Do You Believe Your Own Eyes?

Optical Illusions, things are not always as they appear to be....

The aim of this page is not only to provide a bit of fun and interesting pics, but also to show that there is much more to life than meets the eye. We can easily be influenced subliminally or otherwise.




Look at the picture above.
How many columns has it got?
Look again!







These planes above are both landing at the same airport although there is a distance of over 250 meters between them!







All the lines above are straight verticle lines, there is no 'thicker and thinner' section. Try a ruler or sheet of paper against your screen to see.








Have a look at the example above. Which line is longest, a or c? You would certainly say a! They are actually both the same length! Try a ruler!








Have a look at the picture above. It is a still image, however, if you look at the dot and move your head closer and further from the screen, you see the surrounding circles alternating. This is another example of a 'trick of the eye'.







Have a look at the picture above. Look at the checks marked A and B. Both are totally different colours and shades you would say? Both A and B are exactly the same colour. Cover up the other squares to see!








The Pencil in a glass of water illusion is well known. However, this is a powerful natural example of how our eyes can be tricked by optical illusions in day to day life without the use of fancy images.








What do you see above, a young lady or an old woman?








Looking up or looking down?








There are no reappearing black dots in the above picture, just an illusion of the mind.








The answer is of course, neither is spinning.