“I saw it myself!” – we say and the
argument is over. Our eyes – what could
be more reliable? But sometimes the
eye does not see exactly what actually
exists, or it sees something that is not
there at all. Sometimes we encounter
illusions – tricks that our eyes and brain
perform over and over again. It seems
that illusions are something exceptional,
rare. But that’s not true. Under
certain conditions, illusions are natural
phenomena. This book is about the t ricks
of our vision. We have collected the
most famous and impressive illusions and
will try to find an explanation for them.
However, some tricks of vision have still
not been explained by science and remain
a mystery for us to solve.