20 Mind-Boggling Optical Illusions
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20 Mind-Boggling Optical Illusions

Everything from the infamous dress to the rotating snakes

Karen Glikman
Aug 03, 2020
Hunter College
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20 Mind-Boggling Optical Illusions
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1. The dress

Do you see the dress as blue and black or as gold and white? Well, the dress actually turned out to be black and blue.


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2. The wife and the mother in law.

What do you see first? A damsel facing the wall or an old woman wearing a headscarf? Hint: the damsel's ear is the old woman's eye.


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3. Photo with Man In High Heels

At first, it seems as if the man is wearing white jeans and high heels until you realize...


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4. The impossible fork

Look at it from the bottom and it appears to have three prongs. But look at it from the top and it splits into two.


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5. The Moon

Scientists have proposed multiple theories as to why the moon looks bigger on the horizon than it does in the night sky.


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6. Troxler's Fading Circle

Stare at the dot in the center for twenty seconds and the circle will fade. The reason this happens is that the eye has a tendency to prioritize and all of your other stimuli fade away.


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7. Cafe Wall Illusion

Dubbed this name because it was first observed in a cafe, this illusion has had people divided on whether the gray lines are slanted or straight.


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8. Elephant Illusion

Cover the feet and you will see that the elephant has only four legs.


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9. Lines that are all the same size

The orientation of the arrowheads is the only difference. This image explains the phenomenon



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10. Rotating Snakes

If you focus your eye on just one part of the image for long enough, you will see that it is static.


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11. Waterfall by MC Escher

The waterfall seems to start and end at the same level.


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12. Tattoo Photo

As the rectangles get smaller, it creates an illusion of infinite depth.

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13. Zollner Illusion

Are the lines parallel or tilted?


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14. Is the cat going up or down the stairs?

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15. Oleg Shuplyak's Illusions

This Ukrainian painter's work makes you look twice.


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16. The Kanizsa Triangle

No, there are no actual triangles here. Your brain fills in the gaps to create a cohesive picture.


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17. Lilac Chaser

The reason you are seeing multiple visual effects is due to negative afterimages that are produced as well as Troxler fading.

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18. Wavy Floor

This floor is indeed completely flat.


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19. Bunny Duck Painting



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20. Cube



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