It’s a black and white photograph. I don’t know the photographer. I have no clue whether the photo is famous or not. I know simply, it is an image that makes me think.

It is an image I have never forgotten.—The photograph is a close-up picture of a sliced open apple sitting on a table top—The photo hangs in a corporate breakroom where hundreds of employees see it every day. No one gives the picture a second thought. They don’t think about it until one day, after weeks, months, even years, they suddenly realize that the outside of the apple is an apple. But, the inside of the apple is the lengthwise cross section of an orange. The photographer had seemlessly morphed the two fruits.—The spectator is amazed at this revelation, and yet an hour later when the viewer walks into the room again and sees the image, the image is simply accepted as wholly an apple again.

This image greatly reveals the way the human mind functions. We learn that the mind allows us to see reality as reality based on our expectation, rather than reality based on the world as it actually is. Our mind so desparately strives to make order out of chaos that the biggest deceptions are best hid in plain site.

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