Illusion: The Penrose Triangle

The Penrose triangle, is an impossible object, an optical illusion consisting of an object which can be depicted in a perspective drawing, but cannot exist in reality

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— Massimo (@Rainmaker1973) March 30, 2023

It’s been a while since I shared a real illusion, unless – yes of course, count my appear-to-be poems.

What is the Meaning of Meaning?

WHAT IS THE MEANING OF MEANING?

“He’s got no faloorum, fol-diddle-dol-day
Maids when you’re young, never wed an old man”

Meaning is like faloorum.
Life has no meaning, old men no faloorum.
Fol-diddle-dol-doorum.
He's lacking in meaning fol-diddle-dol-day.
He's got no faloorum, he's meaningless too-rum,
Maids when you're young never ask an old man.

♪ If there’s no meaning no meaning has meaning. ♪

So all is fine because life has no meaning
and nothing has meaning, not meaning itself.
It’s no loss for life to be lacking in something
that has no meaning when lack of a meaning
is the lack of a nothing, by definition,
and the lack of a nothing is no lack at all.

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“The Mask of Love” illusion

The Mask of Love is an optical illusion- you can probably see one face there but look again and you can see two people kissing, your brain will switch and it might be hard to switch back to one single face pic.twitter.com/ZsVhSzQAYs

— Janey Godley (@JaneyGodley) October 4, 2022

Once seen, you can’t unsee but it’s hard at first.

Motion Aftereffect Illusion: The Starry Night by Vincent Van Gogh

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The best way to see Van Gogh's "Starry Night" is to stare at the center of the spiral for 20 seconds and then look at the painting.

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— Alexander Verbeek 🌍 (@Alex_Verbeek) September 15, 2022

Follow the instructions and prepare to have your mind blown!

The Starry Night by Vincent Van Gogh (1889) is currently in the the Museum of Modern Art in New York. Ref. Wikipedia

The Stepping Feet Illusion

The Stepping-Feet Illusion features two rectangles apparently moving like a pair of stepping feet, but they're actually moving at the same constant speed.

The illusion is broken when the striped texture is removed.

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— Massimo (@Rainmaker1973) August 13, 2022

The Giant of 42nd Street

Photo: Jonathan Higbee

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UFO over London?

What, doesn’t look very convincing? Well they never do, do they?

Old model UFOs

UFO fleet spotted by the Willesden Herald a few years ago

Vanishing points

This must surely be what happens when picking blackberries. You see the best ones first, then after you take those, others appear “out of nowhere”. There are spots at all the junctions in the image but “your brain won’t let you see them all at once”. This could be an advantage when many other hands are competing for the best fruit, allowing you to home in on one you’ve identified.

Other ideas I’ve had about evolutionary traits. I don’t know if they are common knowledge anyway:

• The horrible feeling of scratching your nails on a blackboard, which sets your teeth on edge, must be a protection against damaging your teeth or nails on stones when biting or scratching in the ground for food.
• The hypnic jerk (“sleep start”) just before falling asleep, forces you to check that you are not in a position to fall out of bed, or – way back – to fall out of the branches of a tree in which you are nesting.
• The eyelids are the first part to become paralysed on beginning to fall asleep. Could this be to firmly establish shade and so get on with essential sleep?

UFOs over Sudbury Hill

UFO fleet over Greenford Road. The alien invasion has begun.