Candle in The Mirror Illusion

Here’s an interesting optical illusion submitted by Jaime Heravi. It looks as if there were two candles and two candle holders in front of the mirror. Wrong! First I thought it was bad illusion, since I didn’t read carefully what Jaime wrote, but after realizing there is only one candle in this photo, I had a nice surprise. Do you know how it was done?

We have similar, yet opposite situation in this article. Try figuring out both of the illusions, and where the flame disappeared in second one, and send in your comments. Thanks Jaime for another cool illusion for our site. I have trouble finding quality stuff all of you will like, but I have few more audio illusions waiting to be posted. I realized you like those very much!

Ohh, and about that very important exam I told you about before, I passed it! It is the hardest exam on my university, and when you pass it, you can consider your self Dr. Science. The exam is called Electronics 2, on my faculty Electrotechnics and Computer engineering.

39 Replies to “Candle in The Mirror Illusion”

  1. There are two candle holders but only one candle. Like, The candle holder on the left in real life is empty. The picture is aligned so that the reflection of the real candle is aligned onto the emoty candle holder. See the little reflection of the empty candle holder under the fanlamp? That’s the empty one on the left.

    Or it could be winged piggies!

    1. ur all wrong its a window i dont believe none of u were smart enough to see that its just a window

  2. one lit candle in candle holder. one empty candle holder. picture taken from angle where reflection of first candle appears to be in empty candle holder. very cool illusion.

  3. It looks more like there are two candles in front of the mirror, and they dont have reflections…like ghosts. or vampires. or me. :p

  4. anonymous post number 3 is right all the candles exept the 1 all the way to the left is a reflection

  5. This one is really done with smoke and mirrors. You can also see the reflection of the empty candle holder in the mirror.

  6. no offense, but i find it boring. Or maybe its just because im waiting again for something as amazing as that audio illusion lol

  7. I think its like this…the first is just an empty candle stand, u can see its reflection in the mirror. The candle that u think u see in the mirror is actually the reflection of the other candle.

  8. Hey, I love those candles, did you make them yourself or did you buy them? If you made them, I would love to know more.

  9. umm i think… the candle stick closest to the mirror is empty and the other one has the candle in it but it looks kewl because of the angle you took the picture. is pretty clever!!!

  10. umm i think… the candle stick closest to the mirror is teh empty one and the other one is the one that has the candle in it but it looks the way it does because of the angle you took the picture very clever!!!!

  11. There is only one candle and the second ‘candle’ is actually an empty candle holder and the mirror makes it look like there is two candles.

  12. Wow, thats really cool. one is just an empty candle holder with the reflection of the actual candle behind it. That is very clever!

  13. You’re all close but wrong. And some of you did get it right. If you look closely, the candleholders on the other side of the Window (It’s not a Mirror) are different from the ones on our side of the Window. It’s a cool Illusion but really easy.

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