When you try to look at the figure before you, you are forced to squint and
hold your hand in front of your face. The experience is similar to attempting
to look to look through a keyhole at the sun as it sets, but so rapidly that it
rises again before you can blink, and sets again, and so on. Through the flickering
you occasionally discern details that make the figure appear vaguely human, but
only the outline of the figure, though, is discernable.

Curiously, through the flickering, you think you can make out a canine figure.