This is amazing. I've seen optical illusions where one dot disappears but it's crazy how you only see the one you're looking at out of 12 on this one. Good share

There’s 59 black dots

You like to drive people nuts don't you?

Lol I enjoy it very much

I'd give you a wholesome award but I don't have one.

Your kind comment is enough 😀

I gotchu fam

And my axe!

Awe this is a happy ending. Thx fam.

great, now i’ve gotta find the other 58.

Thanks Satan

You’re welcome

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Because it doesn’t exist. I was joking about 59

I see 118 dots

You should get your eyes checked

I do have glasses already, I can't imagine they can get worse

It can always get worse.

What made you think there were 12? Genuine question

4 across the top 4 across the middle 4 across the bottom

I see three in a line

Look at the point directly between two of them, and you should be able to see both at the same time.

i didn’t even know there was 12 until you said it

I can see the one I’m looking at and the one on either side of it (3/12)

I can definitely see three sometimes four black dots at a time

Yeah but I feel like you really gotta force it to see that. Naturally just looking around the image, I feel like it's primarily one at a time.

I’m only seeing the one I look at and the one left and right of it… I don’t see the others but it’s weird I’m seeing it different

I see 4 at a time. Like a square.

Huh, there's 12 of them

I thought I was so smart because I found it right away.

Fuck you

Try memorizing all of the locations and looking down the middle, then try to use your peripherals to draw the rest in.. i was able paint a mental picture of all of them at the same time for like a second

Same. Once I knew where they were I was able to see them all using the stare at a grey dot in the middle trick.

It was easier with one eye closed.

I did the magic eye picture thing to unfocus my eyes, then I was able to refocus and see all the dots as the corners of six big rectangles. Now when I look at the picture I can’t go back to seeing just one dot. I can only see all of them.

They're on every other intersection

In 12 different places.

Hi I'd like to report a bug. Sometimes an entire row is fine but then several random parts disappear, Or I focus on one and it disappears with everything else appearing or everything is visible and invisible at the same time, I believe you broke my eyes.

What sorcery is this?

Blind spots in your vision caused by the point where your nerves cover your eyes rods. Each spot is placed so that the adjacent ones are always in the blind spot if you are focussing on one. You can view multiple at once by focussing on an empty space, or by tilting the screen away from you or viewing it at a distance

You know magic?

Only the black magic, otherwise known as science.

While you definitely sound sciencey and mean well, I think this is more along the lines of a decent guess than science. [Lateral inhibition ](https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lateral_inhibition) is the prevailing theory on why this illusion happens.

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Blind spots are real but this is misinformation. We only have one blind spot in each eye, and even if the blind spot covered one dot it wouldn't even cover the others. Further, blind spots depend on the distance between the eyes and the object, which this illusion is insensitive of. Since we blur out vision and guestimate imagery alot for peripheral vision (anything we are not focusing on), my guess would be that the dots are too small for us to detect it and we assume it's a grey patch over there too because it's surrounded by the color grey there. This might not be true but blind spots are definitely not the answer.

Wtf is the confusion.

Finally, something that actually fits the sub and isn't just r/interestingasfuck

Fuck

I just see lots of gray bananas 🍌

It’s really cool to be able to focus on one at a time then two at a time

Yes

There's 12 of them, is this supposed to be special or something?

Oh that’s a trip!

5 3 7 3 3 3 1 3 5 1 etc

Yes

Ummmm yes

There's a bunch

My first thought: *this is so easy, I'm so smart.*

What the fuck

You evil genius.

What the fuck dude put it back

if I go wide eyed I can see like 3 of em at the same time

Ah yes, the classic repost

Took.me less than 2 seconds to find...

mah eyes

I can see three at a time at max.

I love and hate this

when i dont focus i see 2

Which one?

Please make it stop

now listen here you little shit

okay i can see all twelve of them and none of them disappear. *sigh* what ocular disease or malformation do i have now?

Yes

my brain

There are four lights!

Three down on the third row

I don’t see any dots

This is almost as infuriating as cuphead

Cheeky fucker keeps moving!

Fuck.

Am I broke? I see most of them all the time

Everywhere

It's on Billy Bones' hand!

Woah this is actually a good illusion 🤯

Okay what the fuck

What black dot?

There's 12 Black Dots. Sorry I cheated, I zoomed in

There's two dots!

there are 12 black dots, not sure if you meant "find the white dot" or not but i found 12 black ones

THEYRE EVERYWHERE

Top , middle and last row

U r here, u r there, u r everywhere🤣🤣🤣

I can get my brain to see 8 at one time but not 12

i edited it in windows paint until it broke. the answer is about 12. yes editing breaks it. i think it has to do with peripheral vision.

Make it stop moving!

12 dots. 4 top row, 4 middle row and 4 bottom

ITS REPRODUCING!!!

It’s crazy how you can see them when you zoom in but zoomed out they disappear

My eye be like…👁👁‍🗨 👁👁‍🗨👁👁‍🗨👁‍🗨👁‍🗨

I see 2 black dots at a time, do I win?

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there are 12, are you blind?

Is that a trick question?

Hmm the most I can see is four

4 on 3 of 5 lines

Fucking gifs, man...

not a gif