(SPOILER) Finger in gate of illusion?

[nick]

When i originally played this game, the only reason i figured out the puzzle where you have to push down (like going through a mario pipe) is because there is something in the background tileset that looks like a hand with a finger pointing up. Am i crazy or is this a thing????

here is the picture for your consideration https://imgur.com/a/mfMEefj

[nick]

i'm only asking because i havent seen anyone else bring this up, yet its the only clue that led to me figuring out that particular puzzle. willing to admit its just me seeing things in a fortuitous arrangement of tiles lol

[Hidden Distance]

The hint related to this particular puzzle is:

"Simply wandering will not lessen the illusion. Courage will grant thy wish--the courage to jump into the illusion. The courage to search on bended knee for a single fallen item."

Essentially, when you break the leftmost pot on the floor above the one where you've circled, it always drops a single shuriken, which is the only pot in the game where this occurs. Single fallen item -> bending knee.

[nick]

yeah but is that a finger pointing to where you're supposed to do that...

[nick]

just want someone to tell me im not crazy

[vocab]

yes, it looks like a finger, but only because you told us, which mean power of suggestion is affecting our judgement. I looked at the picture and noticed nothing, and then I saw you said it was pointing and then I saw it. Seems like coincidence, and not by design.

[nick]

You're absolutely right, after looking into the graphics of gate of illusion a bunch, it appears to be just a "fortuitous arrangement of tiles" as I so drunkenly put it.

[nick]

In other words, I AM crazy