This Instagram Account Is Dedicated To Random Pics That Just Don’t Make Any Sense, Here Are 50 Of The Best
Some things in life cannot be explained. Why we all yawn (did that trigger a yawn from you?) and why tomatoes have 10,000 more genes than humans are mysteries scientists may never fully understand. But as curious creatures constantly searching for understanding, we tend to be drawn to bizarre and confusing things, particularly photos.
To provide a place for people to view endless images that make no sense out of context (or perhaps never made sense in the first place), the Meta Visions Instagram account was born. We spent some time in their quirky corner of the internet and gathered some of our favorite nonsense images for you to see down below. So enjoy trying to understand how all of these pictures came to be, and be sure to upvote any photo that attempting to decode gives you a headache. Then if you’re looking for another Bored Panda piece featuring images that might leave you at a loss for words, check out this list next.
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Overachiever retriever (I don't really know if it's a retriever, I just said it because it rhymed)
This reminds me of a little spaniel jumping up and catching falling leaves. At some point he would have so many leaves that when he opened his mouth all of the leaves would fall out. He would be so sad and dejected.... for all of 3 seconds, then he's spot another falling leaf and go snatch it out of the air. :o)
Meta Visions has posted 999 photos of pure nonsense on Instagram since 2017, and it has clearly made an impact on people, as the page currently has over 440k followers. The photos are a mix of confusing images out of context and images taken at just the right time. Many feature animals looking out of their element and objects that just don’t seem right. As you go through this list of our favorite posts from the page, try not to intellectualize many of them. The photos can be seen as individual pieces of art that really do speak for themselves.
In terms of the name of the page, it is just as elusive as the photos it shares. The definition of meta is “showing or suggesting an explicit awareness of itself or oneself as a member of its category: cleverly self-referential”, which might be why almost every caption on the account includes the word meta. The captions reference the page itself, but the images are not all “meta” by definition.
Including the word “visions” in the page’s name also adds to the mystery of the page. Whether these visions are supposed to be exercises of the imagination, dreams, trances or supernatural revelations is up to the audience to interpret. Perhaps it is because the photos are usually so confusing and bizarre that they don’t even seem real. These hilariously strange images are more like visions than actually pictures because they need to be decoded. Well, they don’t need to be, but they are not very straightforward. Scrolling through meta visions can lead followers to question what they know, like the laws of gravity or if they are seeing things. Sure, it’s just a fun Instagram account, but spend enough time on there, and you might be having visions of your own too.
ThEy aRe aLwAyS cReEpInG ThEy'll hIt yOu wIth a RaKe
Load More Replies...The chances of you getting attacked by a group of frogs are low, but never zero
I wish I could upvote you thousands of times
Load More Replies...Some people are just not aware they are capable of flying.
I know Covid shut down the Theaters but birds the musical is ridiculous
Don't worry. Birds are not even real. Do your research, sheeple!
Part of the appeal of bizarre images that are hard to understand is that they are so shocking. On the average day to day, most of us are not confronted with anything new. We wake up, eat the same breakfast, go to work and see the same people, then come home to our comfortable routines. There is nothing wrong with that; consistency can actually be very healthy. But because seeing anything interesting or surprising is not built into most people’s daily routines, we tend to be captivated by pages like Meta Visions. If you live in New York City and see crazy things every time you leave your apartment, these photos might not be as entertaining to you. But to see something odd, and to have it captured in a photo, that is a special experience for many people.
Ladies like multiple pairs of nipples, hair, tails and more.
Start small. Then, after gaining confidence, you can move.to a bigger pond.
Kudos, sir. This is a grossly underrated comment.
Load More Replies...This could be related to building regulations. In my country (and many others), land is divided into "residential", "industrial", "farming",... etc zones. It would be illegal to build a permanent structure to live in on farming land. This boat would be a movable structure, and thus a work-around if one would have accidentaly bought farming lands in stead of residential land.
Either that, or someone's father-in-law was kicked out of the house.
Load More Replies...Strictly speaking they're not actually liquid. They are one of the few examples of things which are capable of existing in all of the 3 possible physical states - solid, liquid, gas. A cat can literally sublimate - that is, change from a solid to a gas, bypassing the solid stage - in the event that it hears a treat bag being shaken 4 houses away. What's interesting is that while a solid cat can convert itself to liquid form in order to pour itself into the large plastic chamber of an automated cat feeder, it cannot pour itself out again and must remain stuck there, whining pitifully and looking embarrassed, until someone stops laughing for long enough to rescue it. Which just goes to show you that evolution is always a work in progress.
Load More Replies...While most of the photos featured on Meta Visions are not intentionally deceptive, many of them do prove how easily images can trick us. We may know that a picture is tricking our eyes, but sometimes our brain just can’t seem to reconcile what it sees with what is actually happening. According to scientists, the way that pictures deceive the brain is by providing “distillations of objects or ideas into simpler shapes”. Without the dimensions of depth and motion, an image allows for a host of ambiguities. Even in real life, when we see something from far away or very quickly, we might not have caught exactly what happened.
You can not say that without it sounding BAD
Load More Replies...SpiderCat SpiderCat, Touch his belly and he attac, All his toes are made of beans, Can he catch that laser beam, Watch oouut for the SpiderCat
Here is the magnificent eight-legged cat in one of its many habitats.
I've always wanted a dog but I don't go out so can't walk him/her and I've had cats but it's expensive when they get ill. Tiny disability pension doesn't work when your cat gets cancer. After she passed i didn't get a replacement. I love animals but you have to have the money to take care of them in the way they deserve. Can't say, cat food is cheap, just buy a big sack which lasts for ages. Eh nope. We as humans wouldn't want to eat the same c**p food every day. Plus they need vaccinations, spayed or neutered. Then as they get older they can have medical issues that need expensive treatment and special foods. I'm not one of those people whose pet gets sick so they put it down and just get another one.
Totally understand! Same here! One of my rescued furbabies went to Rainbow Bridge in 2018 only 11yrs old 😢 but suffered from cancer too. She ate her favorite treat for last dinner & peacefully slept in on the couch. No last horrible car ride to the vet, no cold metal table & no last injection. I'm thankful for that! 3 more rescue-kitties are doing well, two are now 6yrs, my black panfur turned 15 few days ago and has a few less teeth but still happy when he can cuddle 😻 I'm disabled & suffering from anxiety and can't go out easily. Caring for pets is caring for family members! They can't get replaced and they love you as much as you love them! You are 100% right! I'm often scared to get unable to care for my pets! 😰 But there are other pets waiting in shelters for a home, like gerbils who are very clever & lovely, need love & attention too but it's much easier to care for them. Maybe you find a needy little pet to be with you! Love & light to You, always!
Load More Replies...As Nicholas J. Wade wrote about how pictures deceive the brain, “Even at the level of the photograph, the links between pictorial images (the contents of pictures) and objects are tenuous… Pictorial images can be spatialized or stylized; spatialized images (like photographs) generally share some of the projective characteristics of the object represented… Pictures can also be illusions--deceptions of vision so that what is seen does not necessarily correspond to what is physically presented. Most of visual science is now concerned with pictorial images– two-dimensional displays on computer monitors. Is vision now the science of deception?” While that might be a lot to digest, even in 2013, before Instagram was rampant with pages posting confusing images, scientists were onto the fact that our eyes love tricking us.
It was at that moment Harold knew he was going to need to just get a new retainer.
Now listen my humans as you are captivated by my cuteness you will go to the aisle and fetch me whatever formula you can find then fight to the death
Attention all shoplifters, I'm watching. I know I'm cute but I'm a badass.
In fact, photos have been used to trick viewers for generations. According to Iain Stanley at Fstoppers, “For as long as photography has existed, the art of deception has been front and center of the craft.” He explains that photos have always been able to trick unsuspecting viewers, but nowadays, with all of the advancements in editing software and AI technology, a photographer has no limits. These innovations should not come as a surprise, though, as Iain notes that even when Abraham Lincoln was running for president, he asked photographers to retouch pictures of him to make his neck appear shorter and his disposition more youthful. Who knew good old Honest Abe would have been an avid user for Facetune had it been available during his time?
A bumbo isn't a potty tho, it's just a chair for babies when they start to sit up by themselves but aren't super steady
Load More Replies...Facts: The statue was made after Officer Matthew got in a fight with a criminal in the UK and died. He will forever be forgotten.
And here I was thinking "Cop's watching you AND Winston Churchill's watching you"
Load More Replies...He’s T-1000. Advanced prototype. Mimetic polyalloy… LIQUID METAL!
I wish she was a tad shorter or bending over some, then it'd have lined up perfectly.
I remember reading an article some years back that said if you bend your knee and point your toe that it somehow makes you look slimmer. Ever since that article came out, it has become the go-to pose for women and girls everywhere, and it drives me nuts. Because it looks ridiculous!!!
Load More Replies...Iain goes on to write that apparently Joe McCarthy also utilized some clever “cut-and-paste scissor work” to hurt the reputation of one of his biggest competitors, Senator Millard Tydings. Even Stalin demanded that disgraced party members like Tolstoy and Molotov be airbrushed out of official photographs. And you know that famous photo of Michael Jackson dangling his baby out of a hotel window in Paris? There were supposed to be security guards there too, but the newspapers didn’t want to print that image. There are plenty of discussions today about how ethical it is to edit Instagram photos or photoshop women’s bodies on magazine covers, but these techniques are nothing new.
There's a corresponding photo of 19 brooms and mops beneath that kid's window.
When I first looked at the pic I thought someone had been painting the shells of tortoises!
And you think you have a bad when your balls go in the neighbors yard
My miniature horse "sits" all the time! She was probably trained to do it at one point. My other 2 will just use that position to transition between lying on the ground and standing up.
I sat like this when I was pregnant too... (she might be going into labor). They typically try to get up if you look at them during that time.
Now when u say this horse does kind of look pregnant
Load More Replies...A funny thing happened to me the other day. I was riding on the bus. (So?) I got thrown off. They don't allow horses on buses.
Load More Replies...Possible. Or just got bitten in the a*s by a particularly nasty horsefly. Mine were also doing that in early spring to get rid of winter fur, but it is too green for that.
Load More Replies...Am I the only one who thinks this is NOT funny? Maybe it's my mom-hormones playing up, but what if she lands on her head? Or breaks something?
She's ok, fortunately. Search in Youtube 'Niña fuente caida' and the first result is the complete video.
Load More Replies...Images and videos can also easily fool us through optical illusions. Famous examples include the Hermann Grid Illusion and the Zöllner Illusion. In the Hermann Grid Illusion, white dots at the center of squares appear to shift from white to gray. When a viewer focuses on one dot, it clearly looks white. But as soon as you shift your eyes away, the dots begin to look gray. Researchers have proposed several explanations for this phenomenon, including lateral inhibition, or the idea that “neurons that are firing inhibit the stimulation of surrounding” neurons. But no one can be 100% sure; optical illusions are still a bit of a mystery.
Personal space distance device? Daydream catcher? Cosmic equilibrium thing?
This is really impressive. Probably uncomfortable for the kiddo though...
Do what you gotta do for crazy hair day at school 🤷♀️
Load More Replies...Yeah! Maybe she's going to cosplay as Lisa. She just hasn't gotten her red dress yet...
Load More Replies...Honestly orifices I only had two halves of milk, must've reacted with my medication...I know the mayor...I'll have your badge.
I just commented the exact same thing lol … you beat me to it! I’ll delete mine
Load More Replies...The cat is the right way round. It's just the rest of the world that's out of kilter
When it comes to the Zöllner Illusion, a series of parallel lines appear crooked due to short lines that overlap them. The principle here is that “the background of an image can distort the appearance of straight lines”, but the explanation is not concrete for this image either. This optical illusion is possibly due to our brains attempting to widen the angles between the long and short lines, or perhaps the lines are creating an impression of depth. Either way, staring at this one for too long will definitely give you a headache.
I swear I remember some skit about a girl wearing hairy pantyhose to protect herself from aggressive dates. Anyone else know what I'm remembering?
Load More Replies...I've seen this picture before and STILL had to do a quadruple take
Why, my man, are you wearing SHORTS riding a motorcycle?!?! You're just asking for road rash or at the very least a big bruise from a random rock kicked up by another car or the untimely demise of a big June bug...
And flip-flops, don't forget the flip-flops...
Load More Replies...I don't get it? He is probably just texting someone? Or is it that he can bend his leg? Can someone explain, don't get it?
I think so of his leg in the ground is behind the black of the motorcycle
Load More Replies...Meta Visions makes no attempts to manipulate or deceive followers, but the images it posts are sometimes too confusing to explain. We hope you enjoy the rest of this bizarre list; don’t forget to upvote all of your favorite peculiar photos and let us know in the comments which inexplicable pic spoke to you the most. If you’d like to see even more of these weird images, be sure to follow Meta Visions on Instagram right here.
You never stood a chance! Never forget to feed the cat before committing to a campaign.
I'd fed my cat before healing in a raid on world of warcraft. I'd even given my cat a little extra so she wouldn't bother me. The other healer didn't come online and as I've solo healed a raid before with no issues we thought it would be fine. Halfway through the raid I heard my cat come into the room, hopped up on my computer table and wanted attention so I quickly scratched her behind her ear, which she loves, not enough attention. I said to her that in 10 minutes we would be stopping for a break so she could have lots more attention then. Not good enough. She came to my keyboard, looked at me then threw up all over my keyboard. Didn't have another one available which meant raid over. One of the things I admired and feared about her was how she could just vomit by sheer willpower. My ex came to bug me, wanting money and refused to leave when I told him no so I told her to get him. She jumped up, then vomited all over his coat. Came back to me and I said thanks, he left 😂
Load More Replies...This looks like one of those “ Why women live longer than men” images
Fun fact. Men are more likely to be struck by lighting because they’re stupid and don’t go inside
Load More Replies...Dumb half drunk friends that dare each other to do it. But are so surprised when someone breaks a leg-never saw that coming!
Load More Replies...I believe the phrase 'oh god' was used multiple times.
Load More Replies...This is extremely disturbing and I cannot unsee it. Note to self: send this to everyone I know so that I am not alone in this torture.
Just don't move the table or borrow a chair for a larger party.
Load More Replies...Running the busiest restaurant in town where every possible seat matters, I find this genious.
As someone with short legs, this spot would be great! I’d be able to rest my feet on the first step.
The cat is tripping the light fantastic... but who is calmly taking a photo, please?
Björk sang a song about this called "Heirloom". No lie. Lool it up.
Me in the dentist room where they put a light shining over my mouth...
Same XD That was probably what my face/expression looked like when my mom tried to dress me in girly frilly things as a child. I was very much not a girly or frilly girl XD
Load More Replies...If anyone ever asks about my Inner Child, i'm showing them this photo
Don't let the McD's cups fool you. This is clearly Five Guys, and they clearly ordered the small fry.
Except five guys fries don't look like that. Never had good fries there.
Load More Replies...Look at the windows below, they open inwards for cleaning and then u can easily reach the bottom panel safely from inside.
Load More Replies...they look like the pinnacle of health and safety compared to this insanity
Load More Replies...Looks like the windows open so cleaning would be easier than possible death!
Look like she is cleaning a piece that is outside the window
Load More Replies...Laying in dirty water for an Instagram photo. Common sense is out the window.
That's probably where the water came from, thrown out the window.
Load More Replies...I know what is going on here. We do this in Africa as well. It's to humiliate your municipality. You show them that the pothole is big enough to bath in.
trying to draw municipality authorities to tragic state of roads..
Youths these days! Scarcely clad girl falls in puddle and all they can think of is to snap a picture. Where's gallantry gone?
Don't call him hero. Call him sh*t head. (Steve Martin, The Jerk)
Load More Replies...Real shithead. :P (I don't know how I'd censor this to appease BP, so I'm taking a risk lol)
Thief steals toilets from local cop shop. Police say they have nothing to go on.
Dont know why it is but I'm exactly the same, carry excessive amount of stuff to not make another trip :D
Load More Replies...That copy of Peterson’s “Principles of Oral and Maxillofacial Surgery - Volume 1” makes it way funnier.
It's an illusion. Someone painted the bottom part so it blends in. (j/k, but that would be cool)
Then they painted the top part of the pole next to it. LOL
Load More Replies...Put some mentos in there and that car will be flying around like a rocket
I don't know what's more impressive...the faith put into the Coca Cola tire OR the ONE lug nut that is supposed to keep that whole dream alive!!!
Same. With a set of rental van keys out in the middle of Iceland where rescue services refuses to come out.
Load More Replies...Yardsticks are rare these days. Broom or mop handle.
Load More Replies...The sign is taking a selfie of him. He'll be a meme by the end of the day
When you are.so rich that you have access to the subway station right in your living room
(to your private subway lane, this goes without saying)
Load More Replies...https://www.israelnationalnews.com/news/304696 I Google searched it. This is a sink hole that opened in an apartment in Israel. "Ramat Gan Mayor Carmel Shama posted a picture of an apartment in his city on his Facebook page Tuesday showing a three-meter deep sinkhole in the middle of the living room."
My brain can’t understand what is happening on this photo. Is that a sinkhole or some optical illusion?
I was in two minds about whether it was just untiled floor, a rug or a terrifying sinkhole. Zooming in confirms - terrifying sinkhole.
You think he made the bend up out of the tunnel just ahead?
Load More Replies...I believe those are the tunnels in Norfolk Virginia. There is an inspection station before the tunnel that turns any truck around that is more than a quarter inch over 13'6" bumps on your roof will get you turned around.
We have a tunnel in Colorado USA that used to have a problem with too large trucks ignoring the signs. There's a bar with hanging chains that will scrape across a trailer if you Ignore the last exit. There's a U Turn area in the median for trucks to turn around. If they ignore the chains, there's a steel beam 50 ft from the tunnel that will take off the top of the trailer and stop them. There are signs for both about every 1/4 mile for 2 miles leading to the tunnel.
Load More Replies...The bristle angles are getting more and more ridiculous..
Load More Replies...Like my dog…if he can’t see you, you can’t see him. When it’s time for a bath he’ll hide under the bed with a*s, back legs & tail hanging out, secure in the knowledge he’s beat me THIS time! ~Evil laugh~
When you tell your dentist why you haven't brushed your teeth in a while.
One of these droped out of my trousers whilst pulling it on the other day. It's a miracle I didn't die of shock
omg idk how ur soul didn't just evaporate on the spot. i really would have just died. another fear for the list. gonna be vigorously shaking every clothing item for the rest of my life. ur username is my exact reaction to this
Load More Replies...Had to walk on eggshells around mum. You never knew when she'd crack it about being on technology
"I got myself up here. Now how do I get back down without making a HUGE omelette?"
It makes a picking out an outfit a lot easier: don’t pick that one. Easy.
imagine the control you would have to have in your buttcheeks to be able to type anything on that thing
Well, back in the Blackberry era, I once unknowingly dialled a pizza place whilst sitting on my phone. Just found out cos I also turned the speaker on. lol
Load More Replies...I know what this is for. It's to stop the darn cat sitting on your keyboard.
yes to stop your darn cat from pressing the send button on an unfinished email and typing a bunch of gobbly guk on it before sending it :))))
Load More Replies...Danger noodles can eat noodles? It's a beauty though
Load More Replies...He's microwaving a litter of kittens one by one, check the telltale lumps 😳
Looks like it just a bend since it curves inwards on the "other" side.
Load More Replies...I like my rat's well done, think I'll give them 2 minutes this time.
"You need to start stealing low carb food from the humans instead, Frank."
Says something about those that claim they can't breath though ONE mask.
Must be related to the chick at my work who put an entire box of seat covers on the toilet seat.
If you do not return with a shrubbery, you will not leave these woods..... alive.
Apart from Sir Lancelot, I was more concerned with the length of instructions to be read before you can access the emergency door...
Ah, confound it! If only my mighty steed hath not gotten the hay fever, I would not have needed to board the bus! Cramped and stuffy, I tell you! XP
He runs like that CPU when its not overheating.
Load More Replies...The shirt says “Russia” and that one package in the door says “молоко” (milk) - however even without that, somehow this picture just screams Russia!
Load More Replies...I relate to this playing Minecraft on a mac book. Always have to have the fan pointed AT the laptop.
It took far too long for me to see the 'illusion', I just kept seeing the hat and was trying to figure out why this picture was on here 😁
Opposite for me, until I read you saying hat, I couldn't work out how her shadow was doing that
Load More Replies...If you look at the picture a certain way, her hat looks like a shadow and it looks like she is levitating over the sand. Took me awhile to see it 😁
Load More Replies...At first glance I thought the hat was a shadow. Partly sunny so just part of a shadow? (slowly slinking away)
"I got crabs! They're not Alaskan King, but they sure feel huge!!!" -Carl, ATHF
i read something about that, it's a mexican shoe trend, they have extremely pointy toes boots
No, would have to wait too long until the batteries are gone and they stop ringing. Ringing stairs are annoying.
Load More Replies...Snort-laugh! You have won the internet today Argle
Load More Replies...Expensive tiles. I'm guessing old broken devices or perhaps they were confiscated over the years.
Load More Replies...Quarterpounder and McNuggets as currency. Putting in a petition. Will you lend a nay or yay?
Someone wanted the billboard gone so much, they hired it and did this! XD
Or it's because clouds are missing for so long these days, they got to make a wanted poster.
Load More Replies...The weatherman did this because he said it would be partly cloudy today.
He looks like an illustration of a sea monkey. Rmember how they'd draw a little sea monkey family on the packaging, a father, mother, and a couple children, with arms and legs and big smiles, and long tails, and thise little crown-looking antennae things on their heads? And you were so disappointed when they hatched out and looked nothing like that LOL.
I used to have this phone model, battery lasted three weeks, but it didn't fit in my pocket, so I had to buy a smaller one.
Shoot, for a 3-week battery life, I'd affix it to a lanyard. It would probably double as a self-defense tool.
Load More Replies...Not with that camera angle. With the angle of the photo, it’s taken from below pointed up. Shampoo bottle is pointing down, so he hasn’t cut a hole and put the phone in as I’m assuming the photo is supposed to look like. From the angle of the photo, it’s in his right hand that we can’t see just below the counter, phot angle would make it impossible to see camera whilst still being able to take the photo
Load More Replies...When unexpected guests show up and you don't have enough to feed everyone.
I need to say that this might be a number one favorite page for me (before looking at all the pix) because I love stuff that doesn't make any sense! Thank you for this, dear Bored Panda 🐼💛
So did you scroll right down to put this comment, then go back up to look at the rest of the pics?
Load More Replies...This got the most angry upvotes of any category for me. Good job pandas.
I guess I don't get it. Pretty much all of these make sense to me; none of them are confusing or nonsense. I stopped looking at them after getting through about a third of them, because I got frustrated waiting to find one that I felt was consistent with the title of the page. EDIT: I went back and looked at a couple of the ones near the bottom. THOSE seemed more in keeping with the theme of the page, which leaves me confused about why they were the lowest in the list. Bizarre.
I need to say that this might be a number one favorite page for me (before looking at all the pix) because I love stuff that doesn't make any sense! Thank you for this, dear Bored Panda 🐼💛
So did you scroll right down to put this comment, then go back up to look at the rest of the pics?
Load More Replies...This got the most angry upvotes of any category for me. Good job pandas.
I guess I don't get it. Pretty much all of these make sense to me; none of them are confusing or nonsense. I stopped looking at them after getting through about a third of them, because I got frustrated waiting to find one that I felt was consistent with the title of the page. EDIT: I went back and looked at a couple of the ones near the bottom. THOSE seemed more in keeping with the theme of the page, which leaves me confused about why they were the lowest in the list. Bizarre.
