Are these planks of wood the same size? Mind-blowing optical illusion

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Tifany Vera, from Ontario, Canada revealed an optical illusion
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An optical illusion has left people scratching their heads after being shared to Instagram.

Tifany Vera, from Ontario, Canada recently shared a clip to her Instagram page, during a visit to the Museum of Illusions in Toronto.

In the clip captioned ‘Glimpse of what you can see, Tifany holds up a piece of curved teal wood and places it on top of a carving that looks to be the exact same size and shape.

However, she then moves it onto another piece of wood that looks to be a different size, but reveals both blocks are the exact same size.

But not all Instagram users were convinced that the wood was actually the same size, sparking a debate in her comments section.

One user said: ‘Now I’m just more confused’, while another joked: ‘My ex claiming to be the same person I met 2 years ago…’

Tifany Vera shared the clip with her followers on Instagram on a trip to the Museum of Illusions in Toronto

She shocked viewers who were expecting the blocks to be the same size

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And one user didn’t believe her in the first place: ‘It’s clearly longer than the top one, y’all are just gullible’.

A different user accused Tifany of playing with the angle: ‘Showing it from this angle is the best way to confuse people’.

Another agreed: ‘It doesn’t fit in the top silhouette, you can see it clearly the difference before she change the piece on it’.

The filming location decided to chime in to put the rumours to bed.

They explained: ‘The Jastrow Illusion is an optical illusion where two identical figures are placed next to each other.

‘Although they are both exactly the same size, one appears larger.

‘The fact that the shorter arch of one figure is next to the longer arch of the other somehow tricks the brain into perceiving one shape as longer, and the other one as shorter’.

WHAT IS THE JALSTROW ILLUSION?

The illusion was discovered by Polish-born American psychologist Joseph Jastrow in 1891.

In the train track example, the illusion works because the shorter side of the top arch is brought into contrast with the longer side of the bottom arch.

The angle from which the video is captured also exaggerates the illusion, along with the fact that the two pieces of track have their left sides aligned.

If the piece of track above was moved to the right slightly, the centre of both tracks would be in line and the two pieces would appear the same size.

This comes after an optical illusionist left viewers drop-jawed with his expert video editing skills that creates the impression of him doing press-ups under zooming cars and ironing his own leg.

Kevin Lustgarten, from Venezuela but living in Boston, has stunned the internet with his viral clips that leave puzzled watchers thinking ‘how on earth did he do that?’

The illusionist, who has accrued a mammoth six-figure online following, regularly posts his videos to social media that appear to have been crafted by an act of wizardry.

In one hair-raising clip, Kevin is seen performing push-ups blindfolded in the middle of a busy road with traffic racing towards him.

With his arms locked out and fully extended, a black Mercedes is poised to smack into him, but just before it hits he does another press-up and seemingly passes under the vehicle.