Tricky Illusions That Will Mess with Your Mind

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Get ready for a mind-bending ride! Our “Tricky Illusions That Will Mess with Your Mind” video will have you questioning everything you see. From impossible shapes to colors that aren’t really there, these illusions will twist your brain in the best way. Think you can trust your eyes? Hit play and prepare to be wowed by some seriously trippy visuals that will keep you guessing till the end!

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00:00Now, have you ever looked at something and thought, what am I even seeing?

00:04Well, you're not alone.

00:06Optical illusions are those sneaky little tricks that mess with our brains and make us see things that aren't really there.

00:12Today, we're diving into some of those.

00:15So here's the deal. All of these plates are turned upside down.

00:19Or are they?

00:20Find the one that's turned the right way.

00:24Aha! Let me guess.

00:26Once you've found it, all the other plates turned the right way up, didn't they?

00:30Nope, this isn't magic. Just your eyes fooling you.

00:35Moving on.

00:37Take your attention and place it on this thing right here.

00:40Is your mind already confused?

00:44So what exactly is the illusion that's happening here?

00:47This is called the aperture problem.

00:50Your eyes might have thought that the lines are moving horizontally and vertically near the squares.

00:54Almost like they're blinking.

00:56But if you keep your focus on the gray squares, you'll notice that the background is uniformly sliding down the seam.

01:05Hmm, chess.

01:06Is your team black, team white, or team these pieces are the same color?

01:10I know this will sound confusing, but all the pieces are the exact same color.

01:17Don't believe me? Let's take off the background. Better now?

01:21The pieces on the top row are the same as the bottom row.

01:25Your mind is one beautiful piece of machinery, but such a noob when it comes to expectations.

01:30Now, believe it or not, this optical illusion can tell you if it's safe for you to drive in the rain.

01:38Check out this image and see if you can spot the hidden sequence of numbers.

01:42Ready? Go!

01:43Did you come up with 3452839?

01:49If you did, your contrast sensitivity is top-notch.

01:54Contrast sensitivity is what allows you to see the outlines of small objects clearly.

01:58If this ability isn't well-tuned in your system, it's best to avoid driving in the rain or fog.

02:04This illusion is making people go crazy.

02:09Take a look at the image. Do you see squares?

02:12Keep staring, and we'll come back in a jiffy.

02:17If you saw something other than squares, congrats! You're part of the lucky few.

02:22This illusion is breaking the internet because some people can spot 16 hidden circles instead of those sunken squares, also known as coffers.

02:30Meet the Koffer Illusion, a finalist in the 2006 Best Illusion of the Year contest.

02:37It's a classic example of ambiguous stimuli, giving our brains visual info that can be interpreted in multiple ways.

02:44The Koffer Illusion makes us pick between competing interpretations, and it's totally mind-bending.

02:50There's an extra catch. The way your brain will interpret the stimulus depends on your personal past experiences.

02:56At first, we'll see rectangles, because it's part of our daily life.

03:01But depending on your point of view, you'll quickly switch to seeing circles.

03:06Now look at this image for a moment, and tell us how many bars you can count.

03:13This illusion has left the internet scratching their heads.

03:17Some people have counted up to 11 bars, but most land on 8 or 7.

03:21The creator of this tricky image says there are actually only 6 complete bars.

03:27Try counting from the top down, and you'll see the upper bars are legit.

03:31But when you hit the 6th bar, things start getting fuzzy.

03:35That's because the last two bars are incomplete.

03:37When you try to count them, they seem to multiply, leaving you totally confused.

03:42If you trace your pointer down to the 7th and 8th bars, you'll see they're incomplete.

03:47They were just put there to mess with you.

03:51For this next experiment, you have to stare at this red dot for about 10 seconds.

03:57I'll tell you when it's over, don't worry.

03:59At first, your eyes will see a gray, graphic city around the dot.

04:14Wow! What just happened?

04:16Even after the picture turns black and white, our brain is still able to perceive the original colors.

04:22This is an example of what's called an after image.

04:26After we fed our brain with a fixed image of something, when we turn it black and white, our brain is still trying to guess the colors of it.

04:34Now, how many different scenes can you spot in this image?

04:383? 4?

04:38Or, take your best guess.

04:40I trust you.

04:43Well, it's only two.

04:44You should be able to see the chalice in the first scene.

04:47And then, when you change your focus, you should be able to spot the profile of two faces with a white background.

04:55Moving on to the next one.

04:57I'm going to ask you to stare at this parrot's eye for 15 seconds.

05:01Just keep staring at it, like we did with the last image.

05:03You're about to witness another great example of an after image.

05:203, 2, 1.

05:23And close your eyes.

05:24Can you still see a red parrot?

05:26Isn't it amazing that, even though this parrot is black and white, you have the illusion of seeing the color red?

05:34Again, this is just your brain trying to guess the color of something.

05:39Let's try another one.

05:41Stare at the cross in the middle of this image for 10 seconds.

05:44Starting now.

05:45Did all of the colors from the image fade away and all you could see was a white page?

06:03Bizarrely, our brain just erases all the nuanced colors and leaves you with a white screen.

06:10This next one is pretty bizarre.

06:12Keep staring at this bunch of tiny dudes trying to escape some imaginary threat.

06:17Can you see what's the illusion here?

06:21Yeah, it took me a while to figure it out too.

06:24The illusion is that it looks like these little dudes are moving forward.

06:28It looks like they're leaving the scene one by one.

06:30But in reality, they are stationary.

06:34This illusion is created by the shifting colors on the foreground.

06:37Our brains are so easily tricked.

06:39My, my, my.

06:42Now, ready for another one that will ruin your brain for good?

06:46Take a look at this baby right here.

06:48Oh my god!

06:50It looks like a Mobius strip.

06:52Some kind of eternal loop, right?

06:54But if you stare at it long enough, you'll see that it's a wholesome image.

06:59The three-dimensional view makes it look like the infinity symbol looping around.

07:03I swear, my brain will need to take some time alone after this video.

07:09Okay, have a look at both images.

07:11Can you tell if the circle on the right is larger than the circle on the left?

07:18Believe it or not, these two circles are the exact same size.

07:22This illusion is known as the Ebbinghaus illusion, and it was discovered by a German physiologist

07:27in the early 1900s.

07:29We can assume that his name was Ebbinghaus.

07:32One of the possible explanations for why our brain glitches when looking at this image

07:36is due to the size of the external circles.

07:40Since the circles on the right are much bigger,

07:42they make the one on the right look smaller than the one on the left.

07:45Let's move on to the next illusion.

07:50Take a look at this image carefully.

07:52Don't worry if little black dots start appearing out of nowhere.

07:55That's part of the game.

07:56And are they disappearing too?

07:58Yep, that's totally normal.

08:01This illusion is part of something called the scintillating grid illusion,

08:05or the Hermann grid illusion.

08:07There are several examples of this one on the internet.

08:10This illusion shows us one of the most important principles of human perception.

08:14You don't always see things for what they really are.

08:18The retinal cells in our eyes act as light receptors.

08:21When only one receptor gets illuminated,

08:23it perceives more light than when its colleagues are also illuminated.

08:27This prevents the firing of nearby receptors.

08:30With the Hermann grid illusion,

08:32the white lines are arranged in such a way

08:34that there's more light around the intersections than along the lines themselves.

08:40Okay, let's wrap this up with one final illusion.

08:43We have what looks like a gray bar moving up and down on an orange background.

08:48But if you stare at this little black dot,

08:51you may see the gray bar turn into a different color.

08:54What color do you see?

08:58Did you say blue?

09:00Yep, that was it.

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