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

Animals and optical illusions

Expanding Black Hole Illusion

Mind-blowing facts about optical illusions

Bezold effect fabric

Bezold Effect

Most Awesome Illusions

Plane crash illusion

Plane Crash

Music notes

Music Notes

Zombies attack

Zombie Attack

These migrating horses are actually shadows of zebras.

Migrating horses

A dock to the sky

Dock to the sky

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

Goal perspective

Goal perspective

Street in Macau

The Invasion

Stairs inside a cabinet

Stairs Inside a Cabinet

Water drop on the kitchen floor

Water drop

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

Underwater Waterfall

High-rise buildings optical illusion

High-rise buidings

Gravity hills

Gravity hills

Realistic painting

Realistic Painting

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

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

Bride Waterfall

Asthmatic cat gets pumped up.

Pump it up!

grumpy tree illusion pareidolia

Grumpy tree

Prehistoric snake

Prehistoric Snake

2d stairs optical illusion

2D stairs

Photoshop street art

Erased Street Art

Peacock with its head in the ground

Peacock with its head in the ground

Mother nature breastfeeding

Mother Nature

Floating cat head

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

Deformed Building

Sexy Birch Tree

Sexy Birch

Volcano ash cloud pareidolia

Magayon and Pangaronon

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

Live Wallpaper

Elvish writing

Elvish Writing

Sutro tower in San Francisco fog

Flying Dutchman

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

Shadow Avatars

God of all cats

God of all Cats

Man running into the sky

Running into the sky

Sand bear

Sand Bear

Penrhyn Castle in Wales looks like a swamp monster

Swamp monster

Yosemite Firefall is a landmark that is an optical illusion

Firefall

Sink draining looks like an eye

Mesmerizing eye

Screw hole

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

Magic Sword

concave and convex

The same image

The eye of a cyber poppy

Cyber Poppy

Kobi Levi shoes. best for stairs

Best for Stairs

Lake Sørvágsvatn is a landmark that is an optical illusion

Lake Above the Ocean

Shoebill, No egrets, Herun

Shoebill?

Pigeons sitting on wires creating shit music

Shit music

Multi-legged bird

Freak of Nature

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

Bottoms up, Ice Cube!

impossible woodwork, impossible object in real life

Impossible woodwork

Galaxy far away at Burning Man

A Galaxy Far Away

impossible woodwork

Impossible woodwork

Man skydiving into Burning Man festival

A Festival for Ants

Rakotzbrücke was designed the create an optical illusion

Full Circle

Door handle optical illusion reflection

Door handle

Mimetolith

Green Kong

Giant party in the skyline

Giant Party in the Skyline

Howling wolf cloud

Howling Wolf

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

Big women

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

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

Grate Optical Illusion

Screaming up or down?

Alien invasion in Texas

Alien Invasion

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

Ominous bird

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

Assorted Dried Beans

Canoeing in a winter wonderland

Canoe in the Winter

tree eye

Eye of a tree

Deadvlei in Namibia is a great landmark to photograph optical illusions

The Starry Night (in Africa)

a giant in the forest or real life ent

Giant in the Forest

hills with trees

Hills and trees

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

Big bottoms

Shark Attack

Shark Attack

The sun eclipsed by a basketball

Solar Eclipse

too many legs to climb this ladder

Too many legs

Grate view of Central Park

Grate View of Central Park

The pensive olive tree

The Pensive Olive Tree

This mangrove tree is leaving the beach on tippy toes.

Tippy toes

Rice field looks like reflection

Reflected rice fields

deflated dog

Deflated dog

Jupiter close-up

Jupiter

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

Skywalker

disappearing trailer

Disappearing trailer

This lake view garden does not have a lake in sight

Lake View Garden

This fire demon signals the apocolypse

Fire demon

Body art parrot

Parrot

Bushfire optical illusion

Bushfire

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

The eye of the tower

This car roof is perfectly polished

Perfectly Polished

Reflective bird

Reflective bird

photo doctored by NASA

NASA doctored photos?

mysterious tree pareidolia

Mysterious tree

The Yangzhou Zhongshuge bookstore has an optical illusion created by reflection

Tunnel of Books

This dancing twigs art is an example of pareidolia

Nature’s Dance

Footprint in the sand

UFO ready for takeoff

UFO

The black dog looks like it is floating above the sunbed

Floating Dog

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

Snapdragon seed pods looking like pixy skulls

Pixie Skulls

Invisible - viral photo of girl with mirror

Invisible

Strained Expression

A starry night sky optical illusion

A Starry Night Sky