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Look what just landed straight to my mailbox! I think this public service announcement is more than clear – staring too much at your TV (or any monitor surface, in fact) can do some bad things to your eyes. I never get tired of these anomalous motion illusions. Specially when they’re fine as this one! [...]

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Thanks to Sheila, here’s another Drunk Test for all of you! Check out the picture below, and see if you are able to focus your vision. We all know how this works – double eyes and mouth were artificially added to the photo, yet why is it then so hard to look at her ? [...]

Seeing our latest illusion, I was immediately reminded of Hal 9000 and his memorable voice addressing Dave Bowman in 2001: A Space Odyssey. I won’t talk about how great this movie really was, and how it marked the whole era, I’d rather see what you think of the illusion attached below. By now you must [...]

Check this out. What I’m about to show you is an illusion you don’t see every day! Observe the woman shown on your right. Would you say her eyes are shut or wide open? Something is painted alright, the only problem is whether she’s having fake eyes painted on top of her eyelids, or perhaps [...]

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Here’s a funny story: when I first located given optical illusion, I thought it was great, and saved it for one of my future articles (today’s one). There was an interesting article accompanying it, explaining the event when this vintage photo was taken, along with the twist I found fascinating. The problem is, I forgot [...]