How Many Black Dots can YOU See?

Believe it or not, there are 12 black dots in this viral image, which is driving the internet to distraction.

However, with four dots placed horizontally on the top row, four along the middle and four along the bottom, it seems it’s almost impossible to see them all at the same time.

Instead, once the viewer’s eyes are fixed on one dot, the others in that row become visible – but the rest in the grid seem to bizarrely disappear from sight.

The baffling image, which was posted on reddit by djeclipz, has already had more than 1.4 million views – and is leaving people on the site very confused

The Ultimate Book of O... Seckel, Al Best Price: $2.00 Buy New $5.45 (as of 02:25 UTC - Details) The baffling image, which was posted on reddit by djeclipz, has already had more than 1.4 million views and more than 330 comments – and is leaving people on the site very confused.

Alion1080 wrote: ‘God dammit, I can’t do anything about it and it makes me mad.’

Another posted added: ‘I shouldn’t have opened Imgur while having a migraine.’

And DoctorFatty posted: ‘This makes me very uncomfortable.’

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However, Queenelizabeth posted: ‘Guys I think I’m broken, I can see all of them just fine… Am I dying?’

And SpottedFromADistance added by way of explanation: ‘I think this is E. Lingelbach’s Scintillating Grid 1994.  Masters of Deception: ... Seckel, Al Best Price: $3.30 Buy New $10.17 (as of 03:45 UTC - Details)

‘Apparently, the illusion depends on your eyes being a certain distance from it.’

The Scintillating Grid ‘is constructed by superimposing white discs on the intersections of orthogonal gray bars on a black background,’ according to Wikipedia.

‘Dark dots seem to appear and disappear rapidly at random intersections, hence the label “scintillating”. When a person keeps his or her eyes directly on a single intersection, the dark dot does not appear. The dark dots disappear if one is too close to or too far from the image.’

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