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What color are these dots?! ЁЯдФ
What color are these dots?! ЁЯдФ
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рдЙрдкрд╢реАрд░реНрд╖рдХ (47)
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- Hey, how's it going?
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Hey, what's up? I'm down here.
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Hey guys over here.
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What color am I? Wait, are we all the same color?
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You've just experienced One of the wildest illusions
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that I've seen in a long time.
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All nine of those dots
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and all of my faces are the exact same color.
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But if you have normal color vision, I bet
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that whichever one you are staring at looks purple
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and the ones around it look more blue.
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This illusion isn't just freaky.
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It reveals something really weird about
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how our eyes are built
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and how your brain has sort of been lying
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to you your entire life.
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Here's what's going on. Right in the dead center
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of your retina, in the back of your eye, the spot
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that you're using right now to read these words
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or look at my face,
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that spot has almost no blue light detecting cells.
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Now, purple is just red plus blue, right?
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That lack of blue light detecting cells means
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that when you stare directly at a purple dot, the middle
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of your eye picks up more of the red, half of the signal.
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It's a brighter, more saturated purple and less blue,
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but your peripheral vision has more full blue coverage,
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so the dots you aren't looking at,
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they stay a more bluish hue.
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The highest resolution part of your eye has a blind spot
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for blue, and that's not all.
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There's another weird anatomical oddity going on.
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On the front of the dead center of your retina,
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there's this protective layer of yellow pigments, sort
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of like a, an internal ultraviolet filter,
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and it filters out even more of the blue.
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This works on bigger grids of dots.
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Two, wherever you move your eye, this sort
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of purple cloud follows you.
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It even works with text. It's like a living page.
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What's really wild is you've been walking around
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with this flaw in your eye your entire life,
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and you've never noticed it
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because your brain already knew about it.
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It's been quietly correcting everything in the background,
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and until you watch this video, you had no idea.
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