Cool trick lets you actually "see" your eye's blood vessels

[kenny]

Watch the video.

SNIP

Sensory adaptation, the same phenomenon that causes you to stop hearing a continually ticking clock, also prevents you from seeing the branching network of blood vessels inside your eye, except when you use the simple trick demonstrated in this video.

http://gizmodo.com/5872157/freakythis-simple-trick-lets-you-see-the-blood-vessels-in-your-eye

 

[tuffyluvr]

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Freaky!!!!

 

[Silvia]

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I have a couple of black spots I can see in my left eye but not in my right eye when I try that trick

 

[MissGotRocks]

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Wow - thanks for sharing that one - it is sort of freaky but who knew you could actually see that!

 

[LAJennifer]

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I'm scared to watch it.

 

[kenny]

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I'm scared to watch it.

It's not gross or shocking; the blood vessels don't even look red.
They look like a faint fine network of threadlike black lines that radiate irregularly out from a little circle that is empty.
It is hard to hold your finger just right so I think using a pin or pen to poke a hole in a card would work better.

I showed this to my SO.
First I just showed him what to do and gave him only a hint of what to look for.
He didn't see anything.

Then after watching the 8-minute video he saw them.
Then he was suspicious that the video brainwashed us or hypnotized us into seeing it.

Now I'm wondering how many of you could see it, or not.

 

[MissGotRocks]

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I saw it - and I used my finger to make that tiny circle. The blood vessels show up as gray or black - but very light and exactly what you would expect them to look like - small squiggles and lines.

 

[Miss Sparkly]

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I used my finger and saw them without even moving my finger. Then, as I moved my finger they spread across the opening