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9 Optical Illusions to Confuse Your Brain

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?

Which object is taller?

None: They’re all the same size.


WHICH LINE IS LONGER?

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Neither: They’re both the same.


IS THIS GRAY HAZE SHRINKING?

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Stare at the black dot. After a while the gray haze will appear to shrink.


DO THESE COLORED LINES BEND?

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No, they’re perfectly straight—but try telling your eyes that!


ARE THESE WHEELS SPINNING?

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Stare at the center. Now move your head back and forth toward and away from the screen. The circles will appear to spin.


HOW MANY BLACK DOTS CAN YOU COUNT?

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Look closely and you will see them.


DO YOU SEE TWO FACES OR A VASE?

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If you see one, close your eyes for a moment, then look for the other.


ARE THESE LINES STRAIGHT OR CROOKED?

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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 of paper and you’ll see a red, white and blue flag.

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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!

50 Comments on 9 Optical Illusions to Confuse Your Brain

  1. I love the flag one is wickety wickety wackety wack

  2. where?

  3. that is sweet but iv seen one you look at it and then turn your head to a wall and blink and you see jesus

  4. yo this is wickety wickety wack

  5. it was weird for a moment but i got the hang of it

  6. I LOVE TO OU

  7. The Flag thing is awesome !!!

  8. IT WAS SOOOOOOOO COOOOOOL…..but the flag doesnt work.

  9. Wicked!

  10. awesome!

  11. it’s amazing how our eyes seem to “change” what is actually there. and I thought I knew what i was seeing

  12. I’ve seen these a gazzilion times allready (mostly on cereal boxes) and they still look cool, but some more veriety would be awesome

  13. Roo, I have to disagree with you… maybe you pay more attention to the flag and then you may see a result.

  14. awsome

  15. HAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHA

  16. evan ursin // June 14, 2007 at 3:53 pm // Reply

    I thot it wodent werek on a HP !!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

  17. Cool!!!!!!!!111

  18. the flag illusion dosen’t work. BBBBBBBBBBBOOOOOOOOOOOOORRRRRRRRRRRRIIIIIIIIIIIIIIINNNNNNNNNNNNGGGGGGGGGGG!!!!!!!!!!!!

  19. Whoah those are awesme

  20. buffalo x 8 // June 13, 2007 at 1:01 am // Reply

    woah!!! that’s really crazy!!! (now I have wierd patterns burned into my retina

  21. Flag is red,white,and coooooooooollllllllllllll

  22. i like the vase/face illusion. its my favorite

  23. Dude1234567890 // June 12, 2007 at 11:30 am // Reply

    really freaky it made my head hurt How do you do faces

  24. sorry guys on is suposed to be one

  25. AWSOME DUDE I MEAN THAT WAS RAD. I LIKED THE FLAG ON THE BEST. KEEP DOING THAT BOY’S LIFE.

  26. cool and freaky

  27. the problem // June 11, 2007 at 3:55 pm // Reply

    freaky

  28. this is so COOL!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

  29. i like the three mans thee best. 🙂 🙂

  30. This is so sweet! 5,000 outta 5

  31. ha ha !!!!

  32. awsome/cool!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

  33. UofLDude01223362554754589 // June 11, 2007 at 8:40 am // Reply

    This is one of the best things on the website!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

  34. These are– well I can’t think of an adjetive because I don’t kn ow what I think of them. Illusions are happening in my brain!!!!

  35. deep diver // June 10, 2007 at 12:30 pm // Reply

    They are totally awsome!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

  36. kosher scout // June 10, 2007 at 9:30 am // Reply

    pure science!

  37. Awsome!!!

  38. boyscout66 // June 9, 2007 at 11:00 pm // Reply

    plain scary!

  39. nebraskan // June 9, 2007 at 6:32 pm // Reply

    i can still see the american flag on my wall

  40. weird weird weird BUT SO COOL DUDE

  41. say what, huh

  42. HHHUUUHHH???????????????????????????? How does anybody get this?

  43. I like theese things

  44. I like the flag the best.

  45. Winslow Raider // June 9, 2007 at 10:12 am // Reply

    These things are AWSOME!!! : – )

  46. porfessor goofygangster // June 9, 2007 at 6:58 am // Reply

    yeah I know! porfesser yellowyam and goofy gangster is weird huh? well so are those optical illusions.

  47. pretty cool but creepy

  48. Nathaniel // June 8, 2007 at 9:46 pm // Reply

    Awsome

  49. they are sooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooo cool!

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