These coloured dots are going viral online and it’s for a seriously annoying reason as people can’t seem to agree on one little thing. So what colour can you see?
Optical illusions can do more than just boost your intelligence as some could show what side of your brain is more dominant. Not only are puzzles fun, but many of them could have you questioning a lot of things and making you think in a way you haven’t before.
Now over on Redditmembers of the optical illusion forum can’t seem to agree on what coloured dots they see. The post began: “Are these dots blue or purple?” Around 4,900 users reacted to the post, while hundreds flocked to the comments section. We must warn you, these kind of optical illusions can leave you scratching your head for some time, so are you ready to solve it?
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One person said: “Definitely violet.” While another added: “They’re all purple.”
Someone else commented: “I’m not seeing any blue myself…” While a fourth posted: “Only one is purple to me, but it keeps moving around.”
Then a fifth wrote: “My eyes are going crazy… I guess I’m not going to sleep now. Thanks for sharing.”
And a Reddit user chimed in: “My perception of the colour changes depending on whether I’m focusing directly on the dot. I perceive a purple dot where I look surrounded by a sea of blue dots.”
These kind of optical illusions which show different colours aren’t uncommon.
Often, they can trick the brain’s perception of colour and contrast, often through techniques like colour adaptation, negative afterimages.
A good example would be the Lilac Chaser illusion where a rotating green disc appears on a circle of lilac discs, and the 12 Dot Illusion, where not all twelve black dots are simultaneously visible due to the limitations of human vision.
But a more famous example would be the dress debate, where people couldn’t agree if they saw blue and black, or gold and white.
In one study, Michael Webster, a psychologist from the University of Nevada, Reno, said the illusion occurred because of the ambiguity of the colour blue, and people’s inability to reliably discern blue objects from blue lighting.
So have you spotted what colour dots you see in the image? Let us know in the comments section below…