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The Morning GIF: Out-of-body experience

There’s no more thorough look at a human’s innards than this.

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Here at the Daily Dot, we swap GIF images with each other every morning. Now we’re looping you in. In the Morning GIF, we feature a popular—or just plain cool—GIF we found on Reddit, Canvas, or elsewhere on the Internet.

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So what are we made of? Awesome? Only if we are Neil Patrick Harris. The rest of us mere mortals are, as Terry Bisson put it in his Nebula Award-winning story, made of meat.

This GIF from Sam’s True Calling illustrates that somewhat nauseating thought. It’s created from an MRI (magnetic resonance imaging) scan giving a slice-by-slice cross-section of the human body, from the top of the head literally to the tips of the toes.

If you look closely, you can even tell this subject is a male (technically NSFW, I guess).

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It has collected 28,436 notes, as nervous Tumblr users squint closely and ask, “Is this me?”

 
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