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Rorscharch inkblot

What Optical Illusions Reveal about You

Rainbows are illusions

Types of Optical Illusions

Squirrel Stereogram

Stereograms

Most Awesome Illusions

Penrhyn Castle in Wales looks like a swamp monster

Swamp monster

A starry night sky optical illusion

A Starry Night Sky

Galaxy far away at Burning Man

A Galaxy Far Away

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

Assorted Dried Beans

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

Skull

Footprint in the sand

tree eye

Eye of a tree

Asthmatic cat gets pumped up.

Pump it up!

Man skydiving into Burning Man festival

A Festival for Ants

Street in Macau

The Invasion

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

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

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

Bottoms up, Ice Cube!

Reflective bird

Reflective bird

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

Bride Waterfall

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

Deformed Building

The pensive olive tree

The Pensive Olive Tree

Snapdragon seed pods looking like pixy skulls

Pixie Skulls

A dock to the sky

Dock to the sky

Bushfire optical illusion

Bushfire

Sutro tower in San Francisco fog

Flying Dutchman

This dancing twigs art is an example of pareidolia

Nature’s Dance

Stairs inside a cabinet

Stairs Inside a Cabinet

too many legs to climb this ladder

Too many legs

Goal perspective

Goal perspective

concave and convex

The same image

Screaming up or down?

Sexy Birch Tree

Sexy Birch

mysterious tree pareidolia

Mysterious tree

Strained Expression

Shoebill, No egrets, Herun

Shoebill?

The sun eclipsed by a basketball

Solar Eclipse

Yosemite Firefall is a landmark that is an optical illusion

Firefall

Shark Attack

Shark Attack

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

Live Wallpaper

These migrating horses are actually shadows of zebras.

Migrating horses

Magic Sword

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

Seeing Eye Dog illusion

Seeing Eye Dog

Howling wolf cloud

Howling Wolf

Door handle optical illusion reflection

Door handle

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

Grate Optical Illusion

disappearing trailer

Disappearing trailer

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

grumpy tree illusion pareidolia

Grumpy tree

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

Rakotzbrücke was designed the create an optical illusion

Full Circle

UFO ready for takeoff

UFO

High-rise buildings optical illusion

High-rise buidings

Body art parrot

Parrot

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

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

Big bottoms

photo doctored by NASA

NASA doctored photos?

Deadvlei in Namibia is a great landmark to photograph optical illusions

The Starry Night (in Africa)

Grate view of Central Park

Grate View of Central Park

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

Kobi Levi shoes. best for stairs

Best for Stairs

Elvish writing

Elvish Writing

This lake view garden does not have a lake in sight

Lake View Garden

Man running into the sky

Running into the sky

Volcano ash cloud pareidolia

Magayon and Pangaronon

Giant party in the skyline

Giant Party in the Skyline

The eye of a cyber poppy

Cyber Poppy

Water drop on the kitchen floor

Water drop

Floating cat head

Realistic painting

Realistic Painting

Pigeons sitting on wires creating shit music

Shit music

Invisible - viral photo of girl with mirror

Invisible

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

Ominous bird

Alien invasion in Texas

Alien Invasion

Sink draining looks like an eye

Mesmerizing eye

The Yangzhou Zhongshuge bookstore has an optical illusion created by reflection

Tunnel of Books

Jupiter close-up

Jupiter

Multi-legged bird

Freak of Nature

Mother nature breastfeeding

Mother Nature

This car roof is perfectly polished

Perfectly Polished

impossible woodwork, impossible object in real life

Impossible woodwork

impossible woodwork

Impossible woodwork

Prehistoric snake

Prehistoric Snake

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

Underwater Waterfall

Sand bear

Sand Bear

deflated dog

Deflated dog

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

Big women

Plane crash illusion

Plane Crash

Escher drawing IRL

Escher drawing IRL

This mangrove tree is leaving the beach on tippy toes.

Tippy toes

Music notes

Music Notes

Screw hole

footprints in the sand depth ambiguity

Footprints in the sand

Lake Sørvágsvatn is a landmark that is an optical illusion

Lake Above the Ocean

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

Skywalker

hills with trees

Hills and trees

Photoshop street art

Erased Street Art

Gravity hills

Gravity hills

Two giants thanks to forced perspective

Two giants

Zombies attack

Zombie Attack