I came across this:
And my first reaction was:
Uh… well, that’s good, because I don’t see any red.
Even having read the prompt first, at first I did not see any red at all. It’s only when I moved the image further away from me, that I could begin to hallucinate a red colour on the can.
I am theorising that aspie brains may be less susceptible to such things as we may be a little more literal and objective in our perception of reality; which is why I say that a slight level of autism is the next step in human evolution. As long as it’s tinged with a sufficiently high IQ and is not straying into actually autistic territory.
It also explains why eyewitness testimony on what clothes a person was wearing or what colour a car was vary so much. And why people are so resistant to change their opinions no matter how thoroughly they may be proved wrong.
I saw it as red. Fascinating.
I think I’ll start praying this once daily: “Lord, please give me the humility to know when I am being an idiot and/or need to change my mind.”
It is a wise man’s prayer.
Funny, I saw the red at first, but it disappeared when I enlarged the page. Amazing optical illusion. I wonder if I would have seen red if the can were not labeled with the word “Coca.”
Now that I look at it, I no longer see the color except when I scroll it up or down. Once motionless it’s black & white again. Weird.