Top 20 Optical Illusions That Will Break Your Brain
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#3: The Peripheral Drift Illusion
The image that moves when you're not looking.
This illusion creates a strong sense of motion in your peripheral vision, but the motion stops as soon as you look directly at it. It's caused by the different processing speeds in your brain for various levels of luminance and contrast. The repeated asymmetric patterns trick your motion detectors into firing.