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Optical illusions happen when our eyes try to play tricks on our brain... or is our actually when our brain plays tricks on our eyes? Either way, it always interesting when we have to take a double-take because we think we may have seen something impossible. Could it really be a dog with two heads? Or two identical pups? If you're like me, you'll be pleased by either outcome.

It's been a hot minute since our minds were last blown by some thought-provoking, head-scratching shower thoughts! 

We decided to go see what was recently new in the popular subreddit, r/ShowerThoughts, and did not leave disappointed. Shower thoughts are essentially this generations' most insightful thoughts, all in one forum. There's a shower thought that blows our minds! 

Which thought below was really eye-opening for you? For us, the butterfly and moth one was truly eye-opening. 

Whale, whale, whale, if it isn't another thread viral animal thread... we love those! It all started with a viral tweet from Twitter user Mx. Leah Velleman, in which they brought up the fact that Europeans avoid using the word "bear" in fear of summoning them. Instead, they call them "brown one" or "honey-eater." Pretty interesting right? And we thought we were superstitious!

Turns out, there's an even more wild European theory about evil whales, from Iceland. If this isn't already fascinating to you, we're not quite sure how to help you because, friends, this is about as cool as it gets. Get yourself ready to go deep diving into the depths of the unknown! 

Welcome back to Koty Vezde's cat universe! You may be familiar with this artist's unique style... to photoshop a cat's head onto any and every animal imaginable. 

Koty Vezde is what the people need and what the people deserve! We cannot get enough of seeing what different animals would look like if they had a cat's head. Most of the time, it turns each animal into something really heckin' cute. And other times.... just kidding, there are no other times -- every animal with a cat's head is really heckin' cute! Don't believe it would be? Take a gander below and report back to us with an apology. 

Follow Koty Vezde on Instagram to see all the newest cat-face transplant photoshop work!

There are all kinds of important Twitter accounts out there! For example, there are the wholesome 'Thoughts of Dog,' and 'We Rate Dogs,' but what about cats? 

Twitter account, 'Is there a cat in this movie?' is providing the public with very valuable information. Do you ever stop and wonder if a cat is within a movie or not? This account provides the answer, and a word to the wise, if a cat is featured within a horror movie, purrhaps it's best to stay away from that particular film. 

This Twitter account is very important indeed, if we're ever on the fence about seeing a film and then find out a cat will appear at some point, consider us sold! Thank you. 'Is there a cat in this movie?' for providing the public with such a valuable service, we are forever in your debt! 

Have you taken a mind-blowing epiphany shower as of late? No worries if you haven't because we're bringing that shower to you! 

We were searching through this month's most recent and most insightful thoughts from the Reddit forum, r/ShowerThoughts, a place where this generation shares all its mind-blowing epiphanies in one place, which is quite frankly another thought that blows our minds. 

We love some mind-shattering animal thoughts! Which thought below was really eye-opening for you? 

Dogs are magical creatures sent to us to help guide us and this thing we call life. They are the purest animals with the biggest hearts and we just hope they know how much we adore them. 

All dogs are good dogs. One Twitter user, @DrBenKatz, came across a very important (and very cute) research studies on whether or not dogs can recognize other dogs, merely by sight. After all, there are so many different types of breeds out there, do dogs recognize those dogs to be dogs as well? And the research progress in order to experiment with this question is so heckin' adorable we just don't know what to do with ourselves. If all research could be like this, we might have become scientists ourselves! 

When Twitter user, @ok_girlfriend, who also happens to be a biologist, revealed that she just discovered that, "sea urchins naturally use shells as hats to make them feel safer and camouflaged so some aquarist had the genius idea to make them tiny hats." The aquarists 3D printed hats for these little sea creatures and it's indeed genius! We can't get enough of these little sea urchins donning tiny hats! 

Lately, we've been bunnies in hats, snakes in hats, and even hedgehogs in hats -- seems like we have another animal to add to the tiny hat-wearing collection! 

This is so cool and so incredibly random! It turns out, if you were to place a platypus under a blacklight, they would glow! What other amazing secrets are these creatures hiding from us?

Noted in the journal Mammalia, "shining an ultraviolet light on a platypus makes the animal's fur fluoresce with a greenish-blue tint. They're one of the few mammals known to exhibit this trait. And we're still in the dark about why they do it — if there is a reason at all."

Other animals that have exhibited this interesting trait are scorpions, lichens, puffin beaks, and believe it or not, North American flying squirrels glow bubble pink under UV light. Blue light, just a notch away from ultraviolet, turns our oceans into what looks like an indoor mini-golf course! It's also what causes multiple types of amphibians to glow green. 

Nature is lit. 

Story via The New York Times

We don't know about you but when we think of a mantis, the classic green mantis comes to mind. Who in the world knew they could come in such a vast variety of colors, and stunning colors at that? To say we're stunned is an understatement -- mantis are beautiful! 

Bugs are usually something we claim to be beautiful, but they have surprised us in the past! We're just attracted to unusual colors on things we've already decided on how they look. Which is usually brown and not so pleasant to look at. Turns out, there are more colors to little insects than we could ever imagine there would be.

We're not saying we're totally obsessed with insects now but we do appreciate their beauty!

Here's something that's never crossed our minds, if you had an identical twin, would your pet confuse the two of you? Well, seems like someone did think about it, Redditor u/Asshiq, asked the Reddit community, "Identical twins that own pets, what was your pet's reaction when they saw your twin?"

The responses were delightful but we especially enjoyed reading the silly stories people had to share about their experience as a twin and a pet. So now we're going to ask you, before reading the comment below, do you think the pets were able to tell the identical twins apart?

While all these photoshopped animals do look beautiful either way and some not even odd-looking, we're definitely grateful to live in a world where tigers and zebras have stripes. These animals have color and uniquely beautiful, if you photoshop out those iconic markings, it doesn't dilute their cuteness, but we've obviously come to love and admire these animals individual uniqueness. 

The team at Brightside.me has asked the question, "What would animals look like without their markings?" And then created it for us to help us imagine a world in which animals only come in one shade of color. Safe to say, we all love the animals just as they naturally are! 

When Tumblr user, sailorcuba, shared their thoughts on how adorable a cat's meow is to any verbal response, it paved the way for another user to share a funny and wholesome story of a cat who had never had human interaction before. 

We've heard that adult cats don't actually meow at other cats to communicate, but rather just at humans to let us know when they want something. This story could be further proof of that claim. 

Tumblr is filled with endless cat gems, we hope to never discover them all because that would just take out the excitement for when we do across a gem such as this thread below.