What Do You See in These Optical Illusions?
There are a lot of great optical illusions in which you can see two different things depending on how you look at them or how your brain is wired. We have collected a number of such images, including famous optical illusions like the spinning silhouette or the Necker cubes. All of them can be interpreted in two different ways, so don't forget to vote for what you saw in the pictures after looking at them!
Which Way is the Woman Spinning?
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Clockwise!
13 points
#2
Counterclockwise!
4 points
Young Woman or Old Lady?
What do you see in the picture? Hint: the chin of the young woman is the nose of the old lady.
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Young woman!
11 points
#2
Old lady!
3 points
Woman Gazing into a Mirror or a Skull?
What do you see in the picture? Hint: back far away from the screen to see the skull.
#1
A woman looking into the mirror!
7 points
#2
A skull!
7 points
Is the Man Walking Away or Towards the Camera?
#1
Walking towards the camera!
7 points
#2
Walking away from the camera!
6 points
Six Cubes or Ten?
How many cubes do you see in the picture? Hint: light gray can be both the right side and the left one.
#1
10 cubes!
7 points
#2
6 cubes!
6 points
Good or Evil?
Which word do you see the first? Hint: one is typed with black letters, the other using white.
#1
Good!
6 points
#2
Evil!
2 points
Rabbit or Duck?
A slightly different rabbit or duck optical illusion. Tip: the bunny ears are also the duck beak.
#1
Rabbit!
8 points
#2
Duck!
6 points
The Ultimate Book of Optical Illusions
Contains hundreds of the world's most powerful optical illusions!
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The optical illusions inside the covers of this incredible, colorful collection are beautiful to behold and stunning in their trickery. Some of the mind-boggling images seem to spring into action: vibrating, pulsing, and spinning. Other ambiguous illusions feature two subjects in one: the fun is in finding them both in the single picture, such as a strange desert mirage where palm trees imperceptibly morph into camels. And there's still more, like the Impossible Terrace which couldn't exist off the page: just try to figure out if you're looking at it from above or below. Prepare to be amazed by these astonishing optical illusion images!
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- Jewelsofawe Jewelsofawe Nov 22, 2009 @ 11:13 pm
- Fun lens! Blessed by an angel!
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- Li-Li-ThePinkBookworm Li-Li-ThePinkBookworm Nov 15, 2009 @ 3:11 pm
- This was an incredibly fun lens, I LOVE IT!!! Keep up these type of lenses, they rock!
5 stars, Li Li
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- GrowWear GrowWear Aug 13, 2009 @ 4:04 pm
- Aw. Have not seen some of these. Fascinating! Thank you. ...And congratulations on your Giant Squids Summer School graduation. :)
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- Samanthie Samanthie Aug 13, 2009 @ 3:12 pm
- Great lens, lots of fun!
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- aj2008 aj2008 Jun 22, 2009 @ 6:18 am
- I normally see two things but did you know that some people can see the spinning lady spin one way then the other? I managed to do it once, but it is very hard.
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- Chadrew Chadrew Jun 17, 2009 @ 11:47 am | in reply to PaulaFarris
- Thanks! I can usually see the both things too, except in the spinning silhouette picture that is. But I thought it would be better to give people options to vote for what they see first, or what they see "naturally" without really trying to make out other things in the picture. Else I expect 95% of votes would be of people being able to see both things and the voting wouldn't be so interesting :)
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- sandyspider sandyspider Jun 17, 2009 @ 2:17 am
- Very cool. I have see the woman spinning before. I am one of those rare people who can get her to go in both directions. Well done.
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- ArtByLinda ArtByLinda Jun 17, 2009 @ 1:17 am
- These are fun, I think I have seen some ot them before. My mind tends to switch back and forth easy too, except the spinning girl, clockwise only! Great lens.
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- BigGirlBlue BigGirlBlue Jun 16, 2009 @ 9:51 pm
- I always love those and find it easy to flip between both possibilities.
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- PaulaFarris PaulaFarris Jun 16, 2009 @ 7:58 pm
- This lens is awesome! I love optical illusions; they're so much fun. But what about the choice of both for the illusions that seem to switch back and forth between the two options? Just a thought. In the old woman/young woman illusion I actually see both at the same time. Strange how the mind works. Five stars!
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- Teddi14 Teddi14 Jun 16, 2009 @ 7:44 pm
- I love this stuff. Great idea for a lens! I love how you incorporated the voting with each image.
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- mulberry mulberry Jun 16, 2009 @ 6:47 pm
- I love these things. The spinning lady drives me nuts, I've seen her before and I really can only get her going clockwise 95% of the time.
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- davidhallstrom davidhallstrom Jun 16, 2009 @ 1:54 pm
- Good illusuions. I enjoyed them. Worth more than 5 stars.
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- Chadrew Chadrew Jun 15, 2009 @ 11:56 pm | in reply to molly6342
- That's very interesting. I can only see her going clockwise. No matter how hard I try I can't get her to move counterclockwise. Unless I use this trick that is:
http://gallery.krunk4ever.com/v/Animated_Gifs/counter-clockwise-spinning-dancer.gif.html
And to get her to move clockwise you could look at this:
http://gallery.krunk4ever.com/v/Animated_Gifs/clockwise-spinning-dancer.gif.html
Thank you for the comments :)
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- molly6342 molly6342 Jun 15, 2009 @ 11:10 pm
- Awesome lens. I love optical pics but that spinning lady still has me spinning cause I really can't tell which way she's going. At times it looks distinctly clockwise other times it looks counter....LOL
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