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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!

55 Comments on 9 Optical Illusions to Confuse Your Brain

  1. The flag one doesn’t work with me.

  2. My fav is the spinning wheel.

  3. Washington Redskins Rule // September 8, 2012 at 7:19 pm // Reply

    These are so cool. 😮 (::)

  4. Love ’em all!

  5. I like the flag one but it makes my eyes hurt!

  6. the flag is soooo cool! but i can not see it for vary long

  7. AWESOME!

  8. kirbyking123 // September 5, 2012 at 5:21 pm // Reply

    the flag works better if you stare at it for about 30 seconds then close your eyes or look at a blank wall

  9. theatregeek21 // August 31, 2012 at 9:08 pm // Reply

    I feel dizzy… but that was pretty cool.

  10. i like the flag alot i can not believe it works

  11. toxicmonKEY // August 24, 2012 at 7:28 pm // Reply

    one is impressed

  12. this is so sweet

  13. they are so cool!!!

  14. Those were pretty cool my grandma had a book filled with optical ollusions

  15. Awesome!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!;);)

  16. awesomekid // June 24, 2012 at 2:31 pm // Reply

    seen all these before (yawn)

  17. I liked staring at the flag:)

  18. how where those supposed to confuse me?

  19. Whoa! Cool! My favorite is if the purple lines are straight.

  20. cool

  21. ferraricrazy // May 28, 2012 at 4:43 pm // Reply

    the flag is awesome. sick

  22. Sosoocbdsb // May 26, 2012 at 3:39 pm // Reply

    I love the flag OO
    W

  23. Some confusing some out of this world epic

  24. how do the wheels, crooked lines, and bendy lines work!?!?!

  25. so cool!!!

  26. I have never seen the flag, though.

  27. hahaha i love the flag thing. its so cool

  28. I’ve already seen most of them.

  29. flag and the tire wheels are the best

  30. i like the flag:)

  31. Jedi Master // May 15, 2012 at 3:40 pm // Reply

    The flag is amazing

  32. The Doctor // May 14, 2012 at 8:33 pm // Reply

    The flag is the coolest!

  33. sweet

  34. 🙂 love it

  35. cool flag and wheel are cool Ω†‡€⁄√µ

  36. i luv the flag illusion.

  37. cool

  38. 9999999991 // May 11, 2012 at 8:44 am // Reply

    Awesome!!!!!!!!! My mom loved them. : )

  39. confusin

  40. storybirder // May 9, 2012 at 6:43 am // Reply

    Epicly awesome!!!

  41. the weels r my favorite

  42. billythecoolguy // May 3, 2012 at 5:41 pm // Reply

    awesum

  43. random citizen // May 2, 2012 at 7:15 pm // Reply

    these tricks r gr8, favorite’s the wheels

  44. ladiesman123 // May 2, 2012 at 5:07 pm // Reply

    awesome

  45. Awesome 🙂

  46. the flag is awesome

  47. need more illusions

  48. gr8

  49. its awsome

  50. funkmeister // April 26, 2012 at 9:19 pm // Reply

    cool i love the flag

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