When you see an illusion, what’s your first reaction, you either like it or you hate it, but it sort of becomes quite difficult to get away from it.
And it’s time that we bring some of the best optical illusions for you! So, are you ready to put your mind to test and solve some or even all of them.
10. The Brick Wall
Did you see a piece of rock or may be something else or may be nothing?
At first look, we are pretty sure most of you must have seen that small piece of rock hidden in between the bricks. But, if you look at it carefully, you’ll find that the gap between the bricks is actually a cigar which is coming straight out of the wall and that piece of rock you see is the ash end of that cigar.
9. Ghostly Gaze Illusion
When we’re are not quite sure where a person is looking at, it often makes us feel awkward. That’s why Eye gaze is very important for us and illusions involving eyes are so compelling.
Ghostly Gaze Illusion, created by Rob Jenkins is one such illusion which tells us how our brain handles visual information and exactly explains the uncertainty in gaze direction.
In this photo, these twin sisters appear to look directly at you. But as you move away from them, you realize that the sisters start looking at each other. This illusion you saw is based on the hybrid image technique where 2 images i.e. one image of low spatial frequency and another image of high spatial frequency, are combined together.
8. The Beaker Illusion
This photo must have confused you at first as it looks similar to the famous character Beaker from the Muppet show.
As it turns out, it’s actually a Man with a beard who is looking straight up.
7. Afterimage Illusion
Now, just stare at the dots located on this actor’s nose for about 30 seconds or so, then quickly look at the white space on the right and blink few times. Doing this, you will surely see something that was well worth your effort.
So were you able to spot Jennifer Lopez JLO in colors for just fraction of a second?
Now, this was an example of an Afterimage illusion in which an image continues to appear for a short time after the actual image goes off.
6. The Amazing Panda
Now what you need to do here is find one Amazing Panda who is lost in this big army of cute & happy looking snowmen.
5. Count the Girls
Can you count how many girls are there in this photo? Is it 2, is it 4, is it 8 or is it 12.
And the right answer is there are only 2 girls in this photo.
4. The Hugging Couple
This optical illusion will make you think twice until you don’t get the really simple meaning behind it.
As you see here, it’s a simple photo of a couple hugging each other. But, if you look closely at their lower body, you’ll be confused and find it almost impossible to work out where the couple’s legs begin and where it ends?
So can you tell whose legs belong to who? If you look carefully, you can see that the boy’s shorts are of half black and half white color are covering the legs of both him as well as the girl.
3. The Mask Illusion
Do you notice anything special in this Mask?
Most of you might see a blurry face of a man with a pensive i.e. serious kind of look.
But if you look carefully, you’ll find that there’s also a couple kissing each other, with lady on the left side and the man on the right side. This illusion you saw is called Bistable illusion and it’s also called the Mask of Love.
2. Spot the iPhone
Now this one is no ordinary picture because there’s an iPhone hidden somewhere down there in the carpet. So, can you find that missing iPhone?
So, to those who have found the phone, a big thumbs up! And to those who haven’t, no worries. Here is your iPhone.
1. Ninio’s Extinction Illusion
In this photo, there are 12 black dots which are evenly placed at line intersections. Yes, we’ll be able to count all the 12 dots, when we see them one after another.
But, your brain simply won’t allow you to see all 12 dots at once. Try this! Even though the count varies from person to person, most of you will not be able to see all 12 dots at the same time. You can see few dots but other dots disappear as you move your eyes around the rectangle.