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Perceptual Illusions (2018)

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Re: Perceptual Illusions (2018)

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Number 12 is quite something, it works with anything you look at after staring the center of the top image. I looked at my food and I could see it moving in a very odd manner, went back to image for 15 seconds and looked at the walls, same effect and repeated the same with other stuff and after 10 minutes I feel motion sickness like the one you get after spinning and losing your balance (not everyone gets this I thin…

I regularly go on 10+ mile hikes with my girlfriend and we’ve noticed this happens after 2-3 hrs of straight, continuous hiking. When you all the sudden stop, it looks like the surrounding environment is coming at you. Super weird, same concept.

Less impressively, the same effect can be observed after playing Guitar Hero for a while.

Re: Perceptual Illusions (2018)

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These were all great. I have a question on the Tube train one though - as someone that has lived over 20 years of his life in London, a lot of them using the Tube, why don't I ever perceive actual Tube trains as going backwards? Or indeed ordinary mainline trains?

Because you can see lot more than like... 3 frames or whatever it is that gif has; plus you have other cues, like the wind, sound, ground vibrations.
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