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Rorscharch inkblot

What Optical Illusions Reveal about You

Squirrel Stereogram

Stereograms

Superior mirages

Inferior and Superior Mirages, and Fata Morgana

Most Awesome Illusions

photo doctored by NASA

NASA doctored photos?

Grate view of Central Park

Grate View of Central Park

Man running into the sky

Running into the sky

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

Ominous bird

Bushfire optical illusion

Bushfire

God of all cats

God of all Cats

Sutro tower in San Francisco fog

Flying Dutchman

Floating helmet

Floating helmet and wheel

Man playing with toy cars

Toy Cars

Lake Sørvágsvatn is a landmark that is an optical illusion

Lake Above the Ocean

Zombies attack

Zombie Attack

deflated dog

Deflated dog

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

2d stairs optical illusion

2D stairs

Music notes

Music Notes

Body art parrot

Parrot

Screw hole

Penrhyn Castle in Wales looks like a swamp monster

Swamp monster

Door handle optical illusion reflection

Door handle

The pensive olive tree

The Pensive Olive Tree

High-rise buildings optical illusion

High-rise buidings

These migrating horses are actually shadows of zebras.

Migrating horses

Sand bear

Sand Bear

Goal perspective

Goal perspective

A starry night sky optical illusion

A Starry Night Sky

Photoshop street art

Erased Street Art

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

Bride Waterfall

Prehistoric snake

Prehistoric Snake

Howling wolf cloud

Howling Wolf

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

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

Skywalker

Mother nature breastfeeding

Mother Nature

Shark Attack

Shark Attack

Strained Expression

The Yangzhou Zhongshuge bookstore has an optical illusion created by reflection

Tunnel of Books

Giant party in the skyline

Giant Party in the Skyline

Floating cat head

The sun eclipsed by a basketball

Solar Eclipse

Multi-legged bird

Freak of Nature

Rakotzbrücke was designed the create an optical illusion

Full Circle

Snapdragon seed pods looking like pixy skulls

Pixie Skulls

Peacock with its head in the ground

Peacock with its head in the ground

grumpy tree illusion pareidolia

Grumpy tree

Asthmatic cat gets pumped up.

Pump it up!

a giant in the forest or real life ent

Giant in the Forest

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

Two giants thanks to forced perspective

Two giants

concave and convex

The same image

Shoebill, No egrets, Herun

Shoebill?

too many legs to climb this ladder

Too many legs

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

Big bottoms

Screaming up or down?

Footprint in the sand

Reflective bird

Reflective bird

Kobi Levi shoes. best for stairs

Best for Stairs

Yosemite Firefall is a landmark that is an optical illusion

Firefall

This fire demon signals the apocolypse

Fire demon

impossible woodwork, impossible object in real life

Impossible woodwork

Sexy Birch Tree

Sexy Birch

Rice field looks like reflection

Reflected rice fields

Elvish writing

Elvish Writing

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

This car roof is perfectly polished

Perfectly Polished

A dock to the sky

Dock to the sky

Seeing Eye Dog illusion

Seeing Eye Dog

Canoeing in a winter wonderland

Canoe in the Winter

Jupiter close-up

Jupiter

Escher drawing IRL

Escher drawing IRL

tree eye

Eye of a tree

Invisible - viral photo of girl with mirror

Invisible

The eye of a cyber poppy

Cyber Poppy

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

Bottoms up, Ice Cube!

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

Skull

Plane crash illusion

Plane Crash

Magic Sword

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

Deformed Building

Stairs inside a cabinet

Stairs Inside a Cabinet

Realistic painting

Realistic Painting

UFO ready for takeoff

UFO

Alien invasion in Texas

Alien Invasion

The black dog looks like it is floating above the sunbed

Floating Dog

impossible woodwork

Impossible woodwork

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

Assorted Dried Beans

This dancing twigs art is an example of pareidolia

Nature’s Dance

Deadvlei in Namibia is a great landmark to photograph optical illusions

The Starry Night (in Africa)

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

The eye of the tower

This lake view garden does not have a lake in sight

Lake View Garden

Volcano ash cloud pareidolia

Magayon and Pangaronon

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

This mangrove tree is leaving the beach on tippy toes.

Tippy toes

Water drop on the kitchen floor

Water drop

Pigeons sitting on wires creating shit music

Shit music

Gravity hills

Gravity hills

disappearing trailer

Disappearing trailer

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

Shadow Avatars

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 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

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

Big women

Street in Macau

The Invasion