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[cousin it]

Saw this on Phil Plait's blog.

[url]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=IjMVsTFVX10&[/url]
Play the movie while looking at the small white speck in the center of the ring. At first, the ring is motionless and it’s easy to tell that the dots are changing color. When the ring begins to rotate, the dots suddenly appear to stop changing. But in reality they are changing the entire time.

The rest: http://illusionconte...2011/#post-2342


Illusions are a good reminder that eye witness accounts can often be flawed.

[Mr. Roboto]

Can you please stop embedding youtube videos! I'm already up to 50 felony counts as I type this....

[BlowUpYourVideo]

Ooh, groovy. I like a good illusion, unless it's one where one of those screaming faces suddenly pops up while you're staring intently at the screen....

[wedjat]

Ooh, groovy.

I like a good illusion, unless it's one where one of those screaming faces suddenly pops up while you're staring intently at the screen....

My friend did that to me once. Up north, watching this supposed car commercial on his laptop. He tells me to watch it carefully to see if I notice anything weird about it. All of a sudden this zombie pops up screaming. I screamed & immediately started crying, lol. I don't know why, it was instant reaction. We still laugh about it to this day, he had never heard anyone scream as loud as I did.

[TAP]

I saw that at his blog also but started the video without reading the instructions. When I did it again 'properly' I could still see the dots changing, maybe because my eyes already knew they did?

[*D*]

UHHHHHHHHHHHHHHH ok