This isn't an optical illusion, exactly. But in a way, it's even stranger.
Turns out our sense of time is altered depending on whether we're looking right or left.
Our only way of knowing the world around us is through our senses, and those same senses are proving to be incredibly unreliable. Bizarre!
http://www.newscientist.com/blogs/shortsharpscience/2009/07/time-travel-available-to-all.html
I'm puzzled by the assertion that "The study also adds support to the idea that we think of increasing durations of time as moving right to left." Either I misunderstood something or... (?)
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