Even if you're seeing something with your own eyes, you might not realize what's actually there. The brain and the eyes have a complicated relationship...
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...so what appears plain as day to you might not be the reality of what you're looking at. If you doubt that's the case, take a look at these eighteen images that appear simple enough, but will have you doubting yourself after you realize what's really going on in the pics.Stare at the orange and green dots. Then move your eyes to the yellow ones. Do you see the color change?
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You might not believe, but the bar in the middle of the image is the same color throughout.
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Stare at this image long enough and the middle box will melt into the background. Change focus quickly and it will appear to move!
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These dots might seems to make a distorted shape, but if you stare into the middle, they'll appear to be a normal grid.
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It looks like the squares in the middle are bulging outward, but they're all really the same size, you just perceive the edges differently because of the smaller squares inside them.
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The chess pieces are ALL the same color, but the background makes them appear to be almost negatives of each other.
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The pink boxes are in the exact same spots in both pics, but the "shadows" certainly make it look like one group hovers a lot higher.
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