A woman saw a fluffy dog \u200b\u200bin a bar and decided to pet it, and then realized that it was actually someone's white coat.. A video posted by a user on TikTok has collected more than 3 million views and sparked a wave of discussion and jokes..

In the video you can see how a woman confidently approaches the “dog” lying on the sofa near the pool table. She carefully reaches out her hand to pet the animal. It took a few seconds for the heroine of the video to understand that this was not a dog at all, but someone’s fur coat.

When the woman realized her mistake, she quickly raised her head and ran back to the camera.. After this, laughter is heard behind the scenes. Other people present at the bar watched what was happening. One man even covered his head with his hands, feeling the absurdity of the situation..

“I would like to apologize to these people,” the description of the clip reads..

TikTok users bombarded the author with their reactions, many of them felt “Spanish shame”.

By the way, psychologists call this phenomenon pareidolia, when our brain attributes familiar associations to objects in the surrounding world, for example, seeing a person’s face or figure where there is none. There are many curious examples of pareidolia: rocks shaped like a woman's face on Mars, potato chips with the face of the Virgin Mary, or a broom that looks like Donald Trump's hair..

Let's remember that Focus previously wrote about Marian Vazquez Alarcon from the city of Coatzacoalcos, who picked up a tiny puppy on the street, but it actually turned out to be a wild animal. At first, the woman did not suspect anything and raised the rescued “puppy” along with her other dogs. However, over time, she began to be alarmed by the strange behavior of her pet..

In addition, a large cat that was walking in the south of San Francisco (USA) provoked mass panic among local residents. This comes after a warning from local police who wrongly informed citizens about a mountain lion allegedly captured on CCTV cameras..