The optical illusion that has stumped the internet – can you work it out?
Optical illusions have the uncanny ability to manipulate our eyes to see things in a certain way.
A new optical illusion is warping people’s minds with an image of a street.
Internet users are struggling to comprehend two pictures posted on image sharing site Imgur, that claim to be the exact same photo.
“This is the same photo, side by side,” the caption reads. “They are not taken at different angles.”
“Both sides are the same, pixel for pixel.”
However, the majority of people believe that the photos are taken from two different angles.
“For me it looks like the roads are going in different directions, like one road forking off,” wrote one Reddit user.
“For me my first reaction was the right side was on an angle and the left was more of a straight shot,” said another.
One person has explained how this optical illusion is playing tricks on the viewer.
“It's because the 2 streets come together at the bottom of the pictures,” wrote one user on Reddit.
“Your brain tries to perceive this as one image with a fork in the road and therefore the street in the picture on the left must be at a different angle than the picture on the right.”
For those who struggle to believe that they are the same photo, one user decided to place both images on top of each other to see what would happen.
Did you initially think that the photos looked different to each other? Let us know in the comments below.
Image credit: Reddit