You know when a girl accuses a guy of looking at other women? Well, just watching doesn't hurt, does it? Well, it might cost him a slap or a bond, but it certainly doesn't hurt his vision. But there are things that can seriously harm you just by looking at them long enough. Okay, let's leave the sun and the flash for welding. These are the images behind the phenomenon called the McCollough effect, which can distort your vision. Distortion of vision can last for an hour or as long as three months! And as Tom Scott says, telling someone on the internet not to do that is like telling a five-year-old not to stuff beans up their nose. So, don't try the McCollough effect!
You have already come across many of them online images that play with your brain and successfully trick them through optical illusions. But you've heard of the picture that can actually it changes the way your brain works? It's about you The McCollough effect, which works at the level of the brain and not the mind, so you will see a picture with horizontal and vertical lines if you look at it long enough (that is 15 seconds or more), seen in reverse colors than originally.
You will say no such thing. But the problem is that this it leaves consequences for everything you see around you. Namely, the picture "washes" your brain to such an extent that you also perceive other things differently than they are otherwise, and you can also "cure" this "injury" of vision. up to three months.
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A phenomenon not an internet joke (discovered by an American psychologist Celeste McCollough in 1965), but we can't stop you from trying it out. You have been warned.
More about the phenomenon:
en.wikipedia.org
