Nicola Jones reports her experience of hypnosis, during which unsuccessful attempts to make her experience paralysis and blindness are carried out (10 October, p 37). What she fails to mention is that ...

An optical illusion is a visual phenomenon where our perception of thinking about an image differs from objective reality. This image is seen as a high-contrast black-and-white optical illusion made ...

Optical illusions are visual tricks that make your brain see something different from reality. They happen when the brain misinterprets information received from the eyes. Sometimes, an object may ...

There is a film that Robert Rodriguez’s Hypnotic feels like it is riffing on so explicitly that it becomes almost hilarious the more it goes on. To say what that specific film is would mean toeing too ...

There’s only one explanation for how this is possible: Manipulation performer Ouka must have somehow turned off gravity. These incredible illusions are performed on a number of objects including the 8 ...

Presenting a suggestion of heaviness to a person in a hypnotic trance (e.g., "your arm is getting heavier and heavier") tends to result in a corresponding change in the person's body position (e.g., ...

Joey Shanks has released another handy step-by-step guide on his YouTube channel, Shanks FX. This time, he shows you how to manipulate water. Shanks explains that water illusions occur when you film ...