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

Is this a bird or a rabbit?

Ambiguous illusions

Rorscharch inkblot

What Optical Illusions Reveal about You

sorrowful rock face pareidolia

How do optical illusions work?

Most Awesome Illusions

UFO ready for takeoff

UFO

Pigeons sitting on wires creating shit music

Shit music

tree eye

Eye of a tree

Multi-legged bird

Freak of Nature

Realistic painting

Realistic Painting

a giant in the forest or real life ent

Giant in the Forest

mysterious tree pareidolia

Mysterious tree

Escher drawing IRL

Escher drawing IRL

Sink draining looks like an eye

Mesmerizing eye

Stairs inside a cabinet

Stairs Inside a Cabinet

Giant party in the skyline

Giant Party in the Skyline

Sexy Birch Tree

Sexy Birch

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

Skywalker

Penrhyn Castle in Wales looks like a swamp monster

Swamp monster

too many legs to climb this ladder

Too many legs

Elvish writing

Elvish Writing

The sun eclipsed by a basketball

Solar Eclipse

Door handle optical illusion reflection

Door handle

concave and convex

The same image

High-rise buildings optical illusion

High-rise buidings

Man skydiving into Burning Man festival

A Festival for Ants

Water drop on the kitchen floor

Water drop

Music notes

Music Notes

disappearing trailer

Disappearing trailer

Volcano ash cloud pareidolia

Magayon and Pangaronon

Yosemite Firefall is a landmark that is an optical illusion

Firefall

grumpy tree illusion pareidolia

Grumpy tree

Two giants thanks to forced perspective

Two giants

Rice field looks like reflection

Reflected rice fields

Man playing with toy cars

Toy Cars

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

Grate Optical Illusion

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

Peacock with its head in the ground

Peacock with its head in the ground

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

Bride Waterfall

Floating cat head

Goal perspective

Goal perspective

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

Assorted Dried Beans

This lake view garden does not have a lake in sight

Lake View Garden

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

Live Wallpaper

Man running into the sky

Running into the sky

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

Strained Expression

Galaxy far away at Burning Man

A Galaxy Far Away

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

Big women

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

Skull

Gravity hills

Gravity hills

Jupiter close-up

Jupiter

Grate view of Central Park

Grate View of Central Park

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

Screw hole

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

The eye of the tower

impossible woodwork

Impossible woodwork

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

Shadow Avatars

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!

A starry night sky optical illusion

A Starry Night Sky

Plane crash illusion

Plane Crash

impossible woodwork, impossible object in real life

Impossible woodwork

Prehistoric snake

Prehistoric Snake

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

Sand bear

Sand Bear

Asthmatic cat gets pumped up.

Pump it up!

Snapdragon seed pods looking like pixy skulls

Pixie Skulls

A dock to the sky

Dock to the sky

The Yangzhou Zhongshuge bookstore has an optical illusion created by reflection

Tunnel of Books

Zombies attack

Zombie Attack

This car roof is perfectly polished

Perfectly Polished

These migrating horses are actually shadows of zebras.

Migrating horses

Alien invasion in Texas

Alien Invasion

Howling wolf cloud

Howling Wolf

Canoeing in a winter wonderland

Canoe in the Winter

God of all cats

God of all Cats

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

Deformed Building

This dancing twigs art is an example of pareidolia

Nature’s Dance

Shoebill, No egrets, Herun

Shoebill?

Reflective bird

Reflective bird

Sutro tower in San Francisco fog

Flying Dutchman

This fire demon signals the apocolypse

Fire demon

2d stairs optical illusion

2D stairs

Body art parrot

Parrot

deflated dog

Deflated dog

Magic Sword

The pensive olive tree

The Pensive Olive Tree

photo doctored by NASA

NASA doctored photos?

Rakotzbrücke was designed the create an optical illusion

Full Circle

Deadvlei in Namibia is a great landmark to photograph optical illusions

The Starry Night (in Africa)

Street in Macau

The Invasion

Screaming up or down?

Kobi Levi shoes. best for stairs

Best for Stairs

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

Underwater Waterfall

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 mangrove tree is leaving the beach on tippy toes.

Tippy toes

Shark Attack

Shark Attack

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

Invisible - viral photo of girl with mirror

Invisible

Mother nature breastfeeding

Mother Nature