By Vurdlak on July 10, 2009, with 74 Comments
Alert! I’m slowly running out of quality optical illusions. There is “submit illusion” link at the footer of this site, but I think I’ll add another, more prominent button somewhere at the top. The problem with user submissions is that very often the photo submitted is too much blurry, illusion it holds is not so great, or it simply misses explanation. Hope this improves over time as you learn what kind of illusions pass my quality check. In short, our audience prefers optical illusions that are visually appealing, and contain quality optical illusion. Today I give you very simple, yet appealing example. Can you spot the optical illusion it holds only by yourself? As you see, this image is very simple, and the illusion it contains is somewhat “hard” to see at the beginning. Keep sending good stuff, and your submissions will appear momentarily!
Be carefull, there just might be more than one answer to this illusion!
(43 votes)
Very nice. It’s easier to spot the illusion in the gadget where the image is smaller..
Wow, nice.
i like that.
Alive and dead, it’s cool.
sophisticated boom boom !
I think it says DAD ALIVE
Or is it ALIVE DAD?
dead or alive, :)
ALIVE as red letter and DEAD in the white space. or is there more to it that I am not seeing?
WOW i did see a ADLEAVDE but i dont know if its a word XD
I can see the words “ALIVE” and “DEAD”
Alive Dead, easy, but damn cool!
dead & alive!!!
1st. post!
obrigado!
I think this is a matter of Alive & Death…
alive or dead
Wtf …?
wat is this ….i dnt get it :-??
I prefer alive. It’s more fun.
ALIVE
DEAD
it says alive and in bettween that it says dead!
I think this illusion is balanced more towards “Alive” because it’s composed of the actual “Objects” with depth than the gaps between the “Objects”. Nice illusion! I really like these kinds, especially if they are opposite phrases!
Yup… seen both of them! Very well done! :)
Red: ALIVE
White: DEAD
Just half close your eyes :)
sweet it took me a while but it says
ALIVE in red and DEAD in between the lines
Ahh very nice Had to look hard to see it but it’s clever
alive but dead :
PS. First comment, w00t!
this is a very cool illusion it is alive and DEAD at the same time
Very nice, I wanted dead or alive.
Its easier to see if you click it, hold, then drag somewhere else.
Dead or Alive! Cool!
right ……i get it now …..after everybody sed it :)))lol
while i was looking at it i happend to have my mouse over it and it gave it away.. boo
V gd! H8 2 b mr critical but the alive bit looks like it has 2 i’s – ALIIVE! But v clever nonetheless . . .
that was sooooo easy to spot but still, COOLIO!!
I agree Aaron. Dead or Alive!
germanboy, u missed the “I” and dead is pretty hard too see
Wow. I saw the word ALIVE and then I saw the word DEATH. I mistook the top of the V as T and I accepted that the 2nd D in DEATH was an H. It took me another look to realize it was DEAD not DEATH. Asia just had a blonde moment.
actually it was quite easy to spot because I’m so used to these types of illusions…
it sais alive in red and dead in the spaces the e in dead is hard to spot so som people might think it sais dad well it is relly goood ;) so ya…
i have vista gadget and yesterday i clicked the illusion. first time saw no one post a comment!
ADLEIAVDE – You decide.
vurdluk, I”ve seen such stuf before on your site.
If you like this type of illusion check out the Grateful Dead album cover American Beauty. It also says something different, something that appealed to the philisophical stoners.
First I saw Alive very easily, but trying to look harder I couldn’t quite get it and saw something that I guessed would be Adelaide.. =/
I can see Dead or Alive now, I think the I is a little too small in my opinion, makes the E very hard to see.
You should be careful. The image name is Dead-Alive-optical illusion. I saw this when I hovered my mouse over the image. This was before I even had a chance to work it out.
Haha…
i see “alive” and “dad”
Has anyone else noticed that it also says DID in red letters as well. Take out the five letters used for ALIVE and theres three left which spell DID! :)
I agree with Poshmoog, it looks like ALIiVE and DEAD.
I like these kind of illusion,very nice
Alive or dead.
wow this is a cool optical ilution. and this 1 makes sence!! ^^
You forgot to mention it’s an ambigram. Surely that’s really all you need to say, rather than going into all that detail?
YEP DEFINITLY ALIVE AND DEAD!
For me it’s kind of like a black hole, it feels kind of like my vision is being sucked in..
Hard to describe..
Efficient way to give ppl headaches. :)
Lol, apparantly my computer changed site, I werent going too comment this.
nice illusion, in white it says dead
I couldn’t see the dead but then I saw thx for commenting it
alve, dead ? it just the way they form the letters
the red letters say alive, and the white says dead!
see dad in white letter
‘Cuz I’m wanted! (Dead or Alive!)
DEAD – hollow letters
ALIVE – red letters
it says ALIVE in red and DEAD in white. Clever!
ALIVE DEAD
I see, Life and dead are illusions
It may be due to the computer screen but i find it REALLY difficult to read the white space (the word is dead right?)
NOTE TO THE HOST, if i can make a simple suggestion it would be nice to have your comments separated out. First paragraph discuss the image, second paragraph discuss any issues you want to bring up or info you want to share. That way those of us who want to look through quickly and just read about the image can do so more easily. Thanks
WeLl ThAtS NoT NiCe At AlL
ThE WoRd AlIVe HaS ThE WoRd LiVe In It YAY!!!!!
Alive Dead
Alive dead. I like it. It could be related to Danny Phantom, possibly??
my friend Tiffany helped me find dead XP
alive and dead
Dead or Alive! Choose one damnit!
Try squinting to see dead.
i see DEAD in the white ALIVE in red
whats u guys mean ‘white’?? is there a white picture? please respond ASAP
Look at the white sections between the red letters. The ‘D’ shape can be seen between the ‘A’ and ‘L’ in alive. The ‘E’ shape is between the red ‘L’ and the ‘I’. The ‘A’ shape is between the ‘I’ and the ‘V’. And the second ‘D’ shape is between the ‘V’ and the ‘E’.
I saw a simular illusions years ago that I have tried to find again unsuccessfully ever since. When you read the red parts of the image, it read ‘knowledge’, but when you focused on the negative spaces it read ‘ignorance’ – or maybe it was the other way around.