By Vurdlak on June 21, 2010, with 142 Comments
Here’s a simple one. I know you aren’t fond of them, but we have to feature them occasionally as well (it’s cause of our goal – biggest optical illusion database, remember?) Anyway, what do you see in this picture on your right? There are bunch of arrows, right? But what is so strange, is that people only notice certain colored arrows at first. This probably explains which of these two is your dominant color. I’ve noticed green arrows pointing to the right, but only after a while I’ve seen the yellow arrows pointing in opposite direction. How about you?
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green arrows. But I think that’s just because my eyes happened to land on a green arrow. If I look at the yellow areas, I see yellow arrows. If I look at the green areas, I see green arrows. So, I think I’m ambiguous. :)
yellow. I think yellow is supposed to symbolize an outgoing, loud character whereas green a more relaxed type.
Yellow first
Yellow first.
I wonder if the first color noticed “means” anything, or is correlated with something else that can be measured, such as handedness, gender, occupation. I don’t even know what to consider correlating it with. But I still wonder if there is some significance to the first color seen??
Mosques are full of similar patterns and more complicated ones. The Alambra in Spain is well worth alook. Not quite sure of the spelling.
I saw the yellow arrows first and have to go a bit scally eyed to see the green ones.
Do you think it has more to do with your direction dominance rather than colour dominance?
I am a lefty and i saw the arrows pointing left first.
All our lives we are trained to pick up dark patterns on light background. Be it the text in a book, a picture we drew in our notebook, most webpages etc…
So I think it is natural that the eye first sees green arrows on a yellow background. Even after you’ve seen the yellow arrows, it is still more comfortable to think of it as green arrows.
Other kinds of illusions are closely related to that.
Yellow first. XD this is pretty cool you know…
YELLO!
i saw the yellow arrows first but it didnt take long for me to find the green ones
yellow first, too
Green first. Since I am red-blind that means that I have a slightly better green vision.
When reading the text, the image started blinking like ****. Not sure what that says about my perferred colour.
Also yellow first.
noticed both first, strange as it seems. but if you focus on one specific arrow, you can see both colored arrows
I notice green arrows first. Interesting illusion.
When I saw the picture on the Windows 7 gadget, I saw the yellow arrows. When I opened the picture with Google Chrome and saw it full-sized, I saw the green arrows.
I guess when we see a large picture, we tend to see the darker parts and when we see a small picture, we tend to see the brighter parts.
I can stare at it and switch it as I please, it almost feels like a strobe light flashing at me. Pretty cool
I think it’s more probable to see yellow arrows first because all are complete green ones are split by the half in the first and the last row of arrows. If you start to look the image from the beginning is easier to imagine a whole arrow than half an arrow.
green first yellow 10 secs after
Vurdlak, are my comments being ignored? Richard Haviland
I saw yellow first!
Green first and after a couple min. I saw the yellow arrows.
Same here…yellow arrows first.
I saw yellow first and had to concentrate to see the green ones.
Yellow first, in a couple of seconds, green
I saw the yellow ones first but then straight after i saw the green ones :)
Love the site btw :)
I saw both immediately…
I saw them both at the same time o__o
Yellow ones first. I can’t see green unless I concentrate.
yellow
I saw the yellow first, then the green when they’d been pointed out….
i saw yellow first and then when i looked again i saw the green ones
I saaw yellow first
why is that my comments are not being accepted..?
With my left eye I saw the yellow first, but with my right I saw the green first lol. Weird.
Yellow first
i saw the yellow first, but not the green until i read the article
wooo…it’s really twisting ur mind…but indeed i saw yellow first…
I saw Yellow first, then green a second later. I figured it out quickly.
i saw the yellow one first..though
@Mr.moderator..its good you published this post,we get to learn some simple scientific/anatomical facts because of it.keep up the good work
I also noticed yellow first. Even though I also saw the green in the background, I focused first on yellow.
yellow arows first!!!!!!!!
I saw green first, but it took me maybe a second to see yellow and after that they continued to flash rather annoyingly back and forth…
Yellow!
I saw yellow first and then after about a second i saw the green one’s
yellow first! :)
I saw yellow first, then im like whats this for? And then I saw green and im like whoa!
i saw yellow first and then my bro says look at the green arrows and then i see the green ones
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Kinda wierd that i saw on the left hand side the arrows pointing right and on the right hand side i saw the arrows pointing left. however i cant reproduce the effect
yellow first
i saw yellow 1st then looked again after about 2 secs saw green
i can bareli see the green
I saw the green ones first! (The first time I saw this illusion. I’ve seen it before. I saw green, then after 12 seconds I saw yellow.
I saw yellow then green and I didnt have to read to find out the illision
lol i saw the green ones first, but noticed the yellow ones too b4 i looked close on the pic. But after seeing the green arrows i saw the yellow ones after like half a sec, lmao. So easy ;)
:( i havent been able to see green since i was 8…
I saw yellow first ,then the green ones.
For me, it depends on the angle that I’m looking at it to see the arrows of each color…
I saw yellow first, but i just have to look at one color or another to see either instantly
i saw green 1st..it hurts ma eyes
I saw yellow, because I immediately look to the top left. -.-