This trippy image appears to be a pigment enigma. Puzzle lovers are straining their brains over this optical illusion, which reportedly fools the viewer into thinking that they have gone colorblind.

Before jumping on in we have one question on our minds: what is an optical illusion? What is an optical illusion? Optical illusions are visuals that tend to be deceptive to the eye and brain. This is ...

Ah, optical illusions — who doesn't love to be freaked out by their own brain? I sure do; the human brain is a fascinating thing. There's a lot of incredibly cool science behind optical illusions, too ...

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So I've read in more than a few places that color doesn't exist outside our heads, it's just wavelengths of light. That our brains are the things that make color, same with sound (which is just ...

Optical Illusions reveal how the mind processes time and space, and they illustrate the ways that our minds make assumptions about the world around us…and how these assumption are often untrue. In the ...

At first glance, this image may appear to be just a repetitive pattern of the word “Colour” written over and over again. The consistent font, uniform spacing, and monochrome background all work ...

A study of mice starts to unravel how the brain gets tricked by this kind of optical illusion, and it gives clues about how visual perception works. When you purchase through links on our site, we may ...