illusion

From the Blue and Gold Dress to straight lines that look crooked without optical manipulation, there are countless ways to play tricks on the human eye. This "Dual Axis" illusion plays on our perception of movement. Created by Frank Force, the lines appear to move both horizontally and vertically, but the reality is that it is both. 

Depending on where you look at on the shape, and how you follow the movement, it can shift even as you watch it, a very "trippy" sensation. The Neural Correlate Society's Best Illusion of the Year Contest votes on the best illusions from all over the world, and the winner gets a trophy, along with a $3000 cash prize. 

These absurd images are sure to make you question your reality.

Ready yourself, because it is nothing short of an experience trying to make sense of all these. 

These mind-bending optical illusions were chanced upon when someone was at the right place at the right time.

"Hold on a second, knees don't bend that way!"

Warm up your eye muscles and mix up some pre-workout. It's not photoshop, it all might see impossible, but it's all perspective. You may find yourself double-taking all over the place while looking at these real-life optical illusions. And if your in the mood to strain your eyeballs some more, then check out these pics over here.

What exactly are we looking at here? Is that a cow or a pancake? Holy crap it's a couch.

Your eyes may be dumb, but that won't stop you from enjoying these real-life optical illusions.

Nothing is exactly as it seems. Stuff blending into other stuff, stuff looking out of proportion, and other stuff that just seems...wrong. Navigating the off-ness, is like push-ups for your eyes. If you wanna see more pics of skewed perspective, then check these out.

Keep your eyes sharp or you'll be double-taking all over the place on account of these real life optical illusions.

Artist Howard Lee is good at what he does, and what he does is make incredibly lifelike pictures of everything from little cute penguins to mouthwatering butterfingers. Sweet, delicious butterfingers. Then he goes one step farther.

Howard animates his still-life paintings and creates the illusion that they are the real thing. These amazing side-by-side pictures and animations will have you questioning reality, and in some cases, make you really hungry for a hot dogs.