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sorrowful rock face pareidolia

How do optical illusions work?

Rorscharch inkblot

What Optical Illusions Reveal about You

Superior mirages

Inferior and Superior Mirages, and Fata Morgana

Most Awesome Illusions

Sutro tower in San Francisco fog

Flying Dutchman

This dancing twigs art is an example of pareidolia

Nature’s Dance

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

The eye of the tower

This car roof is perfectly polished

Perfectly Polished

Screw hole

Floating cat head

a giant in the forest or real life ent

Giant in the Forest

Magic Sword

Shark Attack

Shark Attack

Sink draining looks like an eye

Mesmerizing eye

Snapdragon seed pods looking like pixy skulls

Pixie Skulls

Stairs inside a cabinet

Stairs Inside a Cabinet

Two giants thanks to forced perspective

Two giants

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

Assorted Dried Beans

Grate view of Central Park

Grate View of Central Park

Door handle optical illusion reflection

Door handle

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

Bushfire optical illusion

Bushfire

Street in Macau

The Invasion

tree eye

Eye of a tree

Kobi Levi shoes. best for stairs

Best for Stairs

concave and convex

The same image

Floating helmet

Floating helmet and wheel

Alien invasion in Texas

Alien Invasion

Shoebill, No egrets, Herun

Shoebill?

Galaxy far away at Burning Man

A Galaxy Far Away

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

Big women

too many legs to climb this ladder

Too many legs

Seeing Eye Dog illusion

Seeing Eye Dog

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

UFO ready for takeoff

UFO

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

Bride Waterfall

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

Live Wallpaper

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

Underwater Waterfall

disappearing trailer

Disappearing trailer

This mangrove tree is leaving the beach on tippy toes.

Tippy toes

A dock to the sky

Dock to the sky

Strained Expression

High-rise buildings optical illusion

High-rise buidings

A starry night sky optical illusion

A Starry Night Sky

mysterious tree pareidolia

Mysterious tree

Photoshop street art

Erased Street Art

Deadvlei in Namibia is a great landmark to photograph optical illusions

The Starry Night (in Africa)

Gravity hills

Gravity hills

Zombies attack

Zombie Attack

These migrating horses are actually shadows of zebras.

Migrating horses

Man running into the sky

Running into the sky

This fire demon signals the apocolypse

Fire demon

Invisible - viral photo of girl with mirror

Invisible

Giant party in the skyline

Giant Party in the Skyline

deflated dog

Deflated dog

Man skydiving into Burning Man festival

A Festival for Ants

Multi-legged bird

Freak of Nature

Realistic painting

Realistic Painting

Jupiter close-up

Jupiter

Volcano ash cloud pareidolia

Magayon and Pangaronon

footprints in the sand depth ambiguity

Footprints in the sand

God of all cats

God of all Cats

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

Shadow Avatars

Elvish writing

Elvish Writing

Penrhyn Castle in Wales looks like a swamp monster

Swamp monster

Footprint in the sand

Sexy Birch Tree

Sexy Birch

Pigeons sitting on wires creating shit music

Shit music

The eye of a cyber poppy

Cyber Poppy

Yosemite Firefall is a landmark that is an optical illusion

Firefall

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

Deformed Building

impossible woodwork, impossible object in real life

Impossible woodwork

2d stairs optical illusion

2D stairs

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

Skull

Sand bear

Sand Bear

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

Grate Optical Illusion

Music notes

Music Notes

Man playing with toy cars

Toy Cars

Peacock with its head in the ground

Peacock with its head in the ground

Plane crash illusion

Plane Crash

Screaming up or down?

This lake view garden does not have a lake in sight

Lake View Garden

Mimetolith

Green Kong

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

Bottoms up, Ice Cube!

impossible woodwork

Impossible woodwork

photo doctored by NASA

NASA doctored photos?

Asthmatic cat gets pumped up.

Pump it up!

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

The sun eclipsed by a basketball

Solar Eclipse

Goal perspective

Goal perspective

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

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

Big bottoms

Escher drawing IRL

Escher drawing IRL

The Yangzhou Zhongshuge bookstore has an optical illusion created by reflection

Tunnel of Books

Rakotzbrücke was designed the create an optical illusion

Full Circle

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

Howling wolf cloud

Howling Wolf

hills with trees

Hills and trees

Prehistoric snake

Prehistoric Snake

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

Reflective bird

Reflective bird

Mother nature breastfeeding

Mother Nature

Body art parrot

Parrot