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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. more more more more!!!!! plz?

  2. the flag one works!

  3. polardrummer714 // October 27, 2009 at 3:13 pm // Reply

    The illusions are totally cool they really work i like the grey haze one and the flag

  4. dang…….i want 2 c more……….they r super c00l

  5. i did’t see any red white or blue on the flag. WHY!

  6. kay the flag is awesome

  7. there are only 2 words to describe it totally awsome !!!!!

  8. radical dude

  9. they r so awsome im gonna show my friends they r so gonna freak

  10. The flag is awesome!

  11. cool i guess

  12. Very cool!!

  13. awesoooomeee

  14. I’ve seen all of them before except the flag.That was really cool, but instead of a peace of paper i looked at the white on the side of the screen…Awesome!!!

  15. AWESOME!!!

  16. none of them trick my eyes i have trained them to immune to ilussions.

  17. It’s FREAKING AWESOME!!!!

  18. totaly awesome

  19. they are all cool but some don’t trick my eys.

  20. The flag was cool becawse I can really see the red white and blue

  21. thats so cool

  22. that flag was so weird

  23. All those illusions were really cool.

  24. awesome

  25. The flag was really cool!!!!!

  26. kirbyfan978 // June 2, 2009 at 12:30 pm // Reply

    I knew about all of them except the spinnning wheels and that was cool!

  27. those were AWSOME! absolutly AWSOME!

  28. the flag was REALY awesome

  29. flat cola // May 28, 2009 at 8:18 pm // Reply

    The flag works best if you blink really quickly while staring at a white sheet after staring at the yellow, green, and black flag.

  30. The flag really works!

  31. whoa, that flag was awesome

  32. the flag was awesome.

  33. Awesome

  34. that is awsome

  35. dgdfbhsrfhbxfxdgy // May 25, 2009 at 9:18 am // Reply

    those were cool |:0

  36. sorrcer girl you have to blink a few times while look in at the white ones to see them

  37. thye flag didnt work . . .

  38. i’ve seen them all before

  39. wii lover700 // May 11, 2009 at 9:01 am // Reply

    i like the flag one.

  40. it is wired

  41. falcon5.0 // May 10, 2009 at 7:10 pm // Reply

    The flag one hurt my eyes!

  42. That is cool I would like to make an Optical illusion oneday.

  43. sweet!!!!!!!

  44. Those illusions where totally ratical!

  45. legomaster // April 9, 2009 at 2:36 pm // Reply

    Whoa, thats cool!! Also, where did the article about making a radio go??( I can’t find it.)

  46. awesome i like the flag

  47. AWESOME

  48. THEES ILLUSIONS ARE AWESOME

  49. coool!

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