People online have repeatedly come up with brain teasers that have tested our cognitive abilities. Although the optical illusions have baffled puzzlers quite a few times, in the current situation, these brainy tricks are keeping us sane and distracting us from the negativity around us. After making us find a doggo in a picture of a park, a Twitter user has now come up with an image that is making me dizzy, TBH!
The picture that was shared online by Bernie Spofforth is an arrangement of horizontal and vertical lines. However, the challenge is to locate 16 circles in the image that only has straight lines.
This is called the ‘Coffer Illusion’.
In the image there are 16 circles. Can you see them?The illusion works because of our brain's tendency to want to see closed shapes, and because of its interpretation of the vertical versus the horizontal stripes. pic.twitter.com/oCmVqDCWkh
— Bernie'sTweets (@berniespofforth) April 19, 2020
Named as the ‘Coffer Illusion’, it was created by Anthony Norcia of ‘The Infant Vision Laboratory’ at Smith-Kettlewell Eye Research Institute in San Francisco, reports Daily Mail.
Reports suggest that when Anthony showed the image to 45 people, it took them an average of 45 seconds to spot the circles. Can you find all of them within the time period?
Go for it:
People weren’t able to find them initially.
Literally not a one.
Going to out on dunce's cap and sit in corner for rest of day.— Binky Huckerback (@Happygbeanz2) April 19, 2020
Is this a fooking wind up?😱
— Mick Conroy (@MickConroy2) April 19, 2020
If a circle has right angles then yes I see loads of them, otherwise….No sorry!!🤔
— Bullitt (@bullitt9803) April 19, 2020
I can't see one circle
— Celebrimbor 🇬🇧🏴🏴 (@sekotser_) April 19, 2020
Wow – that's messing with my head. I can see frames or I can see circles, but not both at once. And I couldn't see the circles at all until I did a search for this and found an image with the circles highlighted. https://t.co/3YHhV7fdhZ
— Galway Curiousblue (@iamcuriousblue) April 19, 2020
So weird. When I changed my focus I could see the circles and as soon as I blinked they disappeared again. How cool is that! 🤯
— Tom Foster Esq. #DefundTheBBC (@tompfoster) April 19, 2020
But once they figured out the trick, they were finally able to spot them.
Keep looking. Look between the frames.
— Bernie'sTweets (@berniespofforth) April 20, 2020
Yes, exactly, I resorted to the magic eye way of looking at the image 👍
— David Armitage (@Alder2501) April 19, 2020
Yes you can. Relax your eyes and look at the edges of the frames.
— Bernie'sTweets (@berniespofforth) April 20, 2020
Yes you can. Look at the corners of the frames and relax.
— Bernie'sTweets (@berniespofforth) April 19, 2020
And now, they can’t stop.
Once see. It’s hard to stop
— Mirza M Ahmad (@MirzaAhmad) April 19, 2020
Yes and I'm not even drunk.
— Blackadder4Britain QC (@WeDoNotLearn73) April 19, 2020
At first I couldn't see any but now I can't stop seeing them. I can't even see the rectangles any more. Arrrrgh! Stop it! Make it go away! Burn the witch!
Got any more?
— Andy Barrett (@RealConsett26) April 20, 2020
All of them, immediately. Is my brain broken?
— Antonia (@_llamaface) April 22, 2020
Oh yes. And now I can’t unsee them….. amazing!!!
— Glynn #Ain’tItTheTruth #SayNoToBillGates (@GlynnHJ) April 19, 2020
Yep I can see 16 circles……the brain is a clever instrument….
— lorraine johnson (@lorrainejohnso2) April 20, 2020
This also happened.
I can see a pussycat in one of the cycles!
— 🏴 Andy 🌐 (@ShaftesburyAve) April 19, 2020
Here they are:
— Jack Ringland (@JackRingland2) April 20, 2020
— Mak George (@MakGeorge) April 20, 2020
Such brain teasers are exactly what we need RN. Tell us if you were able to find all 16 circles or you couldn’t help but give up midway.