woahdude

It's a schooner.

For those having trouble seeing it >!It's a butterfly!<

This is my wierd superpower: I can see these things at a glance. shrug I was hoping for superstrength...

A schooner!

I can never see these things. Not as a kid, not as an adult. I'm broken.

Magic Eye is new again huh

OMG I finally got it after all of those years... I get it what it's supposed to look like.

It's butterfly and design/pattern is as same as the background, you just see it in somewhat 3D form, you're not supposed to blur your vision too much, just slight. I kept trying changing the blur until I got it.

WTF, so above method I did, I saw butterfly popped out. Then I tried doing the same but crossing my eyes, I see two cut out butterflies, like first one is bigger sunk in, then another smaller one sunk into the first butterfly.

Mind blown.

I used to generate these on an Amiga back in the 90s.

There's a bot over at @magic_[email protected] that posts a lot of these.

I can only see them backwards by crossing my eyes. There’s as clear as day but they fall into the page, not pop out of it

Yeah these don't work at all for me. Maybe it's me astigmatism or something.

bunderfly

My mom got me a book with around a hundred of these in it like 35 years ago. When I met my now wife around 18 years ago she thought it was the coolest thing in the world. She had never seen them before, so it was neat to be the one to introduce her. She spent hours staring at that book. I think it might have even helped me seem impressive when we first started dating.

Depending on how you cross your eyes you can see a single butterfly, a butterfly on top of a 4-winged butterfly, or a 4-winged butterfly on top of a 6-winged butterfly.

Woah, that's the fastest I've ever been able to see one of those, and it was on my phone screen.

Everyone keeps saying to go cross eye or to do all these tricks but I see the image at a glance and it's much simpler and less painful with one trick. Treat it like a window.

The whole point is that you are trying to defocis yours eyes so the image overlaps on itself and makes the image inside it stand out. You can try practicing on other things like a mirror or a screen door or window before looking at these where you focus not on the screen itself or the mirror itself but past it.

If you can trick yourself into just looking into the image like it's behind a window and just casually let your eyes defocus and look for a shape in the mess then you can fixate on it and see the image.

I think it's definitely better than straining to try and see it.

Tip: When your face is close to the screen, don't focus too fast. Let your eyes slowly converge until they lock on

Aw fuck! I hate those things!

Why is there a Rorschach test as the image? And why does it look like my parents having sex?

These never worked for me because my eyes are too broken. I got -13 Astigmatism so with glasses the image is too blurry even a few cm from my nose, and without glasses it's clear right up on my nose but anything beyond that is a blurry mess.

I was expecting a schooner.

It's such a weird feeling to be looking at this, and then I tilt my phone slightly diagonally and it just instantly disappears. Brains are weird.

Also, for anyone that hasn't seen it: Young Rivals - Black Is Good

I finally did it!!!! I've tried these things as a kid and occasionally when they pop up on social media over the years. Never been able to do them. Sometimes I got close, but it left a weird shaped hole my brain couldn't figure out. But I just now did this one.

I wished I still had that framed one I got given as a pressent as a kid. Never knew what it looked like.

I literally can make my eyes just unfocus from all reality and then it appears instantly.

There's a great Stuff You Should Know episode about these!

https://pca.st/episode/91f7a1e5-0f2b-4e0e-a905-e591e3c9a7a1

(Sorry for the pocketcasts link. I wish it would give me a plain one)

My eyes have different prescriptions so these never work for me :(