Tricking your sense of perception is more common than you think

Do you remember the whole dress debate that set the world on fire in 2015?

Is it black and blue, or white and gold?

Well, it turned out basically that the lighting was really bad on this image, which led people to see it one of two ways.

basically the two ways people’s eyes saw it.

I had long known that our perceptions are fallible, but luckily for me, my eyes saw this dress correctly from the jump (it’s blue and black).

More recently I heard of another colour based quiz along the same lines of the dress:

Are these sneakers pink and white, or grey and turqouise?

Once again, bad lighting was the culprit. The sneakers are actually pink with white accents. The lighting is just really bad.

Last week, “Yanni vs Laurel”, aka the audio version of the dress debate, took the internet by storm.