{"id":49206,"date":"2015-01-09T01:54:28","date_gmt":"2015-01-09T01:54:28","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/hill-kleerup.org\/blog\/2015\/01\/09\/this-illusion-is-driving-me-nuts.html"},"modified":"2015-01-09T01:54:28","modified_gmt":"2015-01-09T01:54:28","slug":"this-illusion-is-driving-me-nuts","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/hill-kleerup.org\/blog\/2015\/01\/09\/this-illusion-is-driving-me-nuts.html","title":{"rendered":"This illusion is driving me nuts"},"content":{"rendered":"

I know<\/i> the lines are all parallel. I can put a straight-edge against them. But I can't make myself actually see<\/i> that.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

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\nI love optical illusions, especially ones where you know what your eyes are telling your brain is wrong, but you can’t seem to get your brain to see that. The famous Checkerboard Illusion is a great example of this. Look at it: You know it’s an illusion, and you just…\n<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

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I know the lines are all parallel. I can put a straight-edge against them. But I can't make myself actually see that. An Illusion That’ll Make Your Eyes Bulge I love optical illusions, especially ones where you know what your eyes are telling your brain is wrong, but you can’t seem to get your brain … Continue reading “This illusion is driving me nuts”<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_seopress_titles_title":"","_seopress_titles_desc":"","_seopress_robots_index":"","_seopress_robots_follow":"","_seopress_robots_imageindex":"","_seopress_robots_snippet":"","_seopress_robots_primary_cat":"","_seopress_robots_breadcrumbs":"","_seopress_robots_freeze_modified_date":"","_seopress_robots_custom_modified_date":"","_seopress_robots_canonical":"","_seopress_social_fb_title":"","_seopress_social_fb_desc":"","_seopress_social_fb_img":"","_seopress_social_fb_img_attachment_id":0,"_seopress_social_fb_img_width":0,"_seopress_social_fb_img_height":0,"_seopress_social_twitter_title":"","_seopress_social_twitter_desc":"","_seopress_social_twitter_img":"","_seopress_social_twitter_img_attachment_id":0,"_seopress_social_twitter_img_width":0,"_seopress_social_twitter_img_height":0,"_seopress_redirections_value":"","_seopress_redirections_enabled":"","_seopress_redirections_enabled_regex":"","_seopress_redirections_logged_status":"","_seopress_redirections_param":"","_seopress_redirections_type":0,"_seopress_analysis_target_kw":"","_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":true,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[106],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-49206","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-plusposts"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack-related-posts":[{"id":31986,"url":"https:\/\/hill-kleerup.org\/blog\/2012\/12\/31\/comic-books-and-the-illusion-of-change.html","url_meta":{"origin":49206,"position":0},"title":"Comic Books and the Illusion of Change","author":"***Dave","date":"Mon 31-Dec-12 12:50pm","format":false,"excerpt":"An essay of Peter David's from 1998 -- particularly interesting when one considers what's happened in the 14 years since to the characters he talks about -- Supergirl, the Hulk, and most especially Spider-Man and the current Peter Parker kerfuffle -- as well as DC's New 52 initiative. 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