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Superior mirages

Inferior and Superior Mirages, and Fata Morgana

Billie Eilish drawn in 3D by Stephan Pabst

Anamorphic optical illusions

Prehistoric ambiguous illusion

The history of optical illusions in art

Most Awesome Illusions

The eye of a cyber poppy

Cyber Poppy

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

Underwater Waterfall

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

Sink draining looks like an eye

Mesmerizing eye

tree eye

Eye of a tree

UFO ready for takeoff

UFO

Penrhyn Castle in Wales looks like a swamp monster

Swamp monster

The sun eclipsed by a basketball

Solar Eclipse

Escher drawing IRL

Escher drawing IRL

Asthmatic cat gets pumped up.

Pump it up!

This dancing twigs art is an example of pareidolia

Nature’s Dance

disappearing trailer

Disappearing trailer

Howling wolf cloud

Howling Wolf

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

Floating cat head

Multi-legged bird

Freak of Nature

Galaxy far away at Burning Man

A Galaxy Far Away

Body art parrot

Parrot

Canoeing in a winter wonderland

Canoe in the Winter

Mimetolith

Green Kong

These migrating horses are actually shadows of zebras.

Migrating horses

Strained Expression

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

Bottoms up, Ice Cube!

Sand bear

Sand Bear

impossible woodwork

Impossible woodwork

Rakotzbrücke was designed the create an optical illusion

Full Circle

Magic Sword

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

Big women

Music notes

Music Notes

Invisible - viral photo of girl with mirror

Invisible

photo doctored by NASA

NASA doctored photos?

This mangrove tree is leaving the beach on tippy toes.

Tippy toes

Deadvlei in Namibia is a great landmark to photograph optical illusions

The Starry Night (in Africa)

Man skydiving into Burning Man festival

A Festival for Ants

High-rise buildings optical illusion

High-rise buidings

The Yangzhou Zhongshuge bookstore has an optical illusion created by reflection

Tunnel of Books

Man playing with toy cars

Toy Cars

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

Skywalker

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

Shadow Avatars

Mother nature breastfeeding

Mother Nature

Screaming up or down?

Giant party in the skyline

Giant Party in the Skyline

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

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

Bride Waterfall

deflated dog

Deflated dog

Street in Macau

The Invasion

mysterious tree pareidolia

Mysterious tree

Alien invasion in Texas

Alien Invasion

Stairs inside a cabinet

Stairs Inside a Cabinet

Gravity hills

Gravity hills

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

impossible woodwork, impossible object in real life

Impossible woodwork

This car roof is perfectly polished

Perfectly Polished

Pigeons sitting on wires creating shit music

Shit music

Photoshop street art

Erased Street Art

Goal perspective

Goal perspective

The pensive olive tree

The Pensive Olive Tree

Sexy Birch Tree

Sexy Birch

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

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

Ominous bird

Snapdragon seed pods looking like pixy skulls

Pixie Skulls

too many legs to climb this ladder

Too many legs

Water drop on the kitchen floor

Water drop

The black dog looks like it is floating above the sunbed

Floating Dog

Prehistoric snake

Prehistoric Snake

Volcano ash cloud pareidolia

Magayon and Pangaronon

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

Big bottoms

concave and convex

The same image

Bushfire optical illusion

Bushfire

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

Grate Optical Illusion

This lake view garden does not have a lake in sight

Lake View Garden

2d stairs optical illusion

2D stairs

Shoebill, No egrets, Herun

Shoebill?

Footprint in the sand

A dock to the sky

Dock to the sky

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

Deformed Building

Grate view of Central Park

Grate View of Central Park

Reflective bird

Reflective bird

Elvish writing

Elvish Writing

Kobi Levi shoes. best for stairs

Best for Stairs

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

Assorted Dried Beans

a giant in the forest or real life ent

Giant in the Forest

A starry night sky optical illusion

A Starry Night Sky

Realistic painting

Realistic Painting

Screw hole

Shark Attack

Shark Attack

Sutro tower in San Francisco fog

Flying Dutchman

This fire demon signals the apocolypse

Fire demon

Two giants thanks to forced perspective

Two giants

Zombies attack

Zombie Attack

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

Man running into the sky

Running into the sky

Seeing Eye Dog illusion

Seeing Eye Dog

Lake Sørvágsvatn is a landmark that is an optical illusion

Lake Above the Ocean

hills with trees

Hills and trees

Plane crash illusion

Plane Crash

Jupiter close-up

Jupiter

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

Skull

Peacock with its head in the ground

Peacock with its head in the ground