Make your vision turn completely BLACK

**Dennis098** · 06-06-2009 05:33 PM

Who else can do this?
Say it's nighttime and I'm sitting in my bedroom. Its gotta be at least pretty dark. I can make my vision completely black with my eyes wide open. If i think about it or move my eyes at all it goes away though, its tricky like that. I used to do it when i was little and couldn't fall asleep, but now its a bit harder for me.
I've been thinking about practicing doing it to improve my concentration

thoughts?
I know some other people can do it

**mrdeano** · 06-06-2009 06:14 PM

I do it by making my eyes go out of focus.

Works in the same way as this -

Focus on the cross in the center and the purple dots will magically disappear

**Dennis098** · 06-06-2009 08:57 PM

YES!
good find

**yellowlight** · 06-08-2009 04:37 PM

I can do it too.

Originally Posted by mrdeano

Focus on the cross in the center and the purple dots will magically disappear

ahem...*cough*

**lily** · 06-09-2009 02:16 PM

I've done that before. Only it doesn't have to be a dark room. I've been bored and practiced on unfocusing just out of curiosity. In a bright room everything will look white, and in moderately lit room, well, it will look gray. Basically, things get fuzzier and fuzzier, blend together, until it's a solid color. But I don't suggest doing this a lot I only practiced at it a couple times and I had a hard time getting my vision to return to normal, was still a bit fuzzy for a minute after I stopped.

**Paigesaddiction** · 06-09-2009 03:47 PM

Hahahahaha those purple dots do disappear thats awesome. ♥

**Hazel** · 06-09-2009 04:07 PM

I've done that before, quite a few times. I can do it in the light as well, if I stare at a certain object for long enough, though in the light it doesn't go completely black. I'm pretty sure this doesn't belong in Beyond Dreaming, however, because it's not a paranormal activity.

**DarkLucideity** · 06-10-2009 01:10 AM

Originally Posted by mrdeano

I do it by making my eyes go out of focus.

Works in the same way as this -

Focus on the cross in the center and the purple dots will magically disappear

I see a rotating green dot

**[user-name]** · 06-10-2009 01:58 AM

Originally Posted by pojmaster17q

I see a rotating green dot

stare a little longer.

**yellowlight** · 06-10-2009 05:31 AM

Originally Posted by [user-name]

stare a little longer.

and nothing will happen because you're supposed to see a green dot.

**deathxel** · 06-10-2009 06:40 AM

no all of the dots disapear if you stare longer yellowlight..

**yellowlight** · 06-10-2009 06:46 AM

Originally Posted by deathxel

no all of the dots disapear if you stare longer yellowlight.

I stared at it for 3 minutes and the green one still didn't disappear

.

**Specialis Sapientia** · 06-10-2009 11:05 AM

Originally Posted by yellowlight

I stared at it for 3 minutes and the green one still didn't disappear

.

The green dot is not supossed to disappear, but all the purle ones are.

**Hazel** · 06-10-2009 12:14 PM

Originally Posted by pojmaster17q

I see a rotating green dot

That dot's not really green. If you try to focus on it you can see there's really no green dot at all.

**yellowlight** · 06-10-2009 12:51 PM

Originally Posted by Specialis Sapientia

The green dot is not supossed to disappear, but all the purle ones are.

That's what I told [user-name], he said to the other guy to stare a little longer and all the dots will disappear.

**Hazel** · 06-10-2009 12:59 PM

Originally Posted by yellowlight

That's what I told [user-name], he said to the other guy to stare a little longer and all the dots will disappear.

Well, since the green dot technically doesn't exist...

Try following the green dot around the circle with your eyes.

That green color is opposite from the purple color on the color wheel, so it's really only the after image of the purple dots that you're seeing. The purple dots are blinking on and off: While off, we see the after image, which has the appearance of a green dot.

**Arutad** · 06-10-2009 06:03 PM

Can anybody explain how it works that the dots disappear?

**mrdeano** · 06-10-2009 06:25 PM

I don't understand how you guys are seeing green dots.

**Specialis Sapientia** · 06-10-2009 06:26 PM

Hmmm

This illusion is called Lilac chaser, it uses "Negative retinal afterimage" to do its trick.

Read about it on wiki here http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lilac_chaser

Try to change the colours with this interactive illusion!
http://www.michaelbach.de/ot/col_lilacChaser/index.html

This is one of the more interesting illusins with afterimages!