Fractals are weird: Mandelbrots and Mandelboxes

Wee hours of Saturday morning.

Was watching videos of fractals on my phone and took the screenshot below.  After looking at the first video of a Mandelbrot, I looked at the thumbnail of the one below of a Mandelbox (3D Mandelbrot).  

Because the first one showed the camera zooming into the Mandelbrot at high speed, my eyes grew accustomed to viewing that.  So when I took my eyes off the Mandelbrot video, I felt like the camera was zooming out from the Mandelbox, even though the 2nd image was stationary.  

How weird is that when you experience optical illusions like this???

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