imagine explaining this to a doctor: "Yea so, some guy on the internet said not to stare at these images or you can cause serious harm to yourself...................... so i stared at them"
Human hole system is a mystery to me. If you put beans in your mouth they come out of your ass but if you put them in (left or right) nose hole why they don't come out from another.
"You will see the inverse of these colors" Yeah, that's not too bad actually probably kinda trippy "For up to 3 months" Now it's time to close the tab...
I did the same, because I want to keep precise vision to design my webpage, I don't want the colours to look different to me than to almost every other human on earth...
Actually, if you peruse around on the internet a lot in your spare time, you run into them all the time. Memetic effects are what make memes so popular. It's also where the name came from.
me: huh interesting, ill try *pauses video* fifteen minutes later: huh, lets see what tom has to say of the rest of the video tom:for up to three months me:*oh no*
Heres a link for you then! www.dailymail.co.uk/sciencetech/article-3073381/The-picture-BREAKS-BRAIN-Bizarre-trick-transforms-black-white-lines-red-green-effect-THREE-MONTHS.html
lies. it depends on how long you look at it! www.independent.co.uk/news/weird-news/illusion-breaks-your-brain-so-you-see-black-and-white-as-green-and-red-10238436.html
I did this about 3 hours ago and the effect still lasts. I did the full 15 minute treatment, it is strange how vividly those black/white lines light up just after you do that. So far, the only time i've noticed it is when looking at the bars on the test, and slightly on the vertical parts of the cover on my tower fan. I'll update to see how this changes over the next few days. For science Edit: Day 1 - immediately stopped working. Very sad
I've noticed this effect on some black and red striped curtains I had. When looking away I would see a negative image of the curtains for a few minutes. I get the same with a black and white strip but I think that perhaps is down to the eyes adjusting sensitivity to the different brightness levels.
I'm so tempted to do this but at the same time this feels like a bad idea Edit: I'm doing it. I haven't gotten my drivers license yet so its a good idea to do this while I'm young if I want to experience it in my life Edit: After trying it, it went away after like 15 mins. and it doesn't change your entire brain, it seemingly only messes with the area that looked at it, and having a green square on your vision is not something id like
There was an experiment conducted where a group of college students were given glasses to wear that were inverters. They used lenses that made everything the person saw appear up side down. The students were instructed to wear these glasses all their waking time for two weeks. By the time the two weeks was up, all the students wearing the glasses were seeing the world right side up. When the glasses were taken away from them, they all saw the world up side down for a period of time similar to the time they wore the glasses but a few of them had the effect persist for months which frightened them AND the medical personnel overseeing the experiment. Those students even reported that their _dreams_ were up side down.
Did it about two weeks ago. I stared at the two images back and forth for 10 seconds each for 15 minutes. I spent a good 6 days out without internet connection and I came back to it still looking weird. I hope it didn't permanently ruin my vision...
Do you wonder why you didn't understand the effect? Because it has literally nothing to do with your perception of red or green. It has to do with your perception of black and white lines.
@@Mythraen yea that is how comedy work:braking expectations witch this is couse it dosent have to do anything with subject but anyway everyone has different understanding of comedy
Well... I decided to read the Wikipedia article for this effect. There's instructions on there, that are quite clear, and with images as well. All I can say is, I now I have a fancy red and green grid imprinted on everything I look at. Granted it's only been 15 minutes or so since I did it... And I only did it for maybe 1 minute. So. it clearly does something.
It gradually went away after 20-30 minutes, but honestly I feel like I can believe the effect lasting a lot longer if you really stare at the images for a long time, on a large monitor and so on. Obviously things like this work differently for different people as well. 1 minute equaling 15 minutes of artifacts for me doesn't necessarily mean that 2 minutes of staring will mean 30 minutes of artifacts... Could mean 2 weeks for all anyone knows. But yeah, the effect is absolutely noticeable and real - just the strength of it is probably not as bad as suggested in the video for most cases... Doesn't mean it can't be that bad for some unlucky people!
stared at it for about a minute, but the grids are barely visible in dim lighting and for some reason flipped, the effect had completely passed by the time I finished the comment
Nah, it'd be safe. Euclid means it has some risk of escaping containment and becoming a serious issue. Safe means it can be contained, and won't cause harm if correct procedures are followed, especially if said harm is relatively minor, like temporary colourblindness.
Whenever I see internet ads which tell you "Not to press that button", I don't press that button because I'm not stupid enough to fall for that reverse psychology BS.
I've actually experienced this! I had no idea it had been studied and identified. I like to make pixel art(ok, pixel doodles) and I usually leave the background transparent, so I would get that checkerboard pattern burned in. I don't recall it lasting months, but it was a little annoying for a few weeks.
PSA: 3 months is more of an extreme case, and that's after you look at it for 15 minutes. The effect is very mild and disappears quite quickly for most people.
I looked at it for just one second and clicked it away and then got SO SCARED when I saw stripes on the screen - but then realized it was my t-shirt's reflection. Phew.
+Rosie Isla I don't think you were paying attention. It doesn't make you see stripes on your screen or anywhere else, it makes you see tinted colors in between lines where there are no colors, if you see a particular pattern of alternating lines. It must be horizontal or vertical gratings like shown in the video (and I can find no evidence it works in real life or on anything other than those specific type of images as Tom claims), and you will see the inverse color as a tint where it's actually white. It only works after you've been properly induced, and he didn't show it for long enough for people to see anything other than a normal afterimage lasting a few seconds. You have to stare for a few minutes to get an effect that lasts hours or days.
Privacy Lover Yes, I know. But I don't think you were paying attention to my comment, because I said I was scared of that happening and quit the video before the image had been on-screen long enough for that to happen. It was then my shirt's reflection that scared me.
+Privacy Lover I just stared at it for at least 10 minutes, but not much happened.... Things are still the same colors they were. And I'm conveniently wearing a green shirt that's still green.... I iz disapoint.
Without the lines, so just a block of red and a separate block of red side by side create a similar effect but for not as long. Look for like 30 seconds and it'll be sorted in around the same time although it won't be as powerful.
2.8 months is the longest that was able to be produced after 15 minutes of exposure in a lab setting. 3 months is theoretically possible, but you'd have to actively try to get it that long.
@@Stettafire It's impressive how much variety there can be in the systems used between countries. In NZ the turning light changes between the colours as well as being on or off, so at least here you'd be screwed if you did this.
@@EndTimesHarvest Oh it was. Even just the mention of the song to friends and family who were on the same ride is enough to wipe the smiles from their faces.
it is reversible . All you need to do is stare at the original red and green image , but rotated counter clockwise , for half the time you stared at the original image . www.dailymail.co.uk/sciencetech/article-3073381/The-picture-BREAKS-BRAIN-Bizarre-trick-transforms-black-white-lines-red-green-effect-THREE-MONTHS.html
It's probably exactly that complexity that makes us so fragile. The more intricate a machine is, the easier one broken part will make the entire thing break down, no?
@@croma2068 that explains why the newborns of our species are between the ones that need parental protection 24/7 for years. If not the longest, one of the longest times in nature
Colourblind people (ok, colourblind men, since for them it's much more likely to get it) were used in WWII for aerial reconnaissance, since they could interpret the monochrome pictures of enemy ground much better than normal people, as they were used to seeing no colours.
Evil life goal #42: Print this image out. Then, walk around at an art school, telling people you're doing an essay on optical illusions, and want them to look at the image for a few minutes and then answer a survey about what they see.
"Don't do this dangerous thing!" Me: "Oh, I'm gonna do it!" "You would have to stare at these images for like 15 minutes." Me: "Boooring! Nevermind then."
skrubritos It's perfectly safe. What it comes down to is that the longer you stare at it the longer it will last (as in 15 minutes could last 3 months).
I did the 15 minute treatment. Will update regularily Day 1. After the test I have this weird afterimage of a slightly red a lnd green color. Day 5. The effect is gone rip
Sounds like the unrideable bicycle. This is a bike with a reverse gear put into the handlebar mechanism so that you steer left to go right and vice versa. They say that once you master riding it, it breaks your ability to ride a normal bike.
It does. Smarter everyday (a RU-vid channel) recorded his progress and learned to ride this backwards bike and then showed a video of himself being unable to ride a normal one again!
"They say that once you master riding it, it breaks your ability to ride a normal bike." this exact with has already been done its on youtube some guy did it and its not even 3 years old
But how come when i drive with my hands on the bottom of the steering wheel, in effect using the opposite arm to turn a direction. It doesn't break my ability to drive?
Your hands might be moving in the opposite direction to normal, but the visual stimulus to your brain is still the same - the steering wheel turns clockwise or anti-clockwise as usual.
Well that's simply muscle memory, it's like, if you learned to type in qwerty, then in another layout, like dvorak, you wouldn't be able to type in qwerty as well.
I had this happen after I spent a long time weaving, now I know to change where I look every once and a while! It lasted like a week but went away Note* it was probably about an hour staring in one spot which lasted me a week. Different brains a guess, I don't think mine could make it stick for 3 months
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***** nothing happens been staring at that thing for a while and everything is normal, i don't see a grid or anything. Everything is just normal even though i see the line superimpose one on top of the other for a moment. I am daltonic red green so i guess i have to find one that is, orange and blue, or yellow and purple to try and see what the effect is about :)
christiann93 I personally didn't know I was red-green until I was 18. I always had a bit of a hard time telling apart colours but nothing really crazy. It wasn't until we looked at a few plates from the Ishihara colourblindness test in my high school psych class for fun that I realised I was colourblind lol. For some people it's pretty apparent when they look at things that are red and green and think they're the same, usually when other people say they're two completely opposite colours, that they're colourblind. Apparently I was too thick to realise until I was an adult.
through the color blind test and plates that involve a series of 64 plates i think each with a number on them. People that are normal will see in certain plates certain numbers or images and i don't see anything on those plates. There are i think seven plates that are there too test to see if you are color blind or daltonic which i am, because in those plates i see the numbers clear as day while other people can't. Just type in color blind test on google to see some of the plates. I had the test done to me by my art teacher because i was have trouble reproducing and image because the detail needed to be exact it was in red and green to make hues of brown. The images was really messed with my eyes but in the end i found out i was daltonic
VIXsterna Augie Ciera Thanks to both for answering, thats something i had never asked to a real color-blind person ans you answers are really helpfull :)
That explains why, after laying down on the beach with my eyes closed for about 30 minutes, everything ended up having a blue tint for the rest of the day...
camerinian well, it went away completely gradually over a period of about three days... I never found it to mess with my vision in every day life, only when I looked at that black and white lines picture I saw the change in color. It's a fun weird experience.
Reckl ess I think he commented on the "fun weird experience" bit of my comment, not in a skeptical way... In case it was, its totally legit, at least for me.
You are in luck, you only need to do it for 3 minutes or more( longer for better effect I guess) on each image( seperately, yet to find anyone in the comment section that has done it right sadly, I am curious but can't because I write software everyday and dunno if I trust the cure enough). It potentially rewires Edge detectors in your brain but the effect is reversible. You simply rotate the squares 90 degrees and do it again.
To reverse the effect, try staring at the same red and green stripes, but rotated 90 degrees (clockwise or counterclockwise), for about half the time you previously spent staring at them in the original orientation.
+Aitch , It won’t really ruin your sense of color, though. I make digital paintings, and I subjected myself to the McCollough effect. Even when the effect was at its strongest, I was able to do my paintings just as easily as I ever did. If you did subjected yourself to the McCollough Effect, you’d only see it under very specific circumstances. You need stripes of a certain size, and very high contrast to see the effect. If you saw it on a gate or something, the phantom colors would likely disappear when you got closer to it. I only evey saw it when I looked at the test images to check if I was still under the effect. It lasted over four months. Really, evey time people mention this thing they warn people not to do it. Having done it myself I, on the ther hand, would say that it’s not really that bad, and that it is totally worth trying. It’s a fascinating effect, and none of the descriptions does the experience justice.
And, whatever you do, don't read the world's funniest joke. It is deadly. It was weaponized by translating it into German one word at a time, and was deadly when used in WW2.
The really weird thing about The McCullough Effect is that it only works on people who have been told about it. Get someone who doesn't know about it to stare at a suitable print out of one of the pattern which can induce the effect and they won't report any effect, but once you tell them about the McCullough Effect and they try it again they notice the effect within a few minutes.
I think the closest I've ever had was one time when I played a game (The Elder Scrolls IV: Oblivion to be precise) for a rather long time in a bit of marathon with small breaks, for the next few weeks I could still see the HUD, I could see a little cross in the centre of vision and a semi-representative of me health/mana/fatigue bar, it was surprisingly useful I think as it was nice to have a visual estimate of how tired I was as well as what my willpower was like (I think that's how the mana bar was working) it went away after a little while though.
telling people on the internet not to do something is just like the fallout 4 dialogue wheel, it always comes out as yes, no matter what option you choose.
I'm surprised that there's no mention of one of the most universal memetics, yawning. Seeing, hearing, reading about, or even thinking yawning can trick most people's brains into yawning involuntarily. We're all used to it, but on a regular basis we give into a contagious thought for reasons we truly dont understand. It boggles my little mind
I did this. The black lines actually disappered, and all my other colors seem darker except for blue and red. Blue stays normal and red seems to vary depending on what is behind it
Tom, as soon as you mentioned a song, etc. "getting in your head", I thought of "It's A Small World" song at Disneyland. Then a second later the camera panned to that very thing and I have not been to Disneyland for many years. WOW!
@@plxsma4601 I watched a video that goes back and forth between red and green for 10 minutes. I haven't noticed a difference yet but it is also night and everything is dark.
