This weird optical illusion on the London Underground will make you look twice

 By 
Sam Haysom
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LONDON -- Reflections can do strange, strange things.

During a routine journey on the London Underground, Reddit user lolihull spotted an unusual sight on the far side of her tube carriage.

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"Had to do a double-take on the tube today," lolihull wrote in the caption for the image.

It's only when you look closely that things start to make sense.

From the looks of it, the man in the image is sat next to a woman who's partially obscured by the transparent (but reflective) barrier the photographer is aiming her camera at.

In the above picture the reflection of the man's head fits perfectly over the woman's head, but in the one below it's a little easier to see what's actually happening.

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