What you see in the optical illusion will change if you stare at one location – people say their minds are blown
THIS mind-bending optical illusion will change after you stare at a single spot for 20 seconds.
Take a minute to stare at the center of the baffling Healing Grid and watch the seemingly broken pieces fall into place.
At first glance, you can spot that the image is a black-and-white grid that is perfect in the center, but disjointed on the outer edges.
However, if you spend some time with the optical illusion, your vision will change and start to fix the misaligned pieces.
The effect works in an inverse image as well, which has the disjointed bits arranged in the center while perfect lines lay on the outside.
If you stare at the middle of this image, the messy bits will spread slowly into the outskirts and overtake the grid.
The Healing Grid was discovered by Ryota Kanai from Utrecht University in The Netherlands.
It ended up being a finalist in the 2005 Best Illusion of the Year Contest.
The illusion appears to indicate that the brain prefers to see regular patterns, so it will change the way you see images.
A scientific paper was later written about the illusion by Kanai and several others.
In the paper, they argue that the brain can reconstruct information based on readily available, detailed visual information.
This ability of the mind can give rise to a rich, but illusory, experience of peripheral vision, the paper reads.
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