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August 28, 2006 by Vurdlak  

Be sincere, what whas the first thing you thought for yourself, when seeing this image? I was sure it was just an oridnary spirall, but when observing it more precise, I figured out it’s actually a bunch of concentric circles… Hillarious! Did you get the same effect?


Circles Or Spiral ?

Comments

36 Responses
  1. Josu

    That’s one of the better ones I’ve seen.

    Can someone explain why do we see spirals first?

    i’d love to know.

  2. Phil

    The eye tends to follow straight lines. Since the boxes are slightly twisted, your eye follows the edge of the box inward from the circle, making your mind think “spiral”.

  3. Carl C.

    Now that is a cool illusion.

    Also, if you scroll the page up and down over the image, you can sort of see a rotation effect happening.

  4. Fabio R.

    WOW! that is so cool.

  5. Rachel

    That’s pretty sweet. Saw the spiral first, and it looked normal… now, it just hurts my eyes, but I can tell it’s circles.

  6. Curli

    Clever.

    I really had to concentrate to see the circles and not the spiral.

  7. Alex

    that is pretty cool… have anyothers like that???

  8. Alex

    that is pretty cool./… how do u c that

  9. Pandas

    actually, i thought that it was rotating first, but mabey i’ve been looking at optical illusions for too long

  10. no likey name

    best illusion that is actually an illusion in a long time

  11. Tammy

    i think summits wrong with my eyes coz i saw the circles first……anywho if my eyes worked then i’m sure it would have been a good un :)

  12. Telisha

    wow confuzing :S

  13. Deanna

    Wow, that’s cool…confusing, though. I actually had to trace the circles with my finger to make myself believe it wasn’t a spiral! Haha.

  14. Ouch

    This makes my brain bleed

  15. Anonymous

    That was cool!! At first I thought that it was spiral but when u look it carefully you can see its circles

  16. Beanz

    that’s sick!

  17. Anonymous

    where are the spirals???????????

  18. hiya

    I saw the circles first, i still don’t see the spirals…..

  19. Anonymous

    I never saw a spiral. It always looked like circles to me. Now that I’m trying, I can kind of make myself see a spiral…

  20. Eva

    wen i looked at it i thort it woz circles from the beggining but i can see how it does look like a spiral!

  21. tamagotchirabbit

    i really saw circles at the beginning btw im american

  22. haylzz_rox

    thats awesome.

  23. Harley

    DUH
    OMG
    this is NOT real
    it was photoshopped
    duuhduhduhduh

    nono i dont mean it lol

    cool illusion

  24. Chris

    hi, i was looking at this optical illusion, and then i scrolled the screen and noticed that while the image is moving up or down, the spiral seems to be spinning, is it just me?

  25. Anonymous

    whoa, thats kinda creepy.

  26. Anonymous

    duh it’s squares.

  27. Will

    when you scroll the page using the mouse-wheel (especially one with choppy movements), the circles give the illusion of spinning

  28. Anonymous

    this is so cool it almost hypniotised me

  29. Trevor

    Strangely I didn’t see the spiral first I saw circles, but when I looked at the picture the first thing I saw was the center circle and then went straight down the picture and realized it was only circles…

  30. Anonymous

    CIRCLES, NOT SPIRALS!!!

  31. Anonymous

    they r circles if you look close they are not connected.

  32. zenithania

    lol…this is really cool. i did see a spiral in the first place.

  33. Detective Kitty

    I saw circle first…

  34. Anonymous

    thats trippy….it tool me a second to see that theyre actually circles…..thats cool…^^

  35. hahaha very funny my name its not lola its bugs bunnie

  36. yer dude totaly wateva !!!

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