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Castle Illusion (i.imgur.com)

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[–]stupidjedi 36 points37 points ago

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ive seen this an estimated 1,000,000,000 times

[–]sfurbish 21 points22 points ago

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That is over 475 years of continuous "seeing". Good Show!

[–]vagijn 10 points11 points ago

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613 years 10 months 24 days 21 hours 46 minutes 40 seconds to be exact. It's a 19.36 second second loop
(22 frames times .88 seconds each)

[–]monevus 4 points5 points ago

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That sounds about right, I'm not a time scientist but it's believable.

[–]Nexus-8 1 point2 points ago

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Same, yet it somehow never ceases to amaze me.

[–]yespls 5 points6 points ago

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wth is wrong with me... i never see the color image :(

[–][deleted] 2 points3 points ago

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The illusion weakens or vanishes as soon as you move your eyes or blink, which is easy to do as it flashes some text up in the corner.

  • When the picture is inverted or whatever focus on it, taking it all in, keeping the black dot in the center of your vision.

  • When the countdown reaches zero make sure to not move your eyes an inch or blink, see if the image looks like it's in colour or not.

[–]yespls 0 points1 point ago

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HAH. that time i stared at the black dot. huge success! thanks!

[–]syuk[S] 0 points1 point ago

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:)

[–]StabbyMcRunFast 3 points4 points ago

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Castle of Illusion Starring Mickey Mouse was a lot better, I have to say.

[–]LonelyOnNaxos 1 point2 points ago

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I can't read the red text fast enough...

[–]moltenwater77 1 point2 points ago

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Yeah, great illusion, but the directions flash so fast. I had to do it twice.

[–]miss-mafiosa 1 point2 points ago

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I keep thinking that something was going to scare the shit outta me so I kept looking away...

[–]aepstein66 1 point2 points ago

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my eyes are getting dry

[–]angusrocker22 1 point2 points ago

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Opponent Process Theory of Color Vision: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Opponent_process

[–]TheMightGinger -1 points0 points ago

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I'm colorblind

[–]chazmonkey 2 points3 points ago

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WHAT KIND OF WIZARDRY IS THIS?

[–]Fyrefish 4 points5 points ago*

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it's based on something that happens to the light receptors in your retina. when you stare at something, the 'cone' receptors (of which there are red blue and green) desensitize to the color that they are recieving, so that the other cones overpower them, causing you to temporarily see things in the opposite color of what you were just looking at. i.e. in this illusion, the orange sky is seen as blue when the colors disappear. this is also why after wearing red and blue 3d glasses, the eye that had red sees everything with a greenish tinge, and the blue one with a orange tinge.

[–]garenzy 1 point2 points ago

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TIL the opposite of orange is blue.

[–]deviationblue 1 point2 points ago

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http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Complementary_color

[–]steelgrain 1 point2 points ago

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Look up opponent process theory to the perception of colour

[–]rumpumpumpum 0 points1 point ago

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Yes, I came here to ask: WHAT HATH GOD WROUGHT?!?!?

[–]morris858 0 points1 point ago

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It puts up the contrasting color it wants you to see on the original image, then when it goes back to normal you see the opposite of the shown color that imprinted on your eye.

[–]HaxorusOG 6 points7 points ago

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That would be awesome if I wasn't colorblind.

[–]Shinamus 0 points1 point ago

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My mind: ''What sorcery is this!''

[–][deleted] 0 points1 point ago

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WHAT! HOW!

[–]CyberSoldier8 0 points1 point ago

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so is it like the black and white image, but the thing you are staring at, is that a positive of the color photo?

[–]MurlocHolmes 0 points1 point ago

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Get out of my brain!!

[–]Buckaroosamurai 0 points1 point ago

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Its stuff like this and finding out that the eye simply guesses at what it sees that makes me very skeptical when someone asserts they saw something with their own eyes.

[–]MEGACLUTCH 0 points1 point ago

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i had to watch this 9 1/2 times to get it.

[–]Samantha-Lily 0 points1 point ago

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How I know I haven't lost my sense of childlike wonder: my jaw actually dropped at this.

[–]BobbyDEllis 0 points1 point ago

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IT'S A WITCH! BURN THE WITCH!

[–]Dreababii 0 points1 point ago

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This made me very happy lol. I love Optical Illusions :)

[–]lolzlo 0 points1 point ago

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I wtf'd out loud

[–]alex0209 0 points1 point ago

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first time viewing this. this deserves an up-vote.

[–]base-4 0 points1 point ago

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Never gets old !!

Thanks for sharing that :)

[–]loki010 -1 points0 points ago

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What is this brainwashing...."Must kill the President."

[–]Aarmed -2 points-1 points ago*

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Not actually called the castle illusion

Believe it's the image after effect

[–]crazyjapes -1 points0 points ago

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My god. This is awesome.

[–]ejabno -1 points0 points ago

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Is there a name for this specific area of sorcery?

[–]Russz -1 points0 points ago

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Illusions?

[–]ejabno -1 points0 points ago

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specific

[–]bdonk 0 points1 point ago

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Visual illusions.

[–]mpfour -1 points0 points ago

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r/gifs ....

[–]Almustafa -1 points0 points ago

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Seriously? How is this WTF? It's just light receptors in your eyes, and further more something like this appears on reddit every two weeks at least.

[–]OfTheWater -2 points-1 points ago

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Psh, stolen from ebaumsworld.

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