  {\it ' Seeing is believing '} \cite{north06}- is the fundamental philosophy
of optical imaging based on light microscopy \cite{ntziachristos10}. Since the
pioneering works of Antonie van Leeuwenhoek and Robert Hooke in the 17th
century, optical microscopy has served as one of the most important tools in
biological sciences \cite{thorn16}. But interpreting visual observations with
preconceived notions can potentially mislead one to erroneous conclusions.Here
we report one such case where, at first sight, the interesting pattern
extracted from the images of axonal transport may appear to reveal some
hitherto unknown features of cargo transport driven by cytoskeletal motors
\cite{ross16}. It may even be tempting to theorize about the possible molecular
mechanisms that could give rise the observed pattern. But, as we conclusively
demonstrate here, these patterns are mere artifacts of the spatial and temporal
resolutions of imaging microscopes. These observed patterns, and their
interpretations, are rather universal in the sense that in all those
experiments where an observer (or machine), having limited spatial and temporal
resolution, tracks the movement of classical objects moving on a
one-dimensional track, such enticing patterns will invariably emerge. Our
analysis here exposes pitfalls lurking in the way one interprets such patterns;
unless critically analyzed, believing in whatever one is seeing, one could draw
an illusory conclusion.
