These Mindbending Optical Illusions Will Break Your Brain

Troxler’s Effect

If you stare at the blurry image above without blinking, what do you see? Does it begin to fade away? This is a visual phenomenon called the Troxler Effect, discovered in 1804 by Swiss physician Ignaz Paul Vital. It reveals how the human sensory system adapts to visual stimuli.

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