What colour do YOU see? This Coke can isn’t actually red – optical illusion tricks your BRAIN 

There’s no question that optical illusions baffle the best of us – whether it’s vanishing dots or the true color of a Coke can.

Scientists have referred to them as “some of nature’s most impressive magic tricks” with the ability to simply trick our brains into believing something untrue.

And now, a TikTok shared by Doctor Dean Jackson (@beatonthebeeb) will do just that – cast doubt on whether we can trust our own eyes.

Many onlookers are in disbelief as the biologist pulls off a mind-boggling trick involving a Coke can.

While the can appears bright red, Dr. Jackson explains that your eyes are deceiving you, as it is actually gray.

He said: Surrounding gray with tits kind of color (pointing to blue) predisposes your brain to interpret it as red.

“And if you know the color of the Coke can, you can exaggerate this even further.”

This strange phenomenon occurs when our brains get confused by what our eyes see.

Two types of photoreceptors are located at the back of a human eye, allowing us to respond to light shining in.

While ‘rods’ are sensitive to motion, ‘cones’ are sensitive to light, each responding to a different color.

In the video of Dr. Jackson lets the cyan filter through only cyan light, which means everything else should appear gray.

But when our brain recognizes that Coke cans are usually red, it can interpret the gray light to look like this.

Also psychology professor Alan Johnston at University College of London to explained: ‘Optical illusions are among nature’s most impressive magic tricks. They are deceptively simple yet compelling – your brain is telling you lies.’

The video has since been flooded with comments, with TikTok users expressing confusion and disbelief.

“There’s red lol, my eyes don’t lie,” said one person, while another added, “There’s definitely red there.”

Second-guessing the true color of something is a common illusion, such as evidenced by the debate surrounding the viral ‘white and gold’ dress that was actually blue and black.

The video has since been flooded with comments, with TikTok users expressing their confusion

Millions debated whether this dress was black and blue or actually white and gold

Similar to Coke cans, this strange phenomenon occurred when colors were mixed up, causing the brain to become unbalanced.

Dr. Jackson presented another example of this in a video where he showed an image of a woman’s eyes that appear blue, but are actually gray.

Turns out this can also vary depending on your gender, according to Professor Andrew Lotery of the University of Southampton.

This is influenced by an individual’s gene combinations that create a sense of color, he told MailOnline.

Because these genes are located on the X chromosome, females have more variations and switch between color perceptions more than males.