Weird... But Cool Optical Illusion (Does It Work For You?)

[arwalden]

If your eyes follow the movement of the rotating pink dot, you will only see one color, pink.

BUT... If you stare at the black plus sign (+) in the center, the moving dot appears to turn to green.

Now, concentrate on the plus sign in the center of the picture. After a short period of time, all the pink dots will slowly disappear, and you will only see a green dot rotating.

It's amazing how our brain works. There really is no green dot, and the pink ones really don't disappear. This should be proof enough; we don't always see what we think we see.

[DS1]

1. Hahah! That's awesome

It's fun with pushing the color receptors in your eyes with opposites until they cancel out.

[terrya]

2. That's interesting.

Yes, it actually is.

[kick-ass-bob]

3. if the pink dots don't disappear, then what is going on?

Oh nevermind. being in this screen, the disappearing seems to stop every now and then - and I can see that it just disappears.

[arwalden]

4. The Disappearing Effect Comes-And-Goes For Me Too

If I continue to stare at the plus-sign, then the vanishing dots stay "invisible"... but if my eyes wander or twitch for just a second then the dots return.

I wonder if involuntary blinking has anything to do with the effect being sporadic.

-- Allen

[DS1]

6. If you look through it, or focus at different depths of the cross

the dots will hit a slighty different portion of the back of your eyes, and all the work done by the effect is lost

[wildhorses]

5. how fun is that

and may I just add that this place ROCKS

[El Fuego]

7. Freaky man

[Shell Beau]

8. Cool! I love optical illusions!

[Blue-Jay]

9. Try this:

Instead of following the flashing dot, watch the side opposite the flashing. Then the green dot on the other side is apparent as well.

[asthmaticeog]

10. That's VERY cool. n/t