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

sorrowful rock face pareidolia

How do optical illusions work?

Locomotives in their natural habitat

Pareidolia (Seeing faces)

Rainbows are illusions

Types of Optical Illusions

Most Awesome Illusions

Jupiter close-up

Jupiter

Sexy Birch Tree

Sexy Birch

impossible woodwork, impossible object in real life

Impossible woodwork

impossible woodwork

Impossible woodwork

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

Grate Optical Illusion

Gravity hills

Gravity hills

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

Shadow Avatars

This mangrove tree is leaving the beach on tippy toes.

Tippy toes

Invisible - viral photo of girl with mirror

Invisible

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

The eye of the tower

Stairs inside a cabinet

Stairs Inside a Cabinet

Footprint in the sand

Deadvlei in Namibia is a great landmark to photograph optical illusions

The Starry Night (in Africa)

Penrhyn Castle in Wales looks like a swamp monster

Swamp monster

footprints in the sand depth ambiguity

Footprints in the sand

These migrating horses are actually shadows of zebras.

Migrating horses

Sand bear

Sand Bear

Goal perspective

Goal perspective

Asthmatic cat gets pumped up.

Pump it up!

Kobi Levi shoes. best for stairs

Best for Stairs

God of all cats

God of all Cats

mysterious tree pareidolia

Mysterious tree

Two giants thanks to forced perspective

Two giants

Galaxy far away at Burning Man

A Galaxy Far Away

Rice field looks like reflection

Reflected rice fields

The pensive olive tree

The Pensive Olive Tree

Snapdragon seed pods looking like pixy skulls

Pixie Skulls

Water drop on the kitchen floor

Water drop

UFO ready for takeoff

UFO

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

Reflective bird

Reflective bird

disappearing trailer

Disappearing trailer

Canoeing in a winter wonderland

Canoe in the Winter

Howling wolf cloud

Howling Wolf

Prehistoric snake

Prehistoric Snake

This lake view garden does not have a lake in sight

Lake View Garden

The Yangzhou Zhongshuge bookstore has an optical illusion created by reflection

Tunnel of Books

Volcano ash cloud pareidolia

Magayon and Pangaronon

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

Bottoms up, Ice Cube!

Lake Sørvágsvatn is a landmark that is an optical illusion

Lake Above the Ocean

Sink draining looks like an eye

Mesmerizing eye

Shark Attack

Shark Attack

too many legs to climb this ladder

Too many legs

Screaming up or down?

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

Escher drawing IRL

Escher drawing IRL

This car roof is perfectly polished

Perfectly Polished

Sutro tower in San Francisco fog

Flying Dutchman

A starry night sky optical illusion

A Starry Night Sky

Elvish writing

Elvish Writing

Giant party in the skyline

Giant Party in the Skyline

Grate view of Central Park

Grate View of Central Park

Shoebill, No egrets, Herun

Shoebill?

Mother nature breastfeeding

Mother Nature

hills with trees

Hills and trees

Street in Macau

The Invasion

This dancing twigs art is an example of pareidolia

Nature’s Dance

A dock to the sky

Dock to the sky

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

Skull

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

Assorted Dried Beans

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

Bride Waterfall

The sun eclipsed by a basketball

Solar Eclipse

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

Deformed Building

Music notes

Music Notes

The black dog looks like it is floating above the sunbed

Floating Dog

Peacock with its head in the ground

Peacock with its head in the ground

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

Skywalker

Man playing with toy cars

Toy Cars

Mimetolith

Green Kong

Pigeons sitting on wires creating shit music

Shit music

deflated dog

Deflated dog

Zombies attack

Zombie Attack

tree eye

Eye of a tree

2d stairs optical illusion

2D stairs

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

Live Wallpaper

Magic Sword

Body art parrot

Parrot

This fire demon signals the apocolypse

Fire demon

Man running into the sky

Running into the sky

Photoshop street art

Erased Street Art

Floating cat head

High-rise buildings optical illusion

High-rise buidings

Realistic painting

Realistic Painting

Rakotzbrücke was designed the create an optical illusion

Full Circle

a giant in the forest or real life ent

Giant in the Forest

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

Man skydiving into Burning Man festival

A Festival for Ants

Yosemite Firefall is a landmark that is an optical illusion

Firefall

concave and convex

The same image

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

Plane crash illusion

Plane Crash

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

Alien invasion in Texas

Alien Invasion

photo doctored by NASA

NASA doctored photos?

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

Underwater Waterfall

Bushfire optical illusion

Bushfire

Screw hole

Door handle optical illusion reflection

Door handle

Multi-legged bird

Freak of Nature

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

Big women