Sometimes Your Dumb Brain Plays Tricks On You (52 Optical Illusions)

Remember those infuriating, eye-watering Magic Eye puzzles?

You know, these (hint: it’s a crab)

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Sometimes a photograph accidentally captures an image so confusing that it briefly short-circuits our brains in much the same way. The optical illusion at first appears shocking until you squint and turn your head and cross your eyes and eventually (hopefully) come to understand what the heck is going on.

Often these images appear to depict some anatomical impossibility or nightmarish creature, other times something perfectly innocent looks dirty as heck.

Good luck deciphering some of these. If you’re out of psychedelic drugs this may be the next best thing.


 

1. She’s hung.

Not really, obviously that’s just a really weird kinda yoga thing (I wouldn’t know, the extent to which I “do yoga” goes only as far as wearing yoga pants everywhere.)

2. Are they conjoined twins?

Nope, just some good old fashioned light/dark optical manipulation.

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