When you buy through links on our articles, Future and its syndication partners may earn a commission. Illusions like these mess with the brain's visual processing system, making viewers see things ...

Visual illusions are images that play tricks with our eyes and brain. These puzzles are excellent for testing an individual's visual acuity. These mind-bending images challenge our perception and ...

Have you ever looked at an image and doubted what your eyes were telling you? Well, you are not the only one because such optical illusions commonly take place when your brain wrongly interprets what ...

Having a distorted perspective is normal during a dream, and the Museum of Illusions in Kansas City can turn that dream into a reality. The museum in Union Station is an interactive space with ...

If you are someone who enjoys solving complex visual puzzles, then take this challenge. The fox might be camouflaging very ...

A Nature Neuroscience study finds that special "illusion-encoding" neurons in the brain's visual cortex fill in missing ...

Researchers shot lasers into brain cells and triggered illusions on demand—a breakthrough that’s rewriting how we see the ...

Reddit users were left baffled after a photo of a floral-patterned couch went viral, challenging them to find a lighter hidden in plain sight.

This brain-frazzling optical illusion is enough to put your head into a spin. The purple-and-yellow image looks as though it’s both three-dimensional and moving but is in fact stationary and flat.

Neuroscientist David Eagleman talks about illusions that make the moving picture possible. Movies. Video games. YouTube videos. All of them work because we accidentally figured out a way to fool your ...

In my last article, I introduced the concept of brain illusions whereby people can “adopt” a fake hand as their own, and I mentioned how people with eating disorders are much more susceptible to this ...

Optical illusions play tricks on your brain and can make you see things that aren't really there, from static images swirling around the page to images that stay with you even after you look away.