The Perfect Circles Of Psychological Torture

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The Perfect Circles Of Psychological Torture

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Your brain is being bamboozled right now! Those "perfectly geometrical circles" are actually warped and distorted by the checkered pattern creating a neural riot in your visual cortex. Your visual system is desperately trying to process conflicting spatial information while your prefrontal cortex is screaming "THEY'RE NOT CIRCLES!" Yet the caption gaslights you into questioning reality itself. The transition from "optical illusion" to "optical pain" is the perfect escalation of what happens when your brain's pattern recognition system short-circuits. It's not just an illusion—it's visual system betrayal at its finest!

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