Proof That You Should Never Believe Your Own Eyes

By Editorial Staff in Amazing On 22nd April 2016
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#1 Wow.. This Is Weird

Keep staring at the cross without looking away. Watch the celebrity faces change and swap features. Don't let it freak you out, you have not been slipped acid, it's your mind playing tricks on you.

#2 How It Works

In the retina, there's an area called the yellow spot. It contains the largest amounts of receptors in the eye. It's our main field of vision, accounting for over 10% of it.

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#3 The Brain Scrambles The Features Into One Image

What happens when you are looking at the cross is that the main field is empty, so the brain gets information from sources outside of the field. That results in these 'demonic' images, caused by the inability of the brain to recognize faces, thus joining features from both pictures to create one. Yikes!

#4 Mind-Bending Results

The longer you look, the crazier it gets.