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Focus on the red dot for 30 seconds. Now look at a plain wall.
ImageI was waiting
A lot of internet users haven't been jump-scared before and it shows.
Fun and wild as the net was back then, I really don't miss every other damn video and gif being a jumpscare.
Or you know graphic pornography/goatse
Trying to download a David Bowie song on limewire but it turns out to be a 300x300 video of someone getting decapitated in Yugoslavia in 1990.
Yeah that shit was everywhere, kids today just don't get to experience the internet the same way and honestly at this point I think social media has been worse for our mental health than flipping a coin with every download or forum link
I remember my dad told me about how when he was like 14 him and his brother were trying to download the Stankonia album on limewire and it ended up being a video of the Tukhchar Massacre.
Wait what how old is your dad? How old are you????
My dad’s 37 and I’m 19.
Part of me just died right now. Thank you.
Same here. :( At least I'm not the only one.
Damn. Im 37. Im your dad
I'll never forget seeing a fellow student in high school casually putting meatspin on a teachers computer, dude was explaining how it related to internet culture and whatnot, wild times
I'm still haunted by the gaping asshole spewing like a wood chipper jumpscare
I mean AFAIK we haven't had any new, original web-based jump scares (that isn't just gore or shock content) to send to people for a long while now.
The most recent one I can think of was the Korean webcomic one and that one was made 12 years ago.
I just knew what this would be before even clicking! Damn, scarred for life
Not really because this is an image, but if this was a video i would scroll to the end to make sure, i still do not trust any video that wants me to focus on the screen.
I blame 2000s jump scares for all my trust issues
Yeah, and it would be of the exorcist girl’s face
They had this trick in the 2000s except it was a picture of jesus
What the fuck
It’s basically just OLED burn in for your eyes.
Or plasma burn in for us older generations?
Or Cathode Ray Tube burn in for my fellow living fossils?
“Just smack the side of it or have Timmy touch the end of the antenna.”
touch the end of the antenna
Ahh yes, when we all had our designated positions for when certain shows came on.
If someone from the present went back and watched us they’d ask if it was some sort of “interpretive dance”.
There was a joke on American Dad about a magnet messing up a CRT TV and I was wondering how many people even got it
Kinda reminds me of a Family Guy joke that said the show was for teenagers who understand 80s pop culture references
That will get you put on a list nowadays.
It’s just like a chisel in a stone tablet for us even older guys.
High technology for us stick and sand purists.
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I heard you can get real life burn in if you look long enough at something
I know some people who got that from the eclipse
You know people who see a brunette woman from staring at the eclipse?
Yup, this is just the receptors in your eyes getting "used to" the image, so you can see the after image (or its negative to be more precise) for a while. Most things in our bodies work like that. Anything that gets "activated" by a stimulus starts a counter-activation in the opposite direction to return to the normal state once the stimulus is gone. It's called homeostasis.
Another example is getting a hangover after drinking. You know how you feel all warm comfortable and relaxed while drunk? Well your body wants to return to feeling "normal" again but with the alcohol leaving your system it "overcorrects", so you feel the opposite for a while. That's why having another beer while hungover helps some people make it more bareable and some people just never stop drinking.
If you do this with the sun, you'll actually kill the receptor cells on your retina though, so you'll get a permanent blind spot.
But what makes us see it in color? Do we fill in the gaps? Or is the color already there, and our brain just filters… or reveals the image..
The image is inverted so yeah the colors are already there just opposite on the spectrum
Did it work better for you if you continuously blinked? It disappeared quickly if I kept my eyes open for me
Yes, blink quickly
I did this and the image floated up the wall and across the ceiling.
Totally normal thing.
Not weird at all.
this is related to how it takes so long for your eyes to adjust to darkness.
ever see a really bright light and then turn away and have that blind spot in your vision for a long time? It is the same thing except the bright light is an image.
Y’all are acting like seeing a woman’s face appear out of your wall isn’t something that happens to everyone on a regular basis
🤨
holup
Yup, happens to me every night since I some video of a girl in a weII a while back
I saw the image briefly as I started to look away. I'm also quite drunk right now and this exercise has made me very nauseous, on the verge of throwing up.
I'm high as hell, and I expected to see just a red dot on the wall. To have that picture show up was some freaky shit!
She's watching you
She's watching ALL OF US!
No…I’m watching her 😈
I always feel like somebody's watching meee.
Ooh!! You should write a song! That’s some catchy lyrics, there! Do it!!
why is every redditor drunk or high all the time
Life man…life.
I’m sober and I saw her whole face in color on the wall! Mind blown. 🤯
Now you have seven days to show this to someone else or she’s coming for you.
Why would u attempt it drunk🤣 I kno, it’s a dumb question
The answer to "why would you do that drunk?" Is always "because im drunk." Viscious cycle.
Or, and hear me out, : “Because I’m always drunk “
Functioning alcoholics should get more credit we do all the things normal people do but we're drunk when we do it.
I know that’s why I said “dumb” question
A lot of the time, things are more fun when you're drunk
Like getting even more drunk
Yes
Not drunk but had the same thing happen where as I was looking away I caught a full color version of the girl I think but looking at the wall produced nothing. Maybe I wasn't staring long enough.
Same for me but then she appeared for a second every time I blinked.
TLDR: Occur when the retina's rods and cones become overstimulated. Harmless
And anyone can do this. Take any picture, invert the colors in MS paint and place a dot in the center of the photo.
So Idk the Science behind this but I was able to see this girl in colours and almost for more than 2 minutes. Spooky!
Same for me but only vaguely for a few seconds. I wonder why
A negative photo illusion is created when we experience a negative afterimage. A negative afterimage is created as a result of overstimulation of the photoreceptors and cone cells of the eye, which causes them to lose sensitivity and process the information appropriately.
When you stare at one negative image for a long time, the cone cells, sensitive to the three main colours, red, green and blue, become fatigued depending on which colour is focused on most.
The surrounding colour receptors send out a strong signal to the brain. As the signal is received from the three colour receptors are not in balance to see colour, our brain processes afterimages which are coloured pictures.
Magic. Got it.
Youu missspelled “magnets”
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I hear Kiroshi is all the rage nowadays choom
Always a pleasure to see my follow netrunners, solos, mercs, etc. here.
Sensory adaption is useful. Otherwise you would constantly see your nose, feel your clothes, smell whatever is around you or on you, etc
Thanks chatgpt.
Helps if you blink a lot when looking at the wall
Yep, effective for any (illusion?/trick) where it “burns” an after image into your eyes. Just keep blinking!
I keep blinking but the Hat Man won’t go away
oh sorry that one's me
That would explain a lot of ghost stories, they probably saw a light for some time and then turned away to see the inverse of the light they just saw.
It makes sense. As someone with visual snow syndrome, the condition also can cause flashes of light or trailing images for longer than usual.
At the worst episodes, it can seem like they are these shadow people moving all around me. They're not hallucinations but rather optical illusions.
Get out of here with your logic!
Many ghost stories are obviously fake.
staring at a colour will exhaust the cone cells in your fovea which respond to that colour in your field of vision, resulting in the afterimage :)
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I still see it even after I’ve looked away a few times
Well, it's on your eyeball, so no matter where you look, she's always right there lol
Hm I can't see shit...
When I was younger i was born with a turn in my eye.
I had a surgery where they just fix it, by removing a bit of muscle or extending it. I can’t remember exactly.
But when they did that I apparently lost this kind of vision or whatever you’d call it a doctor once told me, I can’t see any of the illusions where stuff comes out, I can’t see any of these things. And even 3D movies with glasses I just can’t see properly.
I can still play darts and football perfectly, so it’s not depth perception that’s gone I dunno what it is. But I can’t see any of this kinda stuff.
Was thinking maybe I need to get my eyes checked but I see I’m not alone in seeing nothing
I was expecting to see Jesus.. But it's OK I guess.
It's very simple, and I'm sure we were taught about it in biology, but I can't remember the exact words. We often look at bright objects, then when we look away we see their shadow in opposite colors. I guess the brain adjust the colors when we look at it and needs a moment to readjust to the change ? Or maybe it directly has to do with how retina reacts to colors. I love these little tricks.
Wow, I can see her in colours. She fades fast tho, so I have to constantly blink to see her again.
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Yes, and everybody will pretty much see the same lady's face (the original photo of the negative). It's called negative afterimage effect.
I can literally see her on my laptop screen while typing this
Story of my life after she left me…
Am just surprised at the comment section. You guys never seen these before? pretty sure many were floating on facebook a decade ago.
Lol same these were famous like 10 years ago. Also the time I used to find them pretty cool.
Jfc you children... They made these in print long before the Internet existed...
I remember liking the "true cyan" one, and it became my favorite color for a while. I enjoyed explaining how it wasn't possible to see naturally and all that.
Yeah, pretty much nobody found it as interesting as I did.
I thought it was magenta that the mind has to invent, because it's not on the light spectrum. Maybe it's both!
10 years ago? Try 20 years ago at least. Finding illusions like this on the internet was my past time for me as a kid
its like traveling back in time to when facebook first started to let you "share" things.
Seeing an entire new generation see something for the first time.
If memory serves, in approximately 1 week we will see the same image but its actually a gif with a jump scare at the end when her face turns bloody and there is a loud noise.
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Reddit is full of children so…
Most redditors weren’t yet old enough to have a phone a decade ago.
Edit: Holy shit I said this jokingly but then realized even someone 21 years old was only 11 a decade ago. With that realization I’m headed to the liquor store.
Every day someone is seeing something for the first time, that has existed for a long time.
Am just surprised at the comment section. You guys never seen these before?
You do realize you are on the internet and everyone on the internet does not share your same birthdate, geography, culture, or general interest....
Full circle, this place is now facebook. also maybe a lot of bot replies.
Damn, I gave up Facebook that long ago?
ikr i thought the jesus one was fairly popular
I had the same reaction lol. They were around well before Facebook as well.
Dang that was cool.
I thought it was going to end up looking like Jesus. This was better.
For anyone that can’t see it:
Thank you because I really tried and I can’t see it at all haha
But why is it nsfw? I was expecting something else
Thanks, I tried several times against a white wall and I'm seeing nothing ._.
Yeah me too, that's insane.
So creepy!
“Focus for 30 seconds” must you ask me to do the impossible?
Yeah I was struggling to stare at the dot about every 5 seconds my eye was like "Hey look at the dog over there this is boring!"
We need the science guy right now
I’ll take a stab at it : Magic .
Something something rods and cones.
Jesus fucking christ, there's s white woman in my eye
Trippy man
OMG!!!
Is that kristi noem?!?!
Is she going to come and kill my dog now!!!
Nooooooo!!!!!
I see Rebecca Black
Yeah I was so sure it was going to be Rebecca Black even before I did the trick but I already know this trick. It's just fun to do even when you know why it works.
It is for the best. The dog needs to go.
And the goat.
It’s actually Selena Gomez, believe it or not. I saw this in an article a few years ago. Can’t remember which site, and they named the artist in the pic.
What sorcery is this?
Im in a dark room so i can't gaze on a wall. But i closed my eyes and saw the girl's face in color.
I didn't see anything?
Try blinking and staring at something non electronic. I couldn’t see it until I blinked a few times, then I couldn’t get rid of it.
She's even on my screen on the white background lol
Don't think it works on phones, in a well lit environment.. doesn't for me anyways.
Follow the instructions exactly, Billy.
It's not fake. I saw it.
It's a schooner
No, it’s a sailboat.
A Schooner is a sailboat, stupidhead
Stare at the dot for like truly 30 seconds, count them, and then look at a wall and start rapidly blinking. It didnt work as well for me without the rapid blinking.
Try blinking after the 30 seconds.
Don’t tell me what to do!
I don’t see anything
(Blinks)
Agghhhhh!!!
(blinking repeatedly whilst looking at the wall helps)
It's been like 10 years since I've last seen this picture
Oh my gosh i can see her everywhere all around my walls
Smash
Answer? The parts of your eyes that recognize color can only do it for so long in a single stretch before they get fatigued.
When you look away, your eyes don’t recognize those colors until those parts of your eyes ‘recharge’.
Invert the colors and bam, now when you look away the after image looks correct, I.E. your eyes can’t see the colors that were in the picture and you only see the opposites (original photo’s colors)
This is a very simplified and somewhat inaccurate description of how the cones in your eyes work. Now someone will come along and correct me and you can learn more from them
Ok now make the wall image jump scare me
I watched the red dot for more than 30s a few times and nothing 🥲
what sorcery is this?
Some people cant last that long.
My rods and cones….!!!
Why she floats in my eyes?
I’m trying to look at her but she keeps flying away
WHAT THE FUCKKKKKJJKKK
Not my proudest fap to the wall
Reading comments and having her face glide across the text is very funny
My brain isn't braining but it isn't liking
I don't know why but these optical tricks never work for me :(
doesnt do whatever it's supposed to for me.
but when i stare at her face her nostrils turn into eyes and her mouth is a lil monster lol
Is that Riley Reid???
Ah I’ve seen a lot of these before and was hopeful, but it doesn’t work for me. I get a brief bit of light/dark outline but it goes away too fast.
One of my favourites of this effect is when I cycle in cloudy/rainy conditions I use yellow lensed glasses to increase contrast. After at least half hour or so when I stop and take them off everything is really blue for about a minute until my brain turns the gain down
This woman haunts me everywhere I go now, thanks
Wow, I finally have a girl in my room! Wait, where did she go, she vanished after a moment... sad :'(
I focused on the green dot instead and the image came to life and murdered my pets
Accidentally looked at the green dot. She won’t leave me alone
Finally, a girl is in my room!
get this white woman out of my retinas
It works way better if you start blinking immediately after Staring at it.
Sad that for a lot of you this is the first time you’ve seen a girl in your room
I had to see if it was a scary gif, the 2000s made me a paranoid person
She’s floating around my living room
If this was the 2000’s there would be a jumpscare at the end