HOW ARE YOU DOING?

Image created by a Japanese neurologist. It stays still when you are calm. It begins to move when you experience a slight amount of pressure. It moves like a carousel when under a great deal of stress.

How are you doing?

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hardscrabble farmer
hardscrabble farmer
June 25, 2023 7:52 am

If that’s how it actually works it’s a great tool for concentration. I can get it to stand completely still as long as I focus intently, but if I let my eyes drift to look at the different aspects of it rather than as a single image, it starts to move.

Either way, pretty cool.

Reminds me of those posters at the mall back in the 70’s where you looked at it long enough you could see dolphins or whatever.

VOWG
VOWG
  hardscrabble farmer
June 25, 2023 8:15 am

Yes.

Archaeopteryx Phoenix
Archaeopteryx Phoenix
  hardscrabble farmer
June 25, 2023 8:50 am

Now think of a young man trying to build a log cabin and tell me how fast it moves.

fujigm
fujigm
  hardscrabble farmer
June 25, 2023 12:22 pm

I never saw any dolphins or dinosaurs, no matter how long I looked.
This only moves in my peripheral vision.
But still fascinating enough for my desktop.

Archaeopteryx Phoenix
Archaeopteryx Phoenix
June 25, 2023 8:15 am

That’s extremely cool. The central purple column appears to be ever so slowly rotating left, while the red ball appears to be rotating to the right.

Anonymous
Anonymous
June 25, 2023 8:19 am

What image ? I think I’m dead.

Anthony Aaron
Anthony Aaron
  Anonymous
June 25, 2023 11:36 am

You are … but just don’t lie down and no one will notice …

Meanwhile, enjoy this beautiful Sunday morning — including the Sunday Morning Classics …

Svarga Loka
Svarga Loka
June 25, 2023 8:30 am

Huh? It’s completely still, no matter where I look or how much I concentrate on my breathing or not.

Archaeopteryx Phoenix
Archaeopteryx Phoenix
  Svarga Loka
June 25, 2023 8:49 am

I had a second cup of coffee and its moving faster now.

Svarga Loka
Svarga Loka
  Archaeopteryx Phoenix
June 25, 2023 8:53 am

Me, too! Wasn’t moving at all 30 min ago. In fact, it looked like 2D and had no depth to it. Now, after a cup of coffee, looks different and moves ever so slightly.

Mary Christine
Mary Christine
  Svarga Loka
June 25, 2023 10:36 am

Me, too, SL

Not sure how long I should stare at it but I have a short attention span so there’s that.

Abigail Adams
Abigail Adams
  Mary Christine
June 25, 2023 2:35 pm

Reading short quick articles like we’re all accustomed to doing is one of the worst things for your attention span, without throwing in some longer challenging texts every now & then. Memes too…terrible for attention spans…but it is the way of the world now. Sad. (and I do have some fav memes that make me laugh…but just acknowledging that our culture is so incredibly dumbed down now that that is how the majority choose to communicate ideas.)

Anyway, that’s why I like to read i forget…he totally challenges my brain & makes me think hard. It’s exercise…as he likes to say.

(Just a general observation not directed at anyone in particular)

Anonymous
Anonymous
  Svarga Loka
June 25, 2023 2:07 pm

Me too. The longer I spend on TBP. The worse it gets.
AKJOHN

SheWhoShallNotBeNamed
SheWhoShallNotBeNamed
  Svarga Loka
June 27, 2023 2:56 am

You’re dead. Contact your relatives and arrange for your memorial service.

Iska Waran
Iska Waran
June 25, 2023 8:49 am

All I see is a beautiful naked woman.

Archaeopteryx Phoenix
Archaeopteryx Phoenix
  Iska Waran
June 25, 2023 8:53 am

How about you move away from your neighbor’s window?

Iska Waran
Iska Waran
  Archaeopteryx Phoenix
June 25, 2023 1:00 pm

Killjoy

anon a moos
anon a moos
  Iska Waran
June 25, 2023 1:03 pm

He just wants a better position for himself.

Booger
Booger
June 25, 2023 9:04 am

This will play with your mind a little.
comment image

Dying Sun
Dying Sun
  Booger
June 25, 2023 11:05 am

“Joe Biden’s Brain” by Hunter Biden

Gregabob
Gregabob
  Booger
June 25, 2023 3:27 pm

wow, man……duuuude

SheWhoShallNotBeNamed
SheWhoShallNotBeNamed
  Booger
June 27, 2023 2:57 am

Okay, that just makes me nauseous.

Anonymous
Anonymous
June 25, 2023 9:13 am

I can keep it very still without trying. I bet this on acid would be something.

Will the Scot
Will the Scot
  Anonymous
June 25, 2023 9:54 am

Try an antiacid first.

Anonymous
Anonymous
June 25, 2023 9:21 am

Misinformation.

Namke
Namke
  Anonymous
June 27, 2023 12:52 am

“Please have a seat. We’ll be right with you Miss Information”
Lol.

Yeah, the thing didn’t move for me either.
I think that means either:
A. I am a genius.
Or
B. I have terminal brain cancer.

Anonymous
Anonymous
June 25, 2023 9:54 am

I notice that if I focus on the purple ball to the left the carousel effects stops completely, and if I let my mind see only that purple ball as a focus of my vision: then the entire 3d background transforms into a weird 2D tile project gone wrong. If I think about it too much the carousel effect will start and stop multiple times in a few seconds, like pausing and resuming a video… I assume this carousel effect / optical illusion is triggered by how our eyes change (become strained) when under stress?

Frothy Freud
Frothy Freud
June 25, 2023 9:55 am

Mm-Hmm. Yah. Das gut!
I vant you to lie back on zee couch, undt gaze it zees a vile.
You get ting veddy zleeeepy.
Now. Lie back, relax, undt tell me all of your ppgggrroddllumms.

Bob P
Bob P
June 25, 2023 10:01 am

It stayed perfectly steady for me till I thought about a senile pedophile with his finger on the nuclear button, then it looked like a ball caught up in a tornado.

flash
flash
June 25, 2023 10:06 am

It stands till for me and I’m the most anxious person I know.

AKJOHN
AKJOHN
June 25, 2023 11:14 am

Perfectly still. Tried at a bunch of different angles, the same. Open and close eyes It moves a touch.

Anonymous
Anonymous
June 25, 2023 11:18 am

What does it mean if it moves backwards?
(asking for a friend…)

Abigail Adams
Abigail Adams
June 25, 2023 11:30 am

Never seen anything move so fast before.

Kidding. Barely moved. Cool as a cucumber.

#stoic

Richard Bagg
Richard Bagg
June 25, 2023 11:36 am

If I start masturbating vigorously it moves fast.. If I look at pictures of my ex it stops and i start puking… What does this mean?

Booger
Booger
  Richard Bagg
June 25, 2023 11:45 am

It means you need to get out more.

Namkye
Namkye
  Richard Bagg
June 27, 2023 12:53 am

Get back in the bag with the other ricks.

clayusmcret
clayusmcret
June 25, 2023 11:52 am

Keep your eyes focused on one spot and it remains stationary. Let your eyes wander and it appears to rotate. I would guess the premise is that if you’re calm, the eyes won’t wander.

Doug
Doug
June 25, 2023 12:00 pm

Maybe you have to think in Japanese…..

Earnesto
Earnesto
June 25, 2023 12:35 pm

Hexagons stable.

anon a moos
anon a moos
June 25, 2023 12:54 pm

Using it as a fan in the kitchen right now!

Tex
Tex
June 25, 2023 1:49 pm

I’m cross eyed so, no impact.

k31
k31
June 25, 2023 1:59 pm

It only moves when my eyeballs move. Looking directly at it nothing appears to move. I question whether the optical illusion means anything.

aka.attrition
aka.attrition
  k31
June 25, 2023 3:17 pm

I’d hazard a guess that anxious people, stressed people, have more eye movement/activity. Nervousness. It’s the eye movement that creates the illusion of movement in the image.

Easy to make it completely still by just looking at any one point. Otherwise I have only the slightest movement. But cool anyway.

Anonymous
Anonymous
  aka.attrition
June 25, 2023 3:35 pm

And yet R.E.M. occurs during the deepest sleep.

TN Patriot
TN Patriot
June 25, 2023 4:16 pm

Why is the boob on the right so much bigger than the one on the left?

Psycho
Psycho
June 25, 2023 4:35 pm

I see dead people, if only they would quit touching my stuff. And don’t call me Francis.

musket
musket
June 25, 2023 5:06 pm

If I move my head slightly to the left or right then it moves ever so slightly……….

Aunt Acid
Aunt Acid
June 25, 2023 5:13 pm

To answer the question: All fucked up.

(and Auntie did not need pop-art, no matter how genius, to discern it.)

PSBindy
PSBindy
June 25, 2023 5:53 pm

Can’t get it to move. I suspect I’m a dullard.

I do enjoy forget’s stream of consciousness posts.

PSBindy
PSBindy
June 25, 2023 5:58 pm

Duplicate. Deleted.

Anonymous
Anonymous
June 25, 2023 8:14 pm

…15 ball…side pocket…

Bill Castle
Bill Castle
June 27, 2023 12:16 am

I can’t make it move, no matter what I try.

Namkye
Namkye
  Bill Castle
June 27, 2023 12:55 am

That’s what she said.
Lolz.

So my mental growth was arrested at 14, what’s it to ya?