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March 12, 2006 by Vurdlak | Share  

Another popular one – and quite unnerving if you’ve never seen it before… Close your left and eye and just focus your right eye on the tiny cross. At some point the big circle will disappear as it crosses your ‘blind spot’. If you can’t see this effect, then try sitting closer/further from the screen.


Find Your Blind Spot Trick

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102 Responses
  1. Phoebe Love says:

    Why does my left eye have no blind spot?

  2. vurdlak says:

    Try openning the picture (you will get bigger picture, then it should work!)

  3. sebastian says:

    your left eye has a blind spot too. Just close your right eye and focus the moving circle with your left one. At one Point the cross will disappear. Et Voila: Your Blind Spot.

  4. Roach says:

    Umm, I put my finger where the blind spot is, but I can see it just fine. When blind my right eye, I see the circle too. On my left the cross dissapears but the finger stays. . .

  5. Farted says:

    WOW!! I am blind!!! I thought so…..JK…. this is awesome!

  6. WOW says:

    omg i have no blind spot and im not blind?:S:S:S y is this?

  7. fred says:

    i knew this one, but what’s amazing about this whole thing is that your eye let’s you ’see’ the color which is around it, like it fills out the missing part with the right color. I tried looking at two white (/purple) dots on black (/green) backround. Where the other white (/purple) dot’s supposed to be, you just see black (/green). or better, you’re brain makes you think there’s also that color, since you can’t really see, what’s there ;)

  8. Neath says:

    This one doesn’t work so well for me….. My right eye is almost totaly blind. If I close my right eye the whle page is in my blind spot :P

  9. ~~*NIQUE*~~ says:

    COOL!!I HAVE A BLIND SPOT!!I DIDNT EVEN KNOW.

  10. Jee says:

    Doesn’t work for me…sorry

  11. jhop says:

    To make it work for your left eye you need to focus on a point to the right of the moving circle. This is because the blind spot (which is where the optical nerve connects to the eye) is on the left of your lef teye, and the right of your right eye (kindof)

    I recomend using a permenent marker to draw a cross on the screen….

  12. Hai says:

    aaagghhh! its gone!!!!

  13. kitty says:

    omg!

  14. bobo says:

    hahaha i like jhops idea

    my blind spot did show up

    but definatly if you cant see your blind spot use a PERMINENT marker

  15. y eye says:

    My left eye has a blind spot but not my right???

  16. biclops says:

    gah! more dissappearing dots, hold me

  17. A d J says:

    i guess i jus dont have a blind spot… oh well.

  18. eCass says:

    That’s very odd. My blind spot is like a strip to the right, but the spot reappears after it passes that strip of blind moving to the right. That’s very odd that your peripheral vision works in that area but you cant actually see the moving object.

  19. naofumi says:

    I SEE ALL
    ya it doesn’t work for me.

  20. a Funny guy says:

    who thinks up this crap????

  21. Blind man says:

    that is freaaaaky!!!! I’m blind!!!

  22. y says:

    why does the ball dissapears and then reapear

  23. dude says:

    IF u go really close to the screen any eye will have a blind spot.

  24. circles to infinity says:

    its cool, i like it, i blame this for many car accidents and running into walls, not that i’ve ever been guilty of either, mind you. ;)

  25. Haywood Jablome says:

    I closed both eyes and didn’t see a damn thing.

  26. sam says:

    You got to move closer to the screen and focus on the cross.

    EVERYONE has a blind spot. The only time you wouldn’t have one is if you were a mutated alian

  27. Rayne says:

    It didn’t work for me with my right eye, so I tried it with my left. That didn’t work either. So I did what Vurdlak said and clicked the image. Instead of it being bigger, it was smaller so the cross looked like a dot! Oh well, nice try. :)

  28. Rayne says:

    I think it didn’t work for me because I have wierd eyes. Like when I was looking at the cross I could see my TV, which is waaaaaaaaaaay to my right and almost behined me (no it wasn’t the reflection of it on my screen). My eyes are lazy which is wierd, because for some reason I can see like an owl without turning my head!

  29. ishbu says:

    welllll either something is definitely wrong with my eyes, or the blind spot theory is wrong…
    i followed the instructions word for word, and even moved closer and further…
    but each time it was the cross that dissapeared…
    not the circle.
    and no i wasnt just focusing on the circle…
    i was definitely focused on the cross with my right eye and everything…
    but yeah…the cross disappeared.

  30. Rozz says:

    Every single Person has a blind Sopt unless you have no Optical Nerve in the back of your eye which would mean that the eye would be useless and wouldnt be able to see. So theres no point going – Ooo I musnt have a blind sopt – because you do! try moving back and forwards with your face! …idiots

  31. jhop says:

    The blind spot is the place where the optical nerve connects to the back of the eyeball. The back of the eyeball is covered with sensors (basically), but where the nerve connects, there are no sensors, so you cant see anything in that spot. I had a swollen optical nerve for a while, and my blind spot got big, about the size ofsomeones face!
    because you have two eyes, they sort of cover for each other, so you dont normally notice.

    You can also try focusing further to the left of the cross, your blind spot might be further out that the dot moves too.

  32. Joe T. says:

    Some have mentioned that their finger tips stay in sight when placed into their blind spot. i’ve seen another blind spot test in textbooks that demonstrates this. If you were to replace the circle with vertical bar that has a break in the middle:

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    like that, when the break sits in your blind spot you’ll actually see:

    |
    |
    |

    because your brain wants to fill in the “missing” information. This is why you can still “see” your fingertip. Your brain knows it is supposed to be there, so it fills it in. i did the same thing, and noticed that my fingertip was kinda blurry and a bit distorted. Perhaps i don’t know my own hands well enough.

  33. M 2 the H O says:

    vurdok wen u open it its tinsy

  34. M 2 the H O says:

    sabastian, the directions tell u to focus on the cross not the ball. focusing on both with my rite eye it dont dissapear,
    but only focousin on the ball with my left eye does the cross dissapear, O NO!!! WHAT AM I 2 DO?????

  35. M 2 the H O says:

    r both eyes supposed 2 have a blind spot i can onnly get it 2 work on my left

  36. Mal says:

    I diddnt know i am blind am blind

  37. SteakKnife04 says:

    it just mad my eye hurt

  38. some guy says:

    indeed it does work

  39. amazed says:

    that is so kool
    if u look on the other side your blind spot is in the opposite spot

  40. ;-) says:

    WOW!!!!!!!!! but it kinda makes me wonder wut else i mite be missing…

  41. hydrophobicsnails says:

    well i have 20/10 vision so that might be why i cant find my blind spot. i tried enlarging the picture i moved closer and further from the screen and i tried both eyes.

  42. no likey name says:

    cool

  43. pink says:

    omg!!! thats so freaky

  44. the dude that cant see says:

    i can still see the big dot.i know how 2 add

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  45. Smb says:

    Another one that doesnt work this site sucks!

  46. wazup looser says:

    im scared, i want my mommy!

  47. mariah says:

    the circle never left my sight.

  48. Anonymous says:

    You people aren’t doing it right. It’s a scientific fact that all humans have a blind spot due to heir optic nerves.

    So don’t say the site sucks just ’cause you’re doing it wrong

  49. Tori says:

    huh, the animation stoped for some reason on my blind spot. Weird. Also EVERYONE has a blind spot for people that “don’t have one”

  50. Anonymous says:

    i see the blind spot its cool but ive seen it bfor and im 11/12

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