Your brain is trying to do two things at once. Look at the image and try to say the colour of the word you see, rather than the actual word itself. It’s very tricky to do. The words seem to wrestle in a bizarre power struggle with the colours. This is because the right side of your brain is seeing the colour of the word while the left side is trying to say the word itself.

This type of optical illusion plays with our brain’s sense of perspective: the dragon’s face looks like it’s sticking out toward us because, after all, we know from a life time of experience that faces stick out instead of cave in.

But the exact opposite is actually the case here. Regardless of what you perceive, the entire face of this dragon is inverted making everything backwards: For example, the right eye is actually farther away from us than the left eye, and it’s this inversion that confuses our brains and makes us think the dragon is staring at us.

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Here are some interesting puzzles for you to solve!

What are the next two characters in the following sequences?

•   A   B   1   C   D   2   E  ___  ___
•   B   F   J   N  ___  ___
•   O   T   T   F   F   S   S   E  ___  ___
•   3   3   5   4   4   3   5   5  ___  ___

  You have 1 minute to complete each challenge. Once you're done, click the button to reveal the answers.


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Despite his mother beckoning him to come towards her, this infant hesitates to cross the "visual cliff" – an apparently steep drop that is actually covered by transparent glass. Psychologists in the 1960s found that most infants 6 to 14 months of age were reluctant to crawl over the cliff, suggesting they had the ability to perceive depth. Most psychologists believe that the ability to perceive depth is partly innate and partly a product of early visual experience.

Here's a test you can try to demonstrate how your perception of depth is still live and active. Below are two perfect circles, yet the smaller circle appears distorted. Our brain interprets the converging lines to be adding depth to the screen, as if the solid middle is further aw ...

Block A is the same colour as block B -- proof shown below...


I removed all the blocks surrounding A and B, and here's what was found