Our eyes are one of the most powerful senses we possess. But the fact is that we see with our brains, as the optical center of the brain processes information from the eyes. However, these 9 optical illusions will prove that it is easy to trick the eyes and brain.

1 How many colors in this pic?

This spiral looks full of colors and our eyes are constantly trying to focus on a color, while brain is decoding how many colors are there in the spiral. Can you guess the number of colors in the pic below?

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The answer is one – green. There is no blue color in the spiral

2 Find something odd in this?

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Find anything funny in this colorful contraption? You can see it has many colors and each color is vividly represented on the cube. However, there is a glitch in the matrix for you. If you look closely, you will see that the brown and the orange squares on the upper and front side of the cube are of the same color and shade.

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3 What is same about squares A and B?

You can see two squares marked A and B and a cylinder kept on a chess board type figure. However, the two squares share something common in it. See carefully.

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Actually, we have the answer for you. Both the squares might look different shades of grey, but actually, both of them are the same color and shade.

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4 Do they look same to you?

Another play on the shades of grey (pun un-intended). Here you can clearly see that the two squares, which are seen together are of different shades and color. However, put your finger in the middle joint of the two squares and see the magic.

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5 Is the chessboard really grey?

Normally a chess board is black and white, this chess board has folds on it, which greys the black and white squares on the block. However, in reality grey halves of both black and white squares are actually the same color. Grey color will be seen by our eyes as whichever color it is near to.

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6 How many shades of color you see?

Can you count the number of shades of color in the picture above, excluding the white color? Some may guess three, four and even five. However the truth is that there are only two colors apart from white – Pink and Green.

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7 Try to focus

Yeah some images can mess with both your eyes and brain. This image here makes it impossible for our eyes or brain to focus on just one face. As it is said that we see with our brains and brain cannot focus on a single image here.

8 How many spots are you seeing?

There are black spots where the white lines meet. You are seeing the spots you are focusing on right now, the other spots won’t be visible to you. The hidden truth, the spots do not exist at all.

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9 Focus

Continue focusing on the black spot for 30 seconds and you will find that the grey background will disappear in that time.

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