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Expanding Black Hole Illusion

Mind-blowing facts about optical illusions

Superior mirages

Inferior and Superior Mirages, and Fata Morgana

Prehistoric ambiguous illusion

The history of optical illusions in art

Most Awesome Illusions

a giant in the forest or real life ent

Giant in the Forest

Mimetolith

Green Kong

The black dog looks like it is floating above the sunbed

Floating Dog

Zombies attack

Zombie Attack

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

Bottoms up, Ice Cube!

Rice field looks like reflection

Reflected rice fields

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

Grate Optical Illusion

Two giants thanks to forced perspective

Two giants

A starry night sky optical illusion

A Starry Night Sky

footprints in the sand depth ambiguity

Footprints in the sand

Water drop on the kitchen floor

Water drop

Photoshop street art

Erased Street Art

Galaxy far away at Burning Man

A Galaxy Far Away

Man playing with toy cars

Toy Cars

Sink draining looks like an eye

Mesmerizing eye

2d stairs optical illusion

2D stairs

Invisible - viral photo of girl with mirror

Invisible

Street in Macau

The Invasion

Rakotzbrücke was designed the create an optical illusion

Full Circle

Prehistoric snake

Prehistoric Snake

Plane crash illusion

Plane Crash

Escher drawing IRL

Escher drawing IRL

Body art parrot

Parrot

Pigeons sitting on wires creating shit music

Shit music

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

Ominous bird

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

Underwater Waterfall

The eye of a cyber poppy

Cyber Poppy

Seeing Eye Dog illusion

Seeing Eye Dog

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

Bride Waterfall

Door handle optical illusion reflection

Door handle

Shoebill, No egrets, Herun

Shoebill?

grumpy tree illusion pareidolia

Grumpy tree

This mangrove tree is leaving the beach on tippy toes.

Tippy toes

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

High-rise buildings optical illusion

High-rise buidings

Asthmatic cat gets pumped up.

Pump it up!

This fire demon signals the apocolypse

Fire demon

concave and convex

The same image

impossible woodwork

Impossible woodwork

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

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

The eye of the tower

Goal perspective

Goal perspective

This lake view garden does not have a lake in sight

Lake View Garden

Snapdragon seed pods looking like pixy skulls

Pixie Skulls

Music notes

Music Notes

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

Lake Sørvágsvatn is a landmark that is an optical illusion

Lake Above the Ocean

Realistic painting

Realistic Painting

Alien invasion in Texas

Alien Invasion

Jupiter close-up

Jupiter

Gravity hills

Gravity hills

Giant party in the skyline

Giant Party in the Skyline

UFO ready for takeoff

UFO

Yosemite Firefall is a landmark that is an optical illusion

Firefall

Penrhyn Castle in Wales looks like a swamp monster

Swamp monster

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

Magic Sword

Kobi Levi shoes. best for stairs

Best for Stairs

disappearing trailer

Disappearing trailer

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

Elvish writing

Elvish Writing

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

Sand bear

Sand Bear

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

Big women

Volcano ash cloud pareidolia

Magayon and Pangaronon

Deadvlei in Namibia is a great landmark to photograph optical illusions

The Starry Night (in Africa)

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

Big bottoms

Multi-legged bird

Freak of Nature

Sexy Birch Tree

Sexy Birch

tree eye

Eye of a tree

The Yangzhou Zhongshuge bookstore has an optical illusion created by reflection

Tunnel of Books

Strained Expression

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

This car roof is perfectly polished

Perfectly Polished

Shark Attack

Shark Attack

The sun eclipsed by a basketball

Solar Eclipse

Screw hole

Floating helmet

Floating helmet and wheel

Sutro tower in San Francisco fog

Flying Dutchman

Bushfire optical illusion

Bushfire

Reflective bird

Reflective bird

deflated dog

Deflated dog

This dancing twigs art is an example of pareidolia

Nature’s Dance

mysterious tree pareidolia

Mysterious tree

A dock to the sky

Dock to the sky

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

Skull

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

too many legs to climb this ladder

Too many legs

photo doctored by NASA

NASA doctored photos?

God of all cats

God of all Cats

Grate view of Central Park

Grate View of Central Park

These migrating horses are actually shadows of zebras.

Migrating horses

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

Deformed Building

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

Skywalker

Footprint in the sand