By Jonathan Hampton 
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Your eyes are lying to you—and your brain is helping them do it.
What you think is “reality” may just be a clever hallucination your mind agrees to believe.
Lines bend that are perfectly straight.
Still images crawl like living things.
We trust our senses as if they are flawless instruments, yet optical illusions expose just how negotiable our reality really is. Each illusion hijacks a different mental shortcut: our hunger for patterns, our assumptions about light and shadow, our instinct to complete unfinished shapes. The brain
