in the surrealist universe, Dalí. "The popularity of Dalí, mostly due to his wife Gala’s business sense, is what makes surrealism so recognizable. It had significant exposure to people that otherwise wouldn’t have known what it is," she explained how the artist became widely known.
"Dalí's popularity was also due to his eccentric behavior and incredibly famous friends coupled with the time," Shelby added. "Basically, all the ingredients were there for Dalí to take flight, and surrealism was thrust into the spotlight as part of a consequence."
Mam, we would like to talk to you about your car's extended warranty.
I was just was just walking across the street and this random SUV fell on me. Yeah I don't believe it either. ¯\_(ツ)_/¯
Surrealist art, photography, and literature can be a lot to take in, as they aim to depict alternative realities and unlock ideas by diving deeper into the unconscious mind. But in the last few years, reality itself has become a bit more surreal, inviting strange, dreamy, and otherworldly imagery into our daily lives. If this artistic movement is a glitch in the status quo where real life becomes seemingly unrecognizable, then it’s easy to see parallels between the 1920s and now.
Redo it in waffle colours and make the pillow like a dollop of cream
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"We are finally emerging from years of experiencing harsh realities we could never have fathomed. Our entire world shut down, we’ve seen some very ugly sides of humanity and when reality becomes too real, that’s when we need to escape to fantasy," artist Carmen Ellis told Eyeswoon.com.
"Surrealism is breaking free from rules and structures, breaking free from the logical world. After years of rules and confinement, we are craving the escape that is surrealism."
OK, found the nose and tongue. The rest has gotta be around here somewhere.
You mean to say you have never seen a cat give birth to a full-size reindeer?
Don't think its a reindeer, the ears are too big and pointy. Probably a red deer or something like that.
Load More Replies...That is the exact expression a cat makes when it looks over its shoulder at you.
Don't exaggerate. There is nothing wrong with cat doodling on business cards with markers.
Someone need to photoshop Trump's head there.... ok, maybe not. Poor bird didn't need to eat c**p.
The merging of the absurd with our reality delivers an unexpected dose of optimism and brings some lively fantasy to our current environments. No wonder the art world recently started utilizing surrealism in design to add more beauty and mystery. "Even after almost 100 years of changing times, surrealism at its core remains the same. It still seeks to reawaken the imagination, to inspire, to shake us out of our everyday world and ways of confined thinking," Ellis said.
"Surrealism helps us to shift perspectives, teaches us to revel in the unknown and to find wonder in the strange, it expands our realm of possibility beyond all limitations."
Not unless the painting is actually of the man.
Load More Replies...and if that wasn't enough, check out the daguerreotype recording of the 19th century Hungarian poet Sandor Petofi 26957103_b...1a7841.jpg
Why the downvotes? Irrelevance doesn’t call for downvotes. Downvotes aren’t dislikes, they’re votes to put someone in panda jail
Load More Replies...Amazing photo of Jupiter
It looks like the planet Jupiter (scrolling down I thought it was a blurry image of it, until the ducks appeared haha)
Load More Replies...Oh. Jupiter. I just thought he was about to shoot the ducks and I thought that's not so whimsical.
This is such a good idea! I’m definitely doing this next time I see something damaged!
imagine if the plant started slowly disappearing right at this moment
Burning Man playa at night
dying to go to this but the USA is really hard to get into as a traveller. They think everyone is a terrorist.
I know, and I am sorry! Sometimes we suck. (Being sincere, not a smart a*s)
Load More Replies...100+ degrees, no showers, blowing dust storms, $$$ for ticket but can't buy food or drink. Stupid, smelly and stoned.
I thought it was a tree stump at first with Christmas lights.
There are two people, the girl seems to be laying flat with her head on someone’s lap and the other person is bent away from the camera. The girl has her hands folded in front of the other person’s elbow. For anyone confused :)
Thanks for the help. I was getting a headache trying to figure this out!
Load More Replies...How many double joints would you need to do that pose on your own?
This is what happen when you play Twister by yourself. You get all bent out of shape.
The cat is to the left and just looking around the corner
Load More Replies...I had to turn this upside down and sideways before my brain understood it is a cat hiding behind an open door or window peeking around it. This is the best "surreal" photo I have seen in a ling time. The others are easily explained. This one really messed with my mind.
I took this photo of my late cat's head that keeps floating around my house.
We laugh, but a teacher friend of mine just failed am entire class because they *all* copied one persons test answers exactly. Spelling errors, odd grammar and all...
Load More Replies...Legend says that if your fingers go through the cursed foil, you will become a zombie for the rest of eternity.
So that's where the expression "Straight from the horses mouth" comes from.
Wait until the dress catches fire with the exhaust and she will turn full Katniss...
Load More Replies...There is a perfect joke for this in Portuguese that doesn't work in English, in Portuguese the expretion " giving Birth " its called " dar a luz " which literally translates in " giving light "
I've heard of 'a hot piece of a*5' before but this is the first one I have ever seen!
The arms doesnt make it any better with the face shape. Seriously that is a crazy illuaion you see with just the 2nd pic alone.
2nd pic looks like a giant's head sniffing someone's nether regions. lol
Load More Replies...Me too. The first ones killed in the teenage horror film.
Load More Replies...Everyone in favor of switching back to signals made of metal and not recycled water bottles and tires say "I "
I would've thought they were already made of metal until I saw this picture. Why would they make them out of plastic? To avoid rust?
Load More Replies..."You want to dye your hair? Which color would like, madam?" "Old Paint Brush , please."
the person was playing minecraft when they turned into a cat.
Load More Replies...Until youre coming home drunk at 2 am and it absolutely WRECKS your BRAIN
Load More Replies...My daughters apt laundry room has a floor similar to this and it makes me all cross-eyed and dizzy
That is funnier than people realize, I bet.
Load More Replies...Chips with chips is a real bargain, as it is only 50p extra. For chips with anything else, it is another £1.90. So cod with chips twice is £12, but two cod without chips and one chips with chips is only £10.50.
I know you are making actual sense but my brain fries at "two cod without chips and one chips with chips" every time. I can't make it to the end of the sentence :P
Load More Replies...So it would seem. The chips without chips is harder to explain though :)
Load More Replies...Ummm.... Can i get uuhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhh chips, without chips? || sure! it will be 1.90, pay at the next window.
Yes, I'll have the chips without the chips, please. (aka a plate of ketchup)
Based on a Google Image search, it appears to be a red-billed oxpecker. https://www.wilkinsonsworld.com/2012/09/ Also, if you want a crazy-eyed birb, you can't beat the great potoo.
Load More Replies...Every time I see this I can't help but imagine that if you walk on that floor it moves around exactly like a waterbed.
Every time I see this I'm thankful I don't have to fix it
Load More Replies...It was a great place for lunch but after the exorcism, the place had no soul.
Load More Replies...What's written on the awning? Actually I really only want to know if it makes it funnier
"Sulit ang anghang-sarap" (The deliciousness is worth it)
Load More Replies...It a bit chilly onboard the Costa Concordia, but at least the pools at 90 degrees
Ahhhh yes the very manly ship captain that was allready on Land wille some of the passengers where still sleeping on the ship.....
Man, this thing has some impressive wave angle capabilities.
Are they coconuts? That's one way to get the husk off. We do that with black walnuts. Pile them up in the driveway and drive over them a few times to break up the green outer husk.
I think the point is to fill in the pothole, not husk the coconuts. Whatever works I guess.
Load More Replies...We use, regarding black walnuts, a vice. Takes little energy to crack nuts.
Got a great future as a human contortionist. What's with the shotgun shells on the floor, and there's a fruit core looks like, an iPhone charging block, an empty soda liter bottle....what in the hell is going on in there?
Not shotgun shells. Nerf darts. I think the "fruit core" may also be some kind of toy. As for the rest of it...typical teenage boy's room. As the mom of a 13, almost 14, year old, This Is My Life lol.
Load More Replies...Now THIS one, unfortunately, reminds me of my husband. (It happened ONE time, LOL.) As an aside, funny coincidence, that Caddie in the middle looks exactly like our car. Same color and everything.
Me playing any driving game set in the USA where they drive on the wrong side :P
The real question is whether you can enter the house through the car
Never thought of that. 2 broken windows away from an intruder! Uh oh.
Load More Replies...Aww, lighten up, no one gets it exactly right on the first driving lesson.
You can't advertise to people on them. Every bit of space is advertising real estate.
Load More Replies...This is what happens when you overthink stuff. Just a simple glass door would do fine. What happens when you don't follow the KISS philosophy. Keep It Simple Stupid
Growing up my mom had an art studio in our house with a giant black and white checkerboard floor. My brother and I used to play chess with stuffed animals on it.
Aah yes, thank you. Makes much more sense when turned the right way.
Load More Replies...My immediate thought (yes, I'm old, lol) was of Flight of the Navigator.
Me waiting for a Nman to say, why can't you just turn it off?? It's not like you bleeding THAT much!!
Somebody is no longer a fan! (Unless I'm mistaken one of the fan blades has detached and is mid fall).
the paper cuts......................................................THE PAPER CUTS!!!!!!
Baby mice tacos are only available for Sunday Brunch
Load More Replies...This definitely is a screen from a point&click adventure game. Open Washing machine. Take detergent.
I got a bunch of these in my woods, I'm about to be rich...biatch.
This is one of the greatest posts I have ever seen on Bored Panda!
This is one of the greatest posts I have ever seen on Bored Panda!
