Count The Little Black Dots
This is a great illusion, actually it hurts my eyes. This one has been passed around a good bit, came across it originally a few years ago though it just popped up in our inbox again.
Usually known as the “Scintillation Grid“, was discovered by a chap named Elke Lingelbach of the Institut fur Augenoptik Aalen in Germany and is a modification of an illusion called the Hermann Grid, which dates way back to 1870!

At any rate, try counting those little black dots : )
What'd You Think?


(77 votes, average: 3.53 out of 5)
October 22nd, 2007 at 7:46 pm
It hurt my eyes.I counted 35 dots
October 22nd, 2007 at 10:46 pm
i REALLY don’t know- every time i move my eyes away from one white dot, it turns black- THIS IS COOL!! Gotta pass it on!!!!!!
October 23rd, 2007 at 4:41 pm
there are no black dots
October 23rd, 2007 at 6:01 pm
No Black Dots
October 24th, 2007 at 9:48 am
that is so cool! it make su feel like ur goin blind or something!
October 25th, 2007 at 12:30 pm
cool ive counted 34 black dots
and 1 white dot
October 25th, 2007 at 4:10 pm
i counted 35
October 27th, 2007 at 6:50 am
35 dots all together, something annoying like infinite black dots though grrr…
i hate these things
October 31st, 2007 at 10:34 am
i like it i counted 35 it was pretty neat just kidding its kinda GAY
October 31st, 2007 at 12:50 pm
This phenomenon also works with colors. If you stare at a color intently, then avert your gaze to a white surface, you will momentarily see the complement of the color. This happens becuase the receptors in your eyes become fatigued for the particular spectral colors you stared at, and when you look at the white (which is all colors) surface, the afterimage loses those colors.
November 1st, 2007 at 4:27 pm
35 what so great about it i counted so easly
November 2nd, 2007 at 8:35 am
there are no balack dots. good illusion tho’
November 4th, 2007 at 1:13 am
theres 34 dumbasses
November 9th, 2007 at 1:06 pm
ok well it is kind a hard to count the dots. my eyes know hurt from it now
November 11th, 2007 at 3:47 pm
There is None !
November 13th, 2007 at 3:45 am
i counted 9999999999999999999999999999999999999999999999999999999999999999999999999999999999999999999999999999999999999999999 black dots lol
November 15th, 2007 at 5:10 pm
HA! This one was done in my school.
There are no black dots at all. Sorry for you who counted and hurt your eyes
but like he said its an Illusion. If you acctually look, The dots are all white.
the black dots disapear because there not acctually there.
November 16th, 2007 at 1:52 am
none. it only looks like there are black dots
November 16th, 2007 at 5:28 am
There are 35 nos moving black dots
November 17th, 2007 at 6:33 pm
there are no black dots
November 21st, 2007 at 10:23 am
There are 0 black dots.
November 23rd, 2007 at 3:57 am
35 dots.Only turn black ater you’ve already counted it.I think im getting blind i can’t spot my Pc.Lol
November 26th, 2007 at 10:17 pm
this is way cool! there are no black dots; they’re all white. 35 to be exact.
November 28th, 2007 at 11:25 pm
there are not black dots u stupid dill holes
December 17th, 2007 at 3:44 pm
SEEEEEEEEEENNNNNNNNNNNNNNNNNN ITTTTTTTTTTTTTTTTTTTTT hahahahahahahaha………
December 23rd, 2007 at 7:17 pm
What was i supposed to do?
December 30th, 2007 at 11:16 pm
that is so groovy
January 11th, 2008 at 12:07 pm
really trippy, but COOL……
January 14th, 2008 at 6:40 pm
lol there aint really any black dots, because when you look at another dot they go to white
January 15th, 2008 at 1:22 pm
there are none
February 15th, 2008 at 5:01 pm
A chap named Elke ? You’re not from a european neighborhood, are you ? Elke is a female name. It’s a woman.
February 18th, 2008 at 12:36 pm
how do people think of this crap? Cool though
February 19th, 2008 at 3:27 pm
I like it….
February 27th, 2008 at 8:02 am
You can comfortably count 35 white dots
March 24th, 2008 at 9:24 pm
STOP MOVING AROUND DANG BLACK DOTS!
April 22nd, 2008 at 7:04 am
Its an illusion; no black spots. I counted 35, though. Funny, isnt it?
To admit that there are no black spots at all and to say there are 35 of them!
April 27th, 2008 at 6:52 pm
i didn’t see any black dots i only seen white dots