It's all about the angle: 12 strange photos that you have to look twice

Sometimes our brains just can't believe what our eyes see. This is commonly referred to as an optical illusion. While Photoshop has made it a lot easier for us to manipulate images, there's nothing better than a good old-fashioned shot taken from the right angle to fool your mind and create an alternate reality. Take a look at these photos below and you will see the truly impossible... but this is not photoshop.

(Total 12 photos)

Source: businessinsider.com

1. Does the boy walk on air? No, he was just photographed while jumping into the Dnieper River in Kyiv.

2. German street performer Johann Lorbier tricks the audience by allegedly floating in the air. In fact, this trick requires a fake hand.

3. Separated from the body of the head - in fact, an underwater illusion.

4. Dog or human? A Great Dane covers its owner's face at an exhibition in Birmingham.

5. The body of this man seems to be gone, but in fact he is between the "Mirrors of Invisibility" on display at the Hong Kong Science Museum.

6. If you look closely, you will see Liu Bolin, a Chinese artist known as the "invisible man", merged into the comic book booth.

7. Table and chairs for giants at the Belfast Art Centre.

8. Actually, the height of the football player Mathieu Valbuena is 167 cm, but in this picture an optical illusion is created, and Mathieu seems much smaller.

9. Bird? No, a remote-controlled superman plane designed by Otto Dieffenbach.

10. From this angle, the vans parked outside the Nissan Motor Co. in Yokosuka look like origami.

11. These athletes do not balance on the edge of the ice ledges, but simply train on the largest 3D drawing in Canary Wharf, London.

12. This supposedly headless Philadelphia baseball player actually just got hit in the face (which caused the helmet to come off), which he, by the way, tried to dodge.