INSUBCONTINENT EXCLUSIVE:
So, it really came as no surprise that a seemingly innocuous optical illusion quickly went viral within hours of being posted on Reddit
The post has received 48,6000 upvotes within a week and has the Internet going nuts.The post shows a bunch of blurry pastel hues blending
clear instructions to offer: "This picture will fade away if you stare at it (may take a minute)."Keep still and focus your gaze on one
point of the picture below
pointer in the middle and focus on it
It makes everything fade extremely fast for me." (Umm, of course, you'll need to be on a desktop or laptop for this to work.)According to
the Illusions Index, an online database from the University of Glasgow's Center for the Study of Perceptual Experience, the freaky
phenomenon is due to something called the Troxler effect.The mind-bending phenomenon is named after Swiss physician and philosopher Ignaz
Paul Vital Troxler who discovered that "rigidly fixating one's gaze on some element in the visual field can cause surrounding stationary
images to seem to slowly disappear or fade."Wondering why the image appears white That's because our brains replace - or fill in - the image
depending on what background it's on.Looking for another brain-teaser Click here to spot the differences between two images
Or click here to calculate the number of triangles in this picture.Click for more trending news
