As August 5, 2026, approaches, interest in one of Ray Bradbury’s most famous stories has surged across the internet. Readers are once again discussing There Will Come Soft Rains, a short story published in 1950 that describes a world destroyed by nuclear war and gives a specific date for the catastrophe.

The story has become one of the writer’s most discussed works. It raises questions about artificial intelligence, smart homes, nuclear weapons, and the future of humanity. More than seventy years after its publication, many readers are surprised by how closely some of Bradbury’s ideas resemble modern technology.

It looks like people standing in lines or some kind of pattern, maybe old Vatican footage or it even reminds me Eyes Wide Shut.

It could be from a video game, AI, or old movie. Anyone else kow it?

I can't stop thinking about it. Again probably bc Kubrick and EWS is one of my fav movies, and I also recently saw that other movie by Zoe K- and that stuff weirds me out.

I even had a dream about the way everything was arranged in the picture.

I don't really care what the picture is. I want to know why I can't get it out of my head.

Has anyone else ever had a picture do this to them? Is there a name for that feeling? Aside from being OCD/obsessive ha?