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TOI Lifestyle Desk | TIMESOFINDIA.COM

Optical Illusion: Can you help these students find the ancient mask in this museum?

Although our eyes are excellent at absorbing information, our brain actively processes it to create our worldview. This is where optical illusions come into play, creating incredible visual tricks by manipulating the way our brain functions.

Unlike spectacles, optical illusions do not instantly improve vision, but they can sharpen attention, boost brain plasticity, and enhance problem-solving abilities. Playing with illusions stimulates the mind and keeps it lively, which encourages learning and exploration.

In the museum, you're on a mission since an uncommon antique mask has vanished! Could you help the curator find it before it disappears forever? Put on your detective cap and hone your observation skills because somewhere in this busy museum scene there lies a deviously camouflaged mask.

It will take only the sharpest-eyed viewers with the fastest visual processing skills less than 8 seconds to finish this optical illusion job. You have eight seconds to look over the following exhibit. Focus more clearly!

This optical illusion is meant to test your perception, detail-oriented thinking, and capacity to think beyond the box. It is mind-bending. Among the brightly colored tapestries, interesting artifacts, and excited museum goers, can you find the cunning mask?

Recall that observation is crucial. The brilliant chaos of the museum is not going to fool you; the mask is skillfully camouflaged and blends in perfectly.

Seek for an anomaly, a tiny deviation from the norm within the disorder. You're not just perceptive—you're a visual genius if you can locate the mask in 8 seconds!

Studies show that those with exceptional visual processing abilities and a keen eye for detail are more likely to find concealed details in these kinds of illusions. Are you still having trouble locating the concealed mask in this image?

Solution to this optical illusion

Check out the solution below marked in a circle if you're still searching.

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