This brain-frazzling optical illusion is enough to put your head into a spin. The purple-and-yellow image looks as though it’s both three-dimensional and moving but is in fact stationary and flat.

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And that could mean the rotating snakes illusion is finally explained.

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Looking at complex or moving optical illusions can overstimulate your visual system, causing you to miss out on the visual information hidden right in plain sight. Research in neuroscience tells us ...