Optical Illusions

Is this a man playing a sax or is it a woman's face?
Sax or Face?


Are the 2 horizontal lines the same length?
Are the lines equal in length?
Yes, they are equal.


What does this say?-
Read carefully!
Are you sure?


Are the diagonal lines parallel to each other?
Are they parallel?
Yes, they are parallel.


How many legs does this elephant have?
Elephant legs?


Are the stairs rightside up or upside down?
Staircase Illusion
Stare at the small yin-yang.
Is it on the back wall of right-side-up stairs, or on the front wall of upside down stairs?


Are the lines between the arrowheads equal in length?
Equal arrows?
Yes, the two lines are absolutely equal.


Do you see two triangles?
How many triangles?
There are no triangles, just the illusion formed by the shapes.


Impossible Triangle
Impossible Triangle
Could anyone build this triangle out of real material?


Queen Elizabeth?
Stare at the image.
Stare at the image on the left for 30 seconds, then quickly move your gaze to the white box. What do you see?


Where Did the Dots Go?
Disappearing Dots
Stare at the + in the middle and you'll see a green dot orbiting, even though there is no dot there. Stare longer and all the pink dots will seem to vanish.


Are these images moving or not?


None of these images are moving at all.


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