Your eyes play tricks: the wild world of optical illusions | Today news

Discover how optical illusions deceive your brain with viral puzzles and science secrets. Learn why we see moving images, hidden cats and color tricks in static photos. Optical illusions: How eyes play, tricks optical illusions deceive you to see things that are not really, such as quiet images that seem to move or identical colors that look different. This happens because your eyes and brain speak a ‘simple language’. If your brain quickly tries to fill out missing information, it sometimes recommends incorrectly. For example, in the Hermann Grid Illusion, dark spots flash at white line crossings, even though there is no one. Scientists believe that this mixing occurs because your brain has developed rapidly, such as predators in bushes, which help survive but create visual mistakes. Illusions fall into three categories physically: caused by light tricks (such as a pencil bowling in water) Physiological: Results of eye/brain-folifier (post-images of bright lights) Cognitive: Brain assumptions Gone wild (faces/vases linking in Rubin’s illusion) The famous Müller-lister shows two equal lines that make different lengths of the pool. This ‘twisting illusion’ proves that your brain judges are based on the environment. Similarly, the “dress” photo became viral because some brains adopted blue/black (artificial light), while others saw white/gold (natural light). Viral puzzles train your focus online illusions such as the Hidden Cat Challenge Test observational skills. In one, a cat -camouflage perfectly in bushes, see it only 5% within 7 seconds. Such puzzles tighten attention to detail and are transferred to improving the actual focus. Other popular tests include: finding owls in forests that count hidden animals that see differences in twin images. These games reveal how evolution-formed vision: Early people need skills in the detection of camouflage for hunting and survival. Optical illusions are not only delicious, it helps doctors monitor schizophrenia and pain in the limbs by revealing how the brains process sensory conflict. Artists such as MC Escher have used illusiate techniques (paradox illusies) to create intoxicating stairs. For everyone else, practicing with illusions increases the recognition of the pattern, useful to read X-rays, notice road hazards or even find lost keys.