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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!

65 Comments on 9 Optical Illusions to Confuse Your Brain

  1. AWESOME!

  2. The Blubber King // April 25, 2012 at 6:35 pm // Reply

    The flag one hurts my eyes on the computer. All of the other ones are really cool though!

  3. awesome! like teh flag 1.

  4. Wow!!!! They Shoulda Put It On Ipad And Android

  5. coooooolllllllllllllllll // April 24, 2012 at 8:45 pm // Reply

    seen vase one. two faces!

  6. TadpoleLover2859 // April 24, 2012 at 1:35 pm // Reply

    I liked the one with the flag. The one with the wheels was awesome!

  7. ya thats awsome

  8. Webelo from pack 295 // April 24, 2012 at 7:02 am // Reply

    Awsome 🙂

  9. i see what you’re saying

  10. The flag is the best 🙂

  11. yo yo master // April 23, 2012 at 4:24 pm // Reply

    iv seen these before but there still awesome
    :)[-<]:

  12. It is cooooooool to me

  13. Dang that is sick!! especially the flag!!!!

  14. they forgot to put stars on the flag

  15. unicorns rule! :-) // April 18, 2012 at 8:19 pm // Reply

    this is kinda CRAZY! 🙂

  16. awsome!

  17. that americanflag thing is WEIRD! 🙂

  18. creeeeeeeepy!!

  19. this is coolest thing ever

  20. danceroonie // March 1, 2012 at 12:42 am // Reply

    i am crazy about this stuff!

  21. little buddy // February 4, 2012 at 11:01 am // Reply

    they are very awesome

  22. The black dot and the two face/vase were the best optical illusions!

  23. I tricked my brother

  24. Optical illusions are amesom on the iPad they should post more.

  25. I love optical illsions

  26. There Awesome!! I love the flag!!

  27. FOOTBALL FAN // October 31, 2011 at 6:19 pm // Reply

    MY FAVORITE WAS THE TIRES

  28. imaneaglescout // October 25, 2011 at 3:44 pm // Reply

    Hey guys, If you cross your eyes on the black grid where you are supposed to count black dots you can make the grid shrink and turn
    it white. ;]

  29. machupichu0609 // October 6, 2011 at 6:08 pm // Reply

    it’s prety cool. You should post more.

  30. its so confusing. Are u seeing what i`m seeing?!:)

  31. amazing who ever made this did a nice job

  32. the flag works

  33. JemJeezy :) // May 18, 2011 at 8:35 pm // Reply

    Ths is soo cool 😮 ithnk i’ll use ts topic for my ScienceFair Project 🙂

  34. that is so cool

  35. wilderARBITER // March 28, 2011 at 5:45 pm // Reply

    I don`t see the red, white, and blue on the flag.

    • stare for a while, you see it for a moment. or just use you computer, go to, say, microsoft word, and move your mouse so that it changes to the opposite color

  36. they are Awesome!!

  37. awesome

  38. bow hunter // March 22, 2011 at 8:44 pm // Reply

    the flag one is cool

  39. Immpossible // March 13, 2011 at 2:20 pm // Reply

    freaky!

  40. COOL!

  41. wow my favorite is the flag 1

  42. monsterkiddo // February 26, 2011 at 1:56 pm // Reply

    AWESOME

  43. Cool! the spinning tires actialy looked like they were spinning! (I couldn’t really count any black dots because when I looked somewhere the dots wold appear some where else) ! 🙂

  44. I’ve seen better illusions.

  45. the black dot GROWS! no shrinking

  46. these r awesome

  47. if you cross your eyes on the black dot it turns blue

  48. i thought that the flag was cool!

  49. if u lean back and fourth on the black dot it works

  50. it does not work

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