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Superior mirages

Inferior and Superior Mirages, and Fata Morgana

Rorscharch inkblot

What Optical Illusions Reveal about You

Can animals see optical illusions? Hosico cat shows it with optical illusion rug

Animals and optical illusions

Most Awesome Illusions

These migrating horses are actually shadows of zebras.

Migrating horses

Giant party in the skyline

Giant Party in the Skyline

This car roof is perfectly polished

Perfectly Polished

footprints in the sand depth ambiguity

Footprints in the sand

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

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

This optical illusion of an ominous bird is actually a moth orchid

Ominous bird

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

Big women

The pensive olive tree

The Pensive Olive Tree

tree eye

Eye of a tree

Escher drawing IRL

Escher drawing IRL

Sexy Birch Tree

Sexy Birch

Screaming up or down?

Gravity hills

Gravity hills

impossible woodwork

Impossible woodwork

2d stairs optical illusion

2D stairs

Invisible - viral photo of girl with mirror

Invisible

Mimetolith

Green Kong

Penrhyn Castle in Wales looks like a swamp monster

Swamp monster

hills with trees

Hills and trees

Deadvlei in Namibia is a great landmark to photograph optical illusions

The Starry Night (in Africa)

A starry night sky optical illusion

A Starry Night Sky

Howling wolf cloud

Howling Wolf

Magic Sword

Man skydiving into Burning Man festival

A Festival for Ants

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

The eye of the tower

too many legs to climb this ladder

Too many legs

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

Assorted Dried Beans

This mangrove tree is leaving the beach on tippy toes.

Tippy toes

Jupiter close-up

Jupiter

Rice field looks like reflection

Reflected rice fields

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

mysterious tree pareidolia

Mysterious tree

Water drop on the kitchen floor

Water drop

Floating helmet

Floating helmet and wheel

Asthmatic cat gets pumped up.

Pump it up!

Reflective bird

Reflective bird

Photoshop street art

Erased Street Art

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

Big bottoms

The Yangzhou Zhongshuge bookstore has an optical illusion created by reflection

Tunnel of Books

God of all cats

God of all Cats

Stairs inside a cabinet

Stairs Inside a Cabinet

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

Shadow Avatars

Plane crash illusion

Plane Crash

The eye of a cyber poppy

Cyber Poppy

a giant in the forest or real life ent

Giant in the Forest

Pigeons sitting on wires creating shit music

Shit music

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

disappearing trailer

Disappearing trailer

This skull optical illusion was created for the Penny Dreadful Season 3 poster.

Skull

This dancing twigs art is an example of pareidolia

Nature’s Dance

deflated dog

Deflated dog

impossible woodwork, impossible object in real life

Impossible woodwork

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

Bottoms up, Ice Cube!

Sutro tower in San Francisco fog

Flying Dutchman

grumpy tree illusion pareidolia

Grumpy tree

Street in Macau

The Invasion

Man playing with toy cars

Toy Cars

concave and convex

The same image

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

Skywalker

Canoeing in a winter wonderland

Canoe in the Winter

Kobi Levi shoes. best for stairs

Best for Stairs

photo doctored by NASA

NASA doctored photos?

Bushfire optical illusion

Bushfire

Grate view of Central Park

Grate View of Central Park

The sun eclipsed by a basketball

Solar Eclipse

Floating cat head

Realistic painting

Realistic Painting

Volcano ash cloud pareidolia

Magayon and Pangaronon

Door handle optical illusion reflection

Door handle

Two giants thanks to forced perspective

Two giants

High-rise buildings optical illusion

High-rise buidings

Sink draining looks like an eye

Mesmerizing eye

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

Lake Sørvágsvatn is a landmark that is an optical illusion

Lake Above the Ocean

Sand bear

Sand Bear

Screw hole

Footprint in the sand

This fire demon signals the apocolypse

Fire demon

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

Deformed Building

Goal perspective

Goal perspective

UFO ready for takeoff

UFO

Body art parrot

Parrot

Peacock with its head in the ground

Peacock with its head in the ground

Alien invasion in Texas

Alien Invasion

Multi-legged bird

Freak of Nature

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

Grate Optical Illusion

Snapdragon seed pods looking like pixy skulls

Pixie Skulls

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

Bride Waterfall

Seeing Eye Dog illusion

Seeing Eye Dog

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

Underwater Waterfall

Man running into the sky

Running into the sky

Elvish writing

Elvish Writing

This lake view garden does not have a lake in sight

Lake View Garden

The black dog looks like it is floating above the sunbed

Floating Dog

Strained Expression

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

Live Wallpaper

Mother nature breastfeeding

Mother Nature

Prehistoric snake

Prehistoric Snake