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a magic trick your brain performs on itself, then refuses to admit.
means Something that appears real or true but isn't — a deceptive impression of the senses or the mind.
from From Latin 'illusio,' meaning a mocking or a deception, built from 'illudere' — to play with, to make sport of — where 'ludere' is simply 'to play' (the same root that gives us 'ludicrous'). At its heart, an illusion is reality playing a little joke at your expense.
- brain over eyes
- perception is mostly guesswork, lightly fact-checked
- the dress
- two billion people argued over one photo's color
- phantom limbs
- amputees feel fingers that no longer exist
- motion myth
- film is still images fooling you 24 times a second
- moon lie
- the horizon moon only looks bigger
for instance
impossible triangle — penrose triangle, 1954, three-dimensional object that cannot exist in euclidean space but appears valid in 2d
spinning dancer illusion — 2003 silhouette that appears to rotate clockwise or counterclockwise depending on visual perception