If dots on a screen are surrounded by certain types of moving pattern, fixing your eyes on one of the dots can make the others disappear. Read more: www.newscientist.com/article/...
The effect is created when a multitude of "noise" dots converge on one of the four yellow dots. While looking at one dot and you focus your peripheral vision on the other three and anticipate the convergence, the effect completely disappears and none of the four dots disappear. It's a neat trick that can really only happen if you let it, once you understand what is happening. That's why the illusion fails when the noise moves in unison, it's easier for your peripheral vision to predict.
Thats awesome! They slowly faded out for me, any movement or re-adjustment of your eyes and they come back though, keep your eyes perfectly set and still on one yellow dot.
@IAmMackey I think this illusion is somewhat different. The blind spot is a static point on the retina which lacks light sensitive cells, so the brain "fills in" the blanks by continuously shifting the eye. The above illusion seems to use the peripheral, "motion sensitive" vision to make the brain ignore non-moving objects.
what is the first background blue dot pattern called.? I can actually see white beads that look exactly like that in the daytime if i look up into the sky a certain way. Am trying to figure out what they are that i can see. S
@DidntKnowWhatToPut1 from what I understand It isn't that our brain ignores or misreads what our eyes are seeing but that our eyes dont provide us with very much visual information at any one time, only the bit in the center of our vision is very precise. Our brain makes up most of what we see out of what it expects to be there. If we look fixedly at one spot the rest of our vision is only based on sketchy information and errors can creep in.
@Hairysteed Sorry, but I stared at the top left dot, and I suspect most people did that cause our eyes are used to looking at that corner when looking at a screen or book or whatever.
@amicusnemini It's called filler material... when a magazine has a slow news time... due to setbacks or a large project, they often put out filler material to ensure fans don't leave.
I can do that in real life too. But I do't need any motion. I just stare at something for a while and then it blends in with the background or with whatever I want it to blend in with. I can make it disappear, I can make it change colour. ALL IN REAL LIFE. Is this normal? Can other people do it?
pause the video and see if they still disappear for you. part of the reason seems to be simply receptor fatigue. i wonder *how much* of this illusory effect is due purely to the random motion cells.
They are called "floaters" and they are debris floating around in the gel that fills your eyes. Eventually if you get cataracts in your eyes it will be because enough of that stuff accumulated in your eyes and then congealed into a smoky white opaque mass.
lol that's cool. It's hard to keep the eyes perfectly still though, the slightest movement and the dots reappear. To all those saying it doesn't work, use full screen and stay fixed on the cross.
This illusion is very interesting. The next time you're being chased down and stung to death by a swarm of angry bumblebees, try to notice if you see all two thousand of them or just a few before you slip into a coma.
I was waiting for a screamer to appear XD
boo
The effect is created when a multitude of "noise" dots converge on one of the four yellow dots. While looking at one dot and you focus your peripheral vision on the other three and anticipate the convergence, the effect completely disappears and none of the four dots disappear. It's a neat trick that can really only happen if you let it, once you understand what is happening. That's why the illusion fails when the noise moves in unison, it's easier for your peripheral vision to predict.
Thats awesome! They slowly faded out for me, any movement or re-adjustment of your eyes and they come back though, keep your eyes perfectly set and still on one yellow dot.
I restarted this video 7 times until I realized it was the yellow dots that disappear, not the blue dots...
I like how they get slow and disappear it's really cool
@IAmMackey I think this illusion is somewhat different. The blind spot is a static point on the retina which lacks light sensitive cells, so the brain "fills in" the blanks by continuously shifting the eye. The above illusion seems to use the peripheral, "motion sensitive" vision to make the brain ignore non-moving objects.
Thanks for this v deo, hey, w at's ha p ning to the le ters?
Cool demonstration
what is the first background blue dot pattern called.? I can actually see white beads that look exactly like that in the daytime if i look up into the sky a certain way. Am trying to figure out what they are that i can see.
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This is why I hate driving in a snowstorm. The effect can be hypnotic.
i looked at one and the two next to it disappeared but not the one diagonal from it
@DidntKnowWhatToPut1 from what I understand It isn't that our brain ignores or misreads what our eyes are seeing but that our eyes dont provide us with very much visual information at any one time, only the bit in the center of our vision is very precise. Our brain makes up most of what we see out of what it expects to be there. If we look fixedly at one spot the rest of our vision is only based on sketchy information and errors can creep in.
OMG this really works!!! - just really focus on only one yellow spot and everything else disappears
I was waiting for a Tie Fighter to appear.
@ReasonSharp The dots are also back if you simply stop fixating your eyes on one dot.
@Hairysteed
Sorry, but I stared at the top left dot, and I suspect most people did that cause our eyes are used to looking at that corner when looking at a screen or book or whatever.
whoa it worked.
Stared at the top left and the bottom left dissapeared and reappeared.
I just seen building 7 being demolished...what did you see?
I swear, I literally thought the dots disappeared, so I paused the video and they were still there. This so some mind games
is it broken none of the dots disappeared for me. i have sever ADHD i have here’s that might have something to do with it.
@amicusnemini It's called filler material... when a magazine has a slow news time... due to setbacks or a large project, they often put out filler material to ensure fans don't leave.
I still managed to make 3 yellow dots disappear when all the pixels move together. Just imagine those blue annoying dots don't exist.
the illusion makes it look like the rest of the dots disappeared! =)
@brrtown i dont think this one has to do with blind spots, because we dont have three.....
I can do that in real life too. But I do't need any motion. I just stare at something for a while and then it blends in with the background or with whatever I want it to blend in with. I can make it disappear, I can make it change colour. ALL IN REAL LIFE. Is this normal? Can other people do it?
pause the video and see if they still disappear for you. part of the reason seems to be simply receptor fatigue. i wonder *how much* of this illusory effect is due purely to the random motion cells.
They are not fading for me, I did concentrate on one yellow dot but my peripheral view does see the other 3 yellow dots.
why is this not working?
This reminds me a little of Troxler fading. I wonder if they're related effects.
This is a awesome trick
If you can't get it to work go full screen. When it's bigger there's more distance to the other dots.
That was nifty.
it just faded away and im like what is this a camera trick i blink its back its crazy
it happens if you stare at any fixed point like a speck of dust on your screen, or just to the side of your monitor.
I bet I'm not the only one who stopped the video and see if there was going to be a scary face pop up.
wow that just hurt my eyes
Awesome!
This could help rescue injured people after natural disasters.
No dots dissapeared is that normal?
whatever point is trying to come across here, it doesnt work for me, i see all 4 yellow dots and i see those blue dots moving, nothing disappears
1 in 4 chance?
I looked at the top right one.
They are called "floaters" and they are debris floating around in the gel that fills your eyes. Eventually if you get cataracts in your eyes it will be because enough of that stuff accumulated in your eyes and then congealed into a smoky white opaque mass.
Why do they flicker for me?
@Hairysteed no i staired at the bottom right
That is so cool!
Now I see it! the other three dots seem to disapear!
Heh, now I've got gray dots burned into my retina.
Very interesting. Just goes to show what we see isn't what our eyes see
i always saw all 4 dots clearly, no matter what stage, or dot i focused on.
maybe i play too many videogames...
That's why is hard to combat in space.
They never disappeared for me... and I got bored.
But... even with the video paused... the dots moved.
I think I got the wrong illusion, lol.
@DidntKnowWhatToPut1 I think its more accurate to say that our eyes dont see as much as you mite think.
lol that's cool. It's hard to keep the eyes perfectly still though, the slightest movement and the dots reappear.
To all those saying it doesn't work, use full screen and stay fixed on the cross.
I crossed my eyes and saw 8 dots instead of 4.
I see crosshairs, but where are the tie-fighters?
look at the centre cross, all the yellow dots disappear XD
I guess there's something wrong with my eyes because the others didn't disappear.
k i full screened that and now i have a black circle scorched into my vision
woow! Where did the yellow spots go? Where did my screen go? Where did my computer go? Where did I go??
Worked for me.
holy shit! that's totally freeky.
I have shat many bricks over this.
This illusion is very interesting. The next time you're being chased down and stung to death by a swarm of angry bumblebees, try to notice if you see all two thousand of them or just a few before you slip into a coma.
Didn't work at all for me, I can still see all of the blue dots going around.
wow, they did slowly started to disappear.
worked for me. nifty.
whoa this is pretty cool
Dots are in a tornado.
Don't blink, if you blink it doesn't work. just concentrate on one dot and don't try too hard of trying to make the other three disappear.
try full screen
my brain started screaming and eyes crying. You can kill someone with that if you make them look long enough at it!
This also works when you pause the video. The Moving dots are pointles.
no
This made me feel weird after lol! 😂
I can make it happen - and I can make it not happen.
FREAKIN' MAGIC!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
it was easyer for them all to disappear when the blue dots moved together
WHAT... DID YOU DO TO MY EYES!!!!!!
that is why our eye have microsaccades, to prevent motion blindness
i did top right too
this would be a awesome scare video;)
@kaziklu79 Oh damn, i'm not special, just my Flash Player isn't updated and the frames are moving slowlier :D
that was awesome
this is related to "face blindness"
that was siiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiick
it worked you just have to believe
It says I'm not a witch.
i stared at the top left
@amicusnemini Why would they want to cure cancer? pfft.. Whats in it for them?
@Deviantial
ya rrriiiight - THATS WHY ONE CAN EVEN SEE THEM DISAPPEARING IN ULTRA-SLOWMO, EH KIDDO
COOL STORY BRO
Is there something wrong with me cause I see all dots even those yellow dots
You're supposed to stare at the center. Make sure you do it in full screen.
I stared the yellow dots and it worked on me like it used to.
This could give huuuge advantage in war lol
i have shit dissapear liek this when im just focusing on one thing irl
Look at yellow dot. The center ''dot'' will dissappear.
They hide among us!!
IM SO FRAGILE!
leave this to brusspup okay
I'M TRIPPING OVER HERE! D:
this is true..
@ololh4xx They're not disappearing actually, that's just your eyes.
HOW IS THIS GONNA CURE CANCER !!!!!!!?