Melt Your Mind With These Optical Illusions

We felt that this is the only appropriate follow up post to our Audio highs entry.

Optical illusions.

Whenever you are ready to melt your mind and confuse your ganglion cells - please proceed to the links below.

Benham’s Disk
The Cafe Wall
Chronosynclastic Infundibulum (aka Rotating Snake)
Enigma
Equiluminance
Face Off
Fraser Spiral
Wow! Hermann’s Sparkling Grid!
Ouchi Goochi
Pirouette Silhouette
Syd Barrett–Dedicated Fractal Acid Words
Troxler’s Fading
Vomit Vectors
Ye Olde Zöllner Lines
(Ze) Autostereogram

These illusions are courtesy of "Get High Now (without drugs)" a fascinating read on natural mind expansion methods. Authored by James Nestor.

Note: These optical illusions requires Quicktime Player v6.0+ to be installed + browser support.

Audio Highs - Your Daily Dose Of Total Brain Confusion (Fun Illusions)

How would you like to experience an aural high? Yes, you read that right.

Experience a 100% natural and legit 'high' off these crazy yet clever illusions.

Send yourself into a state of chaotic confusion as you experience these fun auditory illusions for yourself.


The illusions presented are very trippy indeed. But don't take my word for it. Nothing beats experience. So give them a try and see how well they work on you.

Binaural Beats
Cambiata Illusion
Chromatic Illusion
Colored Noise
Disappearing Noise
Holophonic Sound
Psuedo-Tomatis Healing Sounds
Risset Rhythm
Shepard-Risset Glissando
Shepard Tones
Theta Wave Brain Synchronization
Yucatecan Trance Induction Beats

Note: To be fully functional.These audio highs require QuickTime Version 6.0 or above to be installed on your internet browser.  

James Nestor usually writes about architecture, alternative fuels, and popular culture for Dwell Magazine, National Public Radio, The San Francisco Chronicle, Outside Magazine, San Francisco Magazine, and more. He is currently writing a book about the neurology of alleged out-of-body experiences.

He is also the author of Get High Now. An illustrated, mind-blowing magic carpet ride of more than 175 ways to alter human perception and consciousness—without drugs or alcohol.

Based on science—not subjective New Age hearsay—Get High Now explores the worlds of neurology, biology, and physiology through meditations, illusions, common herbs, audio and visual stimulations, and some bizarre anthropological discoveries.

Each entry describes in colorful detail how these highs affect our minds and bodies, as well as step-by-step directions for how to do them yourself.