March 12, 2006 by Vurdlak with 98 Comments
If your eyes follow the movement of the rotating pink dot, you will only see one color – pink. If you stare at the black + in the center, the moving dot turns to green. Now, concentrate on the black + 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 if you’re lucky! 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.
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whoa! that is super weird! the green dot is like erasing the pink ones! AHHH!
WHOA!! It reminds me of Pac- Man when you look at it for a while and the pink dots disappear when the green “gobbles” them up. lol Pac- Man 4ever!!
WEIRD lol
This is stupid~~!! I’m serious its made to run that way. If it was just a picture and moving on its own because of our eye sight then if you copy the image and put it on paint the dots don’t run clockwise. Yes the dots disappear when you stare at the center but it doesn’t move like this.
once all pink dots have dissapeared, quickly go back with your head and you will the see green dots moving away from the centre
I see when you move your eyes around the screen near the illusion you see a green circle
Ow! Burns my eyes… My personal fave!
it’s fake people, just a .gif file. block all of the picture with your hands except one dot and you will see what I’m talking about.
Damn this illusion is soo popular. The bloody pink dots go and green ones come back. Its all about your eyes losing focus.
Oh god, i listen in Science… :S
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If you have a mac, pull the pic onto your desktop then open it. Then if you scroll through the different slides to make this illusion, make the 4th slide it think you will see a greenish tint. So, could this possibly not be an illusion? But i love it, it is awesome.
To the people who call this one their fave, I am with. BEST ILLUSION EVAH!!!
Ahah i love this one!!!! :) One of my favourites i must say.
its that non human thing again lol it didnt work for me ;(
I’v seen one where it said the moving dot turns green!This one does too!!!0:)
If you think about it…
if u stare at a pink dot for a minute and look at a blank sheet of paper, it will be green.
Plus, all the pink dots fade away ’till you can’t see ‘em, as that classic dissapearing shade illusion.
Thus, when each pink dot dissapears u see the green left over, and the rest of the pink dots have dissapeared.
All that appears now is what looks like a moving green dot.
I’m smart ;D
it made my eyes water i watched it so long
..its simply animated!..swear!
COOL! it has two illusions here, when u stare at the black + u will se the pink dots disappear, and see a green one cincling around the +.
Another thing i noticed is that when u stare at the + but try to follow the moving dot for a couple of rounds, then blink with your eyes, you will see a full circle of GREEN dots :O
awesome illusion! keep up the good work
I’ve found it easier to close one eye and stare because i have contacts, lol. X3
i love this 1 ive seen it so many times but it never gets old
-jane
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Not sure if anyone has mentioned this yet but if you screen capture the image and just stare at the black cross in the middle the green dot will not appear, however if you stare long enough the pink dots will still disappear into the gray background. KOOL !
serenekaos is right. i looked at my wall after staring at this and saw a bunch of green dots around a white cross.
OMG! it’s sooooo weird…but cool ;)
i love this website :)
If you blink during it, you will see a circle of green dots! try it out!
Well actually watch it until the pink dots disappear, then blink and turn your head
itz coz first itz goin fast den it aint wen u look @ da dot
Do they disappear because of the blurry state of the dots?
cooolll!!!! d=-D
Amazing. I’ve never seen it before.
Its good, but the reason is very clear, that’s because humans eyes tries to balance the colors by combining the opposite color to the color you stare at, for example when you stare at a white lamp a black dot appears in your sight (when you look around) if you stare at a pink color the opposite color (green) appears in your sight, it’s easy to try.
If you stare at it long enough, the purple dots appear to completely vanish. (I’d give a long scientific explanation for this, but I don’t feel like it.)
really neat
this was published on my birthday
OMG. seriously you guys. It’s not an illution. It’s animated. If you click on the picture you’ll see that it’s a GIF-file. GIF=ANIMATED
actually all the lilac spots disappear, leaving only the lil flashing green dot
this is originally just a picture without any flashing, and in that pic if u stare long enuf all the spots will disappear too
AND, if you start in close, and move out as it circles you see a weird green pattern… try it
wow. 0_o
It’s caused by over-stimulating of the eyes. Because the lilac is so intense, your eyes even it out by projecting the colour opposite to lilac in the colour spectrum, which is green. If the lilac dissappears the eyes still project the green, causing you to see green. If you stare at the cross long enough, then blink and look away, you will see a circle of green dots, caused by the same phenomenon
Ok, for the people who say that it’s not an illusion because it’s a GIF-file; it’s not about the circulating vanishing dot. It’s about the fact that all the dots disappear when you look at it for a while
Big fan of the site, this illusion is my favorite one =)
when I pressed “Next Random Illusion” the green dot stopped moving and wasn’t green anymore: in fact, it was invisible!
one more thing about this illusion
if u move your head towards it u will find that yello dots are shrinking from blue ones towards centre and if u move your head outwards then vice versa
whoa!
How the hell can people say this is fake? If it were fake the they would disappear even without focusing on the cross.
Plus, anyone else notice a string of green circles imprinted onto your vision after looking away?
….i managed to see both pink dots and a green dot … am i just insane?? lol
I focused on the blakc +, and saw a moving green dot as well as the pink ones. eh i like it all the same, even if i can’t get it to work right. i’ve always managed to get these things wrong lol
If you stare for a bit and get your eyes adjusted, scroll down a bit. For a second your eyes will see green dots still going in circles where the pink circles should have been.
The green color appears only on the left side, every one minute.
This IS bogus! Its an animated gif.
If you open it in a program that can edit it (irfanView or similar) the properties shows it is actually 12 images, and it is possible to stop it from playing.