Optical Illusions

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nycfan said:
What am I not seeing?
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It’s both a Victorian woman turning her head away from you, and also an old babushka lady with a big nose.

The necklace of the young Victorian lady is the pursed lips of the old lady.
 
CLT Heel said:
It’s both a Victorian woman turning her head away from you, and also an old babushka lady with a big nose.

The necklace of the young Victorian lady is the pursed lips of the old lady.
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Oh man, had to work at seeing the bubushka
 
melonpop said:
I can only see her spin counter-clockwise if I first imagine the shadow of her legs going that direction, then keep the center of my gaze on the floor for awhile.
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I see her going clockwise in the quoted version that cuts off her feet. Weird.

Edit and now i only see counterclockwise again.
 
I had the two versions going in opposite directions simultaneously. That was a real brain fuck.
 
melonpop said:
I can only see her spin counter-clockwise if I first imagine the shadow of her legs going that direction, then keep the center of my gaze on the floor for awhile.
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If I focus only on the shadow foot, it switches the direction for me
 
The most interesting illusion to me is change blindness. Immediate memory is incomplete, and It's our own "user illusion." We think conscious awareness is reliable, but the brain works in 60 hz flashes (about the rate of a neon bulb), constructing currently useable memory of "reality" from bits of perception.



 
nycfan said:
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I really enjoy illusions. This one is good, but maybe over the top since one's eyes cannot focus in a way to see all of the dots.

It makes it hard to have confidence in an answer.

I was going to go with Zero thinking that this may be one where the color is deceiving and while they appear one color they really are not.
 
an0maly said:
The most interesting illusion to me is change blindness. Immediate memory is incomplete, and It's our own "user illusion." We think conscious awareness is reliable, but the brain works in 60 hz flashes (about the rate of a neon bulb), constructing currently useable memory of "reality" from bits of perception.



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That's great. I don't recall ever seeing anything about this before. Very interesting.

It reminds me of memory experiments where people filled out questionnaires and later were interviewed. In the interviews the interviewer used the opposite answer for some questions to test the person recalling what they had answered.

One was very interesting. The question was to name a location that you would like to go on vacation but have never been. When they discussed this during the follow up, they would discuss it as if they had answered with a place that they had been to. It was interesting how many people just went with it and made up something as if they had actually been to the location.
 
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