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

Animals and optical illusions

The Dress blue black white gold

Color Constancy Illusions

Is this a bird or a rabbit?

Ambiguous illusions

Most Awesome Illusions

Street in Macau

The Invasion

Door handle optical illusion reflection

Door handle

Strained Expression

Man playing with toy cars

Toy Cars

Multi-legged bird

Freak of Nature

This lake view garden does not have a lake in sight

Lake View Garden

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

Big women

Prehistoric snake

Prehistoric Snake

Zombies attack

Zombie Attack

Kobi Levi shoes. best for stairs

Best for Stairs

Grate view of Central Park

Grate View of Central Park

This dancing twigs art is an example of pareidolia

Nature’s Dance

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

Live Wallpaper

hills with trees

Hills and trees

God of all cats

God of all Cats

Sink draining looks like an eye

Mesmerizing eye

Seeing Eye Dog illusion

Seeing Eye Dog

Invisible - viral photo of girl with mirror

Invisible

Music notes

Music Notes

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

The eye of the tower

Penrhyn Castle in Wales looks like a swamp monster

Swamp monster

Yosemite Firefall is a landmark that is an optical illusion

Firefall

Rice field looks like reflection

Reflected rice fields

Bushfire optical illusion

Bushfire

Howling wolf cloud

Howling Wolf

deflated dog

Deflated dog

The pensive olive tree

The Pensive Olive Tree

Asthmatic cat gets pumped up.

Pump it up!

Man running into the sky

Running into the sky

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

Big bottoms

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

Bottoms up, Ice Cube!

Alien invasion in Texas

Alien Invasion

2d stairs optical illusion

2D stairs

Volcano ash cloud pareidolia

Magayon and Pangaronon

Sexy Birch Tree

Sexy Birch

The Yangzhou Zhongshuge bookstore has an optical illusion created by reflection

Tunnel of Books

Realistic painting

Realistic Painting

Canoeing in a winter wonderland

Canoe in the Winter

Screw hole

photo doctored by NASA

NASA doctored photos?

Jupiter close-up

Jupiter

Magic Sword

High-rise buildings optical illusion

High-rise buidings

Sutro tower in San Francisco fog

Flying Dutchman

UFO ready for takeoff

UFO

Man skydiving into Burning Man festival

A Festival for Ants

Screaming up or down?

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

Snapdragon seed pods looking like pixy skulls

Pixie Skulls

disappearing trailer

Disappearing trailer

Reflective bird

Reflective bird

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

The eye of a cyber poppy

Cyber Poppy

Water drop on the kitchen floor

Water drop

A starry night sky optical illusion

A Starry Night Sky

Deadvlei in Namibia is a great landmark to photograph optical illusions

The Starry Night (in Africa)

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

Skywalker

Footprint in the sand

impossible woodwork, impossible object in real life

Impossible woodwork

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 fire demon signals the apocolypse

Fire demon

These migrating horses are actually shadows of zebras.

Migrating horses

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

Elvish writing

Elvish Writing

Pigeons sitting on wires creating shit music

Shit music

Peacock with its head in the ground

Peacock with its head in the ground

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

Deformed Building

Two giants thanks to forced perspective

Two giants

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

Grate Optical Illusion

mysterious tree pareidolia

Mysterious tree

Galaxy far away at Burning Man

A Galaxy Far Away

Photoshop street art

Erased Street Art

Floating cat head

concave and convex

The same image

Sand bear

Sand Bear

The sun eclipsed by a basketball

Solar Eclipse

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

Ominous bird

Body art parrot

Parrot

tree eye

Eye of a tree

Escher drawing IRL

Escher drawing IRL

Stairs inside a cabinet

Stairs Inside a Cabinet

A dock to the sky

Dock to the sky

Plane crash illusion

Plane Crash

grumpy tree illusion pareidolia

Grumpy tree

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

Underwater Waterfall

Rakotzbrücke was designed the create an optical illusion

Full Circle

Mimetolith

Green Kong

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

Bride Waterfall

Shark Attack

Shark Attack

Mother nature breastfeeding

Mother Nature

Giant party in the skyline

Giant Party in the Skyline

Gravity hills

Gravity hills

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

Assorted Dried Beans

a giant in the forest or real life ent

Giant in the Forest

impossible woodwork

Impossible woodwork

Goal perspective

Goal perspective

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

Skull

This car roof is perfectly polished

Perfectly Polished

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

Shadow Avatars

The black dog looks like it is floating above the sunbed

Floating Dog