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Count The Little Black Dots

October 22, 2007 by F&J Staff 60 Comments

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!

 Scintillation Grid

At any rate, try counting those little black dots : )

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Comments

  1. Pinkey says

    October 22, 2007 at 7:46 pm

    It hurt my eyes.I counted 35 dots

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  2. Shivaughnn says

    October 22, 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!!!!!!

    Reply
  3. blanca says

    October 23, 2007 at 4:41 pm

    there are no black dots

    Reply
  4. alex says

    October 23, 2007 at 6:01 pm

    No Black Dots

    Reply
  5. Amberly kay says

    October 24, 2007 at 9:48 am

    that is so cool! it make su feel like ur goin blind or something!

    Reply
  6. Aruwani says

    October 25, 2007 at 12:30 pm

    cool ive counted 34 black dots
    and 1 white dot

    Reply
  7. princess says

    October 25, 2007 at 4:10 pm

    i counted 35

    Reply
  8. sniff says

    October 27, 2007 at 6:50 am

    35 dots all together, something annoying like infinite black dots though grrr…
    i hate these things

    Reply
  9. lacee says

    October 31, 2007 at 10:34 am

    i like it i counted 35 it was pretty neat just kidding its kinda GAY

    Reply
  10. Court says

    October 31, 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.

    Reply
  11. ghazi says

    November 1, 2007 at 4:27 pm

    35 what so great about it i counted so easly

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  12. pink princess says

    November 2, 2007 at 8:35 am

    there are no balack dots. good illusion tho’

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  13. barbie says

    November 4, 2007 at 1:13 am

    theres 34 dumbasses

    Reply
  14. Slider's baby says

    November 9, 2007 at 1:06 pm

    ok well it is kind a hard to count the dots. my eyes know hurt from it now

    Reply
  15. L00C3Y says

    November 11, 2007 at 3:47 pm

    There is None ! 😛

    Reply
  16. 999999999999999 says

    November 13, 2007 at 3:45 am

    i counted 9999999999999999999999999999999999999999999999999999999999999999999999999999999999999999999999999999999999999999999 black dots lol

    Reply
  17. Brittany says

    November 15, 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.

    Reply
  18. winston says

    November 16, 2007 at 1:52 am

    none. it only looks like there are black dots

    Reply
  19. Sanatan Duttagupta says

    November 16, 2007 at 5:28 am

    There are 35 nos moving black dots

    Reply
  20. gorge says

    November 17, 2007 at 6:33 pm

    there are no black dots

    Reply
  21. Arthur says

    November 21, 2007 at 10:23 am

    There are 0 black dots.

    Reply
  22. catherine says

    November 23, 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

    Reply
  23. Joye says

    November 26, 2007 at 10:17 pm

    this is way cool! there are no black dots; they’re all white. 35 to be exact.

    Reply
  24. malik says

    November 28, 2007 at 11:25 pm

    there are not black dots u stupid dill holes

    Reply
  25. chicklover says

    December 17, 2007 at 3:44 pm

    SEEEEEEEEEENNNNNNNNNNNNNNNNNN ITTTTTTTTTTTTTTTTTTTTT hahahahahahahaha………

    Reply
  26. ±°²­¯³´µ says

    December 23, 2007 at 7:17 pm

    What was i supposed to do?

    Reply
  27. wog girl says

    December 30, 2007 at 11:16 pm

    that is so groovy

    Reply
  28. sonjia says

    January 11, 2008 at 12:07 pm

    really trippy, but COOL……

    Reply
  29. Samantha Osman says

    January 14, 2008 at 6:40 pm

    lol there aint really any black dots, because when you look at another dot they go to white

    Reply
  30. snorider323 says

    January 15, 2008 at 1:22 pm

    there are none

    Reply
  31. ben says

    February 15, 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.

    Reply
  32. mike says

    February 18, 2008 at 12:36 pm

    how do people think of this crap? Cool though

    Reply
  33. Nancy says

    February 19, 2008 at 3:27 pm

    I like it….

    Reply
  34. Kanty says

    February 27, 2008 at 8:02 am

    You can comfortably count 35 white dots

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  35. Alexis says

    March 24, 2008 at 9:24 pm

    STOP MOVING AROUND DANG BLACK DOTS!

    Reply
  36. Black Mamba TruAfrican says

    April 22, 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!

    Reply
  37. tiffnay says

    April 27, 2008 at 6:52 pm

    i didn’t see any black dots i only seen white dots

    Reply
  38. some guy says

    June 5, 2008 at 2:16 am

    hate it its cheap

    Reply
  39. some guy says

    June 5, 2008 at 2:17 am

    dont like it, it cheats

    Reply
  40. Jony55 says

    June 5, 2008 at 2:18 am

    ye i no

    Reply
  41. lll says

    June 13, 2008 at 12:43 am

    crap!!!

    Reply
  42. kasha says

    July 4, 2008 at 10:49 pm

    it made me cry! i couldn’t count because everytime i blinked…it would change it’s color and i lost count…crazy but cool!

    Reply
  43. this girl says

    July 15, 2008 at 2:54 pm

    there are no black dots u idiotz!!!

    Reply
  44. sarah says

    July 26, 2008 at 5:58 pm

    40… duuh!

    Reply
  45. midas says

    August 6, 2008 at 5:29 pm

    There are no black dots there all white

    Reply
  46. mat says

    January 12, 2009 at 10:32 am

    what black dots???

    Reply
  47. O.O says

    April 1, 2009 at 11:58 am

    there white dots buh damnit it hurt muh eyes ima SUE 😐 xD naww i loved it everyone thought i was krazeh becuz i was whining becuz it hurt muh eyes o.o

    Reply
  48. Adam says

    April 8, 2009 at 1:23 pm

    ha ha what ha

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  49. joe says

    April 9, 2009 at 11:27 pm

    what about the red dots?

    Reply
  50. Celine says

    April 16, 2009 at 3:38 am

    i counted 34..’cause there are all 35 dots…but one is white 🙂

    Reply
  51. Olivia says

    April 20, 2009 at 9:54 am

    owwwwwww my eyes that hurts

    Reply
  52. Sam says

    June 5, 2009 at 1:13 am

    35.

    Reply
  53. Rachaelwrites says

    June 18, 2009 at 12:53 pm

    0.
    It’s an illusion.
    There are no black dots.

    Reply
  54. Tony says

    July 7, 2009 at 12:19 am

    There are none. Easy joke.

    Reply
  55. bish says

    September 23, 2009 at 5:12 am

    WTF! I wonder how they did that it really hurts to look at dots that don’t exist. sam, r u ok?

    Reply
  56. shocky says

    January 26, 2010 at 7:25 pm

    bish: are you sure that it didn’t hurt? cuz i swear, my eyes just melted

    Reply
  57. Holly says

    February 13, 2010 at 3:02 am

    OWCH!! my eyes just got toally frazzled. I am gonna die now…:-(

    Reply
  58. Dawn says

    April 2, 2010 at 12:21 pm

    Elke is not a “chap.” A woman invented this illusion. Her husband is a German mathematician who is a co-author on the paper.

    Reply
  59. theksta says

    May 21, 2010 at 4:31 pm

    WOAH!!! CREEPY!! (^-^)

    Reply
  60. Suzan says

    August 16, 2013 at 3:39 pm

    There’s only 2 in the smily face

    Reply

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