By Vurdlak on March 12, 2006, with 158 Comments
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.
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Why does my left eye have no blind spot?
Try openning the picture (you will get bigger picture, then it should work!)
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.
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. . .
WOW!! I am blind!!! I thought so…..JK…. this is awesome!
omg i have no blind spot and im not blind?:S:S:S y is this?
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 ;)
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
COOL!!I HAVE A BLIND SPOT!!I DIDNT EVEN KNOW.
Doesn’t work for me…sorry
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….
aaagghhh! its gone!!!!
omg!
hahaha i like jhops idea
my blind spot did show up
but definatly if you cant see your blind spot use a PERMINENT marker
My left eye has a blind spot but not my right???
gah! more dissappearing dots, hold me
i guess i jus dont have a blind spot… oh well.
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.
I SEE ALL
ya it doesn’t work for me.
who thinks up this crap????
that is freaaaaky!!!! I’m blind!!!
why does the ball dissapears and then reapear
IF u go really close to the screen any eye will have a blind spot.
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. ;)
I closed both eyes and didn’t see a damn thing.
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
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. :)
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!
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.
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
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.
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:
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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.
vurdok wen u open it its tinsy
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?????
r both eyes supposed 2 have a blind spot i can onnly get it 2 work on my left
I diddnt know i am blind am blind
it just mad my eye hurt
indeed it does work
that is so kool
if u look on the other side your blind spot is in the opposite spot
WOW!!!!!!!!! but it kinda makes me wonder wut else i mite be missing…
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.
cool
omg!!! thats so freaky
i can still see the big dot.i know how 2 add
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Another one that doesnt work this site sucks!
im scared, i want my mommy!
the circle never left my sight.
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
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”
i see the blind spot its cool but ive seen it bfor and im 11/12
Holy crap. o_o It stuned me, yo.
hey hye rebecca
i think it’s funny how some people are saying that they have no blind spot when every human eye has one.
your left eye does have a blind spot, to see it the cross would have to be on the right and the dot on the left while closing your right eye
i cant get my blind spot but its probably cause i have very bad eyesight in my right eye.
ok mabe 1 of u can tell me whats wrong. the first tme i did this it work fine, but know it don’t work no more!
by left eye has no blind spot iv stard 4 3 mins n nothin so i got closer and still nothin ? this ones rubish
People the left eye has a blind spot but its on its on the left side of the eye, like the right eye has its blindspot on the right side…
DOESN’T WORK FOR ME!! I OPENED IT UP AND IT STILL DOESNT WORK
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IT DOES OT WORK FOR ME!!!
i got no blind spot yet
I like it. Oh,if you open the picture you will get a smaller picture.
Eye master youre right
everyones got blind spot youre not doing correctly
when the circle is at the end of the space i can not see it anymore. this is pretty neat.
that is ausomely obsain(my word lol crass between insane and obsurd) lol im amazed
uhh…hold ur hand on right eye and focus on right side,the cross will dissapear lol
Perhaps it has something to do with my usually wearing glasses half the day and not wearing them now, but, when checking my right eye’s blind spot, I sometimes never see the black circle go away. As far as my left side, I can either not see or both see and not see the cross (seemingly with a very visible but ever-changing wind of white trying to hide part of it) at various states of focus.
uh… i don’t think i have a blind spot…
I found something interesting about this. if you place a mirror on the table under the image, you can still see the dot in the mirror but not in your blind spot.
if you concentrate on the cross with your left eye, you will not ind a blind spot because the left eye’s blindspot is on the far left side of it. The big circle is moving to the right, which is why it works on the right eye
Doesn’t work.
Listen up: It has to work. you have to have a blind spot unless your anatomy is different from all other humans. If it doesn’t work, you’re doing it wrong.
Like all others just said, you have to cover your left eye if you’re focusing on the cross and the moving circle should disappear at one point.
If you’re focusing on the big circle, cover your right eye and the cross should disappear, or at least that’s how it was for me.
I’ve been staring at that cross for 2 minutes and nothing has happened….
Gor any tests to find my g-spot? No sorry. I’m only joking but i couldn’t resist the temptation. As for my blind spot, yes thank you, i found it.
OMG!On my right eye In some point its just the half of it!I have a weird blind spot!
an absolute gorgeous illusion. I stop seeing the ball before it reaches the end then appears and when coming back it disappears and appears again.
wonderful…thanx for sharing…
i dont have a blind spot :S
wow, this really works! I watched 20 centimeters from the screen and then it worked
what if only half of the dot dissappered? (i did indead try looking from different distances, but only time it dissapeared was the bottom half gone about five inches away from screen):?