When you’re bored, when you want to wake your brain up, when you want to see something fascinating, try a spoonful of optical illusion. These puzzling images are guaranteed to completely draw your mind. Philosophically, they also prove the point that there are many ways of looking at one thing.
Take a break, try some eye-therapy with these optical illusions:
1. The ‘Corner House Illusion’ by Istvan Oroz illustrates the eternal concave-convex paradox. If you cover the top of the image with your palm, it looks like it’s projected outwards. But once you look at the entire photo, you don’t know anymore.
11. This Rotating Snake illusion was created by Japanese psychologist Akiyoshi Kitaoka. When you stare at the centre of one coil, the other two seem to rotate.
14. In his classic 1955 lithograph print, Convex and Concave, Dutch artist M.C. Escher creates an illusion of impossible architectures. Even the image on the flag is an illusion. Viewing the image upside down gives a different effect.