QuirkUniverse.com » optical illusions http://quirkuniverse.com Me: "Dude, check out this video I saw online..." You: Reading This Now Going "Uh ok.". Fri, 29 Apr 2011 07:46:58 +0000 en hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.2.1 Amazing Hollow Face Optical Illusion http://quirkuniverse.com/2009/04/amazing-hollow-face-optical-illusion/ http://quirkuniverse.com/2009/04/amazing-hollow-face-optical-illusion/#comments Fri, 24 Apr 2009 00:42:15 +0000 benq http://quirkuniverse.com/?p=18 Stumbled onto this classic earlier today. Been awhile since I’ve seen it. I literally watched it three times trying to train my eye to see it “correctly.” Very strange stuff. What does it say about our brains ability to see what it’s trained to see and not what’s physically real?

Here’s a video of the illusion:

This has all resurfaced again due to research showing that schizophrenic individuals do not see the optical illusion because of differences in the brain as caused by the shizophrenic condition. You can read an article at Wired here.

WTF.

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