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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. opticalillusioned // August 24, 2008 at 3:55 pm // Reply

    that is so weird! especially the flag one

  2. cool i love it

  3. runescape fan // August 20, 2008 at 7:22 pm // Reply

    they are coool!!!!!!!!!!!!!

  4. The flag one didn’t work

  5. Grahamcracker // August 17, 2008 at 1:25 pm // Reply

    that is so coooooooooooool

  6. those illusions are wicked

  7. nice it so wonderful

    its so great……..

  8. my eyes hurt now

  9. i love the wheel one

  10. I will tell my friends

    about this.

  11. 2 thumbs up!!!!!!!!

  12. The illusions were so fantstic, it should have it’s own show….

  13. that was awsome!

  14. the illusions are SUPERCALIFRAGILISTICEXPIALIDOCIOUS

  15. it is totally wicked

  16. it is awsome.

  17. incredible…

  18. mindboggling

  19. the illusions were entertainable.

  20. superb

  21. OMG!!!!! i love the flag 1 i cant beleve the square and the lines looked crocked i am actually tiping while i am sick… *gag*

  22. that flag one is creepy!

  23. That is sooooooo wierd I got a few that will make you SICK. Lol 😀

  24. The illusions where superb

  25. interesting…………………

  26. those were so cool

  27. the dots where asume

  28. kick in the face // July 24, 2008 at 8:39 am // Reply

    add some more optical lllusions

  29. Fault Forseer // July 21, 2008 at 5:05 pm // Reply

    Stare at any color paper,(exept white) for 45 seconds and then look at a whit piece of paper and you will see the opposite color! For opposite colors, look at a color wheel.

  30. I Love optical illusions

  31. wow thats so cool i like the flag one the best

  32. SWEET!!!!!!!!!!

  33. Cool!!

  34. this is amazing!

  35. My Eyes Hurt!! // June 28, 2008 at 11:22 am // Reply

    Yikes that is cool!!!!

  36. WOW THAT WAS AWESOME

  37. holy cow

  38. bicker kid // June 25, 2008 at 8:24 pm // Reply

    wow these optical illusions are cool. its crazy how we let our eyes trick us like that

  39. THAT WAS AWESOME

  40. COOL MAN!!!

  41. Boy Scout # 3684 // June 20, 2008 at 10:56 am // Reply

    Optical Illusions ARE AWESOME

  42. I usualy rest my eyes after staring at wierd illusions, but then I get right back to staring at them.

  43. this is sweet! 🙂

  44. N-I-C-E. Pretty impressive.

  45. Commander Cody // June 10, 2008 at 9:28 pm // Reply

    Optical Illusons are my thing!

  46. TRYCOOLMAN // June 9, 2008 at 4:17 pm // Reply

    that … is… awesome!!!!!

  47. woah! this stuff is incredible!

  48. I thought it was cool.

  49. woah!

  50. Optical illusions are awesome! Sometimes they are useful.

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