In this week’s Weekly Dose of Woah, we invite you you stare at the black cross in the image for 20 seconds.
Did you see the green dot moving around the circle?
Blink your eyes a few times.
The big reveal…there is no green dot in that image.
Your brain creates this hallucination by trying (and failing) to make sense of the magenta dots disappearing. This illusion is due partially to the fact that green is the complimentary (i.e. opposite) color of magenta and your brain is actually processing visual input from the colors in this image based on how much magenta versus green there is.
Reality is certainly not as it appears.
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