Your eyes can play tricks on you. Pictures that confuse your eyes and brain, tricking them into seeing something differently, are called optical illusions. See if you can figure out these optical illusions.
WHICH OBJECT IS TALLER?
None: They’re all the same size.
WHICH LINE IS LONGER?
Neither: They’re both the same.
IS THIS GRAY HAZE SHRINKING?
Stare at the black dot. After a while the gray haze will appear to shrink.
DO THESE COLORED LINES BEND?
No, they’re perfectly straight—but try telling your eyes that!
ARE THESE WHEELS SPINNING?
Stare at the center. Now move your head back and forth toward and away from the page. The circles will appear to spin.
HOW MANY BLACK DOTS CAN YOU COUNT?
Look closely and you will see them.
DO YOU SEE TWO FACES OR A VASE?
If you see one, close your eyes for a moment, then look for the other.
ARE THESE LINES STRAIGHT OR CROOKED?
Yep, you guessed it. The horizontal lines look crooked, but they are perfectly straight.
ARE YOU SEEING RED, WHITE & BLUE?
Stare at the center of this flag for one minute. Then look at an empty white sheet and you’ll see a red, white and blue flag.
HOW THIS FLAG WORKS
Your eyes see color as measures of red or green, blue or yellow and bright or dark. When you look at a green object for a long time, your eyes get tired and start seeing red. When you look at yellow, after a while you’ll start to see blue. And darkness turns into brightness. The result: Even this wacky flag can be good, old red, white and blue—after a while!
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These illusions got my head spinning and I can’t get to stop!!!!
I dident see the the flag thing either . My eye’s hert very very very very very very very very bad.
I love the flag… the colors are really weird, but then you look away, and you have this nice red white and blue flag!
awsome!
that flag thing is LOL!
wow great
i think that the flag one is AWESOME.
that was so cool you nead TO PUT SOME IN THE MAGAZINES
that was so cool you nead TO PUT SOME IN THE MAGAZINES
that’s crazy! it hurt my eyes at one point
THESE ILLUSIONS ARE VERY WEIRD!!!!!!!!!
this was cool
na i just like typing in the comments lol
the flag thing is WEIRD.
My eyes hurt !
im kina seeing the flag thing but the thing im not seeing is the color bending thing
Cool
w-w-wow THAT IS CRAZY
COOL
ive seen most, a bit boring
awsome
SWEET ILLUSIONS
Those are really ausome optical illusions
this stuff is awesome
cooooool
cool
that was awesome
ive seen those before
i love them all. this site (and the magazine) has gotten way better over the years… who agrees?