This optical illusion reveals whether you’re an optimist or a pessimist

Is the cat walking up these stairs or down? What you see will reveal whether you’re a glass half full or glass half empty kind of person.

An optical illusion depicting a cat could reveal more about your true personality, a test claims.

The illusion asks onlookers to look at the direction that the animal is travelling and claims it says something important about you.

The greyscale image shared by The Minds Journal, that first went viral in 2015, depicts a cat on a flight of stairs, The Sun reports.

Whichever way you see the cat walking exposes your approach to life, new analysis claims.

Both viewpoints are said to have definitive meanings.

If you saw the cat going up the stairs

If you felt that the cat was coming up the stairs, chances are that you have an optimistic view of life.

“You see potential and you see growth wherever you look,” the Minds Journal article says.

“Your mind has been trained to look at ways of rising higher in life, so given a situation where you have the choice of rising higher than others or falling to their levels, you would inevitably be the better person.

“There are clear signs of ambition in you and no one, except yourself, can stop you from going higher in life.

Do you see the cat going up or down the stairs? Picture: 9Gag.com

If you saw the cat going down the stairs

If you observed the cat walking down the stairs, you have a personality that is pessimistic and sceptic.

“It may have been based on your experiences in life or just because of the sort of people you may have met that tilted your view of life towards the negative side,” The Minds Journal article says.

“But this means that you don’t trust easily now, you calculate before you commit and you are wary of people who seem too sweet.

“It may just be your way of tackling the world but you are much sharper and shrewd in your dealings, making it almost impossible to trick or deceive you.”

This article was originally published by The Sun and reproduced with permission