SEE ANY BLACK DOTS?
Seeing flickering black dots is an illusion. Only white dots appear in this photo. The sensation of black dots is an expectation created by the adjacent–and more voluminous–black squares. Your brain fills in the color black into the small white dots.
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This illusion is very interesting. It seems to fool my eyes to want to see black dots. Its hard not to try and concentrate on anything else.
It’s weird how our brain automatically does that. Its like our brain takes over before the picture actually hits our eye’s. Illusions are Dope!
Very interesting how our mind works, and how colors can trick us into thinking we see something that is not the truth. It does look like they are flickering to black and white. When I try to focus on certain white dots the others in my peripheral (sp?) view turn black.
~Jenn~