Incredible Optical Illusions

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  While some people find optical illusions frustrating, others can't get enough of them. Optical illusions will leave you perplexed questioning your eyesight. Optical illusions are our minds trying to find the easiest way to look at things.

At a first glance we attempt to try to relate the image with the most basic and close interpretation of it, and after a few seconds we begin to realize the separate details in the photo don't make sense.It's this element of surprise that also gives us perfectly timed images. Here are a few incredible optical illusions that you can check out for yourself.

Coffee To-Go

Art by Wilma Hurskainen

Growing The Moon

An unidentified friend of a London-based artist Stuart Rutherford dropped a pair of these potato snacks into coffee and saw a bird of prey staring back at them.

A Path Between Rice Fields

French landscape astrophotographer Laurent Laveder shows how some simple props and a bit of imagination can turn the moon into anything you like.

Eye Of The Sink

A work by Japanese artist Makoto Aida titled AZEMICHI

Caterpillar?

This eye is actually a draining sink accidentally captured by Redditor named Liam.

This is not a caterpillar!

Fish-eye Lens?

It’s a group of European Bee-eaters on a branch captured by José Luis Rodríguez.

Olympic Moon

From National Geographic Russia

Nature's Coffee

Perfectly timed photo of the full moon rising through the Olympic Rings hanging beneath Tower Bridge during the London 2012 Olympic Games.

Biking Mantis

Photo by Flickr member Stuart Anthony

Praying mantis riding two sprouting ferns captured by Tustel Ico