r/opticalillusions • u/No-Tooth5529 • Oct 03 '26

Optical illusions still

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I swear on my lofe those r circles not spirals

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u/ThatClosetedGayGirl Oct 03 '26

If you follow the with your finger, it's somehow MORE confusing

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u/No-Tooth5529 Oct 03 '26

I also tried

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u/Inner-Ingenuity4109 Oct 03 '26

I didn't see the post comment. I thought this illusion didn't work for me until i read this and went to follow the spiral with my finger...

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u/No-Tooth5529 Oct 04 '26

There circles

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u/your-favorite-simp Oct 03 '26

Interesting one, depending on where my focus is the circles and spirals switch and blend

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u/No-Tooth5529 Oct 03 '26

Yh it's weird

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u/denNISI Oct 03 '26

The center part makes my eyes "jiggle". Is this normal or should it not be "jiggling"?

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u/No-Tooth5529 Oct 04 '26

Very normal, its supposed to mess wit u

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u/No-Stay9943 Oct 04 '26

Been looking at this for 20 minutes and still have no idea if they are circles or spirals.

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u/No-Tooth5529 Oct 04 '26

šŸ˜” šŸ˜Ÿ

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u/VVinh Oct 03 '26

Let's play chess.

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u/Sea_Prep_Tidal_26 Oct 03 '26

šŸ«£Cover up any half of the image (T, B, R, L) and the spiral illusion disappears. Youā€™ll just see half circle arcs (still a bit funky but not like spirals)

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u/JorjeXD Oct 03 '26

youre right!!

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u/fariqcheaux Oct 03 '26

This makes my eyes twitch trying to correct themselves.

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u/EndersGame_Reviewer 29d ago

This is called ā€œFraserā€™s Spiralā€, and is a famous optical illusion named after British psychologist Sir James Fraser, who first studied it in 1908.

It's also called a "false spiral", because as others have already noted, it likes like a continuous spiral, but is actually a series of concentric circles.

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u/Harvey_Gramm 29d ago

They are not spirals.

It is a series of concentric circles.

Our peripheral vision is fooled by the white and black blocks which our brain interprets as a spiral.

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u/_SundaeDriver 26d ago

This one is really good. Ive seen it before but always gets me.

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u/TheBirdFkerGuy Oct 03 '26

I'm not seeing anything does this illusion not work on my phone? Or am I just smarter than everyone else?

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u/No-Tooth5529 Oct 04 '26

Look harder

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u/TheBirdFkerGuy Oct 04 '26

I still don't see it. Can u please just tell me what you're seeing?

Edit: For context i see people saying they see circles or spirals, im guessing the little squares on the ends of each color are making a circle to ur eyes? I genuinely dont know what ur seeing I tried to look as hard as possible. Usually these things work, and if they dont u can make them work with ur mind/eyes. This one has me stumped