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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. Very neat. The American flag one is my favorite. Here’s a little trick: Take it onto MS paint and invert the colors. What do you see?

  2. that hurt my eyes

  3. Tourtney Coco 11 // March 26, 2008 at 8:05 pm // Reply

    I think these illusions are just so cool. When ever I am bored I like to look at illusions. so I am so glad that I found some illusions on this website. But I meen get real you need to get some new illusions i have seen all of these illusions so get some new illusion. Like OMG thank you.

  4. Dogruler1996 // March 26, 2008 at 6:27 pm // Reply

    The some did not work, some tricked me, but there were good.

  5. The flag was totally WILD!

  6. this is so awesome! i love these kind of things

  7. How awesome can you get? The wheel one is the best.

  8. I LOVED the illusions! Especially the flag one!

  9. I’M BLIND MY EYES HURT

  10. That’s AWESOME every single one worked on my eyes!!!!!!!!!!!!!

  11. These are some cool illusions but sadly yhe flag one did not work for me.

  12. The Cool Guy // March 25, 2008 at 7:06 pm // Reply

    The flag did not work for me

  13. weird, me and my dad had a fun time

  14. you can’t trick me

  15. The flag illusion was really wild!!!

  16. i’ve seen almost all of these but they never get old

  17. I love a good illusion!

  18. i can’t stop looking at this stuff in amazement!!!!!!!

  19. mind tricks // March 24, 2008 at 8:41 pm // Reply

    flashy

  20. this is cool!

  21. sweet

  22. Fun!

  23. Beastly Boy // March 24, 2008 at 10:57 am // Reply

    thats awesome

  24. MY EYES!!!!

  25. nice one about the flag, too bad i didnt get it to work !!!

  26. soccer31198 // March 22, 2008 at 9:54 pm // Reply

    I like the flag one!

  27. Pretty Cool.

  28. weird,awesome,kool

  29. {wow! I am dizzy! try me agian.}

  30. Totally awsome! especally the flag one!

  31. scout :) :( // March 22, 2008 at 2:47 pm // Reply

    cool. I like the flag one

  32. these are awsome

  33. the second to last one rocked

  34. YuGonMaster // March 20, 2008 at 2:19 pm // Reply

    I think that is cool

  35. i like the 2nd to last one the best with the looks like crooked lines!this is awsome!!!

  36. zachSAYSwhat? // March 17, 2008 at 10:13 pm // Reply

    well most of them worked, accept the flag one. I tried several times but i could’nt see the flag.

  37. AWESOME!!!!!

  38. I REALY liked the flag one!!!!

  39. They r awsum i liked the gray haze 1 |:^)

  40. cool

  41. reelysweet

  42. CONFUSING

  43. I like the vase illusion the best!!!I liked it because I saw two faces and a vase..

  44. I like the black dot one the best

  45. i think they are cool, i liked the black dot one the best.

  46. Awsome!

  47. that really tricked me

  48. these are the most common optical illusions Please make some more!

  49. boy’s Life please make more illusions!?

  50. Funky Monkey // February 11, 2008 at 7:53 pm // Reply

    Pretty Cool, like the flag one the best!!

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