Whoa! Not only did I miss the second hidden face in our previous illusion, but was shocked today when I saw how many of you made a comment to point it out to me. As of this moment “Undershirt Illusion” has passed 300 comments, and all of this in less than 24 hours. By the way, thank you for showing me the other masculine face I missed. Neither me, nor my little brother managed to spot it at first. For today we have something different. The little animation below pictures a moon and 6 stars surrounding it, somewhere in a midnight hour. There is also a dotted circular layer moving in the background. If you manage to stay perfectly still, and concentrate your eyes on the moon (not moving your head), you’ll experience the disappearance of the yellowish stars. How many of them did you make disappear? I just remembered (after finishing this article), that we had a very simmilar illusion before.
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Five disappearing was the best I managed, but usually 2-3. Very weird – it seems completely random which ones disappear, and when they do disappear, it’s very hard not to move your eyes to where it was.
THATS GREAT, I SAW THE STARS DISAPPEARING. WOW!!!!!!!!!!!!!
i only saw 6 half stars
If you try hard, you can make them all dissapear! :) It’s just a boring sky then, without any stars..
I have seen this one before, and I was told that the point was that the stars where supposed to just twinkle not permanently disappear.
nice =) everyone disappeared for a second! funny thing is, that earlier today i saw illusion like this for first time, and now i see it again ;)
btw. i saw it at here.
That is so weird! the 3 on the right disappeared first, then came back, then just one on the right disappeared :]
I found that the illusion works best when viewed about 12 inches from the screen. Closer and my eyes had difficulty focussing, further and the stars never come close to disappearing. Hope this helps =0) BTW, all stars came close to disappearing at 12 inches.
I made all of them disappear, funny illusion :)
it’s because the black stars will hide beyond the blue spots surrounding the yellow stars.
this make your brain think the blue spot is moving, and so hiding the yellow star.
It’s like they are being erased.
My friend Kevin said, “that’s trippy.”
I’m sorry to say that this one actually didn’t work for me, no matter what distance away from the screen I sat. I sometimes have problems like this, though; I’m near-sighted in one eye and far-sighted in the other, so sometimes I can’t see things like this. I also can’t see “3D” movies. I’ve got no depth perception issues with the real world, but whatever mechanism these kind of things work on just doesn’t process for me.
lmao
wow
thts soo cool
3/6. Well…half’s not bad, I guess…
i usally saw about 2 or 3 dissapear, but there was this 1 time where i got all 6 to dissapear, but then i moved and they came back
I MADE ALL OF THEM DISAPPEAR !! :D
i had all six stars disappear at the same time!!! WEIRD
WOW!!!!
i stared so long, all 6 stars and the moon dissapeared!
haha thats amazing!
Interesting…
good illusion, works as you keep you eyes totally still while doing it. As a result of doing this the same area on the retina is constantly stimulated or “bleached”. This means that the cells cannot restimulate and so the brain stops seeing them. The moving dots are not necessary for this but will make it happen quicker. It is best view at about 20-30cm due to the angle subtended on the retina!
hope that sheds some “light” on the matter! :D
(im an optometrist so I know about these sorta things before you ask how!)
well i got 1, then 2, then 1 again, then all WOO and then i blinked… lol if you just stare wide eyed at the moon you’ll get them all to go away
I got the stars disappearing two or three at a time but if I let my eyes go into the ‘3d picture mode’ ie slightly crossed eyes, I got two groups of stars and moons joined by two stars in the centre. The black dots were moving behind just the same. If I then stared at this, stars and moons disappeared but not all at once. Very strange.
They all dissapeared, then started reappearing(sp).0:)
you can still move your head and it works….lol awesome illision
That one kinda hurt my eyes :( I couldnt get it to work either. I’ll try again once my eyes get back to normal
i cant get the top star to disapear all the others disapear but that damn top one wont lol thanx for this one :)
haha the guy saying that the moon dissappearded for him/her xD
it’s a really cool illusion
I couldnt get them to disappera completly… only fade, and then promptly had to look away… made me dizzy, and sick.
wow thats amazing, alot of them disappeared
AWESOME!! I GOT ALL 6 TO DISAPPEAR FOR 2 SECONDS!! you just gotta concentrate reeeely hard.
That is so cool, I saw thw stars dissapear at different times. :)
I cant c ne thing dissapearing!!
omg i made them all dissapear
at first i didnt get the poing but yeye i found it!!!!
First I got only 1 disappear, but right after it all for a sek.
awesome!!!all disappeared
i managed to get 4 : )
that was really out there man, didnt think it would work but it did it was sooo awesome, hey is it just me or did the moon look like a bannanna
Hmmm… the stars seem to only fade to about half the size. I like.
Took me a minute, but they disappeared!
I love these “mind trick” illusions!
Oh, and congratulations on the comments! I wish MY blog was that popular! Keep up the good work!
Wow I got all but the north and south star to go
The 4 stars went transparent…
COOL!
Keep ’em coming!
I made em all disappear…..but if u stare at a star then u can make the moon disappear!!!
oh wow….tht hurt my eyes but i liked it lol…. thts fucked
hey tht was amazing
woah alll of them disappeared when i stared @ them 4 lik 5min it is totaly cool
If you close one eye it is easier to loose site of all the stars.
I manged 3 but not reall a serious attempt.
1 star at first, when I made fullscreen then zoom (F11, then Ctrl+mousewheel) I could make dissapear evrything but half a star.
I felt like when seeing a stereogram.
Thanks.
They all disappeared!
But it is hard not to move your eyes to the disapperng ones.
OMG i made all of them go away but its really hard to not move your eyes when ur trying to count them!
very cool.. i made all six stars disappear eventually, but i really really had to focus!
wow for a fraction of a second all of them my eyes hurt a lil lol
I notice that the bigger the picture is, the more affective the animation gets…
Try this when you are laying out under the stars. Pick a star and stare at it. Soon the rest will all disappear. Discovered this when I was a child – thought I was going blind. It is actually the process of physiological nystagmus (tiny eye tremors) that prevents our vision from going blank (adapting) on a regular basis. Good thing for rush hour traffic.
Very nice, its interesting how our mind and vision work together.
omg that was realy kool i didnt think it was gunna work, but i did
can someone make this with the president instead of stars
If you stare at the moving dots instead of the moon, you get a completely different illusion
Nice! They all disappear for me ^^
When I do it I feel like the stars are blinking, they appear and then disappear!
the dots go slower when the stars disappear :]
I got all 6 fade away
i managed to make them all dissapear aftr a gud 30 mins
i got them all to disappear eventually but i made the moon disappear once too
Actually, the stars disappear by opponent process theory. The eye collects the different light colors however, as the cells that alert the brain that the color yellow is apparent, the cells slowly stop firing from being overworked. The afterimage then, is a blue background. That’s why the stars disappear. Todd’s comment about nystagmus and why the eyes will not adapt is true but then the yellow stars would never disappear because the stimuli would continually be collected.
I managed to get all of them to disappear, took a couple tries, but i got it.
I only manage to make 3 of them disappeared =/
if u stare at the stars the moon dissapears
I couldn’t get any of them to disappear but I did manage to get the star to seperate from the black dots like a magic eye picture. The black dots looked as though they were at the bottom of a can, while the stars and moon were on a plain with the lid…
for a brief moment, they all dissapeared =)
they all disapred to me! :D cool
thats creapy they disapeir lioke gohests
I made to disappear all the stars this is so interesting and WOW. Great post.
Hello,
And, again, no matter how long I look at the picture (the moon, without moving my head), no star is disapearing. Do I really hav a eye problem ?
owwwwwwwww…..i had to not blink to make them all diappear but i did it
i managed 2 make 4 disapere, that is so amasing!!! if u havent notised by now thets a fake name and email adress
cool,ha i made them all dissapear.
ya i got them all gone
omg i only mde 3 stars dis-appear damn t
Woah!!!!!! I only made 5 disappear. Dang…
The stars for me doubled! There was twelve stars and 1 moon!
2-3 stars can disappear…
cool!!!
That is so cool I made all of them disapear!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
Tina
5!
That’s strange – the highest star have disappeard, and then it was going like a wall clock! next on the right have disappeard, then third, but first retourned! No fourth – here is seckond. No fifth – here’s the third one!
wow thats cool they kind of twinkle on and off like real stars awesome
i have a lazy eye and cant see most optical illusions. this one worked, one star two star, then all of them.
… none disapeared after looking at the moon for 4 minutes… now my eyes hurt and i have an odd after image im my eyes
They’re not disappeared for me, the stars are just getting smaller and smaller.
it will make me dizzy :)
whoa it disappeared all of them just concentrate on the moon
but my star was disappeared 4 a whole night n appeared again in d morn
it is on d east side but still doesn’t change its position
i felt like i was goin sober
look at the moon without blinking and the stars
will disappier
ALL!!!!!!!!!
I saw all the stars dissapear and it was WICED
(thanks vsauce for this website)
http://www.youtube.com/vasause.com
That’s a WOW!!
And another effect that it also becomes a bit 3D if you stare it for at least 2 minutes.
The stars seems to be blinking and while it blinks out, they’re just like coming out from my monitor, with the moon following the stars to be 3D.
OMG!!!!!!!!! they all disappered!!!!!!! that is crazy!!!!!!!!!!! =O
ah this one hurts my eyes xD
really cool, but I agree XD It does hurt your eyes…
All disappeared. Cool.
none disappeared..
one star disappeared .. but it hurt my eyes
i am getting a head ach, siffernt stars were apearing and dis apearing, one fel from the sky.
OMG! THAT IS SOO COOL!
That is pretty neat, I don’t understand how they seem to disapear thou. And it makes me dizzy to stare for too long, lol Love your site by the way .
what do i stare at???????????
dont get it
A.D.H.D… I tend to focus more on the moving dots rather than the moon but I was able to make the stars disappear…
all of them disappeared! so cool!
all them dissappeared
cross your eyes and keep looking the moons also disappear
Woah! That is soooo cool! All of them dissapeared for me!
all of them disappeared
All of them disappeared and for a brief moment the black dots also disappeared!
mine doubled
12 stars
2 moons
Very cool! :D The stars started to blink for me. They faded and slowly disappeared and then appeared again, awesome
i made all the stars disappear:)
I crossed my eyes and then it dubbled to 12 stars then made them all dissapear!!
NO WAY I MADE 5 DISS-APPEAR? wow..
The stars jumped around when I tried. I always have 1 left
I actually made all 6 stars disappear, twice. Other times it was usually 3-5 stars that disappeared.