AMAZING HYBRID OPTICAL ILLUSIONS - DON’T TRUST YOUR BRAIN
Thursday, November 6th, 2008AMAZING HYBRID OPTICAL ILLUSIONS
INSTRUCTIONS: You will see five still images during the movie:
Dolphin - Car, Albert-Marilyn, Happy-Angry
Clark Kent - Superman, and Cheetah-Elephant
When each of these images appears, PAUSE the movie. Take a look.
NOW STEP BACK FIVE PACES FROM THE SCREEN.
You will see an entirely different image! SQUINTING and / or BLINKING (at a normal distance from the screen) also causes the image to change.
The really weird thing is that all our brains are wired a little differently. Different people will see these images in different ways. Pausing, blinking and squinting work better for some people than others, and differently for each image.
MY QUESTION IS how many times in your life has your brain done this to you, without telling you??? Usually you don’t know what “the movie” of life is going to be about before you see it, and life certainly allows NO REPLAYS… - EXCEPT IN YOUR MEMORIES of what you THOUGHT you saw!
These images are owned and shared on the internet by their creators, at MIT, whose web page is here:
http://cvcl.mit.edu/hybrid_gallery/gallery.html
I will of course remove the video if the owners ask me to. Unless and until then I am hoping you will be able to enjoy the movie!
WARNING: Can cause chronic manic clinical bug-eye syndrome and brain farts!
P.S. If you watch this movie oh, say about ten times like I did when making it, I noticed your brain will start to “get it” and the effect of the illusions, to varying degrees each, is lessened with practice.
Freaky!