If your eyes follow the movement of the rotating pink dot, the dots will remain only one color, pink.
However if you stare at the black "+" in the center, the moving dot turns to green.
Now, concentrate on the black "+" in the center of the picture. The pink dots will slowly disappear and you will only see only a single green dot rotating around the center "+".
It's amazing how our brain works. There really is no green dot, and the pink ones really don't disappear. Here are pretty good explanations of what's happening with the color and the disappearing dots. Here are more optical illusions and explanations.
We don't always see what we think we see!
That's interesting where the color cones filter out the color frequency to which it's just been overexposed.
ReplyDeleteI've long been disappointed by a cognate experience with the sense of smell. One is suddenly drawn to attention by a whiff of something interesting or lovely, but when one tries to sniff again and identify its nuances the old schnozola has turned itself down.
I wonder if it isn't a similar thing that happens with our eyes and color. The schnozz just gets too much of something, and when you go in for a good whiff, you get either a different smell or nothing. I say more often than I'd like that there is a smell stuck in my nose. I think one of the cats has pooped somewhere they shouldn't (which never happens, in fact), and it's always my nose that is wrong.
ReplyDeleteMaybe your smelling something from another dimension?
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