Optical Illusions

Look at the figure on the right. Stare at the black dot without moving your eyes. The smudge will miraculously disappear! Try the same experiment again with the smudge on the left. This time the smudge does not disappear. What is going on here? Why does the smudge disappear in one instance and not the other? (Illusion from the Wilderdom Store. Use under Creative Commons Attribution License)

Wilderdom has a wonderful set of cooperative games and icebreaking games that they share for free. They also have a book of optical illusions that would work well for a challenge during morning community meetings.

Their material is copyleft so as along as you attribute them and use the same licensing terms (and cite their Creative Commons License) . You are free to use their stuff as you like.

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