Optical illusions from all over the world

Why do we love optical illusions so much? Maybe on a subconscious level we like to deceive ourselves? Many people get a lot of pleasure from such eye-deceiving paintings and sculptures, and besides, it is an excellent source for creating unforgettable photos! In any case, optical illusions are worth the time to devote to them. Let's take a look at the most interesting ones.

A woman poses in front of a 3D painting at an exhibition in Guiyang, China. (Reuters photo)

A security guard at the Royal Academy of Art inspects the back side of a sculpture by Australian master Ron Mueck called "Mask II", not even suspecting how funny it looks from the outside. (Reuters / David Moir)

The guy jumps into the waters of the Dnieper in Kiev. (Reuters / Konstantin Chernichkin)

Spectators and soldiers watch the cricket match between Sri Lanka and India from the walls of the fort, which stands behind the territory of the cricket field. (Reuters / Andrew Caballero-Reynolds)

Simon Ammann from Switzerland and Martin Koch from Austria descend from the ski jump after training in Oslo on March 1, 2011. (Reuters / Petr Josek)

Shahid Afridi from Pakistan is outraged, standing in front of Shivrani Chanderpaul of the West Indies team, in the cricket semi-final in Dhaka. (Reuters / Adnan Abidi)

German street artist Johan Lorbir during his performance "Tarzan. Standing still life" in Bilbao. (Reuters / Vincent West)

Visitors to the Auckland Art Gallery are reflected in the mirrors of an installation by Luc Peire called "Environment 3". (Reuters / Stefan Wermuth)

Artist Liu Bolin during his installation with vegetables on supermarket shelves in Beijing. (Reuters / China Daily)

Actors pose with sports equipment at the world's largest 3D drawing in London. (Reuters / Paul Hackett)

Snowdrifts at the Berlin TV tower. (Reuters / Thomas Peter)

The forward of the Cleveland Cavaliers team Tristan Thompson successfully threw the ball into the basket, "losing his head." (Reuters / Bob Donnan)

This family clearly knows how to pose with 3D paintings. The photo was taken at an exhibition in Hangzhou. (Reuters / Carlos Barria)

Continuing the theme of successful reflections… The photo was taken on the territory of the Biryusa Forum, on the banks of the Yenisei River in Krasnoyarsk. (Reuters / Ilya Naymushin)

Silvia Miteva from Bulgaria performs with a ball at the London Olympics. (Reuters / Marcelo Del Pozo)

The coordinator of the Legoland project, Stefan Bentivoglio, is just correcting some details in a toy town installed in a Singapore hotel. (Reuters / Edgar Su)

Sculptures by Robert Therrien at the Center for Contemporary Art in Belfast. (Reuters / Cathal McNaughton)

The full moon has joined the Olympic rings under Tower Bridge in London. (Reuters / Luke MacGregor)

What a long dog in London's Green Park! (Reuters / Natasha-Marie Brown)

The man-dog!

A very successful advertising poster and flooded streets of Budapest after the flood of the Danube River. (Reuters / Laszlo Balogh)

Frenchman Mathieu Valbuena (right) and Belgians Marouane Fellaini (left) and Vincent Kompany in a very good angle during the match in Brussels. (Reuters / Yves Herman)

A man holds the hand of the idol of the elephant god Ganesh during the immersion ceremony in the Hussein Sagar Lake at the Ganesh Chaturthi Festival in Hyderabad. (Reuters / Krishnendu Halder)

Exhibition of Optical Illusions in St. Petersburg. This Ames room is designed with a distorted perspective in mind to confuse the viewer's sense of scale. (Reuters / Alexander Demianchuk)

Girls pose at an installation by Argentine artist Leonardo Ehrlich called "Dalston House" in London. The house is painted on the ground, and there are mirrors above it, in which the illusion is created that you are sitting on the window of the house. (Reuters / Luke MacGregor)

A radio-controlled airplane in the form of Superman on the background of the moon during a test flight in San Diego. (Reuters / Mike Blake)

Nine-day-old female giraffe Hera (in front) walks past two-day-old male Hermes in the zoo enclosure in Rapperswil, Switzerland. (Reuters / Christian Hartmann)

People walk out of the doors of a cardboard car during a street party in Madrid. (Reuters / Susana Vera)

Ben Francisco of the Philadelphia Phillies after being hit in the head by a ball at a baseball game in Philadelphia. (Reuters / Tim Shaffer)