15 Optical Illusions You HAVE to Try

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What we 'see' is purely a result of our brains interpreting the information being received, and often isn't a true reflection of reality. We simply can't process all incoming data in real-time, so our minds take shortcuts and fill in the blanks… which, in certain situations, can result in us seeing things that simply aren't there. Get ready to enter a world where you'll start questioning your own reality, as we take a look at 15 optical illusions you have to try!
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  • @kiwilerner
    @kiwilerner7 күн бұрын

    In the "Which way is it spinning" illusion, it's even more complex than explained by the narrator. While seeing it turn horizontally, one might see it spinning to the right or left--or swap between both, if you're capable. And when seeing it as vertical, it's possible to see it turn towards you or away from you. What a marvelously constructed illusion!

  • @zaizoesclashing7103
    @zaizoesclashing71038 күн бұрын

    5:20 i am able to focus enough to see it both ways. But at first i saw it going horizontally. But it takes alot of focus to flip it lol😂

  • @daveking3494
    @daveking349411 ай бұрын

    Exactly the same thing happens with our hearing as well. In music, if you just hear a C major chord, you assume it’s a piece in C Major. but depending on the context of the music following it, the piece might actually be in G Major, or F major. This is common knowledge, among musicians and composers. It has been used for hundreds of years to fool the listener, which makes the music more interesting! You could do a whole program on how our ears fool us as well.

  • @B30pt87

    @B30pt87

    Ай бұрын

    I would love to watch/hear a video on audio illusions!

  • @notmyworld44

    @notmyworld44

    27 күн бұрын

    That's precisely like when Beethoven started his C-major Symphony #1 with an F-7 chord. Interesting observation here.

  • @user-ie1tz5rm8x

    @user-ie1tz5rm8x

    19 күн бұрын

    You tied up my brains ,an left em in A knot!....sing that in the key of "w"

  • @Qkano

    @Qkano

    7 күн бұрын

    @@B30pt87 Start with Shepard tones ... They are seriously creepy ... kzread.info/dash/bejne/oIWjt8Frdc-sYZc.html

  • @vickieprentice5762
    @vickieprentice576226 күн бұрын

    I was able to see "most"of these illusions despite I only see out of one eye! Amazing 😍🤩

  • @danceswithmules

    @danceswithmules

    25 күн бұрын

    Makes perfect sense. These illusions are mostly about our brain's image processing and not about binocular vision. I personally loved the eye-bender illusion. I had a text document I was working on open in the background and could see the word swimming effect in it, too.

  • @mleise8292

    @mleise8292

    12 күн бұрын

    @@danceswithmules I was looking down at my keyboard and all the keys changed size like I was in friggin' Wonderland. Get me out of here!

  • @electroborg

    @electroborg

    11 күн бұрын

    I dunno if it happens to all people but if I play a first person shooter game with a 3d world and I close one eye, the image becomes 3d, it's like having 3d glasses because the brain reconstructs the missing information from the second eye by being tricked by the graphics. It's awesome.

  • @TheMangoMussolini
    @TheMangoMussolini10 күн бұрын

    hehehe The Girl in the Field got me....I don't think I ever would have seen that.

  • @ctakitimu
    @ctakitimu7 ай бұрын

    I love the way our brain constantly edits the world before presenting our consciousness with a picture of what we see. I saw a cool effect watching a guy slowly dribble a basketball while walking away. The ball hit the pavement at the same time as I heard the sound but only up until a certain distance when suddenly the 2 events were separate, sound and visual event. It wasn't gradual, it was sudden. Like my brain said "Yep, I can't match these two things up anymore to what you expect to experience". It's weird that it's sudden and not gradual. How much other stuff is my brain editing?

  • @B30pt87

    @B30pt87

    Ай бұрын

    All of it, actually.

  • @ctakitimu

    @ctakitimu

    Ай бұрын

    @@B30pt87 Well yeah, considering we're just brains in a pitch black container making our best guesses about our environment

  • @martyndawson7484

    @martyndawson7484

    10 күн бұрын

    Veritasium video about how sound on video or actual events has a limited time difference to appear synchronised.

  • @B30pt87

    @B30pt87

    10 күн бұрын

    @@ctakitimu Indeed!

  • @uptheBluessw6

    @uptheBluessw6

    5 күн бұрын

    Sometimes I wonder why we keep morphing and everything around us stays the same ?

  • @robertmcdonnold3038
    @robertmcdonnold30382 жыл бұрын

    Definitely one of your best videos.

  • @sandrainthesky1011
    @sandrainthesky1011 Жыл бұрын

    That last one is WILD! Try looking at the pattern then look into your room, everything moves in waves, so freaky!!!

  • @Simonskistunts

    @Simonskistunts

    3 күн бұрын

    did exactly that and instantly decided to not trust my brain anymore

  • @terryopsahl1677
    @terryopsahl167710 күн бұрын

    When I blink the bag of popcorn vanishes for a split second.

  • @andymcneil7085
    @andymcneil70852 ай бұрын

    Even more interesting too me as I have only one eye and I’m colourblind.

  • @vickieprentice5762

    @vickieprentice5762

    25 күн бұрын

    Hey Andy , I too am blind in one eye(lazy eye). But I am NOT color blind. These illusions were amazing. I was able to see most of them.

  • @notmyworld44
    @notmyworld4427 күн бұрын

    Excellent video with superb narration!

  • @SunsetStarship
    @SunsetStarship Жыл бұрын

    That last one gave me flashbacks to the 90's. Good times. :)

  • @macforme
    @macforme2 ай бұрын

    Who do I complain to that my eyes are now crossed after this video???!!!

  • @ludicrous7044

    @ludicrous7044

    Ай бұрын

    Complaints are universally ignored! 😋

  • @macforme

    @macforme

    Ай бұрын

    ​@@ludicrous7044 I think they might even count that as a win. 😂

  • @electroborg

    @electroborg

    11 күн бұрын

    That happens because of the 147 porn videos you watched before this one.

  • @joanfoxwright4221
    @joanfoxwright4221Ай бұрын

    You've blown my mind. I never saw the popcorn bag until you told me. Yikes!

  • @ludicrous7044

    @ludicrous7044

    Ай бұрын

    Your mind didn't LET you see it until you changed the program!🤓

  • @notmyworld44

    @notmyworld44

    27 күн бұрын

    I was especially entertained by that one!!!

  • @origamiswami2275
    @origamiswami22752 жыл бұрын

    I liked that peanut brittle staff illusion.

  • @godfoundmehere4180
    @godfoundmehere41802 жыл бұрын

    I did that last one and it turns green then I looked away at the wall and the wall was waving and moving that’s insane

  • @kennethcrandall8131
    @kennethcrandall813112 күн бұрын

    loved it!

  • @chillindave1357
    @chillindave13572 жыл бұрын

    Very cool!

  • @nicolasrose3064
    @nicolasrose306417 күн бұрын

    Dog's can see fast moving objects with a much faster response time because their brain's "communication delay" is much shorter than ours.

  • @RaySmith1662
    @RaySmith16625 күн бұрын

    Excellent Video! 😮😅😊

  • @brantnuttall
    @brantnuttall18 күн бұрын

    Monker Circle. honestly I just saw it rotating clockwise then anti clockwise

  • @grammybear4226
    @grammybear42262 жыл бұрын

    🐼 Big Bear Hugs from a 68 yr old grandma in Kirby, Texas, USA 🐼 ❤️ 🎀 ❤️ 🎀 ❤️

  • @amezcarl
    @amezcarl Жыл бұрын

    I have to say that this is a great way to get sleepy within minutes... Wasn´t trying to get sleepy but I was so concentrated on the images that I got suddenly tired LOL. Rather interesting video though. Gonna come here from time to time I guess...

  • @notmyworld44
    @notmyworld4427 күн бұрын

    Another very strange optical illusion: You are riding in the "bed" of a pickup truck. You are facing backwards so the passing scenery is receeding quickly away from you. You arrive at your destination and the truck stops. Now for several minutes everything in your field of vision looks as if it is rushing toward you. This is truly bizarre, and I have experienced it!

  • @christinaruffino9944
    @christinaruffino99442 ай бұрын

    The eye bender worked on my flowers in my yard. 😄

  • @ludicrous7044

    @ludicrous7044

    Ай бұрын

    Magicians use these tricks and call it magic!

  • @shadicrenegade562
    @shadicrenegade56212 күн бұрын

    Crow. Bet on that raven, penguin, or rabbit part. I call raven a crow, but Crows are so cute. Lmao, I love them so much.

  • @tj_2701

    @tj_2701

    10 күн бұрын

    Right, I've seen this in other videos and they actually play the whole clip and show it's a rabbit

  • @wayneyadams
    @wayneyadamsАй бұрын

    5:32 It is really cool they way it spontaneously changes rotation from horizontal to vertical and back again. It's almost magical.

  • @philippegilson
    @philippegilson14 сағат бұрын

    Hello ! N° 15 is amazing. N° 14. I see black and blue lines but no circle. N° 13. I can see the perspective trickery. N° 12 "dulaxis". I don't see any difference in the spinning because there is no spinning. N° 11. I don't see the circles changing colours. they are all "egg" coloured. N° 10. The vapour has no colour. N° 9. The illusion is amazing. N° 8. I immediately noticed the texture difference between the background and the popcorn bag. N° 7. Indeed, the illusion is there. N° 6. You could think it's a rabbit. But it's a raven. N° 5. I use this technic in wood working. N° 4. The orange discs are the same. N° 3. I don't use computers for that. It's too easy. N° 2. I don't see any colour change. N° 1. After concentrating in the middle circle, I don't see colours. And after that I don't see anything moving. I don't smoke any weed. Phil. Peace.

  • @chrismayer3919
    @chrismayer3919 Жыл бұрын

    The Schroeder staircase is my fave 😵‍💫

  • @wilhelmschroeder7345
    @wilhelmschroeder73457 күн бұрын

    Now I'm blind. Thanks, pal.

  • @Undulator369
    @Undulator369Ай бұрын

    That's amazing.

  • @dubdgaming3272
    @dubdgaming32722 жыл бұрын

    5:20 for me it’s just going left then right then left then right

  • @thierrypauwels
    @thierrypauwels2 ай бұрын

    This last illusion is well-known by people travelling by train. If you are looking continuously outside (what I often do), when the train stops, you get the impression that it is going backwards.

  • @patriot9455

    @patriot9455

    Ай бұрын

    I wonder if railroad locomotive enginees and brakemen would see these differently, after years on the train

  • @user-tl9ic6yr9i
    @user-tl9ic6yr9i2 жыл бұрын

    Fantastic fantastic

  • @lynnwood7205
    @lynnwood720518 күн бұрын

    Once in 1967 from the shoreline bluffs north of Duluth overlooking Lake Superior, the sky overcast and gray matching the color of the lake, I observed an ocean going freighter halfway in the sky. The atmosphere was moisture saturated, this moment being just a brief interlude during days of constant rain I thought at the time the illusion was because there was no delineation of horizon between the color of the sky and color of the lake water. the lake water at that moment being of the same texture as that of the sky. Perhaps a Fata Morgana?

  • @airfunmachinery8655
    @airfunmachinery86552 жыл бұрын

    We receive all kinds of information from the outside world, and the brain processes the information received, driving the neural impulses that internalize our own cognition. On the other hand, we have built a more powerful processing system internally, which can also generate some impulses spontaneously. Dreaming, for example, is an interpretation of internal information.

  • @Bracgypsy
    @BracgypsyАй бұрын

    Staring at the center letters from @18:45 to the ending scene of the video is even more impressive. 😵🥴

  • @patrickmcgrath5411
    @patrickmcgrath54112 жыл бұрын

    I CAN'T SEE ANYMORE..."BUT THAT WAS FUN"🤗

  • @gloria88246

    @gloria88246

    2 жыл бұрын

    🤣🤣🤣🤣right lol

  • @computerjantje
    @computerjantje14 күн бұрын

    very nice video. thank you

  • @mitsos76
    @mitsos767 күн бұрын

    How about stereograms?

  • @HobbyOrganist
    @HobbyOrganist8 күн бұрын

    Amazing thing is, even after we KNOW what the illusion or trick IS, we still can't seem to block that out!

  • @carrollkneece9098
    @carrollkneece90982 жыл бұрын

    Wow great video

  • @tedwalford7615
    @tedwalford761521 күн бұрын

    That second checkerboard really does have curved lines, as checked with a straight-edge, while the lines on the first-shown checkerboard did test straight.

  • @ratzasse
    @ratzasse4 күн бұрын

    I can almost certainly attest to the communication delay in my brain. Yup.

  • @oliviarinaldi5963
    @oliviarinaldi59632 жыл бұрын

    That was bloody well brilliant!!! Lol, on the last one when you were talking about vision returning to normal quickly and the view was a featured video, the entire picture was moving for me. Gotta love it.

  • @someone_stole_my_burnt_toast
    @someone_stole_my_burnt_toast Жыл бұрын

    Every time I saw this video I decided to scroll and it’s changing color from black to white this video is cool

  • @alexanderscott3647
    @alexanderscott36472 жыл бұрын

    on the last test 18:33, if you pause the video you'll see completely irrelevant text in bright white background "balance, trust adversity, friends, next play" and so on scrolling in the back ground. No obvious connection to that visual test. i figure a tiny bit of visual deceit here just to help get the authors point across here.

  • @sangeovr
    @sangeovr2 жыл бұрын

    Will try

  • @williamstier6445
    @williamstier6445Ай бұрын

    the letters in the trippy illusion at the end spell out the statement "we don't live in a world of reality, but in a world of perception".

  • @MysteriousBenedictBrain

    @MysteriousBenedictBrain

    Ай бұрын

    Yes! Glad someone pointed it out since the narrator behaved as if the letters were irrelevant.

  • @williamstier6445

    @williamstier6445

    Ай бұрын

    @@MysteriousBenedictBrain I mean yeah it is true that you don't need to notice the message to enjoy the visual hack. However (in my opinion at least) you would appreciate it that much more if you did.

  • @JohnTovar-ks8dp
    @JohnTovar-ks8dp19 күн бұрын

    Nice!

  • @Merlijnvv
    @MerlijnvvАй бұрын

    The checker board squares within squares create diagonals in a chevron pattern, and the chevrons are all pointing toward the center. This gives the illusion of a central summit. At 18:30 the same effect you see when staring at a floater for some time when fishing. The small waves have continuous motion. Then when you look at the grass in front of your feet it will seem like the ground has become a swirly mass.

  • @judythompson8227
    @judythompson8227Күн бұрын

    i don't have sight in one eye and I wonder if that's the reason I can't see some of the illusions...

  • @williamwalker8107
    @williamwalker810728 күн бұрын

    That was cool.

  • @YouTubeallowedmynametobestolen
    @YouTubeallowedmynametobestolen10 күн бұрын

    What's the difference between a Schroder Staircase and Penrose Steps? Is it just multiple Schroder Staircases are combined to make a loop to create Penrose Steps?

  • @alantaylor353
    @alantaylor3537 күн бұрын

    Now I have a headache.! 😉

  • @topherthe11th23
    @topherthe11th23Ай бұрын

    16:38 - It should be possible to build the "impossible waterfall" so that in a real life viewing (but only to a viewer who is looking through a specially-positioned ring) the water flows exactly as shown in the fa'ked video UP TO the point at which it reaches the "top". At that point the water would have to go into some secret place. But you could build this thing (and I'm sure someone has) so that the "top" is lower down than the "bottom" but you don't see it that way because the top is much further away, but built in a distorted way so that while being a larger gauge of trough seen at a greater distance it actually looks like the same size trough but nearer.

  • @Alwaysbmoving

    @Alwaysbmoving

    Ай бұрын

    Isn’t there a way to Mix the staircase and the waterfall to create visual magic?

  • @wayneyadams
    @wayneyadamsАй бұрын

    14:40 When comparing two objects or items the correct words are bigger and smaller. Biggest and smallest are only used when there are three or more objects or items.

  • @firstman9273
    @firstman92732 ай бұрын

    If you do the last one with one eye closed, when you then close the open eye and open the closed eye, i..e. switch them over, the wavy vision is only in the eye that was looking at the patterns, the other eye is rock solid.

  • @B30pt87
    @B30pt87Ай бұрын

    I love the blue @2:44.

  • @jedgould5531
    @jedgould55316 күн бұрын

    4:59 dual axis

  • @pookatim
    @pookatim10 күн бұрын

    In the final illusion, why do you have faint white text moving across the image of black text from right to left? I checked and it is there whether you look at the illusion or not. In fact you can pause the image and see the white text.

  • @mitchkatz4918
    @mitchkatz49185 күн бұрын

    a--Medeterranean seat, but b -looks like Caribbean sea with Florida, Cuba, Yucatan peninsula --17:32- am I missing the illusion?

  • @oddities-whatnot
    @oddities-whatnot2 жыл бұрын

    Superb channel this

  • @yvindwestersund9720
    @yvindwestersund9720 Жыл бұрын

    I've looked at the whole video and all of them was doing exactly as you said Except for the last one THE EYE BENDER I've watched it now 4 time's and I can still not get it to work The lines of words is still not moving Why isn't it moving 😫😩 Is there something wrong with my eyes or is there anything else going on Just wondering 😔🤔 Just saying 🇧🇻

  • @randydewees7338
    @randydewees733814 күн бұрын

    Watching a waterfall will produce the effect of #15

  • @stevenpellegrino997
    @stevenpellegrino9972 ай бұрын

    Most of these works when I was tired and fell asleep. Bt after watching it again. Right as I woke up. Most of them didn't work. I eyes and mind didn't mix or confused colors. This didn't move like they had when I was tired. Maybe because my brain has not fully awaken???

  • @arubaguy2733
    @arubaguy273326 күн бұрын

    The "dual axis" was strange enough when I could see it turning horizontally changing directions sort of randomly. Later when it was revealed that it can appear to spin vertically also...things got doubly strange. I believe the brain functions of higher life-forms will never be duplicated by microchips. The complexity of the biological brain still far exceeds even the most powerful supercomputers. Computers will always be much faster at their tasks, though.

  • @Nitephall
    @Nitephall2 ай бұрын

    I didn't see any water flowing at all. He should have dyed it.

  • @darkhorse452
    @darkhorse452 Жыл бұрын

    I see both without the color i see it spinning both ways

  • @costrio
    @costrio9 күн бұрын

    Morgana effect is also known as a mirage, I believe.

  • @newtoncooper4085
    @newtoncooper408527 күн бұрын

    2:09 I swear there was a blue mist, until you zoom in, bad brain.

  • @lindamills6192
    @lindamills6192Ай бұрын

    I started with a mild headache......not mild anymore😊

  • @heyletsplaythis
    @heyletsplaythis2 жыл бұрын

    What does it mean if you see the true image in everyone of these? 🧐🤷🏻‍♂️

  • @leviticus8362
    @leviticus83622 жыл бұрын

    my brain be like: AHHHHHHHHHHHHHHH CONFUSING, IMPOSSIBLE, CRAZY, OVERLOAD!!!!

  • @leviticus8362

    @leviticus8362

    2 жыл бұрын

    all but the water fall is not editing, i checked

  • @jamieandteddy2010
    @jamieandteddy20102 жыл бұрын

    That girl standing in a field is my friend.

  • @ctakitimu

    @ctakitimu

    7 ай бұрын

    Tell her to give back the popcorn she stole from me

  • @joehughes5177
    @joehughes517719 күн бұрын

    On the eye bender, you didnt mention the white text behind can you read this 18:31

  • @ashleyr6809
    @ashleyr68092 жыл бұрын

    Need to have an epilepsy warning for the last one. Some people have epilepsy.

  • @ctakitimu

    @ctakitimu

    7 ай бұрын

    Nah, remove all warning labels from everything. Removes the weak and dumb from the gene pool.

  • @keithhinke3277
    @keithhinke327713 күн бұрын

    Only one ring seemed to move when I moved back and forth, just inside the outer ring.

  • @louisfrancisco2171
    @louisfrancisco21719 күн бұрын

    16:23 If it's video editing, it's not an optical illusion.

  • @Down_is_now_up
    @Down_is_now_up29 күн бұрын

    This video can be sent to flat earthers when they say "trust your senses, it looks flat, doesn't it"?

  • @Fred-mp1vf
    @Fred-mp1vf14 күн бұрын

    5:58 Correction: There are only 3 colored lines. On my screen they're blue, green & red.

  • @pamelamujera4631
    @pamelamujera4631 Жыл бұрын

    its super illussionally

  • @yttrv8430
    @yttrv84302 жыл бұрын

    I can actually unsee it. Look back at the background.

  • @eleaftha2008

    @eleaftha2008

    2 жыл бұрын

    Same

  • @SMMore-bf4yi
    @SMMore-bf4yiАй бұрын

    Maybe why the neural pathways of a child connect to brain material at a much closer distance than the developing adult brain material & connecting pathways becoming more “spaced “out with age, like with micro to macro, two worlds are one world….spaced out, motion, perception, as in height, distance etc, illusion & much more, tricky…. Different to an actual image… Artist Escher illusionary artwork

  • @dank-dave
    @dank-dave2 жыл бұрын

    I think my brain is broken as it doesn’t fall for these illusions and understands what’s going on immediately

  • @dank-dave

    @dank-dave

    2 жыл бұрын

    Great video though!

  • @summerbrooks9922

    @summerbrooks9922

    Ай бұрын

    Me too. Don't know why.

  • @SMMore-bf4yi
    @SMMore-bf4yiАй бұрын

    The last one, after watching rotation then words, the words remained still

  • @hazelboyyt
    @hazelboyyt2 жыл бұрын

    19:00, you forgot to tell that your hands seem to be moving when you stare at the letters.

  • @Brightsupernova
    @Brightsupernova2 ай бұрын

    There is a meme circulating of a cat on the stairs, and it’s unclear if it’s going up or down. So, is it a Schrödinger’s cat on the Shroeder’s stairs?

  • @psycronizer
    @psycronizer2 жыл бұрын

    The brain takes shortcuts, gets confused etc. as all these illusions clearly show, these kinds of short falls will be some of the things that cybertechnology will attempt to modify, either with added high tech hardware via some wideband data interface directly into the brain or perhaps by genetic engineering later on.

  • @ctakitimu

    @ctakitimu

    7 ай бұрын

    To be fair, it has a LOT of data to process so crunching it to what we expect to see makes sense

  • @GeorgeSmiley77
    @GeorgeSmiley775 күн бұрын

    Came to see illusions, got sidetracked by stock footage that had nothing to do with illusions.

  • @909955847736
    @9099558477368 күн бұрын

    6:47 That's the first time I've ever heard of a mirage referred to by that name.

  • @SMMore-bf4yi
    @SMMore-bf4yiАй бұрын

    Spose is why thing mutate, the high road or the low road

  • @torydz
    @torydz7 күн бұрын

    The thing that amazes me is that if we can't properly perceive these illusions, how did people invent them in the first place? Eeeek! Also, we are meant to believe we are watching You Tube. But look closely... we are really watching Tube Youb.

  • @tj_2701
    @tj_270110 күн бұрын

    17:25 that is North America not The Mediterranean lol

  • @davidlongoria5055

    @davidlongoria5055

    3 күн бұрын

    nah its the med, you can see italy, greece, turkey, the black sea, and northern africa

  • @elizabethCorkins83
    @elizabethCorkins832 күн бұрын

    17:37

  • @DeGodOfTime
    @DeGodOfTime24 күн бұрын

    The thumbnail! It looks red when you scroll, or is that just me?

  • @fortyfour6626
    @fortyfour6626Ай бұрын

    Fun! But narrator needs to clear his throat lol!

  • @dubdgaming3272
    @dubdgaming32722 жыл бұрын

    10:11 I can’t unsee it now

  • @sethkaicer319
    @sethkaicer3192 жыл бұрын

    Chris Kane instructed Guns and Roses on how to use your illusion.

  • @ctakitimu

    @ctakitimu

    7 ай бұрын

    He did it a second time too

  • @chinthapantiveeraiahmts1298
    @chinthapantiveeraiahmts12982 жыл бұрын

    Diszains is very well.

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