Looks can be deceiving, my friend. via A Daily Trends

A handshake with self illusion

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Today is your lucky day.  I got an image and a video.  Whoa!

Here is the image via neatorama

Illusion - Graffiti stairs

I want to try climbing the stairs just by looking at them on the computer.  I would probably be tripping if I saw them in real (I guess there’s a pun in there somewhere).  No kidding!  You should have seen me when I visited the MC Escher Museum.  I was convinced that if I stared at every piece long enough I would figure out a way to make my eyes stop fooling my mind.  Stoopid brain!

And now, the video!  This is definitely one of the coolest illusions ever except I wish that it worked the other way around.  It’s the way peripheral vision processes data but it makes ordinary (and even pretty) girls look terrifying.  Scary as hell!  (Suggestion: look at the video normally first and then try the illusion to see how your brain tricks you!)