I constantly receive requests for more stereograms, either though my mailbox, or inside the comments section. My problem with seeing the hidden image they contain is probably the reason I posted only so few of them. Magic Eyes, or how some like to call them “stereograms” are pictures you have to concentrate at, and suddenly the hidden meaning pops out at you. With the later mentioned, sometimes there is no hidden meaning, just the option to see the 2D image in 3D. Probably later versions aren’t stereograms at all, instead they should be reffered as stereo images. I’m the guilty one for posting them all inside the same category. If I understand your help correctly, you have to try and focus on the illusionary dot few inches behind your monitor, which I never manged. If you see this example, along with its solution, this is how the result should look like (apparently). Now let’s solve these three without me! If you want to see more of these, use the search in the sidebar, and enter stereograms or somthing. You can find more inside the appropriate category.
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Thanks for all the comments on technique. It seems with most (or maybe all) of them, keeping the eyes from refocussing is very important. Try as much as I can, I fund that I naturally refocus. Even a small shift in my head’s position and my eyes refocus.
I think I must just accept that I will never be able to see these images. So I vote for NO MORE!!!!
Good luck with the exam results Vurdlak. And keep up the great work wih this site, please.
Wow. That was awesome. I’ve never been able to get these to work. You just have to focus, concentrate, and relax, and just sit there without blinking and keeping your eyes perfectly still and eventually it’ll work.
woooooow amazing i couldnt get my eyes of it !! It took me a bit of time to figure out wath to do but u got it XD
Would this work if you printed them out?
Since the fist day this post was posted I figure out to see the Ms&Ms one… but had trouble with the other two until today!!! Now I see the mermaid in the blue one (not a Dolphin like somebody said)… and in the beer one I just see the bottles in 3D, is there anything else that is supposed to been seen?
nope. can't get it at all.
one thing- how big is the M&M guy? and where is he?
I have NEVER been able to see these like normal people do… I don’t know what’s wrong with me, and I CAN focus weird…
Only way I’ve ever been able to decipher them was to find the fractures in the image– where the pattern breaks– and trace them with a marker, and only after doing that, did the image show up to me… D; Oh well.
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In the stella artois one, not only are the bottles 3D but there are 7! There are only 6 showing in the “plain” version.
I kinda just go cross eyed. There is a repeated pattern in the pictures and you have to cross your eyes to a certain degree where the repeats overlap and then your eyes kinda stay crossed and the image appears.
That’s my way of doing it. I perfected my technique in like 3rd grade while reading some like RPG book that told you to flip to certain pages based on what you saw in the images. I wish I could find those books again.
when i do it i kinda cross my eyes…and it works
i cant do those + i hav a head ach
The M&M Guy is so big and in the center of the picture, almost filling up the entire picture. He had his arms wide on his side and grinning just as wide. His nose is pointy.
The mermaid is alson in the center of the picture, but not as big as the M&M Guy. She is long and slender. Her head is on the left upper side of the picture, quite high that it’s close to the dark part of the picture. Her hair is tied up in a ponytail behind her head. Her tail is on the lower right side of the picture, but not too low. Perhaps just a bit lower from the middle of the picture, and not too far to the right.
The beer bottles I don’t get at all. Is this even a stereogram?
As to the simple techniques to do this, here’s my suggestion: Turn of the lights behind you. You can then see your reflection on your monitor. Focus on that reflection instead of the actual picture and let the picture blur away. Then you’ll automatically (almost instantly) get it.
And yes, you can see it in 3D as well if you print these pictures. To make it easier to see, put a wide flat glass in front of the picture and focus on your reflection on the glass. After you get the hang of it a few times, it will be easier to do, even without focusing on your reflection.
Lol i only got the mermaid one, and you have to cross your eyes, the trick is for me, i have to keep my eyes crossed, i can do that… i just keep them crossed for about 10 seconds and then they stay lke that for 30 more seconds
you want to see more off this, go to http://www.magiceye.com its amazing
When I look at a stereogram picture I relax my eyes so that the one image splits into two images. When this happens I tilt my head left or right so that the images move away from each other perfectly horizontally. The trick then is to match up the pattern in the image, varying how much you relax your eyes. This sounds tricky but believe me you will be able to do it. the easiest way to see this is with the Stella Artois picture, but look for same coloured m&m’s in the other one. The m&m guy did take a moment or two to pop out.
my eyes are so hyperactive, so these don’t work so well on me… cool, though…
sometimes, what you can do to see it, is put ur face close and slowly back up without refocusing ur eyes, if youve done them before and know what happens when you see the image, u can sometimes cross ur eyes and slowly uncross them until u see an image. i luv these
wow cool advice, look past the image, look at it with out thinking and dont move a mucle the image should show up unclear but as time passes itll get clearer
i perfected my skills in my pre k dentist’s office cuz they had a painting of the statue of liberty in that form
i know a easy way!
just take the tip of yout nose in the middle of the monitor then move slowly back WHITOUT MOVING YOUR EYES then u see it!
There are actually 8 beer bottles when you’ve achieved the “right” focus.
You may have trouble seeing these if you have an astigmatism. I have a friend who couldn’t see these, but then after she got lasik eye surgery, she could see them. I think the astigmatism makes it difficult to focus both eyes the same amount to get the 3d effect going.
I see a big circle with arms in the first, in the second probable a siren, i don see very clear the face but the fish tail is clearly visible, lots of people can’t see this images not for not being able to, but because they don’t know a technique to approach the image.
Darn that swine flu! Every time I try to concentrate on something like this, I see a pig. o.O
the first one is some kind of M&M happy guy the second is just a 3d look on the labels and the third is a mermaid, omg i love magiceye!!!
I figured out how to get it work easily: cross your eyes and go closer to the image, slowly uncross and go farther away from the image.
thats very easy to figure it out…i leaned the technique of looking these pics while i was ard 10 yrs old….just try it like this (if u print, it will be easier):
1- Place ur pointing fingures on the middle of pic, somewhat a part from each other.
2- cross ur eyes looking at the two fingurs
3- try to make three fingures…keep concentrating for while…when u focus to that point, the hidden image will automatically appear…
no matter how hard i try i cant see the 3d picture, is it sommma to do with my right eye? (i am blind in my right eye)
hey, as some have said further up i use the techinque where you cross your eyes in the magic eye book i have this is supposed to be the advanced method as the image is pressed in as a pose to pulled out is there an easy way to get it to some out of the image instead of being pressed in?
i dont undrestand these
I’ve always been able to see these (using the cross-eyed technique) but I see them in REVERSE. Instead of images popping out of the picture – like a statue – they drop in so it’s like looking at a jello mold before pouring in the jello. It’s trippy – I can see the image is built in layers – but it’s disappointing too. I wish I could see them pop out.
i can only see the stella artois one :(
The technique I use to see these is to let my eyes relax (unfocus) and blink rapidly. Blinking breaks up my focus even more so it is easier for my eyes to look ‘past the image.’ The edge of the image will start to become visible, and by concentrating on that, I can bring the whole thing into view.
I like stereograms a lot. My method? First I cross my eyes a little bit. Then I focus (trying to get the image sharper) through that blurryness. Then it suddenly becomes so focused that it is amazing. I can almost go as close to the picture that my nose touches the screen and still see the 3D image.
simyo says:
August 25, 2009 at 10:58 pm
“i know a easy way!
just take the tip of yout nose in the middle of the monitor then move slowly back WHITOUT MOVING YOUR EYES then u see it!”
Thank you so much! Now I can see a picture in less than 5 seconds, before I used 5 minutes sometimes! And I have done this a lot!
Stereograms are usually reinterpretation of picture, seeing behind the picture for possible solution.
Picture 1 – It is like a people interconnected.
Picture 2 – It is a like boss who are standing in a stage.
Picture 3- It is a multitude of people who are trying to run in a marathon race.
In picture 1 I see 1000’s of m&m’s!!
WHERE IS THIS 1 BIG M&M FUCKER?
Picture 2 = 6 bottles
Getting already drunk when seeing them!
Picture 3 = a mass of bubbles
THERE IS NO SUCH OF HIDDEN PICTURE
STARED OVER MINUTES TO THIS!
WHAT IS THE USE OF WATCHING THIS??
IS IT REALLY AN ILLUSION??
HELP!! STEFANIE
are you all stupid? lol ok
1)all of the grenn M&M’s have a “g” on them instead of a “m”.
2)look in the last stella artois bottle there is a little white stick person on the”o” in artois,also there is no pictures of vines on the label.
3)look in the back!!!!! it looks like ghostly faces.