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

Animals and optical illusions

Superior mirages

Inferior and Superior Mirages, and Fata Morgana

sorrowful rock face pareidolia

How do optical illusions work?

Most Awesome Illusions

The pensive olive tree

The Pensive Olive Tree

A dock to the sky

Dock to the sky

concave and convex

The same image

disappearing trailer

Disappearing trailer

Rice field looks like reflection

Reflected rice fields

a giant in the forest or real life ent

Giant in the Forest

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

Bottoms up, Ice Cube!

The Yangzhou Zhongshuge bookstore has an optical illusion created by reflection

Tunnel of Books

Shoebill, No egrets, Herun

Shoebill?

This car roof is perfectly polished

Perfectly Polished

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

Live Wallpaper

Rakotzbrücke was designed the create an optical illusion

Full Circle

Mimetolith

Green Kong

hills with trees

Hills and trees

Man playing with toy cars

Toy Cars

tree eye

Eye of a tree

This dancing twigs art is an example of pareidolia

Nature’s Dance

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

Ominous bird

The black dog looks like it is floating above the sunbed

Floating Dog

Realistic painting

Realistic Painting

Plane crash illusion

Plane Crash

impossible woodwork, impossible object in real life

Impossible woodwork

Pigeons sitting on wires creating shit music

Shit music

2d stairs optical illusion

2D stairs

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

Big women

Stairs inside a cabinet

Stairs Inside a Cabinet

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

Bride Waterfall

Asthmatic cat gets pumped up.

Pump it up!

Gravity hills

Gravity hills

mysterious tree pareidolia

Mysterious tree

Door handle optical illusion reflection

Door handle

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

Skywalker

Lake Sørvágsvatn is a landmark that is an optical illusion

Lake Above the Ocean

Escher drawing IRL

Escher drawing IRL

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

Shadow Avatars

Shark Attack

Shark Attack

Seeing Eye Dog illusion

Seeing Eye Dog

UFO ready for takeoff

UFO

Sutro tower in San Francisco fog

Flying Dutchman

Deadvlei in Namibia is a great landmark to photograph optical illusions

The Starry Night (in Africa)

Goal perspective

Goal perspective

Man running into the sky

Running into the sky

This lake view garden does not have a lake in sight

Lake View Garden

This fire demon signals the apocolypse

Fire demon

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

Underwater Waterfall

grumpy tree illusion pareidolia

Grumpy tree

The sun eclipsed by a basketball

Solar Eclipse

Giant party in the skyline

Giant Party in the Skyline

Howling wolf cloud

Howling Wolf

impossible woodwork

Impossible woodwork

Screw hole

Two giants thanks to forced perspective

Two giants

Volcano ash cloud pareidolia

Magayon and Pangaronon

too many legs to climb this ladder

Too many legs

Elvish writing

Elvish Writing

A starry night sky optical illusion

A Starry Night Sky

These migrating horses are actually shadows of zebras.

Migrating horses

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

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

Assorted Dried Beans

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

Canoeing in a winter wonderland

Canoe in the Winter

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

Deformed Building

Kobi Levi shoes. best for stairs

Best for Stairs

Music notes

Music Notes

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

Skull

Alien invasion in Texas

Alien Invasion

Floating cat head

Sand bear

Sand Bear

Sink draining looks like an eye

Mesmerizing eye

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

Big bottoms

Multi-legged bird

Freak of Nature

Bushfire optical illusion

Bushfire

Man skydiving into Burning Man festival

A Festival for Ants

This mangrove tree is leaving the beach on tippy toes.

Tippy toes

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

God of all cats

God of all Cats

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

Grate Optical Illusion

Strained Expression

Sexy Birch Tree

Sexy Birch

Yosemite Firefall is a landmark that is an optical illusion

Firefall

Body art parrot

Parrot

Photoshop street art

Erased Street Art

The eye of a cyber poppy

Cyber Poppy

Jupiter close-up

Jupiter

deflated dog

Deflated dog

Magic Sword

Footprint in the sand

Reflective bird

Reflective bird

Street in Macau

The Invasion

Snapdragon seed pods looking like pixy skulls

Pixie Skulls

High-rise buildings optical illusion

High-rise buidings

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

Grate view of Central Park

Grate View of Central Park

Screaming up or down?

Invisible - viral photo of girl with mirror

Invisible

Prehistoric snake

Prehistoric Snake

Zombies attack

Zombie Attack

Peacock with its head in the ground

Peacock with its head in the ground

photo doctored by NASA

NASA doctored photos?

Mother nature breastfeeding

Mother Nature