Optical Illusions

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The Warped Chair

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Wheel of Confusion

Which way is the wheel turning? If you focus on the red dots and follow them round, it appears to be rotating anti-clockwise. However, if you follow the yellow dots round instead, the whole wheel will be turning the other way!​

 

[hhindd]

Wow with a bit of concentration you can see both..... momentarily! Thats wheely good

 

[waistingmytime]

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There are only white dots at the intersections​

 

[waistingmytime]

Trippy Flashing Skull Illusion

*WARNING* The following illusion could possibly trigger photosensitive epileptic seizures in some people. View at your own risk.





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When looking at this flashing skull illusion, does it appear to be coming toward you? Does it look like it’s moving? Although it is moving, the skull is staying in the same place as the GIF cycles through. It’s simply changing colors and giving the illusion of movement.

 

[hhindd]

Thats amazing, our perception dose not relay reality.
You give good bone head........:blushing:

 

[waistingmytime]

Cover the seam to see that both blocks are the same color​

 

[waistingmytime]

Slanted Seesaw Optical Illusion

It looks slanted until you remove all the lines in it



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[W!nston]

It looks slanted until you remove all the lines in it



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:hypnotized: Whoa! That's like totally fucked up! :rofl:

 

[haiducii]

Look again

 

[waistingmytime]

Look at this swirling for 30 seconds and then look at the Inception photo below


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[W!nston]

Look at this swirling for 30 seconds and then look at the Inception photo below


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Another good one :hypnotized:

 

[W!nston]

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[trencherman]

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[waistingmytime]

Somehow, this woman seems to be spinning both clockwise and counter-clockwise simultaneously.​

 

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The Ames Room

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[trencherman]

"Illusions are part and parcel of who we are."

The illusion popped up on the r/woahdude Reddit today, but versions of it have existed since at least 1804 when a philosopher named Ignaz Paul Vital Troxler described how an image can fade away if you stare at it hard enough. For me, the image disappears almost entirely, until I realize it. Then it snaps back into focus.

The reason the colours disappear is because the brain stops paying attention to visual scenes that don’t change, which isn’t normally a problem, Derek Arnold, a psychology professor at the University of Queensland, tells The Verge in an email. Usually, movement in the environment and of our eyes is enough to keep a scene vivid. But in this case, with a blurry image and a fixed gaze, the colours fade away.

When our senses get used to a consistent sensation, it’s called neural adaptation, explains Susana Martinez-Conde, a professor at SUNY Downstate Medical Center and author of the book Champions of Illusion. She compares the disappearing colours to wearing socks: you can feel your socks on your skin when you first put them on, but as the day goes on, you stop noticing them — just like the colours in this image.
- By Rachel Becker@RA_Becks Apr 9, 2018, 11:34pm EDT

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