Optical illusions are older than you think. The first optical illusions date back to 20,000 BC and took the form of cave sculptings. Nowadays they are found all over the place – on screens, in books ...

A couple of years ago an optical illusion came along and almost broke our site. Over three million people read an article about the most dizzying illusion ever to grace our screens – the rotating ...

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Optical illusions may make you feel like a fool, but you could be able to train your brain to resist them. “It is very likely that people from the general population have the capacity to be trained to ...

If the optical illusion appears to be moving, the viewer is stressed. If the image is moving like a “carousel”, then the ...