re: Your brain won’t let you see all 12 of the dots on here at once

I can only stay on 2 dots at a time. I'm pretty dumb, tho.

I just had a seizure looking at this.

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I counted 14 all at once

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Post your shroom dealer’s phone #

OWLFAN86

You must ride the short bus.

I need a scientific explanation please.

"They think, 'It’s an existential crisis,'" says Derek Arnold, a vision scientist at the University of Queensland in Australia. "'How can I ever know what the truth is?'" But, he adds, scientists who study the visual system know that perception doesn’t always equal reality.

In this optical illusion, the black dot in the center of your vision should always appear. But the black dots around it seem to appear and disappear. That’s because humans have pretty bad peripheral vision. If you focus on a word in the center of this line you’ll probably see it clearly. But if you try to read the words at either end without moving your eyes, they most likely look blurry. As a result, the brain has to make its best guess about what’s most likely to be going on in the fuzzy periphery — and fill in the mental image accordingly.

"IT’S AN EXISTENTIAL CRISIS."

That means that when you’re staring at that black dot in the center of your field of view, your visual system is filling in what’s going on around it. And with this regular pattern of gray lines on a white background, the brain guesses that there’ll just be more of the same, missing the intermittent black dots. Those dots disappear and reappear as your eye jitters around "like a camera that’s not being held stably," Arnold says.

There’s also another thing that could be going on. If you look at the grid pattern closely, you might be able to see faint white squares where the gray lines meet. That’s similar to the dark patches you can see at the intersection of white lines in the Hermann grid illusion. This happens because retinal ganglion cells in the sheet of tissue called the retina at the back of the eye detect contrasts.

"At a non-intersection, you’ve got a strip of gray line and it’s surrounded by a lot of white," Arnold explains. "When you get to an intersection, you’ve got multiple gray lines intersecting, and not as much white." Because there’s less contrast at these intersections with more gray than white, the brain thinks the dot where all the gray lines intersect is lighter than the rest of the gray line, and creates the illusion of a faint white square.

In our peripheral vision, Arnold says, "That can counteract the blurry black dot that is actually, physically there."

Arnold adds that we still don't know everything about the mental computations that give rise to visual perception. But the great thing about optical illusions is they’re an excellent tool for figuring it out.

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This photo is in black and white, you're brain is filling in the rest of the colors.

The overlap from your field of vision in terms of processing is the reason why.

I don’t k ow what it says about me but I can only see 1 at a time

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I bet Fr33 can see all 12 at once.

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I tried. Multiple ways. No go