- (FBE) Are you ready for us to mess with your head
because we have some gnarly optical illusions
for you to check out today. - Cool.
Oh my god, yes. Give them to me.
- I always thought they were fun.
I love going-- when you pick on one, it's kind of like clickbait.
You merely go next and just keep scrolling.
- The eclipse was the other day, so I slept through it on purpose
because I don't have glasses.
Now I gotta watch optical illusions that mess with my eyes once more.
- (FBE) We're gonna show you 10 of some of the more popular
optical illusions from around the internet,
and see what you think of them. - All right, let's go.
Time to get mind [bleep].
- I feel like I'm gonna throw up or something.
I'm like, suddenly, I just discovered that I have vertigo.
This was a really fun episode, guys.
Thanks!
- I think of a lot of psychological test optical illusions,
where they're like, depending on what you see,
you might be a serial killer.
Hopefully, that's not what you're gonna show me
'cause I don't wanna know.
- (FBE) What do you see here?
- I'm not-- it just looks like a pattern to me.
- Ah, jeez, it's hurt-- I don't know how to describe it
because the lines are bending, it looks like,
but these are all straight.
- I know the lines look like they're crooked,
but I'm pretty sure they're completely straight.
- (FBE) So despite how it looks, these lines are all straight
and parallel.
- I think your computer's broken.
- No, they're not!
They are.
I'm looking at the things in the middle.
They're all the same size, so definitely the lines are straight.
- It looks like this one's going that way,
this one's going that way, and this one's going this way,
and this is going that way by the tiniest sliver.
- The more I'm looking at them, they're kind of just moving.
I need to not look at this picture anymore.
- Oh, I hate these!
(stammering) Angles, they're always--
(grumbling)
- What is this Lego?
- This one looks like a shadow, so it looks like this one
is over that one, but then this is at the bottom
and connects to that one.
- It's like the stairs in the painting that keep--
it's a continuous loop.
- (FBE) So this is a variation of the endless staircase
optical illusion, constructed out of Legos.
- That one's cool.
This one tripped me out a little bit.
- I don't like things like this, or those things where it's 3D,
but then they move it and it's not 3D.
- Why would someone just be like, "I should create
an optical illusion with Legos."
What was someone's M.O. for that?
- Okay, I see (sighing) some squares,
but now they look like some cylinders that are just rotating.
- Is it every gonna hit the corner or is it like that DVD thing?
- They're just going up and down, but they look like
they're supposed to be going to the right.
- They're going up and down, but the actual thing itself
looks like it's rotating right to left.
Oh my god!
They're just going straight up and down.
The [bleep]?!
- (FBE) So although it's obvious that the pillars
in this optical illusion are staying in the same horizontal position,
our brain is convinced that they should be moving to the right.
- They're not? Oh my god.
That's so crazy.
- It looks like it wants to move this way,
but it's not. It's still going up and down.
- I guess.
I like that one that was going around for a while
that's the girl spinning and you were like
is she going to the right or is she going to the left?
Can you change it?
And it would, you know-- is it switching positions?
No, it's your head.
- (FBE) Here's the next one.
You are going to look at the image on the screen
for about 30 seconds, and then look at a white surface
and tell us what you see.
- I hope it's not a jump scare.
- I'm pretty sure I've done this one before.
- Is that 30 seconds?
- You gotta zone out everything else, too.
You have to kinda just stare right at it.
- You know, my mom said not to sit close to monitors
and now it's my job.
- (FBE) Okay, go ahead and look at the white board.
What do you see?
- Oh, okay, I do see the outline.
Oh my god! That's so weird.
It's like-- I just see the outline. That's so weird.
- I see Jesus! (laughing)
I see Jesus. Oh my god.
I think that's Jesus,
or it's probably James Franco from the Pineapple Express.
I don't know which one.
- How the [bleep] do people discover this?
What is this weird Microsoft Paint heart eye thing,
and then you look at something and you see something else.
How do you discover that?
Who comes across that in their everyday life?
- (FBE) How do these images compare?
- The one on the right looks looks like it's leaning
more to the right, but now that I focus on it,
it doesn't seem like it is.
- The one on the right is a little more tilted to the right.
- One's leaning and one isn't.
Wait, hold on.
- The one on the left looks like it's straight up,
where the one on the right looks like it's leaning
because it is the Leaning Tower of Pisa,
but I feel like they're both leaning.
- (FBE) These two images are in fact one and the same.
Although the image on right appears to be leaning away
from the one on the left, this is only in your head.
- Why?
You know that meme that's like, "Why though?"
(laughing) That's me right now.
- I'm looking at the details and they're all the same,
but it doesn't add up.
One, two, three, four, five, six, seven...
All right, you got me. I can't find a difference.
- Okay, I see-- I'm starting to see black dots in the white.
- Little grey dots, but it's not real.
It's fake.
- In each intersection, I see-- it makes me want to see
little gray circles or other little squares
in those intersections.
- Oh, I hate this.
You get this on Mac computers.
If you look at the keyboard, it looks like the black dots
in-between all the keys.
Late at night, when I'm editing, I can literally see the dots
and I'm like, "Aww, shit. It's time to go to bed."
- (FBE) This one is called "The Herman Grid."
It's a classical optical illusion where every point
where the white lines intersect, our eyes perceive
a grey, shadowy blob.
If you look directly at one of the intersections though,
the blob disappears. - That's annoying.
Stupid blobs.
- It's such a weird thing.
It's just a weird contrast of shapes and colors,
and you see different shapes and colors,
and it's this blur of pain and weirdness
and psychedelic trippy shit.
- Oh, this is the one where it's two, but three, but two,
but three.
- Oh god. Oh jeez, what happened?
What demon made this? Aah!
It looks like there's three pillars, but there's not three pillars.
They just added a circle at the end of this.
- When you look at the bottom part, it look likes there's three pillars,
but then you look at the top, it's just a C kind of thing,
and then the space becomes its own pillar,
but it doesn't connect to anything.
- (FBE) So this is actually one of the most famous
impossible objects.
- That's just like-- how is it even connected?
How do you draw that?
- (FBE) It has two rectangular prongs at one end,
and then they morph into three cylindrical prongs
at the other. - Yeah, that's so cool.
But it hurts so much, it makes me mad.
- It's very strange because you keep wanting to see
the rectangle part, but it's not gonna ever connect
because of the prongs there.
- Anything with lines confuses me because they never go
where they're supposed to be.
I expect them to have an order and be straight
and proper and then they just don't go where
the brain tells them to go.
- Oh, see, I like ones like this,
where it really looks like they're moving.
This one is very much moving for me right now.
- It's wiggling.
This is one of those things where the more you look at it,
the more it starts to wave.
- Wow, it looks like it's like the logs
that hang down and spin.
I hate things that are stationary, but move in my mind
'cause it's 100% just my mind screwing with me.
- (FBE) So although it appears to be moving,
this is a static image.
- It looks like it's shifting, almost if I have a book
and I'm flipping the pages.
- Wow, that hurt my eyes for a second.
I really focused on this one to see if that one was turning
from my peripheral vision, and now the inwards
of my eyes hurt.
- It's weird-- if I look in the middle,
it doesn't move as much.
It's slower.
But if I look to the left immediately, then the right will move
and vice versa.
- This one is cool to me because it's like
how-- it's just interesting to think about how
does our brain, you know, kind of make that happen?
- I could look at these for a long time.
This is one where I could just zone out.
It's almost like a lava lamp, where you just want to veg out
and just look at it.
- That's just beautiful.
That's really cool to me.
- So it's-- oh, I see.
And it's drawn on the wall, and then also on the ground.
- Some of this stuff is just too much for my little head to process.
If you looked at it straight on, it wouldn't look like this at all.
- They're painted, but farther.
They're painted as if this one was painted that way,
but when you look at it from a distance,
it looks like it's painted downward.
- (FBE) So this was done by an artist...
- Yeah?
- (FBE) ...that was kind of pushing the perceptual limits
and if you get at just the right angle,
you catch a glimpse of floating stairs.
- Yeah, I can see the floating stairs.
That's actually really cool.
- So talented.
Imagine being able to do this, just as a human you can make--
you can trick the brain, one of the most intricate organs
that we have.
- It's so subtle.
If you look at a statue or you look at a painting
in a public place, you can see it and go, "Yeah, that's art."
But this, you can just walk past it and never notice,
and then one day, you're in the subway at 2 AM
and you're like, "Wait, is that a staircase?"
- (FBE) So this is a Pac-Man illusion.
If you stare at the center cross for a couple seconds,
you will begin to perceive a green disco
going around the circle of magenta discs.
- What the hell? I already did.
- (FBE) After a few more seconds, the magenta discs
will gradually begin to fade away until all you see
is a green disc going in a circle around the cross.
- No way.
Oh. Oh, it just ate them all!
Oh! (laughing)
- Oh my god, that's so weird.
That one's really [bleep] with me.
- Wow, that's confusing.
Oh, I don't understand how-- is there-- are there--
what are the colors that were used in creating this?
What is the science behind this?
- It's just so weird how-- where are these colors coming from?
Can someone explain?
They're in the back of my head somewhere.
- That was crazy.
I don't know why-- maybe it's those colors
that have to do with it?
- I like that it has brighter colors, and so it more screws
you over a little bit in the sense of the ones
that are black and white, you can be like,
"Oh, well, it's messing with that and some kind of depth."
- Oh my god, it hurts.
It hurts so good though.
I just want to stare at it forever.
Oh!
Okay, I can't. I can't anymore.
- My eyes hurt. (laughing)
- My eyes hurt, and they were awesome.
- You messed with my brain too hard.
I need to take a nap.
- It's interesting to think about how the mind perceives
things the way that it does.
This is what I really want to know, who discovered this?
Who messed with this enough to know that, you know,
the perfect amount of grey, and you have to look at the center.
Who spent the time figuring that out?
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- Bye, guys.
- What's up guys?
Alyssa here, a producer from the React channel.
Thanks for checking out this episode of optical illusions.
Did any of those mess with your mind?
I've been staring at these all day, so I'm just gonna go take a nap.
See you next time.