This Optical Illusion Enlarges Our Pupils

We encounter frequently in social media and draw people in. optical illusions it causes almost everyone to be stuck on that page for a certain period of time. standing still in an illusion emerging today black hole It feels like it’s getting bigger and bigger and pulling us in.

Optical illusions, which are often fun but can be frustrating when viewed for a long time, continue to appear in many social media applications. We are faced with one of the situations where what we see and the reality are very different.

Black hole tricks our brain

Such optical illusions, which we encounter frequently, are usually using light, color and geometric shapes being created. In the optical illusion you have seen above, a black hole seems to be engulfing us, and the darkness is growing. a fixed image there is.

It was determined that a group of people was shown an illusion and their pupils dilated as soon as they saw the black hole. When the hole is as we showed you, the participants 86 percent say that darkness is coming towards them or pulling them in. expressed his feelings. The researchers stated that as a result, the over-focused image caused the pupils of the participants to dilate. When the hole was white or a different color, the pupils of the participants remained normal.

According to researchers imaginary and moving forward motion event, probably It is our mind’s way of preparing us for a change of environment. Our visual system, which perceives the transition from a bright environment to the dark side, causes us to think as if we are visually moving.

The researchers explain that pupil dilation happens because our visual neural network predicts how that information will change in the future, rather than seeing the information presented directly to us. So our brain imagines this image expanding outward and reacts accordingly.