Mind-blowing optical illusion reveals how easily your eyes are tricked – can you see the TRUE colours?

THINK you see a pink-ish dog and a lilac cat in this image? Think again.

People can’t get their head around the fact that the two are actually the same colour.

@NovickProfBoth are the same colour[/caption]

It turns out the tight lines deceive our eyes to see two different colours.

Professor David Novick, who creates all sorts of optical illusions, has posted several on social media.

Apparently it’s known as the munker illusion, which happens when horizontal stripes have different colours and cross the objects featured in the image.

“The Munker illusion appears to be a function of the framing colors, which tend to tint the central [shape],” he explained.

“The apparent color of the central circle is a mix of the foreground framing color and the circle’s color.”

And the more you zoom out, the more it actually increases the effect too.

Try blocking out a tight gap with two fingers across your screen so that only a small slice of the dog and cat shows, and you should notice that they are both indeed the same colour.

If you’re into optical illusions be sure not to miss this one too, which reveals a colour your computer display is not able to show.

The colour is known as ‘true cyan’.

There is also a so-called ‘super-illusion’ that makes you see things that don’t exist.

The trippy animation appears to show a stickman climbing stairs and jumping, but your eyes are very much deceiving you.

Meanwhile, another of two elephants on a seesaw makes people hear a thud even though the video has no noise.

@NovickProfAll the flowers are the same colour[/caption]

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