We thought that human vision is omniscient;however, it is not always true. Maybe this could give the CV researchers some inspirations.
Funny things deserve looking inside:
Bright perception ( http://www.cs.bc.edu/~syu/publication/bright.html) ,
Gestalt theory(http://faculty.uca.edu/lglenn/gestaltimages.htm,misconceptions)
Change blindness(http://www.quirkology.com/USA/Video_ColourChangingTrick.shtml)
Please also refer to 92 Visual Phenomena & Optical Illusionsto see more examples.
In SIGGRAPH 2009, http://graphics.csie.ncku.edu.tw/SAI/