Focus on the left-hand black cross for 30 seconds. Move your gaze right. Trippy, huh? An ‘afterimage’ is what you see after staring at something and glancing away. Scientific American provides the complete explanation, but colour perception involves cone cells in the rear of our eyes.
Twitter favored a sweet image of a man petting a bird. Bunny rabbit? The Tweet has been viewed over 14m times, however some can't identify the animal. Watch the video Tweet or read the answer below.
Only 1% can read this image's hidden message. May you? TikTok became obsessed with this optical illusion. Test your eyes to see if you can solve it. No? Squint. Click here to see the TikTok video or see the answers below if you're still unsure.
We can see why this stunning 3D Hole Optical Illusion has almost 50m YouTube views. Learn to make a similar illusion in two minutes. Try the 3D Heart Hole if you like.
This optical illusion was named ‘The Dress That Broke the Internet’ in 2015. Is this dress blue and black? What about white and gold? (Bottom answer) The Journal of Vision published many peer-reviewed publications about this outfit after it went viral on Tumblr. The quick answer is that your brain determines color based on object and light source colors. Colors varied depending on whether your brain perceived the clothing in shadow or direct light.
This 400-tile optical illusion was created by a Manchester, England company to dissuade customers from running in their showroom hallway. The image went popular on Reddit. How does looking at the tiles from a different angle remove the floor's "dent"? (Bottom answer)
Itsme.fuzz's optical illusion quizzes and insights have garnered over 110,000 views and 2.8m likes on TikTok. Do you see tigers or trees first? Saxophone-playing woman or face? Learn your personality by testing yourself. See below for the tiger/saxophone answer.
Bas-relief sculptures may be the oldest optical illusions. It uses the ‘What did you see first?’ test too. The 850-year-old Airavatesvara Temple in India has a confusing sculpture that can be an elephant or a bull.
This photograph divided Twitter and the Internet, with JK Rowling, Piers Morgan, and Stephen Fry debating what they saw. Rowling believes right-brained people perceive fish. Mermaids appear to left-brained people.” Some observers observed six entities in the illusion.
The contrast sensitivity that allows people to see differences between objects and backgrounds is tested by this optical illusion. You see how many numbers?