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Optical Illusions Books
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by (shelved 10 times as optical-illusions)
avg rating 4.17 — 11,930 ratings — published 2009

by (shelved 4 times as optical-illusions)
avg rating 4.15 — 108 ratings — published 1998

by (shelved 3 times as optical-illusions)
avg rating 4.03 — 1,097 ratings — published 2018

by (shelved 2 times as optical-illusions)
avg rating 3.17 — 18 ratings — published 1987

by (shelved 2 times as optical-illusions)
avg rating 3.50 — 2 ratings — published 1987

by (shelved 2 times as optical-illusions)
avg rating 4.75 — 4 ratings — published 1991

by (shelved 2 times as optical-illusions)
avg rating 3.78 — 79 ratings — published 2003

by (shelved 2 times as optical-illusions)
avg rating 3.86 — 1,242 ratings — published 1998

by (shelved 1 time as optical-illusions)
avg rating 3.70 — 100 ratings — published 2004

by (shelved 1 time as optical-illusions)
avg rating 3.78 — 80 ratings — published 2007

by (shelved 1 time as optical-illusions)
avg rating 4.25 — 92 ratings — published 2012

by (shelved 1 time as optical-illusions)
avg rating 4.00 — 21 ratings — published 2007

by (shelved 1 time as optical-illusions)
avg rating 4.00 — 6 ratings — published

by (shelved 1 time as optical-illusions)
avg rating 3.75 — 8 ratings — published 2002

by (shelved 1 time as optical-illusions)
avg rating 3.92 — 64 ratings — published 1975

by (shelved 1 time as optical-illusions)
avg rating 4.25 — 1,026 ratings — published 2017

by (shelved 1 time as optical-illusions)
avg rating 4.17 — 18 ratings — published

by (shelved 1 time as optical-illusions)
avg rating 4.50 — 4 ratings — published

by (shelved 1 time as optical-illusions)
avg rating 4.00 — 172 ratings — published 2006

by (shelved 1 time as optical-illusions)
avg rating 3.98 — 51 ratings — published 2005

by (shelved 1 time as optical-illusions)
avg rating 3.99 — 4,284 ratings — published 2007

by (shelved 1 time as optical-illusions)
avg rating 4.23 — 1,386 ratings — published 1983

by (shelved 1 time as optical-illusions)
avg rating 5.00 — 1 rating — published

by (shelved 1 time as optical-illusions)
avg rating 4.40 — 10 ratings — published 1994

by (shelved 1 time as optical-illusions)
avg rating 3.35 — 20 ratings — published

by (shelved 1 time as optical-illusions)
avg rating 4.20 — 5 ratings — published 2006

by (shelved 1 time as optical-illusions)
avg rating 4.06 — 36 ratings — published 2012

by (shelved 1 time as optical-illusions)
avg rating 3.92 — 71,378 ratings — published 1954

by (shelved 1 time as optical-illusions)
avg rating 3.86 — 59 ratings — published 2007

by (shelved 1 time as optical-illusions)
avg rating 3.72 — 187 ratings — published 2010

by (shelved 1 time as optical-illusions)
avg rating 4.11 — 9 ratings — published 2001

by (shelved 1 time as optical-illusions)
avg rating 3.22 — 9 ratings — published 2015

by (shelved 1 time as optical-illusions)
avg rating 5.00 — 1 rating — published

by (shelved 1 time as optical-illusions)
avg rating 4.67 — 3 ratings — published 2000

by (shelved 1 time as optical-illusions)
avg rating 4.18 — 11 ratings — published 2002

by (shelved 1 time as optical-illusions)
avg rating 3.33 — 3 ratings — published 1998

by (shelved 1 time as optical-illusions)
avg rating 3.67 — 12,345 ratings — published 2015

by (shelved 1 time as optical-illusions)
avg rating 3.20 — 5 ratings — published 2000

by (shelved 1 time as optical-illusions)
avg rating 3.61 — 33 ratings — published 1998

by (shelved 1 time as optical-illusions)
avg rating 4.38 — 16 ratings — published 2007

by (shelved 1 time as optical-illusions)
avg rating 0.0 — 0 ratings — published 1951

by (shelved 1 time as optical-illusions)
avg rating 3.96 — 23 ratings — published 1999

by (shelved 1 time as optical-illusions)
avg rating 3.73 — 11 ratings — published 2011

by (shelved 1 time as optical-illusions)
avg rating 4.33 — 3 ratings — published 1968

by (shelved 1 time as optical-illusions)
avg rating 2.82 — 93 ratings — published 2011

by (shelved 1 time as optical-illusions)
avg rating 3.96 — 45 ratings — published 1987

by (shelved 1 time as optical-illusions)
avg rating 3.78 — 18 ratings — published 1997

by (shelved 1 time as optical-illusions)
avg rating 3.94 — 2,654 ratings — published 2010

by (shelved 1 time as optical-illusions)
avg rating 4.50 — 10 ratings — published 1976

“Hallucinations relate to the higher cognitive functions of the brain. I was reading about someone at Columbia who asked volunteers to differentiate between houses and faces. Signals in the frontal cortex became active whenever subjects expected to see a face, irrespective of what the actual stimulus was. They would look at a house and "see" a face.
It's called, you know Predictive coding. The brain has an expectation of what it will see, then compares this with information from the eyes. When this goes tits up, hallucinations occur. Our eyes don't present to our brains exact photographs of the things we see. They are more like sketches and impressions chattering along the optic nerve for the brain to interpret. That's what optical illusions are about. The brain's software is perfectly capable of simulating a vision in this way”
― The Blasphemer
It's called, you know Predictive coding. The brain has an expectation of what it will see, then compares this with information from the eyes. When this goes tits up, hallucinations occur. Our eyes don't present to our brains exact photographs of the things we see. They are more like sketches and impressions chattering along the optic nerve for the brain to interpret. That's what optical illusions are about. The brain's software is perfectly capable of simulating a vision in this way”
― The Blasphemer

“Like the moon shining bright
Up high with all its grace,
I can only show you at night
And hide half of my face.”
― Pierrot & Columbine
Up high with all its grace,
I can only show you at night
And hide half of my face.”
― Pierrot & Columbine