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Knowledge

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

Bezold effect fabric

Bezold Effect

Locomotives in their natural habitat

Pareidolia (Seeing faces)

Alien invasion in Texas

Alien Invasion

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

Penrhyn Castle in Wales looks like a swamp monster

Swamp monster

Strained Expression

This is a big daddy dog looking proud

Big Daddy

Half assed donkey in Columbus Zoo

Half Assed

A cat sleeping at a model village

Enormous cat napping

Asthmatic cat gets pumped up.

Pump it up!

Bicycle wheels on a truck

Bicycle wheels on a truck

A cat head on a blue tile floor

Cat Head

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

This photo is upside down. It is a nearly submerged SUV in a lake with many bystanders. After this image was first posted to Reddit in January 2020, it has become a popular meme with the caption: "The difference between a UFO and a female driver is 180 degrees."

180 degrees

click to see the illusion

This photo captured by Adam Samu seems to show a British Airways airplane being struck by birds.

Bird Strike

This enormous snake caught in Alabama in 2022 only looks huge thanks to a forced perspective photography technique.

Enormous snake

A giant bullfrog in Texas

Giant bullfrog

Forced perspective explained with this three rings illusion by Dr Matt Pritchard

Three Rings Forced Perspective Illusion

Off-road truck optical illusion video

Off-road Truck Capabilities

This lake view garden does not have a lake in sight

Lake View Garden

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

Underwater Waterfall

Potemkin Stairs makes use of forced perspective

Potemkin Stairs

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

Deformed Building

Lake Sørvágsvatn is a landmark that is an optical illusion

Lake Above the Ocean

Gravity hills

Gravity hills

Strawberries color constancy

Blueberries

Wall drilling forced perspective illusion

Wall drilling illusion

This fire demon signals the apocolypse

Fire demon

This baby ostrich looks so fluffy

Baby Ostrich

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

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

Bride Waterfall

This dancing twigs art is an example of pareidolia

Nature’s Dance

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

Skywalker

This photo of a headless player of the Philidelphia Phillies is perfectly timed.

Headless player

Prepare for a nightmare. This mothing is making the bed ready with a fresh demon in this haunting optical illusion.

Prepare for a nightmare

In this optical illusion someone is feeling deflated.

Feeling deflated

This optical illusion is a cow with no body

Nobody’s cow

This goblin staring into your soul is just a scary optical illusion

Goblin spy on a plane

This optical illusion is actually an aerial shot of BLM protests in Boston in 2020.

Gravel flower bed

This raw chicken is actually a sphinx cat creating an optical illusion.

Raw Chicken

The white egret flower, or Pecteilis radiata is a species of orchid found in China, Japan, Korea and Russia.

White Egret

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

Ominous bird

This patrol pup is a giant dog and can ride his owner around.

Pup Patrol

The perspective of this photo create the optical illusion of a giant dog

Larger than life

This cat portal has just opened up in the television. Or is it just an optical illusion?

Cat portal

Echidna kitten

This cat optical illusion looks like a weird deer on a sofa

Oh deer! It’s a cat

Guarana grows in the Amazaon and is best known for the seeds of the fruits, looking like eyes.

Eyes of the Amazon

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

The eye of the tower

sorrowful rock face pareidolia

A sorrowful rock

mysterious tree pareidolia

Mysterious tree

grumpy tree illusion pareidolia

Grumpy tree

Hand going through cat illusion

Hand through a cat

Flying cat

Flying cat

Snake cat

Snake cat

Caterpillar illusion

Beautiful Caterpillar

Dogs sharing a mouth

Escher drawing IRL

Escher drawing IRL

Big Bird illusion

Big Bird

Ghostrider

Ghostrider

Cat shadow illusion

Misbehaving Shadow

Girl with weird toe socks

Toe socks?

Missing pixels in de sky

Missing pixels

Amputee illusion

Unsuspecting Amputee

Floating cat illusion

Floating Black Cat

Giant lamps optical illusion

Giant lamps

collage illusion of 2 ships

Collage illusion of ship

Floating cat head

Dirt wheel on bicycle optical illusion

Dirt Wheels

Cliff at great heights above a highway at Gulek Castle, Turkey.

Great heights

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

Knot of snakes illusion by the atticus atlas moth.

Knot of snakes

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

Live Wallpaper

Half cup

Cup Half Full

Tree mural

Tree Mural

Canoeing in a winter wonderland

Canoe in the Winter

Beach Yeti

Beach Yeti

Grid illusion busty shirt

Grid Illusion Shirt

KFC Puppies

Fried Chicken Tenders

Ghost in a tree

Ghost in a Tree

Yard Ghost

Yard Ghost

The indentations look like footprints in the sand or artificial leather.

Artificial Leather

Hidden ad in the shape of a kitchen in newspaper

Hidden ad in advertisement page

Missing Chair Leg

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

Assorted Dried Beans

Galaxy far away at Burning Man

A Galaxy Far Away

Pipe cleaner Arms

Pipe Cleaner Arms

Jupiter close-up

Jupiter

Snapdragon seed pods looking like pixy skulls

Pixie Skulls

Flaming hot girl

Flaming Hot Girl

Floating Ice

Trees wearing a tutu

Pasha Bulker

Giant Ship

Boats floating in the bay

Floating either way

Man playing with toy cars

Toy Cars

Shark Attack

Shark Attack

Body art parrot

Parrot

Sexy Birch Tree

Sexy Birch

Mirror Step by Derek Paul Boyle

Trippy Stairs

Cat with a hole in its body

Cat with a Hole

Small Mathieu Valbuena

Fair Game

Dog big teeth

What Big Teeth you Have