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

Squirrel Stereogram

Stereograms

Superior mirages

Inferior and Superior Mirages, and Fata Morgana

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

Animals and optical illusions

Most Awesome Illusions

Seeing Eye Dog illusion

Seeing Eye Dog

Screw hole

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

Big women

Prehistoric snake

Prehistoric Snake

a giant in the forest or real life ent

Giant in the Forest

Bushfire optical illusion

Bushfire

Shoebill, No egrets, Herun

Shoebill?

too many legs to climb this ladder

Too many legs

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

Bottoms up, Ice Cube!

Two giants thanks to forced perspective

Two giants

Escher drawing IRL

Escher drawing IRL

Rice field looks like reflection

Reflected rice fields

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

The eye of the tower

Gravity hills

Gravity hills

Rakotzbrücke was designed the create an optical illusion

Full Circle

Water drop on the kitchen floor

Water drop

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

Grate Optical Illusion

Footprint in the sand

A starry night sky optical illusion

A Starry Night Sky

concave and convex

The same image

Asthmatic cat gets pumped up.

Pump it up!

This mangrove tree is leaving the beach on tippy toes.

Tippy toes

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

Peacock with its head in the ground

Peacock with its head in the ground

Grate view of Central Park

Grate View of Central Park

Goal perspective

Goal perspective

Man playing with toy cars

Toy Cars

disappearing trailer

Disappearing trailer

High-rise buildings optical illusion

High-rise buidings

Magic Sword

Sand bear

Sand Bear

Penrhyn Castle in Wales looks like a swamp monster

Swamp monster

Howling wolf cloud

Howling Wolf

This dancing twigs art is an example of pareidolia

Nature’s Dance

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

Assorted Dried Beans

The Yangzhou Zhongshuge bookstore has an optical illusion created by reflection

Tunnel of Books

Giant party in the skyline

Giant Party in the Skyline

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

Deadvlei in Namibia is a great landmark to photograph optical illusions

The Starry Night (in Africa)

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

Bride Waterfall

These migrating horses are actually shadows of zebras.

Migrating horses

Realistic painting

Realistic Painting

Man skydiving into Burning Man festival

A Festival for Ants

Door handle optical illusion reflection

Door handle

This car roof is perfectly polished

Perfectly Polished

mysterious tree pareidolia

Mysterious tree

Kobi Levi shoes. best for stairs

Best for Stairs

Mother nature breastfeeding

Mother Nature

Sexy Birch Tree

Sexy Birch

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

Skywalker

The eye of a cyber poppy

Cyber Poppy

Street in Macau

The Invasion

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

Shadow Avatars

Plane crash illusion

Plane Crash

tree eye

Eye of a tree

Zombies attack

Zombie Attack

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

Ominous bird

Sink draining looks like an eye

Mesmerizing eye

Galaxy far away at Burning Man

A Galaxy Far Away

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

Body art parrot

Parrot

Sutro tower in San Francisco fog

Flying Dutchman

The black dog looks like it is floating above the sunbed

Floating Dog

Volcano ash cloud pareidolia

Magayon and Pangaronon

Lake Sørvágsvatn is a landmark that is an optical illusion

Lake Above the Ocean

Man running into the sky

Running into the sky

photo doctored by NASA

NASA doctored photos?

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

Invisible - viral photo of girl with mirror

Invisible

Music notes

Music Notes

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

Underwater Waterfall

deflated dog

Deflated dog

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

Live Wallpaper

Photoshop street art

Erased Street Art

This fire demon signals the apocolypse

Fire demon

Elvish writing

Elvish Writing

UFO ready for takeoff

UFO

impossible woodwork

Impossible woodwork

Screaming up or down?

God of all cats

God of all Cats

Jupiter close-up

Jupiter

Shark Attack

Shark Attack

Multi-legged bird

Freak of Nature

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

Skull

This lake view garden does not have a lake in sight

Lake View Garden

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

Deformed Building

A dock to the sky

Dock to the sky

Yosemite Firefall is a landmark that is an optical illusion

Firefall

The sun eclipsed by a basketball

Solar Eclipse

Reflective bird

Reflective bird

hills with trees

Hills and trees

Stairs inside a cabinet

Stairs Inside a Cabinet

Mimetolith

Green Kong

impossible woodwork, impossible object in real life

Impossible woodwork

Snapdragon seed pods looking like pixy skulls

Pixie Skulls

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

Big bottoms

Canoeing in a winter wonderland

Canoe in the Winter

grumpy tree illusion pareidolia

Grumpy tree

Pigeons sitting on wires creating shit music

Shit music