A new optical illusion that is BAFFLING is confusing internet users everywhere.

The surreal animation depicts a tropical environment with what appear to be moving automobiles travelling down a palm-lined road.

The landscape’s hues alternate quickly between yellow, red, and blue, giving the appearance that clouds and birds are floating across the sky.

The avians and the automobiles appear to be moving, yet they are actually standing still.

User @Raybanxan posted the animation to TikTok on Monday. It has received more than 13,000 views thus far.

A motionless image appears to be moving in this instance of illusory motion, also known as motion illusion.

By employing contrasting colours, forms, and positions, they mislead the brain into perceiving motion.

The lines appear to be moving because our brain interprets a shift in light as motion.

They are actually completely motionless. A similar technique can be applied to give the appearance of depth.

Interestingly, for the full effect of the trick, the observer must scan their eyes across the image.

The illusory movement slows down or even stops if you keep your eyes fixed on the centre of the picture.

By blinking rapidly while concentrating on the visual problem, you can defeat an illusion in a manner similar to that.

Even while optical illusions are frequently only for entertainment, they have scientific applications as well.

Researchers are able to learn more about the inner workings of the mind and how it responds to its environment thanks to the brain puzzles.

Illusions are crucial to our study of the brain, according to Dr. Gustav Kuhn, a psychologist and authority on human perception at Goldsmiths University in London, who made this statement to the Sun earlier this month.

“We frequently take perception for granted and hardly ever consider the effort required to perform simple tasks like seeing a picture,”