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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. THIS IS AMAZING!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

  2. it wuz kewl

  3. wow this really works i dident even know that stuff.

  4. Spider Man // May 28, 2008 at 6:59 pm // Reply

    AWSOME!!!!!!!!!!!!!

  5. boys life rocks // May 28, 2008 at 12:51 pm // Reply

    It was cool

  6. marshmellows and cream6 // May 28, 2008 at 12:45 pm // Reply

    That was totally awesome it actully worked

  7. hambone101 // May 27, 2008 at 6:47 pm // Reply

    this rocks

  8. hambone101 // May 27, 2008 at 6:45 pm // Reply

    cool

  9. whiteshadow // May 25, 2008 at 2:35 pm // Reply

    That was super cool!!! I tried it and was all like whoa! It worked! Nice these kinds of things are amazing

  10. Grahamcracker // May 24, 2008 at 12:24 pm // Reply

    that was cool

  11. so do I!

    Has anyone seen the one kinda like the flag, only you see Jesus?

    They probably used the flag because the world expects us to be secular.

    Sigh.

  12. dangerboy1221 // May 17, 2008 at 7:44 pm // Reply

    i really love optical illusions!

  13. i can’t see the flag as red white and blue… open it up in paint and invert the colors to see something cool!

  14. I couldn’t see the flag. I’m Colorblind…lol

  15. Turtleguy // May 11, 2008 at 5:38 pm // Reply

    Optical illusions amaze me!

  16. the realy work

  17. i only fell for faces/vase (awesome) and the flag (still seein red white blue)

  18. WHAT

  19. the flag got me

  20. that flag got me

  21. linkilep // May 2, 2008 at 7:40 pm // Reply

    Has anyone seen the one where you look at the four dots then look at wall then you see Jesus?

  22. That black dot’s still shrinking!

  23. How do they do that? It’s AMAZING!

  24. How do you do that. that is so cool how it messes with your eyes like that. AWSOME!!!

  25. It’s amazing!!

  26. crazy insane awsome!!!

  27. ineedahaircut // April 21, 2008 at 5:54 pm // Reply

    cool

  28. amazing! i am speechless

  29. I like the flag the best.

  30. it is so cool how they American flag it green black and yellow then it is red wight an blue that takes some brains to make that good job boys life

  31. THEY ARE CRAZY AWESOME

  32. COOL

  33. sndbfjirhsjkvbfjkd1 // April 7, 2008 at 11:36 am // Reply

    got any more

    I RULE

  34. I noticed them all

  35. The pictures that the people made were the best op art pictures i have ever seen!!!!!!!

  36. I thought the flag & wheel ones were awsome!

  37. the wheel didn’t work for me

  38. those were all cool but I liked the flage one the best.

  39. My eyes hurt now

  40. These are SO cool!

  41. blue raydude // April 2, 2008 at 9:51 pm // Reply

    the flag did not work for me i looked at it for a while but still nothing

  42. The american flag didn’t wprk for me.. i wish it did…

  43. Rorza Vorza // March 30, 2008 at 10:04 pm // Reply

    hey that wasn’t all that good

  44. Robinhood1 // March 30, 2008 at 3:19 pm // Reply

    These are pretty cool. One other thing: when you look at the vase/faces one, it also looks like two people about to kiss as well as just two faces.

  45. optical illusions rock

  46. i like the one with the faces

  47. LysergDiethel // March 28, 2008 at 9:12 pm // Reply

    my fav is the one with the spinning wheels!

  48. I love optical illousions Oh yeah =P

  49. boy scout 789 // March 28, 2008 at 4:48 pm // Reply

    OUCH my eyes HELP ME

  50. this is weaird // March 27, 2008 at 1:00 pm // Reply

    If you stare at the flag too long your eyes will get dry so dont try unless you want to get your eyes soked.only the wheel worked i have to wear glasses

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