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A bit of knowledge on optical illusions. Or scroll down to see what you came for.

Locomotives in their natural habitat

Pareidolia (Seeing faces)

Parallax effect

Parallax Effect

Superior mirages

Inferior and Superior Mirages, and Fata Morgana

Most Awesome Illusions

Shark Attack

Shark Attack

Galaxy far away at Burning Man

A Galaxy Far Away

Magic Sword

Reflective bird

Reflective bird

2d stairs optical illusion

2D stairs

Footprint in the sand

Snapdragon seed pods looking like pixy skulls

Pixie Skulls

Deadvlei in Namibia is a great landmark to photograph optical illusions

The Starry Night (in Africa)

too many legs to climb this ladder

Too many legs

This photo was taken in Kazakhstan and quickly named 'Eye of God' by people online. Obviously, this is just a case of pareidolia.

Eye of God

Lake Sørvágsvatn is a landmark that is an optical illusion

Lake Above the Ocean

Prehistoric snake

Prehistoric Snake

Realistic painting

Realistic Painting

Sutro tower in San Francisco fog

Flying Dutchman

Mother nature breastfeeding

Mother Nature

Peacock with its head in the ground

Peacock with its head in the ground

A starry night sky optical illusion

A Starry Night Sky

Rakotzbrücke was designed the create an optical illusion

Full Circle

Man playing with toy cars

Toy Cars

High-rise buildings optical illusion

High-rise buidings

Elvish writing

Elvish Writing

Plane crash illusion

Plane Crash

Goal perspective

Goal perspective

tree eye

Eye of a tree

Music notes

Music Notes

The pensive olive tree

The Pensive Olive Tree

Body art parrot

Parrot

Pigeons sitting on wires creating shit music

Shit music

The underwater waterfall in Mauritius is a landmark that is an optical illusion

Underwater Waterfall

Door handle optical illusion reflection

Door handle

This eye of the tower is watching over Verona, from the 84 meter high Torre dei Lamberti.

The eye of the tower

The eye of a cyber poppy

Cyber Poppy

Gravity hills

Gravity hills

This optical illusion of a skywalker is actually a man jumpping in the Dnipro river in Kiev.

Skywalker

disappearing trailer

Disappearing trailer

The sun eclipsed by a basketball

Solar Eclipse

Penrhyn Castle in Wales looks like a swamp monster

Swamp monster

$This optical illusion by Alexandre Meneghini of two women with big bottoms swimming in Cuba in 2015 is a classis example of refraction.$

Big bottoms

Sink draining looks like an eye

Mesmerizing eye

Photoshop street art

Erased Street Art

Asthmatic cat gets pumped up.

Pump it up!

This fungus is named Xylaria polymorpha, but more commonly known as dead man's fingers. This example is a perfect illusion, with 5 digits and more shaped like a hand than other specimens. It really looks like a zombie is going to rise up from the ground.

Dead Man’s Fingers

Two giants thanks to forced perspective

Two giants

Canoeing in a winter wonderland

Canoe in the Winter

Grate view of Central Park

Grate View of Central Park

These migrating horses are actually shadows of zebras.

Migrating horses

The Yangzhou Zhongshuge bookstore has an optical illusion created by reflection

Tunnel of Books

Screw hole

Kobi Levi shoes. best for stairs

Best for Stairs

Sexy Birch Tree

Sexy Birch

Shades of sheep in pens look like dried beans in this drone photo.

Assorted Dried Beans

This is an optical illusion artwork by Kostya Terentev. Filmed from directly above, you can see only the shadows of the people.

Shadow Avatars

Alien invasion in Texas

Alien Invasion

Escher drawing IRL

Escher drawing IRL

Man running into the sky

Running into the sky

This dancing twigs art is an example of pareidolia

Nature’s Dance

Stairs inside a cabinet

Stairs Inside a Cabinet

This mangrove tree is leaving the beach on tippy toes.

Tippy toes

Zombies attack

Zombie Attack

Invisible - viral photo of girl with mirror

Invisible

Man skydiving into Burning Man festival

A Festival for Ants

Screaming up or down?

Howling wolf cloud

Howling Wolf

The man on the left is not standing in the water next to the boat. He is sitting with his friends in the boat.

Next to the boat

hills with trees

Hills and trees

Multi-legged bird

Freak of Nature

Just a door in the middle of a beautiful scene, makes the background look like a giant wall with a live wallpaper.

Live Wallpaper

Floating cat head

Bushfire optical illusion

Bushfire

Shoebill, No egrets, Herun

Shoebill?

impossible woodwork

Impossible woodwork

Jupiter close-up

Jupiter

Sand bear

Sand Bear

grumpy tree illusion pareidolia

Grumpy tree

This car roof is perfectly polished

Perfectly Polished

In this grate optical illusion, the shadow doesn't match up with the object

Grate Optical Illusion

This photo is not a composite, but rather zoomed in until it is hard to recognize what you are seeing. The orange color on the right is a retaining wall.

Separation

Yosemite Firefall is a landmark that is an optical illusion

Firefall

photo doctored by NASA

NASA doctored photos?

Mimetolith

Green Kong

The black dog looks like it is floating above the sunbed

Floating Dog

This is Cascada la Novia (Waterfall of the Bride), a cascade in Peru.

Bride Waterfall

These big women in Paris are a perfect example of Forced Perspective

Big women

This fire demon signals the apocolypse

Fire demon

Giant party in the skyline

Giant Party in the Skyline

concave and convex

The same image

impossible woodwork, impossible object in real life

Impossible woodwork

Rice field looks like reflection

Reflected rice fields

a giant in the forest or real life ent

Giant in the Forest

Ice Cube sitting in a round-backed chair looking like he is raising his backend in the air.

Bottoms up, Ice Cube!

mysterious tree pareidolia

Mysterious tree

This deformed building is a temporary art installation to hide renovation work

Deformed Building

Water drop on the kitchen floor

Water drop

A dock to the sky

Dock to the sky

This is the volcano Mount Etna in Sicily erupting. The bright lava against an almost invisible mountain looks like a Phoenix (or Mutalisk)

Phoenix rising

Strained Expression

This lake view garden does not have a lake in sight

Lake View Garden

Seeing Eye Dog illusion

Seeing Eye Dog

Volcano ash cloud pareidolia

Magayon and Pangaronon

UFO ready for takeoff

UFO