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Parallax effect

Parallax Effect

sorrowful rock face pareidolia

How do optical illusions work?

Is this a bird or a rabbit?

Ambiguous illusions

Most Awesome Illusions

Two giants thanks to forced perspective

Two giants

Sand bear

Sand Bear

tree eye

Eye of a tree

Prehistoric snake

Prehistoric Snake

Photoshop street art

Erased Street Art

Goal perspective

Goal perspective

Footprint in the sand

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

Big women

Mother nature breastfeeding

Mother 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

2d stairs optical illusion

2D stairs

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

Bottoms up, Ice Cube!

concave and convex

The same image

too many legs to climb this ladder

Too many legs

The eye of a cyber poppy

Cyber Poppy

This mangrove tree is leaving the beach on tippy toes.

Tippy toes

deflated dog

Deflated dog

Zombies attack

Zombie Attack

Asthmatic cat gets pumped up.

Pump it up!

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

Skull

Screaming up or down?

Floating cat head

The Yangzhou Zhongshuge bookstore has an optical illusion created by reflection

Tunnel of Books

Rice field looks like reflection

Reflected rice fields

Screw hole

The pensive olive tree

The Pensive Olive Tree

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

grumpy tree illusion pareidolia

Grumpy tree

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

The eye of the tower

Pigeons sitting on wires creating shit music

Shit music

Man playing with toy cars

Toy Cars

The sun eclipsed by a basketball

Solar Eclipse

Canoeing in a winter wonderland

Canoe in the Winter

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

Grate Optical Illusion

Galaxy far away at Burning Man

A Galaxy Far Away

Penrhyn Castle in Wales looks like a swamp monster

Swamp monster

Multi-legged bird

Freak of Nature

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

Shadow Avatars

Peacock with its head in the ground

Peacock with its head in the ground

High-rise buildings optical illusion

High-rise buidings

A dock to the sky

Dock to the sky

Lake Sørvágsvatn is a landmark that is an optical illusion

Lake Above the Ocean

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

Elvish writing

Elvish Writing

photo doctored by NASA

NASA doctored photos?

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

Underwater Waterfall

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

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

Assorted Dried Beans

Body art parrot

Parrot

UFO ready for takeoff

UFO

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

Deformed Building

Shoebill, No egrets, Herun

Shoebill?

disappearing trailer

Disappearing trailer

hills with trees

Hills and trees

Shark Attack

Shark Attack

Grate view of Central Park

Grate View of Central Park

Strained Expression

Door handle optical illusion reflection

Door handle

Plane crash illusion

Plane Crash

Rakotzbrücke was designed the create an optical illusion

Full Circle

Street in Macau

The Invasion

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

Bride Waterfall

This dancing twigs art is an example of pareidolia

Nature’s Dance

God of all cats

God of all Cats

impossible woodwork, impossible object in real life

Impossible woodwork

Stairs inside a cabinet

Stairs Inside a Cabinet

Man skydiving into Burning Man festival

A Festival for Ants

Yosemite Firefall is a landmark that is an optical illusion

Firefall

Water drop on the kitchen floor

Water drop

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

Snapdragon seed pods looking like pixy skulls

Pixie Skulls

This car roof is perfectly polished

Perfectly Polished

This lake view garden does not have a lake in sight

Lake View Garden

Sexy Birch Tree

Sexy Birch

A starry night sky optical illusion

A Starry Night Sky

Escher drawing IRL

Escher drawing IRL

Music notes

Music Notes

Sink draining looks like an eye

Mesmerizing eye

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

Ominous bird

mysterious tree pareidolia

Mysterious tree

Howling wolf cloud

Howling Wolf

Jupiter close-up

Jupiter

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

Skywalker

The black dog looks like it is floating above the sunbed

Floating Dog

Reflective bird

Reflective bird

Bushfire optical illusion

Bushfire

impossible woodwork

Impossible woodwork

Man running into the sky

Running into the sky

Deadvlei in Namibia is a great landmark to photograph optical illusions

The Starry Night (in Africa)

Sutro tower in San Francisco fog

Flying Dutchman

Seeing Eye Dog illusion

Seeing Eye Dog

Alien invasion in Texas

Alien Invasion

Mimetolith

Green Kong

a giant in the forest or real life ent

Giant in the Forest

This fire demon signals the apocolypse

Fire demon

Realistic painting

Realistic Painting

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

These migrating horses are actually shadows of zebras.

Migrating horses

Magic Sword