Optical illusions are images that create an illusion of depth, movement or color. They are often created with visual imagery, but there are also auditory and other forms of optical illusions.

This article features many optical illusions that will mess with your head. Now when I say “mess with your head,” I mean it in a good way. It will leave you scratching your head in wonder, thinking about how the image is making you see something that isn’t really there.

Towards the end of this list, we will look at some optical illusions that don’t include any visuals – they are just audio clips that will make you hear things that aren’t actually there. This can be more difficult to comprehend because it doesn’t provide us with a picture to compare what we hear with what is actually there. But it’s still fun to try and figure out what is going on!

There are so many different types of optical illusions out there (far too many for one article), so I’ve made sure to include as many different kinds as possible in this list. Make sure you check out our other articles on optical illusions here on Listverse if you haven’t already!

Let’s take a look at these brain tricking pictures, shall we?

Optical illusions are a fun way to play with your perspective and challenge your brain. In order to create the illusions, artists will often use tricks of the eye — like hidden images or inversion — to fool us into believing that we’re seeing things that aren’t actually there.

Though many different types of optical illusions exist, some of the most interesting ones are those that mess up our sense of space and perspective. In this blog post, we’ll be taking a look at seven different optical illusion artworks that make you question what you’re seeing.

Titled “Lines,” this surreal piece by artist Aki Inomata is a great example of how artists can use perspective to mess with your perception of reality. By using bird cages as windows, the artist creates an image that is both simple yet complex and that leaves you wanting more.

How cool is this? While you’d think this was a photograph of a train station with an upside-down building in the background, it’s actually just one painting done by French artist Edgar Degas! Using light and shadow and some clever perspective, Degas created an optical illusion masterpiece.

In 2011, street artist Banksy created a series of three murals on buildings in Bristol, England, all depicting different situations involving

I think these optical illusions are fascinating. I’m making an effort to learn more about them and even read a book on the topic.

I decided to put together this list after reading an article that listed what the author considered to be the best optical illusions of all time. The list contained some of my favorites but also a few that I didn’t consider all that great.

The internet is filled with all kinds of optical illusions and a quick search will turn up dozens of websites dedicated to showcasing these visual tricks. But a lot of these sites have similar content and it’s hard to find sites that showcase only the more interesting ones.

Trying to find good, clean pictures of high quality illusions at a decent resolution can also be problematic. That’s why I decided to collect the best ones in one place and include descriptions where appropriate. This list isn’t intended to be comprehensive, but should contain enough interesting examples to keep you busy for a long time!

Optical illusions are a difficult concept for some to grasp. If you can’t see the illusion, how can you be fooled by it? But that isn’t the case at all. Optical illusions fool us because our brains see them as something they’re not; in some cases, what we’re seeing is a combination of several images or optical effects, each of which is correct by itself.

Tricks with shadows, reflections and unusual juxtapositions make up a large portion of optical illusions. In fact, many are so common that we hardly notice them any more, such as the one seen above on the door knob. There’s also an optical illusion based on the way we read words and sentences that is familiar to all of us: if you go back and re-read this paragraph now without moving your eyes, you’ll probably find yourself doing it backward.

Tricks with light and shadow are common in television and movies, especially when film makers want to create a dramatic scene using special effects. The movie “Crouching Tiger, Hidden Dragon” used an old theatrical trick called forced perspective to make actors look like they were flying. To do this, they built giant sets and placed them very close together so that the camera would have to shoot from a distance to get

There are some artists who manipulate their paintings to create an illusion of 3D images. However, there are some illusions that make you question what you see and even wonder if it is possible.

Here are some examples of these optical illusions. They might trick your brain but they highlight the limitations of our eyesight.

1.)  Escher-like stairs optical illusion**

2.)  Waterfall Illusion**

3.)  Impossible triangle**

4.)  The Face in the Wall**

5.)  Girl in the Cage**

6.)  The Cube**

7.)  The Rotating Rooms**

8.)  Penrose Triangle**

9.)  Swimming Pool Illusion**

10.)  The Rabbit’s Severed Head**

Optical illusions are images that appear to contradict the laws of physics, creating false perceptions and misleading interpretations of the viewer. While some optical illusions are created by accident, others are the result of careful planning on the part of the artists. Many visual illusions have been used to fool people in practical jokes or as magic tricks.

The Grasshopper and the Ants is a fable about two different groups of people. The ants live in a colony and work hard all summer long collecting food for the winter. The grasshopper thinks this is stupid and instead plays all summer long. When winter comes, the ants are well provisioned for the cold weather, but the grasshopper dies from exposure.

Told by Aesop in ancient Greece, it was later given a moral interpretation as advocating hard work. However, if you look at the story without any bias towards an outcome, you can see that both parties are behaving logically; they just have different values. The grasshopper feels that playing is its own reward, while the ants feel that working hard now will pay off in the future.

There’s nothing inherently right or wrong with either choice, but we’ve been taught to value working over playing because that’s what our society rewards. People who work hard get ahead, while people who play hard get mocked. The problem with this is that it doesn’t take into account that our perception of what’s ‘working’ and what’s ‘playing’ is subjective.

The following optical illusions demonstrate why this is true by showing us how easily our minds can be fooled into thinking we’re