Optical Illusions So Crazy You’ll Blink Twice in Disbelief

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00:00Wow, something bizarre is about to go down.

00:03Focus on this cross right here.

00:05Ignore the wild celebrity roulette spinning around the edges.

00:09And whatever you do, don't blink.

00:11Just keep staring at the cross in the middle.

00:14Now tell me, do you notice how our favorite stunning celebrities are starting to look

00:18like something out of a monster movie?

00:21No special effects are happening here, trust me.

00:24All of this is purely in your mind.

00:27So when you're presented with a series of eye-aligned photos, one after the other,

00:32your brain kind of glitches, mixing them up and making them look distorted.

00:36Before you know it, even the most flawless features of Hollywood's Barbie and Ken,

00:41I mean Margot Robbie and Ryan Gosling, begin to look twisted, squashed, or stretched.

00:46Ooh, the chills!

00:48Here we have an animation of four faces flipping between Selena Gomez and Demi Lovato.

00:54But are you ready for a spin?

00:56These faces will keep switching back and forth between the two of them, but now they'll

01:00also be spinning in a circle.

01:03Fix your gaze on this cross and resist the urge to look away.

01:07If you stay focused right on the center, you'll find it almost impossible to spot the morphing

01:11between their faces.

01:13The transition seems delayed, like it's barely happening.

01:17But the moment we stop the spinning motion, BAM, it's pretty clear that the morphing

01:22animation was happening the whole time at the same speed.

01:27Meet the rotating rays illusion.

01:30If you're seeing what I'm seeing, the outer ring looks like it's moving clockwise,

01:34while the inner ring seems to spin counterclockwise.

01:38But what's strange about it is that these circles aren't moving at all.

01:42Our eye movements play a huge role in creating this effect.

01:45I mean, when you keep shifting your gaze around the image, the illusion of motion continues.

01:51But can we make things more interesting by placing a picture of Kim Kardashian right

01:55in the center?

01:57Focus just on her face and try your best not to blink.

02:01Notice how the rings seem to slow down or even stop?

02:04Bizarre, huh?

02:06This illusion was created by a Japanese professor known for designing tons of mind-bending illusions.

02:12Like this one, where it looks like rollers with blue dots are turning towards each other.

02:16Or this one, where yellow rings seem to move up and down, almost as if they're getting

02:21closer together.

02:23But again, these aren't animations or GIFs.

02:26The motion is only happening in your mind.

02:31The painting The Scream is scary on its own.

02:35But one optical illusion can make it even weirder, practically bringing it to life.

02:40If we throw in a little zooming in and out motion to Munch's iconic work, the haunting

02:45face seems to grow and shrink, almost as if it's jumping out at you.

02:50It makes The Scream feel all too real, right?

02:54Of course, this after-effect illusion isn't just for paintings.

02:57We can do the same with a photo from Rihanna's concert.

03:01Fix your gaze on the middle of the image, and you'll start to see her move, almost

03:05like you're getting a front-row seat to a live performance.

03:08Alright, maybe it's not quite as cool as seeing Rihanna actually perform, but it's

03:13still pretty awesome.

03:16Next we have this pretty ordinary checkerboard image.

03:19But I'll ask you to pay special attention to the squares marked with the letters A and

03:24B. So, are they the same color or different?

03:28Most people confidently say that square A is darker and B is lighter.

03:33But what's bizarre about it is that they are actually the same exact shade of gray.

03:37Ooh, one of 50 shades of gray?

03:40Sorry, I couldn't help it.

03:42Anyway, how does this magic happen?

03:44Well, the square labeled B is sitting in the shadow of that cylinder.

03:49Your brain automatically thinks, hey, shadows make things darker.

03:53So it brightens square B to adjust for the shadow, while square A, which is outside of

03:58the shadow, is left as it is.

04:01Let's talk about the paperclip illusion.

04:05If you take a simple grid and add perfectly straight diagonal lines, something strange

04:10happens.

04:11They look bent or kinked.

04:13It's called the paperclip illusion because some people think that the lines resemble

04:17a row of paperclips.

04:19Can't see it?

04:20Well, there is a way to fix that.

04:21If you look at the image from the corner of your eye, the effect gets stronger.

04:26So let's put a photo of Timothee Chalamet in the corner.

04:30Fix your gaze on him, and in your peripheral vision, you'll notice those straight lines

04:34now seem bent like a bunch of paperclips floating around.

04:38Can you see it now?

04:40Another interesting thing is that the effect changes if you adjust the thickness of the

04:44lines.

04:45Make them thicker, and instead of paperclips, the illusion shifts to something that looks

04:49like chains.

04:51But if we do the opposite, making the lines thinner, they'll look more like wavy ribbons.

04:57Here we have photos of two pairs of Crocs.

05:00And we can all agree that this one is pink and this one is green, right?

05:04Awesome!

05:05But let's make it a bit harder with this new picture.

05:08So what color are these Crocs?

05:10Take a good look and tell me.

05:12Which option do you think you just saw?

05:15Number 1, number 2, or number 3?

05:18Got your answer?

05:20If you guessed option 1, you are correct.

05:23These Crocs are actually pink, but they look gray because there's a green filter over

05:28the image.

05:29The lighting tricks our eyes into seeing colors differently.

05:32White things, like these socks, turn green, while pink things, like these Crocs, turn

05:37a kind of gray.

05:39This color constancy illusion proves just how much lighting can deceive our brains.

05:45There was one more pink illusion for you.

05:48This time, we have an image with a white circle in the middle.

05:51But now let's add some motion to it.

05:54I know this animation is intense, but keep staring at the black X in the center.

05:59Suddenly that white circle seems to take on a soft pink hue.

06:03It's almost as if the red and white pixels around it are blending together.

06:07A similar thing happens with this red and white checkerboard.

06:10Keep focusing on the black X again right in the center, and will you notice that when

06:15the checkerboard suddenly changes to all white, the red spaces still might look faintly pink?

06:22One explanation is that when you stare at the X, your eyes get used to seeing the red

06:26and white edges.

06:28This adaptation effect leaves an afterimage in your vision, and your brain holds onto

06:32the red so strongly that when it's removed, it fills in the white with a touch of pink.

06:40For our final trick, we have an illusion called the Poggendorf Triangles.

06:45What do you see when you look at this weird shape?

06:48So you might see it as two triangles put together.

06:51One here and the other one here, right?

06:53That makes sense, but that is not the correct answer.

06:57I mean, yeah, there are in fact two triangles in this image, but not in those positions.

07:02What's happening is that your brain probably thinks there's an imaginary diagonal line

07:07running through them, like those two edges are connected and part of a single line.

07:11But the truth is that those edges don't connect at all.

07:15See?

07:16They're actually two distinct lines that don't line up.

07:19Like I said earlier, there are indeed two triangles in this image, just not in the way

07:24we expect.

07:25Let's separate these shapes, and wow, there they are!

07:29This illusion works because when we see objects that are partly hidden, our brains sort of

07:34create imaginary outlines to make things seem more logical.

07:39But those outlines aren't actually there.

07:41The same happens here.

07:43Your brain thinks this image is just bizarre and then tries to figure it out by filling

07:47in the empty spaces in the middle.

07:50So you end up seeing the gray areas as part of a single translucent rectangle, which definitely

07:55doesn't exist.

07:57Crazy, huh?

08:00That's it for today!

08:01So hey, if you pacified your curiosity, then give the video a like and share it with your

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