By Vurdlak on December 30, 2006, with 83 Comments
They say that if you see colors moving in this picture, you’re under influence of some kind of a psychedelic. I say it’s only another optical illusion. Or maybe both… You can also test your soberness with these similar illusions: real life hallucination, hyper-field illusion and eclipse of mars. How did you experience this colorful image below? I asked a few friends for an opinion, and got really different answer from each! I would like to hear your opinion, so please comment it. Thanks!
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i dont get it?!
I saw it bouncing around the page, pretty cool. . .. I am sober right now. . . T
First First!!!
What does it mean if it doesn’t move?
YAY I’m first.
I don’t see any movement, which unfortunately means that it’s 4:15am and I’m sober.
Oooo look at the pretty colours
very cool!
Definately awesome, but it’s weird. I can see it moving, especially the four pink corners, but my brother can not see it move at all.
-Ashton
For me, the colours seem to expand a tiny bit when i first look at it, but if i move my head back and forward, the splodges kind of pulsate.
Nope. No movement for me!
I smoke marijuana all day everyday, i have done so for 5 years now more or less, the colours slowly fade in and out of each other
They don’t move for me. I looked at it for quite awhile and I almost got that effect when you look at those 3D posters, but it went away really quickly and I couldn’t get it back.
When I scroll up and down fast, the colors wobble…
Nopes!! Not moving for me :(
I don’t see it moving… only when I scroll up and down in a fast way, then I see the colors wobbling… But that is nice!
To me it seems that the colors are separate from the background. They move and jump around, staying all in one piece, while the background stays still.
I see nothing =(
its been a while since theres been one like this on the site. cool though
it kind of looks like a plasma that gently undulates and pulses slightly,the indefinite edges between colors makes the whole thing indefinite and the brain explores the relative feilds of color.
explore the picture a bit, and you see the pulsing and slight movement,
there is nothing to get, explore your senses, dont attack the picture with an expectation.
just explore it abit.
makes me think of a mandalla
Im 11 and sober and I can see it moving!!!!
Yeah umm… Good luck with that…… Didn’t see anything moving myself, just looked like a bunch of… gee let me think… oh yeah, colors!
when i concentrate on the pink color the blue moves away from the black
when i con. on the aqua color the blue moves back in
when i con. on the yellow it recedes
I saw it move but I had to take a lot of LSD first.
when i scroll up and down fast, the aqua blue moves in and out at th esides. when i firstlooked at it, the pink seemed to get smaller and smaller, then expand. when i just sit watching it, the blue beneath the pink fades to black. the white seems to slide around the pink and aqua. WHOA!
After a bit of medicine (it’s great tolive in California) and some Sgt. Pepper, it moves beautifully. :~}
I tried what someone said about concentrating on particular colors. That works for me to get motion – when I focus on one color, the others move away, then I move to another color and the others move, so if I change focus from one color to the next fairly quickly it gives kind of an undulating tidal effect.
Now, when I concentrate on the pink, or the blue, then it seems like it grows…
Pretty rad. :)
Moves for me, but then so my ceiling at times.
AHHHH! its breathing!!! wait a minute only the pink corners are…
You Have To Look in The Right Place
I agree with the pot head. As the colors bounced and danced the center blue blob started to blend with the darker blue color around it.
move back in forth when you look at this picture. you can see the yellowish change to orange. it is pretty trippy. i see it.
and i’m sober.
imagine how it would be if i weren’t.
It seems like the picture is moving towards me or I am moving towards the picture.
cool, but makes me feel sick if i stare at it too long
um i dont get it either… all i saw was that it is just there you know… nothing else… but i am sober. but that dont mean anything do it? lol!
I don’t see this one moving, but I have a poster with a similar picture on my wall. That one has more details, to, and it makes some visitors uneasy. The effect on the poster is most visible when you move your head to and fro, but that didn’t do much for me in this picture.
Oh, and I’m sober.
omg look into not at it,, first the blue moves about then the background turned colour then the pink came back in and the blue dissapeared then the blue turned black weird,,,and im sober/straight
Hmm… if you shake you computer IT MAY FALL! nah i was gonna shake your computer and it’ll look like it’s “Gellin’”.. you all know what i mean.. Dr.Schols!
The person who made this must have took too many asprins and drew what was happening in there mind
It doest move unless i blink. When i blink it seems to move back then foward again.
it moves around a little bit. Like if I am drunk and looking at smt. Feels scary
i dont see anything-is that bad?
ps:
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I just think that the picture is pretty.
I can’t believe SOOO many of you said it was not moving! Obviously only an IDDIOT would say it was not moving!
this was great i see something is jumping i dunno wats that but its great!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
the four pink corners are moving forever inward
It Looked Like The Green Started To Move In Between the red!
Amazing!!! as if it was breathing.
I wonder how they make that…
trippy
OUCH!!! that hurts my eyes! 8)
i saw the whole colours vibrating. kinda cool
but see too much of ilusion i may jus go crazy
It doesn’t affect me, is that bad?
Roberta,where can I find a school that will train me in these techniches?
I sooo get it, i had 2 glasses of wine over 2 hrs ago and the pink things looked kinda like they were inhaling air…very cool
Wine is neither a psychedelic or hallucinogen.
I see the red moving to the middle.
definetly movement for me. the big blue blob in the middle wiggles a little bit and the pink corners shrink and grow.
OOOOH!!! PRETTY COLOURS!!!
it sort of zooms in… and shakes
so pretty. makes me wanna blink cotinuoslly until I pass out.
WOW try to look at it cross eyed, like its a magic eye puzzle, it looks well freaky!!! I feel drunk and not touched a drop for over a week
A 2 the J said…
I smoke marijuana all day everyday, i have done so for 5 years now more or less, the colours slowly fade in and out of each other
5:46 AM
He said the answer there, you have to be high (as in smoke some marijuana or whatever you choose) and you start to see the picture moving i did that and the pic stared to move so quickly it was soo trippy
The more I stare at the blue spot in the center, the more the other colors seem to move away from each other. Could it be because I like that shade of blue that my mind is blocking out everything else? Hmm…
when i like in a certain direction, the color follows me! it’s following me! agh! stalker! hee hee… and i am not drunk! or high!
uhmm.. i dont get it >>??
it just looks like a art work thats not black and white(no duh) lol":P
but it still doesnt work and i would not (and i repeat NOTT)
call this an optical illusion!
but good try there hun.
You should not look at it, when you had drunk something. You’ll feel sick! ;)
omg the blue part was growing
its 2:01pm and im in school so i have to be sober so ya…hipnitizing coluer!!!
look in midlle all will be reveiled
Well, I’m a new visitor to this site and this is my first time commenting.
I kinda think it’s funny that I know for a fact that I am not sober, and I see no movement in that picture at all. Although the colors are very purty,
The big blue blob in the middle gets bigger and the pink sharpens! Creepy or what?
i don’t see any movement :(
Move your head toward the computer, then back up.. they move that way
Okay, just FYI, “soberness” is not a word. You mean sobriety.
If i look to the center the image apears to grow and vice-versa if i look to the corners. I think the pupils apperture is involved in this effect since the center seems more bright. If a keep the eyes fixed to some point nothing happens, but if i keep the eyes 100% fixed for some kind of time (this requires some training) a nice effect occurs: the corners became black with a cyan beam at the center and, in a second, the whole image become gray. This effect occurs because the eyes need some movement to see any fixed image.
The colors kinda mixed together and sorta glowed in a way.
I get it…coolioness…Bored. Chocolate. Annoying Little Brothers.
it moved a little for me. and the red/pink on the top disappeared.
It does moves! O_O Even if I move my head o_O
Moving colours!!!!!!!!!!!!
it moves when i moves forward or backward…or left or right
:):):):):):):)
i dont get it…. OMG YES I DO IT MAKES MY EYES FEEL WEIRD
This is why planes have stobes, lights apear to move if they dont flash, strobes were added for safty reasons to piolets veering of the planed route.