These rugs were put in malls and foodcourts ... Pair it with these stairs for the ultimate in confusion. [via Optical Illusion Collection] ...

Over the past few days, you might have seen a particular optical illusion involving a rug and a phone floating around on Facebook. But how does the "phone on a rug" optical illusion actually work?

"This may sound like illusion confusion but it is all based on existing op-art lenticular technique that, thanks to Golran, and their craftsmen in Nepal, has been translated into marvellous rug ...

Here's the real question we should be asking: Why does someone with such a beautiful rug have a $10 Ikea table in their home? But then again, that's one of life's mysteries that is not so easily ...

It’s a new week, which means a new “optical illusion” for the web to sink ... a nice afternoon here’s a way to do it. Here’s a rug. More than 18,000 people have shared the picture ...

Intricate optical illusions draw the viewer into the remote ... are some of the oldest complete rugs in existence and among the finest ever woven. Only about 100 are known to exist.

A few years ago, a memorizing and very chaotic image popped up on the subreddit Interesting As F***. Given that this is Reddit we’re speaking of, this picture could have been anything.

Or don't, Cersei. If that's really how you feel. It's OK. It's fine. In some ways, this phone-on-a-rug thing is kind of like that brick wall illusion that similarly broke the internet's collective ...