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Optical illusion: What you see first reveals your secret fear in relationships

TIMESOFINDIA.COM | Last updated on - Jan 23, 2024, 17:00 IST
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Test your romantic relationship fear

Optical illusions are mind-bending illustrations of a drawing or picture that has various appearances and can be perceived in different manners. There are many types of optical illusions such as physiological, cognitive, and physical. These illusions at times also help us reveal our innermost desires related to things we do not prefer revealing about ourselves. They reveal hidden aspects of our personality and desires that we know about ourselves but are hesitant to accept.

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What’s in the image?

The above image is created by artist Oleg Shupliak and provides insights about our behavior relating it to our hidden nightmare or secret fear in romantic relationships. The artist is popular for combining multiple faces and people within his artwork and is perfect at hidden paintings. It is also claimed that the individual or face that stands out to you first looking at the painting, tells a lot about your secret fear in a love relationship. You will see a woman, mounted soldiers, a horse, and soldiers in the background in the picture. Let’s take a look at what they individually mean and represent.

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A woman

A woman mainly represents fear of losing concentration in love which means you are a practical individual. You start to worry pretty soon. You have also found the perfect balance between the dream world and reality, thus entering into a romantic relationship excites and scares you at the same time.

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A horse

The horse represents fear of rejection in love, as you want nothing more than to release yourself to the thralls of passion, but you cannot help thinking of all the times you have fallen in love before, and when you were left hurt and rejected. It is a nerve-wracking feeling for you when you do not have anyone to reciprocate the same feelings, thus you let things go easily.

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The background soldiers

You have a fear of being cheated in love. The second you fall in love, decide you are in love and drop all of your pretenses. You have no issue making yourself vulnerable when you fall in love, as you do it every time, and you expect the same in return. But, if someone plays games with you, you cannot help but get turned off, and you're a bit sensitive when you’re dealing with love.

​Internet says only 5% of people could identify 'HURT' in 5 seconds; are you one of those?​

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Mounted soldiers

You fear keeping up the appearances in love, as you think you fall in love that your partner is not going to dump you or not, you feel obligated to at least put on the front that you are a flawless woman at all times of the day. Thus, you need to put your guard down and lower your inhibitions at times.

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