Before jumping on in we have one question on our minds: what is an optical illusion? What is an optical illusion? Optical illusions are visuals that tend to be deceptive to the eye and brain. This is ...

So I've read in more than a few places that color doesn't exist outside our heads, it's just wavelengths of light. That our brains are the things that make color, same with sound (which is just ...

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Remember that viral photo of the dress that caused such a stir online? Since then, we keep seeing similar visual illusions designed to mess with our brains, and the latest one is the image above, ...

Optical illusions trick you into seeing things that aren’t real, like still images that appear to move or identical colors that look different. This happens because your eyes and brain speak a "simple ...

An curved arrow pointing right. Things are not always what they seem. While most of the time our brain processes what our eyes see, there are instances when this powerful organ fails us. We selected a ...

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Last night, you went to sleep in a reasonable world, a place where reality followed a certain set of rules and things at least kinda mostly made sense; but today, you woke up to a parallel universe of ...

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Before jumping on in we have one question on our minds: what is an optical illusion? Optical illusions are visuals that tend to be deceptive to the eye and brain. This is based on numerous factors ...