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March 12, 2006 by Vurdlak | Share  

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.

Disappearing Dots

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83 Responses
  1. germaine says:

    it is probably our eyes tat r not payin’ attention to it.

  2. Ransinave loliterashi says:

    eye trk yar…..

  3. Alex M. says:

    There is a cycle of pink ones disappearing one at a time like you see when you watch from the side. I know this because I screen captured several times to figure this out. So one does disappear at a time when you cycle around the circle, but they don’t all disappear. That part really is an illusion.

  4. Katie says:

    Wow.. wierd.

  5. lalalolo says:

    taht was kinda kreepy

  6. maddy says:

    good timepass

  7. serenekaos says:

    There’s no trick, it really is just one pink dot disappearing at a time. What happens is if you stare at a single image long enough, you will “burn” it into your vision and you will start singing the inverted imagine on top. Try this with a solid bright colored shape. Stare at it hard for 30 seconds, then look at a white wall, you’ll see the shape, but with an inverted color.

    Next, by burning the inverted pink dots into your vision, and swapping between the pink and neutral gray, your brain fills in the gaps, but the two inverted colors (pink and green) cancel out to make the gray (which happens to be the background). The dots then disappear, except for the pink dot that is currently not there. Since there’s no pink to cancel the green, you see the green dot!

  8. CiarĂ¡n says:

    When I moved my head after wards I could see a green circle spiralling off to the side. Was cool

  9. blablabla says:

    dat was freakin nang!!!

  10. woah says:

    That was amazing. It freaked me out cos I actually couldn’t see it!!

  11. Hai says:

    works perfectly 4 me………amazing!!!

  12. no one important says:

    ok.. here’s the deal.. it’s not disappearing. the whole circle of dots is rotating so fast you can’t tell the difference. and yes the green dot, that shade of green is the negative color to that shade of pink, so as it’s rotating and you see the blank spot as green because your eyes are seeing the negative on the empty background.

  13. ali says:

    wow!that was a trip but when you think its sorta chill.

    :-) weeeeeeeeeeeee!weeeeeeeeeeeee!weeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeee

  14. lalala says:

    Lyke omg.. woooo! * goes nuts* I bet you know who i am… gwhahahaaa

    p.s. So bored… mwah!

  15. brain says:

    thats sickning

  16. niki says:

    why is it called disapering dots? It should be called color changing dots or something.

  17. lala says:

    thats sooooo Fricken cool

  18. M 2 the H O says:

    im readin every1s comments and i can c the green dot movin in circles, i no there is no green dot so dont correct me. i no how to explain this but am to tired! but yea what serenekaos said, exactly, its 2 do wit negative colours and our eye focus. pretty darn cool tho eh?

  19. Person says:

    That is so cool! even though its obvious that theres no green dot, its still cool tht our eyes do that!

  20. Excite the exciting excite says:

    Oh god my eyes are BLEEDING…

  21. lezzer dude says:

    how do they do that?

  22. Chalklover says:

    You know what’s really cool? Look at the middle for about ten seconds, then look to the right on the screen. It was cool for me.

  23. Pandas says:

    i luv this 1. it is just so awesome

  24. JESSICA says:

    tHAtS H0t!! i l0VE it!!!!!!!!!

  25. Lem says:

    thats weird… but when know that the dot is actually green and you really concentrate on it, you can see that its green

  26. A random person says:

    katie is quite right. it’s weird.

  27. goops says:

    man!! tht was so kool!!

  28. Jessica says:

    this illusion is the best one yet, I think!

  29. charity says:

    that one got me. i love this stuff

  30. hi world says:

    that is so cool i peed in my pants!

  31. __scientist says:

    awesome

  32. Anonymous says:

    It’s an animation and illusion. If you stare at the + in the center, the pink dots “disappear.” But, underneath the 3rd dot from the right (10 o’clock position) there is a little blinking red line. The pink-to-green stuff is an animation. :)

  33. Anonymous says:

    whoops, please switch around my last comment: the dots disappearing is an animation and the pink-to-green is an illusion. :)

  34. Anonymous says:

    I TRIED IT THE FIRST TIME AND IT WORKED!!! GOOD JOB!!

  35. Anonymous says:

    It Reminds Me Of A Game Of Pac-Man.

  36. loser says:

    ha its like a clock!
    =^.^=

  37. gtsm says:

    <3 My favorite.

  38. Dream says:

    Can anyone explain the scientific reason behind it??

  39. Elliexx ANIMALS ROCK!! says:

    funky! ive seen this illusion be4 but its still kl.

  40. Anonymous says:

    its like pacman, the green one swallows all the pink ones!!!….I have no life…

    hey is it jus me, or is there a red line at the left????

  41. Anonymous says:

    Whats happening is,when the pink dot disappears, you see the “green dot” because of the inverted image it leaves in your retinas. You see the green dot, but it doesnt exist.as for the disappearing pink dots…i have no clue

  42. I Luv The Teen Titans! says:

    I love this one! It’s creepy!

  43. Sandoras says:

    Ouch! My head hurts now!

  44. princesskatiej says:

    when i stare at the dot the green dot rotates around taking the pink with it but then as it goes around again, the green dot brings all of the pink back! its so cool!

  45. ..................... says:

    The reason why you think the dots are disappearing is that when you close your eyes, you see pink flickers. the same thing, the flicers made them look like they were not there!
    jk. lol. but i like this one

  46. Annie says:

    that is so cool

  47. peter says:

    u guyz suk, the reason is the when a pink dot disappear, a small part of it is green, so if u stare at the centre and not concentrating on the pink dots, of course u’ll c them as green

  48. The Shindig says:

    This is my favorite illusion in the whole world.
    It’s just too awesome.

  49. !Tiffy~Roo! says:

    OMG…it really is an animation…from the red line blinking as the comment #32 said who is anonymous…its animated yet an illusion at the same time!!!but the + you look at is just a concentrate thing so someone can fool you into thinking that the dots are dissapearing…there not, and the pink dont come back to the dots…they’re pink to begin with…its burning in your retna’s, and its leaving a negative color! As for the animation…look at the red dot at 10 o’clock on the illusion…then look at the dot at 3 o’clock on the illusion…its animated cuz when the 2 o’clock one is burning into your retna, and it changes to the negative color, a peice of the 3 o’clock dot changes to a negative color also, but only a peice of it not the whole thing!!!amazing huh, and cool as hell!!!!!

  50. Anonymous says:

    is it just me or does this illusion look like PacMan?

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