By Vurdlak on July 26, 2010, with 452 Comments
Got this awesome illusion in my mailbox recently, and boy was surprised when I realized how I could actually read those strange symbols! Give it a try and report your findings. What I’m more interested in, is how the hell can our brain decrypt this!? Is it the negative spaces? If someone is more knowledgeable regarding this topic, would be nice to hear your idea… Those of you still struggling, here is a little hint.
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The brain recognizes the shapes/negative shapes, and their relative positions on the page and next to each other.
You have too much time on your hands.
So have I.
Took ‘too much time’ to get it. Good thing I had free time on my ‘hands’
you have too much time on your hands…. took me literally 5 seconds to read. We are able read it so fast because the shapes depict actual letters and our brain already often overlooks things, therefore it it human nature to be able to read this phrase.
Yes…. people who make this illusions have indeed ( something something something figure the solution out :))
I got the first word, thought the second was “never” for a second, got confused… and then realized it was “have” and then easily read the rest without effort after that.
“you have too much time on your hands” is what i got out of that
I got this right away ,
Hmm, it only took me about five seconds. I don’t agree with it – I think I’m permitted five seconds.
:D
I do not!
Yes, that largely is because of the negative spaces. Our brain often doesn’t even read single letters, but it reads a combination of letters (which makes us read sentences quicker, but also sometimes causes us to misread things). It recognizes patterns, which can also be found in negative spaces. For example the U/N/Ms have a very distinctive negative space and the S is just easy. So our brain recognizes that this is the kind of pattern it needs to decipher, it would actually have more difficulty if some of the letters were normal. You probably also unconsciously went searching for a couple of letters that were less obvious to you, just because the pattern was obvious. It would be much more difficult if it was less obvious that the brain has to look for one certain “language”, for example if the image was highly cluttered.
Seen it on first sight. Needed around 2-3 seconds. Last Word was a bit hard to read though.
this is very easy to solve if u know the T looks like this “t”
It says you Have Too Much Time On Your Hands.
I pretty much got it straight away from the negative spaces as you mentioned.
Does it say; You have to much time on your hands?
“You have too much time on your hands”?
I do have too much time on my hands
You have too much time on your hands.
You have too much time on your hands
I don’t get it…
you have too much time on your hands
This puzzle is very interesting and is not that simple to solve. If you can figure out the first two words, the phase will come out easily.
This puzzle is an interpretation puzzle. “Is the glass half full or half empty?” Our mind doesn’t always pick up on the most obvious clues so we have to look at the shapes or characters presented.
If I have too much time on my hands, then the person that created this has twice as much time on theirs. lol
you have too much time on your hands, right?
no you do
“You have too much time on your hands” not even hard.
That’s not hard, but…
Why I have too much volume on my hands?
i have no idea what this means!….someone help!
you have too much time on your hands?
Read it straight off as well! Impressive demo of some type of basic symbol/word recognition.
Pretty nice one, a little difficult at first glance… but yeah i have a lot of time jeje
You have too much time on your hands!
First?
You have got too much time on your hands
I’m not sure why I got that so soon.
You Have Too Much Time On Your Hands
Does it say: ”You have too much time on your hands” ?
i got to: you have to _____ _____ on your _-___
hmm, good illusion :D its alot different then whats been on here lately
I wish I did…
haha….It’s not that I have too much time on my hands, it’s just that I know how to waste it!
you have too much time on your hands!
I guess I do have too much time on my hands… Still don’t get how the T and I negatives make any sense…
I don’t have as much time on my hands as I would like, but it is a pretty cool illusion.
I got this right away!
It took me ten minutes to decode this, with my sister’s help. Don’t read this if you want to keep it a secret.********hvae*********mcuh********tmie**********hdnas*******************
I (don’t) have too much time on my hands. I need more time time to enjoy stuff like this!
First comment,
“You have too much time on your hands”
you have too much time on your hands
….. @_@ i’m…. honestly stumped. I can’t see it. Mighty illusions, I bow to thee as I have met my match.
hmmm? i think its ” you have too much time on your hands” does neone see the same?
“You have to many time on your hands” ?
I’m french, and if this is an idiom or something like that, i didn’t know it before.
The power of mind, :D
I think it’s just shape recognition, which makes the message of “You have too much time on your hands” amusing, because I imagine most people would recognize the message faster than they realize. unless it’s a comment on too much time spent surfing the web.
YOU HAVE TOO MUCH TIME IN YOUR.. HANDS
you have too much time on your hands… wow !!!
You’d have to have too much time on your hands to try soliving this…
I must have written too fast, “too many time” instead of “too much time” in my first post.
But that’s what I’ve read at the first time, just stop paying attention when I wrote the first one.
Still power of mind ^^
I don;t have enough time on my hands to decipher this.
you have too much time on yours hands
1st
you have too much time on your hands
:p
Normally, I’d solve this, but now I just have a really short attention span.
You have too much time on your hands.
Some days I do. took me a moment to read the text.
You have too much time on your hands
not true it only took me a few seconds
YOU HAVE TOO MUCH TIME ON YOUR HANDS! that is ssssoooo awesome! i love it
HAHA, FIRST :D
IT says:
You have too much time on your hands.
That’s wierd that we can read it – and its not all negative spaces. The T’s are not in negative space (or maybe only partly). Now I gotta spend some time working.
SPOILER!!!!!!
you have too much time on your hands
omg omg!!! it took me like 8 minutes probably but i got it lol. . . great illusion(:
you have too much time on your hands
you have too much time on your hands
Nope… I can see many letters forming as spaces inbetween the white blocks but I’m not able to comprehend them. Help, guys?
I don’t know, but when I looked at this picture, I saw the message immdiately. Actually, I’ve been surfing the site for a while, and it keeps happening, when I’m supposed to not possess a quick enough mind to get in until after a minute… Though, as I type this, my keyboard looks funny, and if I look around my room, it looks distorted.
your right i do have too much time on my hands
dam it all i no is at bottom is an s
WOW ! I find it unreal that I can read this.
1st and it says ”you have too much time on your hands”i think lol!!
you have too much time on ur hands
you have too much time on your hands :)
Hahaha you’re right. I really DO have too much time :-P
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“You have too much time on your hands”
What?