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Mental - Can anyone explain how it works?

Samster

chamon motherf*cker
Open up the attached GIF fullsize.............If you then continue to focus on the sign in the center of the image you will notice that the circle of violet circles will eventually DISAPPEAR completely.........and you will see only the green spot (which is actually violet) - truly Mental.

Anyone know why this is?
 

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Jaws

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When the dots dissapear, tilt your head to one side..
I then get a green circle !
 
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Coggy

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Green is the opposite of pink as far as the retina is concerned.

If you stare at the pink circle you exhaust your pink receptors at the back of the eye.They cease to work for a while, but the green receptors are still active,so you see green

I think...
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bishbosh

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The pink ones either disappeared completely or selectively and then if I moved my head or blinked then saw the green ones as a halo. Then if I looked around the screen blinking the green dots followed me as if they had been burned in like looking at the sun.

Basically the centre of the eye has stuff in focus and the rest works on movement so try this.

Get someone else; sit very still in a quiet room, stare at each other's face and choose one location like bridge of nose and try not to blink at all; eventually the face will disappear and look like a mass of skin - freaked my daughter out. Then if you are doing it with your kids, wait until the effect has happened and then make a sudden movement like Blakey from 'On the Buses' (or whatever it was called), like a growl - that'll make them jump.
 
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mikew

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dunno, didn't work for me.
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but then I got a black n white monitor!
 
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Adam Rickenberg

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More Optical Illusions.....

Stare at Picture 1 long enough and you'll see the ocean 'magically' appear

The writing on Picture 2 is quite small.......... but if you can read it.......
 
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