The Mirage Effect occurs when you see a female with a Phat ass and the ass alone makes you think that the female is attractive but she is actually not.

When someone looks good from a distance, but when you get closer look you ask yourself what was i thinkin.

What seems like a great parking spot when you're in a rush, only to be already taken by a small car or motorcycle.

In social networking, an internet mirage is when a user is offline or inactive but appears online or currently active to another computer. This only becomes apparent once the user of that computer attempts to communicate with them. Often, this leads to paranoid feelings of unpopularity, because the user erroneously assumes that the person left because they didn't want to speak to them.

The effect that occurs when a fart is so nasty that it leaves a haze in the air. It can also leave a horrible taste in one's mouth, should they be breathing through the mouth when they walk into the stink mirage.

The sensation of having to fart, without actually producing a fart.

The smokescreen sham marriage that gay politicians or clergy indudge in to hide their true selves (as opposed to gay marriage).