Instructions: 1. Stare at the red dot on the girl’s nose for 30 seconds. 2. Turn your eyes to a plain surface (your ceiling or blank wall). 3. Blink repeatedly and quickly. 4. WTF!
This hurts my brain. Anyone else keep switching between seeing it and unseeing it?
Get the stakes ready Internet, we've got a witch to burn.
I hate when people show off their new things. Even if they are awesome. (via viralviralvideos.com)
Wait a minute… I see what you did there. (via laughingsquid.com)
Can't. Stop. Looking. The apparent movement in this static image is called the Fraser-Wilcox Illusion, and you can see more examples of it here. (via reddit.com)
Culture Buzz This post is 100 percent safe for work. Technically. I guess if you're trying to explain to your boss that the large vagina-looking thing on your screen is actually just some dude's armpit, you've already kind of lost the battle. But anyway.
An unreal piece of street art, “Mind Your Step” was created by Erik Johansson in Stockholm, Sweden.
This illusion is called “Silencing awareness of change by background motion” and it was dubbed 2011's Best Illusion of the Year. Personally, I think they should have just called it “Spinning Dot Mind Fuck.”
I've been staring at this for about 20 minutes now and it's still interesting. If I were a cat this would be my laser pointer. Sort of…
Culture Buzz Believe it or not, none of these pictures are Photoshopped. Some are the work of artists specializing in illusion, and others are simply the result of excellent timing.
Culture Buzz Forced perspective is a technique in photography that skews the viewer's perception of the relative distance of objects to create an optical illusion. Kind of like when people pretend they are holding up the Leaning Tower of Pisa, except, like, better than that. Hopefully. Here are some good ones.
Once you know how this works… it'll never work for you again. Your brain falls for the trick once but not twice.
i'm going to have a headache after this… [Ed. note: These aren't the fun kind that you can trick your friends with. They take hours to set up.]
This little ICP miracle (how the f@#% does it work?) was in the top 10 finalists of the Best Visual Illusion of the Year Contest 2010. (via Boing Boing.)
If the Spartan Golf Club wants to live up to their image, they need a Magic Eye book on every coffee table. Anything less would be false advertising.
400 candles, lit and arranged very precisely to create surprising results. Wait for it, wait for it.
Culture Buzz Amazing optical illusion in this video! [Ed Note: Jesus, you guys. It all makes sense now. There is no spoon.] (Via.)]
This is coolish. [Ed Note: FAKE!!1 Somebody call the fake police!!! He's clearly being held up by strings.]
Nothing to see here. Unless you want to have your mind blown by a crazy optical illusion! And really, who doesn't want that in these trying times? (Via.)
Check out this amazing optical illusion that makes you feel like you're traveling back (or forward) in time! Unless you have epilepsy. In that case, you really should know better.
You know how they write ambulance backwards so you can read it in your rear view mirror? This is sort of like that but not really. OK, nothing like that, but it may cause a short stint of panic.