Are you interested in knowing your hidden personality traits and how other people perceive you? Well, then you are at the right place. Taking this optical illusion personality test can help one understand themselves better, and even realise subtle things about oneself that they didn’t notice earlier.
What are optical illusion personality tests?
As the name suggests, these are special images and they are based on psychology.These images have one or more elements which can appear in different ways to different people– thus creating optical illusions. Depending on what a person notices first in the image, a lot can be understood about them, their lesser-known personality traits, and how they view the world around them.
To take this test, simply look at the image above and notice what you see first. You’ll either see two people’s side faces or a candle in the image, and it can reveal if you are too guarded or easily manipulated by others. Read on to know what each of them means:
1. If you saw the faces of two people in the image first…

Then it means that you are a bit guarded in life and you do not open up to people easily. You prefer to keep your thoughts and emotions to yourself. You prefer people like you and so, you do not like engaging with people who are too open or friendly.
One of your great qualities is that you can stay calm and find solutions to problems even in challenging times when others easily give up. This helps you learn from your experiences, which only makes you stronger and wiser. And people highly value this quality of yours.
However, since you are guarded it prevents you from being open and vulnerable with others– especially your partner. This can make them feel distant to you, and adversely affect your connection. But if you intentionally communicate openly and freely with your partner, it can help strengthen your bond and keep your relationship going.
2. If you saw the candle first…

On the contrary, if you fall in the second category of people who saw a candle in the picture first, then it means that you are intuitive in nature. You can also easily understand and bond with people. Your intuition helps you stay away from negative people and choose your people wisely. However, once people are in your inner circle they have a huge influence on you and you trust them. This can sometimes go against you as some of these people can now manipulate you and even break your trust. And so, remember to trust yourself always and keep listening to your intuition, rather than over trusting others.
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Optical illusion personality tests, as the name suggests, are specialised images based on psychology. In these pictures, there are one or more elements that can be interpreted in different ways and depending on what a person saw first, a lot can be understood about them. Thus, these optical illusions are fun tests that reveal a lot about a person’s hidden personality traits.
This particular image has two main elements– a cat and nature. Depending on what one sees first, the picture can help in understanding if a person is a reliable person or too carefree in life. This image was first shared by an account named @psychologylove100 on TikTok. To take this test, simply look closely at the picture above and notice what you saw first. Now read on to know what it means:
1. If you saw a cat’s face first
Then it means that you are a reliable person, and quite determined on your goals. You are also empathetic, and people appreciate you for your generosity and kindness. However, your kindness shouldn’t be mistaken for weakness by others as you do not tolerate bad behaviour or injustice in life. You are calm, confident, and optimistic in nature which helps you navigate challenges in life. People close to you see you as an easy-to-approach yet no-nonsense person.
2. If you saw the forest first
If you notice the forest at the center of the optical illusion then it means that you are a gentle and kind-hearted person. However, you also come across as someone who is naïve and this makes others manipulate you. You are curious and carefree in nature, and this sometimes prevents you from setting clear boundaries in your life.
How accurate are these optical illusion tests?
While optical illusion personality tests are fun to take, they are not 100 per cent true as they give very basic and generic results. And so, these tests should not be the only way to understand yourself or someone better.
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CNN
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Trying out golf for the first time, something just didn’t feel right about the conventional swing for Eliezer Paul-Gindiri.

Uncomfortable, he adjusted his grip. His solution, quite literally, changed his life single-handedly.

“It was a moment (that) just came out of nowhere,” Paul-Gindiri told CNN. “I held it in one hand and it felt really comfortable and waggly. I was like ‘Wait a minute, let me try this.’

“Now that I think of it, I’m like, ‘what made me do that?’ It’s God. God blessed me with a talent that just came out of nowhere.”

Rotating the club above his head, Paul-Gindiri stepped up to the tee and crushed a devastating drive into the Arizona night sky. Cue dropped jaws among onlooking friends at the driving range, including the one who had just captured the moment on camera.

The footage was far from cinema-standard, and Paul-Gindiri barely gave it a second thought as he posted the clip to his newly created TikTok account that night.

The next morning, he woke to the buzzing of a phone lighting up with notifications. Overnight, the video had surged to 1.5 million views.

That was February 2021. A year and half later, Paul-Gindiri is a certified TikTok sensation putting up engagement numbers as eye-watering as his one-handed swing.

With 1.9 million followers and over half a billion views, the 22-year-old has posted viral hit after viral hit with increasingly audacious and creative variations of his unorthodox technique.

“I think it’s just the uniqueness of it and it being something new to golf,” Paul-Gindiri said. “You’re seeing the same stuff over and over again, it gets boring. So once people saw it, they were like, ‘what the hell?’. They’ve never seen anything like that.”

The account name, Snappy Gilmore, was born after a friend advised incorporating a run-up into the swing. The moniker is a nod to 1996 comedy “Happy Gilmore,” which sees Adam Sandler star as a failed ice hockey star turned pro golfer – with the help of a booming, radical swing.

Whisper it quietly, but Paul-Gindiri had never seen the cult classic before blending the technique with his own. Naturally, that was quickly amended, with Paul-Gindiri soon meeting up with Christopher McDonald, who played the film’s antagonist Shooter McGavin, to show off his skills.

“It was awesome,” said Paul-Gindiri, who coached McDonald to an impressive one-handed attempt. “Really nice guy, we had a blast.”

Meeting the real-life Happy, Sandler, remains on the bucket list, not least so Paul-Gindiri can thank his namesake for the iconic run-up which has increased the distance of his shots. Averaging 250 yards, his best-ever one-handed strike flew 330 yards, he said.

That average sits a mere 50 yards below the 299.6-yard average on the PGA Tour this season, as Cameron Champ leads the way with 321.4 yards.

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Paul-Gindiri has showcased his technique to several Tour players, including fabled big hitter Bryson DeChambeau. The 2021 Tour’s longest driver looked stunned when the pair met up in May, and Paul-Gindiri said this is a common reaction among pros.

“They were trying to figure out how I do it,” he added. “I’ve met a couple of PGA Tour players and they just tell me what I do is crazy sick, and I should just keep doing what I’m doing.”

Incredibly, Paul-Gindiri even used to putt-one handed, though he has since switched to the conventional two-handed hold as he seeks to master both grips and improve upon his personal-best 76 round, achieved completely one-handed. That edges his current two-handed best – a six-over 77 carded last week – by a stroke.

Yet the social media star has his sights set on targets beyond the fairway. A keen footballer and a long-suffering Manchester United fan, Paul-Gindiri dreams of following in the footsteps of his idol, Cristiano Ronaldo.

Having left his family in Nigeria to move on his own to the San Francisco Bay Area in 2017, Paul-Gindiri played for Contra Costa College for two years. A foray into the semi-professional game was cut short by the pandemic and soccer pursuits were slowed upon a move to Arizona, but he is determined to pick up where he left off this year.

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And while he may not have any tricks up his sleeve as unorthodox as a one-handed swing, his sporting flexibility extends to the football pitch.

“I’m really good with both feet,” he said. “People don’t know if I’m left-footed or right-footed, so I guess that’s my little go-to thing.”

Yet even as he juggles these aspirations with college, his maverick commitments to golf look set to continue. A year and a half on from that fateful evening at the range, Paul-Gindiri is as determined as ever to inspire people to take up the game, especially those for whom the conventional swing may be difficult to replicate – such as amputees or people with disabilities, he said.

“There’s a lot of people … that think they can’t golf and seeing what I do just brings a whole different perspective to the game,” he said. “Not only that, I’m bringing people who would never have had interest in golf. They saw what I do and they’re like, ‘Oh, this is really cool, I actually want to give it a shot.’

“If I never went to the range that night, I wouldn’t be who I am today, so that keeps me going and makes me happy.”