Be honest, did anybody see anything in 3D art?

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No-Drawer9169@reddit

Yes, they’re actually amazing.

Look at it, go cross eyed so that you see double and then re align the double images without actually undoing the cross eyed thing and it emerges as a 3d image.

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ezhammer@reddit

For sure. Your eyes get trained to see them quicker.

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darkartbootleg@reddit

Did you ever get the inverse image? I found that if I slightly crossed my eyes and then unfocused, I could see it but it would be flipped and look like it was sunken in instead of coming out at me.

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TimedogGAF@reddit

Oh wow, I thought this was how you were supposed to always see them. Maybe this is why some of them are hard to decipher for me (like the one in the OP).

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darkartbootleg@reddit

You’re not alone, there’s quite a few.

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ThunderSnow-@reddit

That's not how everyone always saw them? I have only ever seen them sunken in.

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PeteyMitch42@reddit

That's all I've ever been able to see. I can't see it normally, only the inverse.

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mandileigh@reddit

I can only see them the correct way if I'm looking at a printed one and can move it closer.

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darkartbootleg@reddit

Oh that’s too bad, it looks much better the other way.

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That’s exactly how I would see these images, cross my eyes completely, then slowly kinda bring my eyes back into alignment. At some point in that process the image would appear, sunken into the page. I kinda thought that was the intended way to view them…

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nomad1128@reddit

Wait wutttttt, mine only ever pop towards me

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travelinmatt76@reddit

there are 2 methods to make these images, parallel eye and cross eye. Most are done parallel. If you use the wrong method to look at them they inverse. Some people can only do the cross eye method so they see most of them inverted.

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darkartbootleg@reddit

Yeah, it’s kinda hard to describe it, but it’s like I almost start to cross my eyes before looking past the image to make it appear and that causes it to flip.

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phillium@reddit

Here, try these ones out Cross View Magic Eye Single Image Stereograms (SIS). They work by the crossing your eyes method instead of uncrossing your eyes method.

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darkartbootleg@reddit

Oh cool, thanks!

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Plane_Chance863@reddit

I've definitely had weird things happen, where it wasn't the image it was supposed to be. I'm not sure it was necessarily the inverse, but I had some pretty confusing pictures sometimes. Usually if I tried again I got it right.

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darkartbootleg@reddit

Same here, actually with this particular image, first time I tried it, it worked no problem, then I tried to get the inverse and that worked no problem too. But then I tried to go back and see it normal again and it was like the layers were separated so I was seeing triple of everything in the image. Fun stuff, I still have my magic eye books.

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NavierIsStoked@reddit

Its supposed to be sunken in, i think. This particular one doesn't make sense coming out. The top of the frame is flat like a wall, the bottom of the frame is angled, like a floor would be with proper perspective. Coming out, the angled floor doesn't make sense.

I can flip flop my eyes and see both perspectives. The sunken in makes way more sense. I don't see a train though, i see a marching parade of duck things.

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paulbrock2@reddit

yeah you can see either way (though each image is designed for one way). social media groups with this sort of content often post both cross-eyed and parallel versions.

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ezhammer@reddit

Man, naw I never saw that. I think you need a doctor.

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Willing_Actuary_4198@reddit

My eyes are so trained that certain wall papers in random places will pop out into 3d if I try. Obviously no image but certain parts of the pattern will float out in front of others

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nerdkraftnomad@reddit

Haha my floral kitchen wallpaper was like that for me.

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hamburgler26@reddit

You just have to be able to cross your eyes and be at a good distance and it is instant. Even all these years later I can get into the image in a few seconds.

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Prossdog@reddit

Yeah, I can get them all within about a second now.

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remoteworker9@reddit

I never could.

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Emergency-Pack-5497@reddit

Looks like a weird train with a penguin conductor

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Consistent-Camp5359@reddit

Ah. I see that now.

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silver-moon-7@reddit

It's a hard one to read compared to most of them

I wonder how someone came up with this stuff in the first place?

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xtlhogciao@reddit

The second I saw it, before I opened it to read the comments, I thought “whoever can’t see it is going to think we’re making this shit up.”

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Iamthegreenheather@reddit

I still can't see it and I'm really sad about it.

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Lorindale@reddit

I also miss Stan Lee.

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Groundsw3ll@reddit

iirc look at something further away, keep that focus, then put the picture in front of you. You’ll have to experiment with initial focal distance if the stereogram is on your phone since it’s close to your face. The trick back when I had these posters is to look at something 2x the distance away then the poster.

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xtlhogciao@reddit

Try doing the same thing as when you used to make hotdog links with your index fingers. I suggested this earlier in here - I’ve probably done so a dozen times when these things are posted, and occasionally people say it worked for them (it’s hard to explain/I don’t really know of any other way to explain it; I’ve always just been lucky enough to be able to do it within a couple seconds).

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gaarkat@reddit

I thought the same and then finally saw it. I have some questions about the subject matter lol.

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Plastic_Difference54@reddit

I see a whole bunch of penguins in a forest with a shopping carts? lol. But it’s the Penguin from Bat-Man.

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FunksGroove@reddit

I see this as well. There’s two penguins and the front one has a bag in its left hand.

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Iamthegreenheather@reddit

Why can't I see it??!!!

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FunksGroove@reddit

I used to practice all the time growing up. It came back naturally. Not easy if you’ve never done it though.

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Zeqhanis@reddit

I was trying to figure out what was in his left flipper.

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Zeqhanis@reddit

Ah. Here's the image. It's a briefcase.

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dopamine_skeptic@reddit

I thought it was a penguin with a little baby penguin holding its “hand” and they are waiting for the train? Weird subject for a 3d picture like this.

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railmanmatt@reddit

A baby's arm holding an apple?🤣🤣

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Acceptingoptimist@reddit

I didn't realize that was a beak. I thought it was a fat guy with a cigar, top hat and bad case of gout.

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sysmimas@reddit

And a top hat

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EggsceIlent@reddit

Yep I see it. When I was a kid took me a long time to figure out you just had to like cross your eyes or focus past the picture. Was hard to explain and get.

Haven't looked at this one but in general, yep I see what's in them

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PowderedToastBro@reddit

I got “draw me like one of your French girls”… kinda thing. It didn’t make sense and even though I know what it is, I don’t see that.

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_Internet_Hugs_@reddit

I don't think it's a conductor, just a penguin with small luggage and a top hat.

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Evendim@reddit

Yeah it is a steam train, with an engine and some carriages, a weird penguin conductor with a Top Hat and holding a briefcase, and another penguin looking to get on the train?

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SpaceLemur34@reddit

I don't think it's a conductor, I think it's just a passenger getting on the train with some luggage.

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railmanmatt@reddit

Nope, it's definitely a penguin conductor.

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jstnpotthoff@reddit

Took me a minute to understand why the penguin was wearing a top hat to meet the alien.

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ominous_squirrel@reddit

And the alien is doing the devil’s horns? 🤘

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Jean_Paul_Fartre_@reddit

Maybe it’s Sir Topem Hat? He’s a penguin looking motherfucker.

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Krazylegz1485@reddit

And kind of an asshole if I remember right. Haha.

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JoeyRedmayne@reddit

Lol, I was thinking, is that a parade or train made of starfish? I was able to get the image multiple times and don’t understand what those beings are.

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Ok_Percentage5157@reddit

Took me a minute with this one, but I was seeing a train. Not sure about the penguin?

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ElleAnn42@reddit

I thought that the penguins were smurf houses, but I think you are right... Penguins and a train. Weird.

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psychotronic_mess@reddit

Yeah, exactly. I see 3D images, what the fuck they are is anyone’s guess. It looked like a frog person in front, with a whole row of them behind it. There is some sort of totem on the left.

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sicksixgamer@reddit

I see a train with two penguins boarding.

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Jolly_Line@reddit

Some trippy ass penguins, they have skull smiles. Honestly, nice creepy vibes for the season. But if that’s a train, it’s a weird ass train. Looks more like terrain I climb in Vantage WA (Frenchman Coulee).

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babyBear83@reddit

Penguin has a top hat and is a businessman.

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TeutonJon78@reddit

Yep. It the background makes it really hard to tell what it actually is.

I had to zoom in which made finding the image a lot harder than at normal size.

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BreakfastBeerz@reddit

I'm glad I read that....I could see the image pretty clearly, but still had no idea what it was... my first thought was a marching band with a conductor and someone carrying a balloon.

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DBE113301@reddit

Yeah, I saw something, but I had no clue what I was looking at.

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BeerAandLoathing@reddit

I was going to joke that it was a sailboat but I immediately saw the train and penguins too

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punktualPorcupine@reddit

The front one looks like it’s holding a briefcase?

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andyrocks@reddit

It's a sailboat

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Several-Opening3803@reddit

I don’t know if the most credible answer is « a train with pinguins » or « I dont see it ». But yes, this is a train with pinguins.

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jjmawaken@reddit

I was trying to figure woul what the heck that was but I think you're right

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Consistent-Camp5359@reddit

It’s a magic eye poster like imagine. I saw the 3D picture but couldn’t tell what it was.

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DarthNarsil@reddit

I have in other ones, but this all I can see is that there's something there, I can't tell what it is supposed to be.

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Still_Strawberry8134@reddit

I never have on any of these, but I also have an astigmatism which as I understand it can do things to your sense of depth perception, so I always assumed that was why I couldn’t see them.

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Sidetrackbob@reddit

Mostly not.

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GonnaGoFat@reddit

When I first saw 3D art I was able to see it. The image I saw was framed and you’d look more at your reflection and the image appeared. Later I couldn’t see anything looking at new ones in book unless I looked at what the image was supposed to look like. Now I’m lucky if I see anything.

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MeatyUrologist505@reddit

Yes

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Critical_Liz@reddit

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Crusty-Watch3587@reddit

you dumb bastard…it’s not a schooner, it’s a sailboat!

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baron-von-buddah@reddit

A sailboat is a schooner, stupidhead

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AdoptedBySmurfs@reddit

There is no Easter Bunny!

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garygnu@reddit

Over there, it's just a guy in a suit!

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Own_Picture_6442@reddit

Gary Gnu is that really you?

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garygnu@reddit

Well, I have no gnews.

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Roderto@reddit

https://youtu.be/sahnApE0I7c?si=cGgX7ZpLIboPHKgA

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cloudfactory@reddit

What you need is fatty-bombatty blunt

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AlkaiserSoze@reddit

This is what I came here for and I will leave this thread a satisfied human. Thank you.

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juniper3411@reddit

Was also hoping to see this as well.

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moonbunnychan@reddit

I also came here to see if this was the top response.

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juniper3411@reddit

That’s me. I have never been able to see them lol

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No_Feeling_9513@reddit

Damn I just posted this and the scrolled to see yours. I bow to your kung-fu

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UndeadBuggalo@reddit

This was totally me, magic eyes never worked for me

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BrucetheFerrisWheel@reddit

45 years old and never been able to see one. Sad.

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Iamthegreenheather@reddit

I can't see it either! I wish someone could draw the pic in that so I can see it too.

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woolsocksandsandals@reddit

Me too. I seriously thought some thing was wrong with me.

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HotTubSexVirgin22@reddit

I mean, there is…. /s

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CourtAlert8679@reddit

I was also never able to see the sailboat. Willem made me feel so seen.

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zestfullybe@reddit

Brenda?

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JediMasterPopCulture@reddit

Brenda?

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jstnpotthoff@reddit

Dick

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RealSinnSage@reddit

LITERALLY came to say “a schooner” and this was the first comment bravo 👏🏽 reddit

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ThaRhyno@reddit

The only correct answer to this perpetually returning question!

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EuleMitKeule_tass@reddit

No. I tried until I realised those things don't work when you are colourblind.

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timberwolf0122@reddit

I could never get these to work

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free-toe-pie@reddit

Yes. My trick was to cross my eyes and then uncross them. That’s how I usually saw them.

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springer0510@reddit

Zamboni?

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Own_Picture_6442@reddit

Wow, it’s a schooner!

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allmyguts@reddit

Whoa cool scooner!

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Letsgogehls@reddit

NEVER saw these ever, not a one!!

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cellrdoor2@reddit

Do you have maybe have an issue with depth perception? I could never see these as a kid and finally asked my eye doctor who told me that if your eyes aren’t totally synced up that it is impossible to see these.

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CD274@reddit

Yeah I've had a lazy eye and my brother does too and we can't see shit

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ThunderSnow-@reddit

My son has this issue. In the first four months of life your brain learns to use your two eyes together and to understand depth perception. If your eyes aren't perfectly aligned in that time, you don't learn that skill, and never can again. It's called strabismus.

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cellrdoor2@reddit

Yeah, basically crossed eyes or lazy eyes. You can make it a little better with vision therapy or surgery but it’s almost impossible to correct completely IME. I’ve had three surgeries, done tons of vision therapy, and worn glasses my whole life and have terrible binocular vision. I can judge distances pretty well with one eye though so can still drive.m and even work in an art related field. I’m just thankful we were able to do the surgeries etc. My Dad wasn’t and he’s now legally blind in one eye.

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Letsgogehls@reddit

I am dyslexic, maybe that has something to do with it?

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xtlhogciao@reddit

Remember making hotdog links with your index fingers? Try that.

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BlueVeins@reddit

….. what?

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Sorry-Joke-4325@reddit

Hold your fingertips together and let your eyes focus out then see the hotdog hovering between your fingertips.

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nerdkraftnomad@reddit

Oh yep. There's a lil smoky in between em, with fingernails.

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syntheseiser@reddit

Wow, I completely forgot about this stupid human trick.

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choosemath@reddit

But I need my fingers? Wouldn't just buying hotdogs be less traumatic? I don't need to see the images that badly.

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captcraigaroo@reddit

https://i.redd.it/0xd0la0m3avf1.gif

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CautionarySnail@reddit

Might want to get your binocular vision checked. Turns out that if you have issues seeing these, your eyes might not be fully getting depth perception.

Source: I have a diagnosed issue with depth perception; it’s common in folks with neurodivergence. It’s an issue that can be somewhat treated with eye coordination exercises and physical therapy.

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Wendy-Windbag@reddit

I had lazy eye corrective surgery when I was very young, and I didn't realize it until way into adulthood that I do not have binocular vision. This is why I could never see 3D movies, use those DMV eye testers that you press your head into, and of course not binoculars or binocular microscopes without having to alternate eye focus. I had definitely spent hours as a kid staring at, into, and past the images in the Magic Eye book we had at home, and never saw a damn thing. I felt vindicated that I had a reason that I could not physically see such images, but at the same time kind of pissed off that neither my parents nor eye doctors ever gave me any insight as to having a vision issue. It was seen as a cosmetic procedure and nothing else, meanwhile I've had a life time of eye fatigue and visual migraine as my eyes struggle to focus, one eye compensating for the weaker one.

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Fabulous-South-9551@reddit

Wow so this is how I find out I have autism.

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choosemath@reddit

So, my depth perception is fine, but I do have an astigmatism. I've tried off an on for over 30 years and I just can't do it.

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KingOfTheWikkerPeopl@reddit

If you’re trying to say that o capildnt read the note because of my binocular vision I’ll check. But I think that I just didn’t get it.

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KingOfTheWikkerPeopl@reddit

THE HOURS WASTEDDDDD! ! I have tried all of the things and am convinced that most kids got some sort of news letter saying " Hey work together and try to convince the kids who didn't get this letter that there's something in these pictures" You guys and that stupid letter!

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needed_an_account@reddit

The “trick” is to cross your eyes until the dots on the bottom overlap. If you can hold that, you’ll see “3d”

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Sufficient_Turn_9209@reddit

Still no. It goes immediately from 2 dots to 3 dots and back again no matter how deliberately slow I adjust my perspective... and still hurts my brain. These make me feel like such an idiot! I know I've got great vision, and can spot anomalies immediately. I always find Waldo first dammit! 😆

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IpeeInclosets@reddit

I am still convinced of this, adults and kids alike that perpetuate this 'joke' are the epitome of chaotic evil.

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Physical-Bet1840@reddit

You just can't de-focus on the thing in front of you. Some people can, it's a learned skill. But it's also hard to explain how to do it. So it feels like it's one big troll. It's kind of like lucid dreaming, or like seeing both states of a necker's cube. You can learn to do it, but it's almost impossible to get someone else to.

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KingOfTheWikkerPeopl@reddit

Nice try note kid. Heard that one before.

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Away-Living5278@reddit

Lol.

You gotta put your face real close, cross your eyes and very slowly pull away. Then they pop out.

It is definitely a learned skill though. This one came up right away but I also remember many attempts in books in the 90s.

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Rey_Mezcalero@reddit

Was like the boogie man come at you in 3D

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29stumpjumper@reddit

I'm convinced it's an inside joke I never was a part of. I firmly believe it's not possible to see these and everyone is in on it.

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nucl3ar0ne@reddit

Same

Eventually gave up when someone had a new one.

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ApatheistHeretic@reddit

Me either... I also have pretty bad vision, so maybe that's a factor?

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anonuemus@reddit

put it to your nose and focus your eyes on it, try to hold the same focus and pull it away from you

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Hypnot0ad@reddit

There was. Dave Matthews Band album that had one of these on the back. I could never see them but I was determined so I stared at the back of that case CD for like 2 hours. Eventually a hand giving a peace sign popped out. I was not amused.

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gringo1980@reddit

I read a book about these, to see them inversely, cross your eyes. To see them the correct way you need to make your eyes do the opposite.

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lcsulla87gmail@reddit

Where were you 30 years ago that worked

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SubNine5@reddit

Wow. I always could do the cross eyed thing but never make out what it was. This one was the first I did the opposite. Just focused on one little pixel/color, move the phone back and forth in my face and it worked!

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sasspancakes@reddit

I have severe anisometropia. They'll give me the depth perception test at the eye doctor and I tell them to not even bother.

I got one of these books from the library once as a kid. I stared at it for hours going cross eyed, determined to see at least one. Thought there was something wrong with me. Turns out there was 😅

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ladyeclectic79@reddit

You see how certain sections of the image are similar? Look past the image JUST ENOUGH so that the similar parts overlap once and hold it there. Sort of like how you hold up two fingers in front of you, look beyond just a bit, and the two fingers merge: find those two similar points in the image, merge them together (don’t overlap any more than the two adjoining similar-pieces) then just hold it there. Eventually if you hold those two similar-image-pieces together (aka, keep your eyes focused just so), you can start to see something forming that you can look over.

It’s the only way I’ve been able to do this.

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acesavvy-@reddit

You are probably color blind like me

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nfssmith@reddit

Yeah man, if you cross your eyes until two adjacent same shapes overlap the hidden image should pop out.

This one’s a train with a couple of penguins walking toward it.

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ElectricPenguin6712@reddit

It's a schooner

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Thegarz1963@reddit

Nope. Never did.

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NartFocker9Million@reddit

What’s wrong with the train? Penguin with a suitcase and a silly hat in front of a mutant demon train.

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nerdkraftnomad@reddit

Yep. Weirdest example ever.

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Trismesjistus@reddit

It may be a mutant demon train, but I'm pretty sure it's just a steam locomotive

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HearseWithNoName@reddit

I just think it's a train going through some woods. Is the pictures pattern that makes it look weird.

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nerdkraftnomad@reddit

I see top hat penguins walking next to a weird train, with a diamond shape coming out of the engine car. One of them has a briefcase. I'm confused.

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GrayMouser12@reddit

Like once, I think? And I tried my damndest. But my wife can always do it. I think when they tell me to relax my eyes it has the opposite effect of making me anxiously try to focus on relaxing my eyes which makes me... focus my eyes.

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jadethebard@reddit

I've never once been able to see anything in any of them. I've tried all the suggestions. Never works.

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pixelprolapse@reddit

No. Never seen anything.

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RandyArgonianButler@reddit

Penguins boarding a train. Took about two seconds for me.

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Worth-Oil8073@reddit

Lies! 😂 I'm 40+ yrs old, and I've come to the conclusion that I don't believe anyone actually sees anything in these! We're the Punk'd generation and I'm choosing to believe this was what we used as an outlet for that impulse before we had the show!

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Scrotchety@reddit

You never blanked out in front of a chain link fence, and then suddenly it looked like it was within reach but when you reached out to touch it you were miles off?

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Konnorwolf@reddit

Always.

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vtstang66@reddit

It’s just parallax. You have to align your two eyes with the pair of slightly offset images and your brain perceives the 3-D image. Also it’s a train with penguins boarding it.

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MartyMcFlysBrother@reddit

I’ve always been able to see and appreciate them. This one sucks though.

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C1sko@reddit

Never

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No_Feeling_9513@reddit

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Hot-Ad930@reddit

I see a bunch of triangle things lined up and wheels? And a tree in the foreground? I can see these things but I can never figure out what they're supposed to be

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Majestic-Citron7578@reddit

Sometimes but not all the time

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Competitive-Safe-452@reddit

Nope, never LOL. My mom had a giant calendar style thing of these and none of them worked.

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No-Regular-4281@reddit

Like out of the whole book I maybe saw 2 pages of 3D Images

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Opening-Restaurant83@reddit

Just saw the same owl I did while on LSD in college

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a_seventh_knot@reddit

Friend had one of these in his basement in hs. I remember standing in front of it for an hour one Friday night until I could finally get it to work.

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getdownmakelooove@reddit

As a teenager, I tried and tried to see these magic eye posters but always failed.

Much Iater I learned that if you've ever had astigmatism (I did when I was little) or certain problems with your vision, you will never be able to see these. Wish someone would have told me that back in the day and saved me lots of headaches.

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gaarkat@reddit

Yes. I haven't been able to get my eyes to focus right to see anything recently though.

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lavasca@reddit

Never.
I commiserated with Willem from Mallrats.

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KirikaClyne@reddit

I used to be able to. Not anymore

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BootsOfProwess@reddit

Its a damn train with two friggin penguins. There. Ya happy?!

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Honkmaster@reddit

I saw demons

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v1p3rsbite@reddit

This is going to sound dumb, but I’ve never been able to see these things other than a general outline. But being on my phone, flipped landscape, I relaxed my eyes and it was like BOOM all of a sudden it was there. So cool, I’ve never seen it this clearly!

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Impressive_Plant_643@reddit

Never.

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No_Willingness5313@reddit

Never. Not once. No matter how hard I tried.

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Vast-Pizza-7581@reddit

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steadfast-owl-town@reddit

Gotta learn to see past it...then it comes into focus.

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DaoFerret@reddit

It’s like seeing the “floating finger” when you hold your two pointers up to each other.

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steadfast-owl-town@reddit

We called that "seeing the sausage". Sounds dirtier now that I'm older. Haha

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Money_Magnet24@reddit

Yes

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lookforfrogs@reddit

Yep. I've always seen stuff in those.

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amindfulloffire@reddit

No. Because I can't see out of one eye.

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they_just_appear@reddit

I can see it but I can’t tell what it is lol

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Iamthegreenheather@reddit

No and I'm still mad about it! I'm like the guy in Mallrats.

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Fabulous-South-9551@reddit

NO. not even a little bit and I’m still mad af!!!!

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AdelleDeWitt@reddit

It's really weird. Is it like a train with mushrooms in the front?

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BritOnTheRocks@reddit

HOLY CRAP! This is the first one of these I’ve ever seen!

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familyedit@reddit

Looks like an alien one of the grays with a bunch of penguins

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SlackerDS5@reddit

I couldn’t see anything. For years I tried and realized, I’m also color blind. There was no way I could have seen anything.

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WasabiAficianado@reddit

Yep they in there

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rgb25500rose@reddit

Yes, my eyes are trained to see them and once you see them ,you can't unsee them lol

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_Internet_Hugs_@reddit

I can see most of them, but not clear details.

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YouDontKnowMe4949@reddit

It's a sailboat !

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Kryptin206@reddit

I can see it, but for the life of me can not figure out what is actually going on in that image.

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adultagainstmywill@reddit

I see it too! It says “This stereogram is a courtesy of 3Dimka. You may not use this image without owner's permission.”

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Umberlee168@reddit

No, and I honestly don't believe anybody really did. My best friend and my stepmom both supposedly could, but strangely they each saw different things every time.

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Michael_Mc_79@reddit

A Sailboat!

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Alkalized@reddit

I love this stuff because it requires a method to unlock. For me, I was taught to unfocus your vision, put the image up to your nose and then slowly pull the image away and it will refocus in 3D.

It’s a penguin with a top hat and briefcase walking toward the background with his face towards the right. There is another penguin walking the same way as him. They’re walking towards an object that is more abstract, either a train or a line of fellow penguins waiting for something.

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JeffTheAndroid@reddit

I saw a schooner

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Anyone-9451@reddit

Yes choochoo

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Roderto@reddit

“You dumb bastard, it’s not a schooner! It’s a sailboat!!”

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KlerWatchCo@reddit

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OdinDogfather@reddit

Not one damn time.

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Slugwheat@reddit

Yep. And then takes like two minutes for my eyes to go back to normal

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HausuGeist@reddit

Penguins

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Bincat32@reddit

Not once.

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Savings_Coffee_6568@reddit

Yes?

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Tenaciousgreen@reddit

Secret club

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PerfSynthetic@reddit

Never gotten this to work... Ever.. is there a trick?

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Itiswhatitis2009@reddit

I see a skeleton army with a mushroom

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fargoLEVY13@reddit

These never worked for me. Not even the schooner.

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Zeqhanis@reddit

The image isn't on the surface, you have to unfocus your eyes and look beyond the surface, like you're looking at someone about a foot away on the other side of a window.

I have trouble with them on screens though. I can only really see them clearly printed out.

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Hamiltoncorgi@reddit

I never did. My Dad brought the book over and gave it to my son who said he could see the pictures. 20 years after my Dad is gone and my son admitted to me he never saw anything. Not a single picture.

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punkindle@reddit

Yes. I had a large book with one of these on each page and I saw them all. I had to hold the book really close until the effect started and then slowly pull the book away until I saw the whole thing.

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ValancyNeverReadsit@reddit

I can now but in print I only ever saw one. The rest were just blurs to me.

What I have learned this year is that as my eyes are changing, the distance at which I can see the magic eye things is different too (It makes sense but you don’t think of that by default and that might help some of us figure it out)

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tomqvaxy@reddit

I have terrible eyesight and a wicked astigmatism so no. Never saw shit.

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Status-Hovercraft784@reddit

I did when I dropped acid. I know that sounds cheesy, but it's the only time the gimmick worked (and wasn't just the tripping on acid, if that makes sense).

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NorraVavare@reddit

I cant see them, nor can anyone in my family.

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RealityOk9823@reddit

I've never been able to see these things.

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shadow_pico@reddit

Yes. It took me forever at first.

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Hanzero8385@reddit

I saw a lot of people blow good cash on them at Coach House Gifts!

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Sal_Paradise81@reddit

I saw a schooner.

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Key-Contest-2879@reddit

Everyone told me they saw a Schooner. So I agreed. Of course, I didn’t know wtf a Schooner was when I was a kid; I assumed it was a jumbled mess of lines. 😂

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EveryoneChill77777@reddit

Before i knew the term gaskighting, i was convinced my friends were all gaslighting me about what they saw. Never saw anything in these. Not once. But always have an "ooooh yeah there it is..." when they told me what they saw and i got tired of their coaching on how you have to cross your eyes, look past the book and stick my tongue out

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true_crime_addict513@reddit

Never saw the things :/

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abramN@reddit

it's a schooner! No, seriously it's a train and some penguin in a tophat

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MassiveHistorian1562@reddit

Yes

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OutkastAtliens@reddit

It’s a schooner

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kellyasksthings@reddit

I used to be able to make these magic eye things work, but I picked up some books for my kids from the op shop and I just can’t see anything in them anymore.

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Mudassar40@reddit

Saw shit all. Still see shit all.

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Ok-Table-3774@reddit

Penguins....with top hats...holding bags...boarding a train? I can always see these but this one is a doozy.

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Happy_Confection90@reddit

The joke of pretending that there were hidden images in these things wasn't funny in the 90s and it still isn't funny now.

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Neflite_Art@reddit

ohh I love these :3

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Anieya@reddit

It’s a sailboat.

Ok seriously, I see something that kind of looks like a train, mostly horizontal but sloping slightly up and back to the right. A couple pods in the front right, and something in the background top left.

I was never able to do these as a kid. I think sometime in college the ability to control my eyes kicked in.

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TollyVonTheDruth@reddit

Looks like a few penguins, an alien, and a cow. What the hell was I supposed to actually see?

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man_teats@reddit

If you don't see these, it means one of your eyes is off by a significant margin. Go get your eyes checked out if this is you

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AytumnRain@reddit

Not until a few years ago. I can see it now.

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RoncoSnackWeasel@reddit

Not once. Not even when I knew what it was supposed to be.

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random9212@reddit

Never worked for me. But I also didn't care enough to spend more than a minute or two to get it to work.

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Appropriate-Divide64@reddit

I have never been able to do those and it kills me. As a kid my dentist had them on the ceiling

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ConfusionOk4129@reddit

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sapperbloggs@reddit

As a kid? No.

About a year ago when I was high AF? Yes.

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MakeYourTime_@reddit

This shit NEVER worked for me. I always felt dumb that I couldn’t ever see anything

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Thamnophis660@reddit

Never, I tried and tried and could never see what others claimed to see in these pictures. I'm concerned no one else can either and it was this big experiment in herd mentality.

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melanthius@reddit

Sorry but it's actually, truly a skill issue if you can't see these

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Plane_Chance863@reddit

If you don't have stereo vision you can't see them. Stereo vision develops at a particular time in life, and if your eyes aren't aligned correctly, for example, your brain doesn't develop the ability for stereo vision/depth perception. My mother has that issue - she had corrective surgery as a child, but too late to have depth perception.

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Thamnophis660@reddit

My stereo vision sucks and I'm farsighted in one eye. Maybe that was why I couldn't do these things. I'm honestly not losing sleep over it though, I just missed out on an obsession people had for a few months in like 1997.

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Plane_Chance863@reddit

Yeah, that would probably do it.

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Mondoweft@reddit

I was given these by an Optomertrist as a child to teach my eyes to work together. I can do them reasonably easily, but I still don't get stereo vision normally without concentrating.

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Fun4TheNight218@reddit

Exactly once

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USAF_Retired2017@reddit

No, but ADHD makes it so I can’t concentrate on anything. Especially when there is so much going on like in these pictures. 😂

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Houdinii1984@reddit

My 5th grade teacher had a dos-like computer that had stereoscope software. It was absolutely impossible to actually see anything on the monitor whatsoever, but it was kinda neat seeing how it worked.

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-Ailynn-@reddit

https://i.redd.it/8as5c91gobvf1.gif

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Benjo221@reddit

No

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captain_trainwreck@reddit

Yeah but I had to cross my eyes a tiny bit. Looked like a cutout in the pattern

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kereso83@reddit

I could never do these things.

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cranberries87@reddit

I never did.

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Lower-Tomatillo-9513@reddit

I dunno, its some kind of alien penis or something. No? Well I guess I still can't make anything out of these.

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satchelchargers@reddit

Yeah, I had lots of practice unfocusing my eyes at school.

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Blackbird136@reddit

Back then yes. Didn’t wear/need glasses or contacts.

Now I wear contacts and can’t see this stuff if my life depended on it.

Not sure why that matters but for me it does!

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Own_Ad9652@reddit

I did. But now I’m too old to strain the shit out of my eyes.

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evolutionxtinct@reddit

Train and a shroom or something but ya I love these always enjoyed them! But your eyes have to be able to support the software upgrade to see the picture.. I would put an email in with support.

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jstnpotthoff@reddit

My whole life I thought I was awesome at these things. Loved them and could always see them almost immediately by crossing my eyes. I thought they were cool, but the images were still always hard to make out, and didn't have the wow factor that a lot of people seemed to believe.

Until sometime last year, I saw a post where somebody explained that if you cross your eyes to see them, you're not actually getting the correct effect. The image sinks in instead of popping out--which is exactly what I experienced. They explained you actually have to do the opposite of crossing your eyes...focus further away, not closer, and for the first time in my life I actually saw what they were supposed to look like.

And I felt like a total idiot. But now they look pretty cool.

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HabuDoi@reddit

I crossed my eyes and its always popped out as intended, so I don’t think thats correct.

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jstnpotthoff@reddit

unless you can cross your eyes further apart rather than closer together, that doesn't make any sense

the images you're seeing look and behave like this?

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HabuDoi@reddit

Yes, of course.

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jstnpotthoff@reddit

That's not how these magic eye images work.

You want to have the L eye image and the R eye image to be separate, but still overlap so that they line up just right to see the image. The reason why you see the inverse image when you cross your eyes is because it flips what each eye sees to the other side.

That's why it doesn't make sense that crossing your eyes works, unless you can cross your eyes outward instead of inward.

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HabuDoi@reddit

Well, that’s wrong because I cross my eyes and see the image as intended.

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jstnpotthoff@reddit

Sharks are smooth

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HabuDoi@reddit

I’m sorry that my eyes work.

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Krazylegz1485@reddit

I do the "cross the eyes" method and it works correctly and almost instantly every time. 🤷🏻‍♂️

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jstnpotthoff@reddit

If you're crossing your eyes, you're not seeing the image pop out as intended

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Krazylegz1485@reddit

I 100% am... Haha.

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jstnpotthoff@reddit

unless you can cross your eyes further apart rather than closer together, that doesn't make any sense

the images you're seeing look and behave like this?

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Krazylegz1485@reddit

If you're asking if I see it in three dimensional, then yes. It doesn't rotate like that animation does, but I do for sure see the depth "pop" and can definitely tell what objects are near and far. You can slightly make it rotate like that if you turn your phone slightly back and forth, but I think that animation is somewhat of an exaggeration of what they actually look like.

I personally just pick two things in the repeating background pattern and slowly/slightly cross my eyes until the two merge together. At that point the 3d image pops for me and I can see them every time. I have no idea how much my eyes are physically "crossed" because I of course can't see that myself. I'd be interested to see what it looks like from the outside, tho. Haha.

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jstnpotthoff@reddit

It will take some trial and error, but try it the opposite way. Focus on something further away from your phone, and then bring your phone into your line of vision. You might need to move your phone closer or further away, but eventually you should be able to lock onto the image.

I also recommend doing it with a more obvious image than this one at first.

Here's one that I can barely make out what it is when the image is inverted by crossing my eyes. But once I switch my focus to beyond the image, it pops out and is quite obvious.

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Krazylegz1485@reddit

It's a rabbit chewing on a leaf.

I'm not trying to argue with you about which way is "better" or not, I'm just saying that I can see it without having to look "past" it. This one you attached I got instantly as well. It just works. I don't know how else to explain it. Haha.

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jstnpotthoff@reddit

I'm not asking if you see it, I'm asking you to try to both ways and see the difference.

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Krazylegz1485@reddit

I do the "cross the eyes" method and it works correctly and almost instantly every time. 🤷🏻‍♂️

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Just-a-Guy-4242@reddit

I can see these images, but only if they are behind a glass pane. I could never see the ones from books, only the framed ones, I let my eyes focus on the reflection in the glass, instead of the image, and the shape just kind of appears.

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Ok_Acanthisitta2025@reddit

Oh!!! It's a sailboat!!

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RogerClyneIsAGod2@reddit

Yes & r/MagicEye is a real sub.

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CosmicMamaBear@reddit

Nope

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BeBopBarr@reddit

Yep! I used to be able to get it immediately, but now it takes my eyes a minute to focus in.

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RuncibleFoon@reddit

I did, but I have always had to do the thing where you put your nose to the image and slowly pull it away while keeping your eyes unfocused...

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freckles42@reddit

I could not see them until I got LASIK five years ago. I was too nearsighted. But now I can finally do it… thirty years late.

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vidvicious@reddit

Hell yes

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Hyphum@reddit

It’s a train at a station

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adjperiod@reddit

Penguins and a train

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I_wash_my_carpet@reddit

In the back, I can get that. Closest and a bit to the right looks like a floating dead fish wearing a tie and holding a grocery bag...

I love these and can focus almost instantly, but my image recognition needs updated or something, cuz i can't make out what the shapes are haha

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smokemirrorsunicorns@reddit

not if you can't see stereo or it's difficult for you/depth perception issues - no you won't see it. i struggled for YEARS until i learned this and thought everyone was lying and in on a big joke - nobody told me about the depth perception thing bc everyone just kept saying "it's so easy " i felt like a massive freak

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mountednoble99@reddit

I did.

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Adept_Discipline1000@reddit

I'm really good at these. They're called stereogram I think. My husband and kids can't get them. Only me.

They're good for eyesight. If you stare at them for 10 minutes a day, apparently it's like exercise for the eyes.

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thelaceserpent@reddit

Woooowww it’s a schooner!

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PinkFloydDeadhead@reddit

Yes but not the normal way. I can only get them to work inversely by crossing my eyes.

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clandahlina_redux@reddit

💁🏻‍♀️

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Sausage_Queen_of_Chi@reddit

Nope but I’m going to blame having an astigmatism

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marshmallowest@reddit

you know what?! not till earlier this year.

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GreyTigerFox@reddit

All the time

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Excellent-Goal4763@reddit

Once in 1996 when I was really stoned in a grocery store.

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Dustteas@reddit

This is the only one I've ever been able to get to work.

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Threetimes3@reddit

For some reason it only ever worked for me on a computer screen.

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TelenorTheGNP@reddit

It go choo choo

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ModBabboo@reddit

Only one time. It worked for me because the art was under glass. There was something about looking at the reflection that adjusted my eyes in the right way to see the shape.

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Crans10@reddit

All the time but instead of sticking out they appeared cut in.

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Powerful_Leg8519@reddit

Yes, if it’s really in front of me. I can’t see them if it’s on a screen for some reason.

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PizzaDeliveryBoy3000@reddit

It’s not “look at it for long enough”. You have to look at in a certain way. Which is out of focus and very close to your eyes, then start increasing the distance, while forcing your eyes to stay out of focus. Works every time

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HBKnight@reddit

These things were some elusive, otherworldly magic to me. I never once saw an image in them.

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TheShizknitt@reddit

Is that... penguins at a train station?

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EdwardDorito@reddit

Just premonitions of future acid flashbacks I see now

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MrTitius@reddit

Penguin train

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fubo@reddit

Hell, in college I kept my acid stash tucked inside a book of those.

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trainwreckhappening@reddit

Me: Opens reddit to take my mind off work (I drive trains)

Some random Redditor: Not today MF!

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0sqs@reddit

I used to. But I can't anymore.

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Illustrious-Low3948@reddit

I see a pension with a tophat and a suitcase

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probablytrippy@reddit

I’m 46 and I finally started seeing stuff last year

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therobotscott@reddit

Yes. I have a controllable lazy eye and can see these in seconds flat.

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work-throw-away-420@reddit

i used to be able to, not anymore though 8(

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EmRuizChamberlain@reddit

No

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pawsomedogs@reddit

You... didn't?

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Standard-Tension9550@reddit

Never

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Radiant-Mycologist72@reddit

I really struggles with these as a kid. Now im in my 40's and my eyesight is failing, I can see them easily.

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tifumostdays@reddit

One fricking time! Just enough to keep me trying for years. Thanks, you dumb Eagle! You weren't even that cool.

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super_mmm@reddit

Nope

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fernandez21@reddit

Yes, I see a train in front of 2 mushroom houses?

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RuseArcher@reddit

Never - convinced this was mass gaslighting

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AlgoStar@reddit

Yeah! I was a pro at these after a local newspaper ran a daily contest when I was a kid. I wanted that 1-year subscription and mug dammit!

(This one is >!a penguin with a briefcase getting off a steam locomotive overflowing with other penguins!<)

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murfburffle@reddit

Honestly, no. we all just agreed to pretend to see something to piss you, just you, off. Way to spoil the fun

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OptionWrongUsally@reddit

It look like two penguins boarding a train that is constructed out of penguins is my only explanation. This is fucking weird.

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scottnebula@reddit

No. Not one time, ever. My left eye is “lazy” (is there a better more modern term for this?) which sees at 60/20. And I have never been able to get these to work, or any 3D glasses.

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brackthomas7@reddit

I see everything in 3D

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Scary-Ad9646@reddit

I could see 3d shapes, but I could never tell what the hell it was.

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Persephone2009@reddit

I've always been able to see the 3D shapes, but have struggled to tell what they are supposed to be. So...yes and no.

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TheHockeyGeek@reddit

I can see them almost too easily. They tend to cause a headache for me soon after. Especially if a digital display rather than printed.

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RedMoondaddy@reddit

I see a penguin with a briefcase and a row of people in front of him looking at him(or in his direction)

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nottodaysatan317@reddit

Yep. Penguin with a briefcase.

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DevoStripes@reddit

Never

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Micronto65bymay@reddit

One time I did. It was 1993. That was a neat dolphin...

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Rob_LeMatic@reddit

Mine was in 1996 on the wall of a hallway in high school. I had pent up so much frustration at not being able to see these. And after that, never again, but I cared a lot less

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Rey_Mezcalero@reddit

While it worked, would have an eye headache the rest of the day

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Renzieface@reddit

I do/can... but they're popped in instead of out for me, so a lot of the time, it's hard for me to figure out what the picture is right away.

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Antique_Trash3360@reddit

lol i loved these, i didn’t know this was so divisive.

Unfortunately i can’t see them on a computer screen for whatever reason, so unless i become wealthy or find a stash of printer ink i wont get to test any of the cool new ones in the magic eye sub.

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Windford@reddit

Penguins and a Locomotive? That’s a weird one.

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sicksixgamer@reddit

Yes. Most of the time.

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KW5625@reddit

I used to be able to do it very easily as a child

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Bourriks@reddit

I don't.

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RealSinnSage@reddit

i’ve lost my ability to see these i suppose :(

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PersianCatLover419@reddit

I saw a cube in one on a postcard at the air and space museum in Washington DC so I bought it. I saw a knight on a horse in another in one of the books or perhaps it was the Psilocybin or LSD?

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ComplexImmediate5140@reddit

I did once. Never again after that.

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dofrogsbite@reddit

I have a lazy eye so nope.

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L31121@reddit

Not a bloody thing :(

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fenwoods@reddit

I had exotropia as a kid, which after treatment left me with the superpower of seeing double on command. It makes these puzzles relatively easy

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BlommeHolm@reddit

Why the heck would penguins go by train? And can you actually hold a briefcase in that wing?

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Trismesjistus@reddit

Yes, like 90% of the time. Some are harder than others And I'm pretty sure if I spent enough time staring at it I could get it but my eyes get dry or I get bored

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Malefectra@reddit

Very, very easily. I've always had very good depth perception.

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sirscooter@reddit

So one who had a booth at a fair showed me a trick take the screen and make sure it has a reflection, focus on the reflection.

It takes me a minute (and I had to save the picture to blow it up bigger) but I could see the 3d image

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johngalt504@reddit

This one is a train.

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babyBear83@reddit

These things pop right out at me. It’s weird. Once someone showed me the hidden picture when I was very young, I couldn’t unsee them after that.

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ParsleyMostly@reddit

Never. Not a once. Lol

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Atillion@reddit

You kidding me? They're so easy if you know how to change your focal point. I'm getting a penguin standing in front of a line of aliens? What's that in the back..

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aroundincircles@reddit

I have an astigmatism, I think it makes it so I see these almost instantly.

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auntiesandpiper@reddit

this is the same for me, but I just saw another comment saying they had astigmatism and seeing them was impossible haha

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DaemonBlackfyre_21@reddit

Never

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keepcalmdude@reddit

Never. Not once. That said I have astigmatism and I’ve heard that if you have it, it make see these impossible.

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Glitter_Sparkle@reddit

I see a train with an emperor penguin next to it.

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audiate@reddit

Looks like a group of penguins triumphantly holding up a skull

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thefluxster@reddit

It took me a while to figure out that the thing in the background is a steam locomotive. Not sure where the little guy is headed with that briefcase, but I'm sure it's not a 1970s office building.

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Certain_Site_8764@reddit

Thought it saw something holding a skull over it's head

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EvenIf-SheFalls@reddit

My mother and I never could but my father and sister always can.

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Zerostar39@reddit

This one was kinda easy. It’s a penguin with a top hat and suitcase about to board a train

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Shortbus_Playboy@reddit

WOW, it’s a SCHOONER!

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eyelers@reddit

Yup. Just learned there are video versions of these. I loved being one of the few who actually saw these

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TheDeanof316@reddit

Still trying to see it 🧐

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amplaylife@reddit

Never have been able to

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brickbaterang@reddit

I cant cross my eyes so nope, never saw anything and man did that piss me off

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Alarmed_Drop7162@reddit

Still don’t. I’ve been given multiple instructions on how “normals” can see it. Makes no difference to me.
Thank god that a hole Luis Van Ahn didn’t implement these magic eyes as captcha.

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Wildlyhotdog@reddit

Crossing my eyes so the patterns overlap made them jump right out for me

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thoughtfractals85@reddit

I'm a cyclops, and these have never worked for me.

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Krazylegz1485@reddit

Probably because you keep burning the pages...

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thoughtfractals85@reddit

Made my day, thanks!

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E23R0@reddit

Only Schooners

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schoolisuncool@reddit

I could never do it. I tried so damn hard too

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passamongimpure@reddit

You dumb bastard

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shaygurl22@reddit

Penguin in a top hat carrying a briefcase?

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Throwaway_inSC_79@reddit

All I see is a schooner.

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Notaspyipromise00@reddit

Sailboat

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Myklanjlo@reddit

I always saw the image inverted. Everyone else would see it popping out, and I would only see it as an indentation. When other people would describe the image they saw, I knew I was looking at the opposite version.

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Consistent-Ad-6506@reddit

Yes it’s not difficult. You just unfocus your eyes and it’s there.

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baconmethod@reddit

poo choo train is my favorite thang

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Living_Razzmatazz_93@reddit

Yeah, that's a schooner...

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Norwester77@reddit

Yeah, but I’m pretty good at getting my eyes to move independently.

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DJDarkViper@reddit

I do but I don’t know what this shape is, like a body horror flock of penguins fused with a train

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BrutusMcGillicudy@reddit

Yeah, maybe a family of quail? Or something like a train or something.

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GladosPrime@reddit

I was able to see the images with a bit of eye relaxation.

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P-R_Podcast@reddit

My cousins had a book full of these and despite their hints I could only see one of the pages; I doubt anything has changed but I would like to try if one of them still has the book

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degausser187@reddit

Penguins in top-hats!?!!

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ennuiismymiddlename@reddit

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Firm-Night1584@reddit

It doesn't look like a fish but a train lol

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MarvelousT@reddit

I heard it helps if you take your shirt off.

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someguyfromsk@reddit

I could never see "it"

But people wouldn't let you get on with your life until you saw "it". They would just keep going "No, ot's right here, just try, you just need to relax your eyes, it's easy, just try again"

"oh yeah, ...right in here, ...yup, that is something..."

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therexbellator@reddit

I always felt like that guy from Mallrats until a few years ago when I acquired a book of magic eye images from that era and I could finally take my time adjusting my vision and relaxing my eyes to get the right angle. It was so exciting to finally cross this off my bucket list.

Mind you, it's not a fantastical image that emerges like some hologram, but rather it feels like you're seeing a hole or negative space in the shape of whatever the subject of the illusion is. It's still pretty cool to see it emerge though.

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PaleoHumulus@reddit

I never had a particular problem with these. And oddly enough, I get practice with it in my profession, because stereo pairs are a common method of illustrating fossils, especially in older literature. If I want to figure out that little mammal tooth, they are often shown with stereographic imagery!

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GA19@reddit

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BrandynWayne@reddit

I wish they looked better. I was “seeing” the images for a year before I realized I was. Can’t make them out well at all.

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UnicornSheets@reddit

Nope never

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souvenirsuitcase@reddit

Nope. I had a calendar and every month I would stare at it and see nothing. All year. 😆

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gomeitsmybirthday@reddit

I put about as much effort in to seeing these as I did learning the yo-yo and I got pretty decent at yo-yoing. Eventually I saw the 3D images but yo-yoing was without a doubt more rewarding.

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Affectionate-Act1574@reddit

“It’s a schooner!”

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SurpriseAble7291@reddit

It’s not a schooner it’s a sailboat

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AppropriateFan4530@reddit

Loved these

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GroundbreakingOne625@reddit

Can see them almost instantly

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aweedl@reddit

Never, but I have a lazy eye so these have never worked for me. 3D movies don’t really work either.

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ElderberryDry9083@reddit

Yes and this one looks like a penguin man with a briefcase and his son standing beside a steam engine train

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GreenZebra23@reddit

I never could back in the day, but I can see them on my phone now. Something about it being on the phone screen instead of a poster or book makes it click for me

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anonuemus@reddit

if you have the 1000 yard stare it's easy

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Younk187@reddit

People riding bikes? Lol

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ThanosWasRightAnyway@reddit

I couldn’t see many as a kid, but now they’re much easier to

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stormbutton@reddit

Schooner

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Quixotegut@reddit

Nope. My eyes don't work properly for me to see the sailboat.

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Randall_Hickey@reddit

Yes thanks to Reddit. Get really close and then slowly back away

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NotNoski@reddit

Nope. What a sham.

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ticklestick59@reddit

I never got to see the sailboat

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withbellson@reddit

Taught myself how to see these in Games magazine while killing time in high school. I can still do them!

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REDDITSHITLORD@reddit

At first I thought it was a bunch of dicks. I think that would be a pretty good troll, tbh.

Magic Eye is what got me into stereography. I just love the study of depth.

I still shoot a little bit of stereo slide, but digital media has kind of ruined it for me.

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icepick3383@reddit

Not one time. Didn’t see a schooner or a sailboat.

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Elevated_Misanthropy@reddit

It's a SCHOONER

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HoyAIAG@reddit

I see them almost immediately

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No_Novel_7425@reddit

I stared at one through a clear Pyrex dish for three hours one day until I finally saw something 😄

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Ronthelodger@reddit

Maybe a rough contour… that’s about it

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xtopherpaul@reddit

It’s a schooner

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Blackboard_Monitor@reddit

Train with penguins.

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mid_1990s_death_doom@reddit

You have to let your eyes go cross-eyed a little and look for a few seconds that way.

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statistacktic@reddit

Penguins

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mcaffrey81@reddit

Monkey eating a banana

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Nmy0p1n10n@reddit

i had a poster of one of these I ordered from a catalog. they said you could get custom ones so I ordered one with nothing in it. id always make things up when people came over. it’s a shark fighting an elephant!

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throwitlikethewind@reddit

I saw migraine auras.

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NicWester@reddit

I could do simple ones. My friends could see more complicated stuff. I could see a sailboat but I would never see a schooner.

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_ism_@reddit

I never could, blamed wearing glasses.
Recently I saw an animated GIF of one as it would appear if you were focused correctly and moving your eyes (for the stereo effect to "jump" off the page) but once I saw that I was so disappointed. I never realized they would look so.... pixelly? I had been imagining full detailed 3d images and could not understand what I was "supposed" to see emerging. . LOL

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BadBunnyFooFoo@reddit

In answer to the question: yes!! It wouldn’t work for me to just stare at it though. I had to touch it to my nose, then pull it away slowly. Then the image would pop out.

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scrotanimus@reddit

Looks like a house or caterpillar with some little mushroom homes and a little animal or Smurf

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squirrel_crosswalk@reddit

Two guys on motorbikes chasing a train

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twitchisweird@reddit

Took some practice originally but yeah

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Vash_85@reddit

Magic eyes are awesome.

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WendyPortledge@reddit

Always. I can also turn it “inside out” by crossing my eyes and uncrossing them.

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diabetic_maine_coon@reddit

Just cross your eyes and look at it.

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Environmental_Bad345@reddit

Mfs be lying saying the see stuff 🤣

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WharfRat80s@reddit

A sailboat

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Micoy@reddit

The whole “you need to relax your eyes” is bullshit. Cross your eyes and slowly uncross them.

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Better_than_GOT_S8@reddit

This one seems to be 3D art of a Rorschach

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Filmmakernick@reddit

I can't see shit. Just the design. People say a train, penguins and a bag and you're probably correct. I did read recently that if you have ADHD, you probably cannot see these.

Wish I would've known I had ADHD in the 90s when I couldn't see these in the mall. I thought they just didn't work. Turns out, my brain/eyes didn't work.

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Imaginary-Oil-9984@reddit

Can’t seem to see it on my phone. Never had problems with the real deal.

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edwardturnerlives@reddit

I was and am master at these

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fsantos0213@reddit

Oh look, a sailboat

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okayyayayay@reddit

Never.

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Frosty_Cloud_2888@reddit

It took me 20 years but I can see them now

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Stang1776@reddit

Once i saw skull. I had a book and the only one I could see was the first page.

Terrible book.

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GrimSpirit42@reddit

A couple of penguins standing in front of an old Steam Locomotive and train.

I can see these about 90% of the time (There's some shitty ones I can't see).

I had one magic image poster on my wall in the '00s that was as sunken treasure ship with fish and sharks.

My brother, on the other hand, can NEVER see these. He thought we were bullshitting him.

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Malakaumd@reddit

I can see shapes and blobs, but nothing really clearly like other people say they see.

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ucantharmagoodwoman@reddit

Yes, totally. My eyesight has deteriorated now so I'm afraid to try.lol

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bluezzdog@reddit

I see Pikachu

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Difficult-Coffee-219@reddit

I see dead people.

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Wunjo26@reddit

Anybody remember the Bev Doolittle books?

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LastCallKillIt@reddit

No. When I joined the Army at 20 I found out I was color deficient and every since just assumed this was the reason I could never see the picture as a kid.

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bfume@reddit

Lineup of aliens with everyone’s head cut off except the leftmost one.

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Frunklin@reddit

My 80's brain see's a boob or maybe an elbow in there somewhere.

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TheFoxandTheSandor@reddit

Looks like a pheasant gang

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ScrambledNoggin@reddit

r/magiceye for all your 3D needs

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napalmnacey@reddit

Yes. It was easy one you knew the trick.

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FinallyKat@reddit

I used to own one that I got as a Christmas gift one year. I think it was two (?) dolphins jumping out of the water. I do remember having friends who never could see anything, though

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BjjQuister@reddit

Took me a while in real life. I’ve never seen one via my phone

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mondomiketron@reddit

When I moved from Korea to the us in 94 I had a hard time making friends. During lunch I would sit in the library and stared at these books. Got pretty good at adjusting my eyes right away to be able to see them. I was absolutely fascinated by magic eye books.

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Agreeable-Chart-5561@reddit

I never had an issue with these

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_ficklelilpickle@reddit

Yup, I can still see them just by shifting my focus instead of doing the book/screen to nose and moving it away slowly thing.

This is something like a steam train on the left and something standing in front over on the right. Passenger? They’re standing kind of weird, more like a penguin.

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Santos_L_Halper_II@reddit

Not once. I think this whole thing was one big hoax.

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EidolonRook@reddit

Never. And I’m almost compulsively drawn to piecing out patterns.

If something’s there, there’s too much “noise” for me to see it.

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old_mcfartigan@reddit

For practice draw two identical dots on a single page side by side an inch apart then if you don’t focus exactly on them but past them you’ll see four dots, two with each eye. Kind of like if you hold your finger up at arm’s length and focus on the opposite wall you’ll see two fingers, one with each eye. The further you look past the dots the further apart the two pairs will be but at the exact right distance the left dot for your right eye will exactly align with the right dot for your left eye and it’ll kind of “snap” into place and you’ll see only three dots.

You can do this with any repeating pattern, for example peg board or wrapping paper. The magic eye might look like a bunch of random gibberish but it’s actually a repeating pattern and if you get the left eye pattern and the right eye pattern to overlap they’ll just snap into place and then you’ll see the image

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4Jolly2Green0Giant@reddit

I see a big headed alien standing on the rear end of a horse, with a giant mushroom walking something on a leash…..

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AdoptedBySmurfs@reddit

For sure, had multiple books. And the one above kind of looks like a bulldozer. It’s been 30 years so I’m a little rusty.

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Appropriate-Food1757@reddit

Yeah

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chargoggagog@reddit

Before I look at the comments: I see a relief, there is a foreground and a background. Almost looks like a diorama, the bottom slopes toward me and the background is flat. There appears to be a cutout of something that looks like maybe a train with a large bottle on the right side.

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myrdraal2001@reddit

I hated these things because I didn't have the patience to sit there and cross my eyes long enough to hallucinate seeing anything. They were EVERYWHERE and I just couldn't see what made them so ever present. Malls, bookstores, Spencer Gifts, Suncoast, music stores or anywhere that had posters at all.

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Super_Direction498@reddit

You dumb bastard. It's a sailboat

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Cpmartini1@reddit

It is a 6th sense of mine. I can also do inverted.

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Super-History-388@reddit

It’s a schooner!

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radrachelleigh@reddit

I'm 46 years old and only started being able to see things within the past year. The 90's were rough for me.

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Clear-Journalist3095@reddit

I have a really hard time getting the picture to come forward on a phone screen, but the ones in books have always been easy for me.

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ExternalGiraffe9631@reddit

Yes, I could see them instantly when I was younger. Turns out untreated childhood astigmatism was the Magic Eye.

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JeelyPiece@reddit

It's a schooner

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WindTall5566@reddit

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Munchkin531@reddit

I love Magic eyes! I used to have books of them and a calendar one year. I could always see the pictures.

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The_OtherGuy_99@reddit

Somebody posted a gif on here awhile that made it so I could finally see one.

I was massively underwhelmed.

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MajesticLow@reddit

Honestly, for the first time as of reading this post I was able to see an image in the 3D art. All other times I could not. This is awesome 🤯🤯🤯🤯

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Allrojin@reddit

Yes, it's a sailboat.

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joecarter93@reddit

I used to be able to see them no problem as as kid. Now as an adult I can’t see them for the life of me.

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akadebso@reddit

Yeah but it took crossing my eyes or something lol. I hated it back in the day.

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melanthius@reddit

It's the opposite of crossing your eyes

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The_OtherGuy_99@reddit

Walleyed?

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akadebso@reddit

If I had to describe it it would be like crossing your eyes but then slowly letting them uncross or something. I had to do that to have a chance at seeing whatever is in a 3D image. Between that and maybe holding the image close and then slowly moving my face away from the image. It’s been decades at this point so I might be a little off in describing how to view them but yeah it took way too much of an effort and I didn’t like it. This thread took me back though. :)

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pinchenombre@reddit

This is a train going by some houses

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BlackieDad@reddit

I used to draw my own using graphic paper and pencil crayons. I was a weird kid.

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Plane_Chance863@reddit

I don't know why people are down voting you - you literally can make your own, you just have to know how. I only learned to make my own in my twenties.

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GotWood2024@reddit

Yes. I see the outlines when I cross my eyes and slowly uncross them a bit. I often don't know what it is though.

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AotKT@reddit

It's a sailboat

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buickgnx88@reddit

A schooner is a sailboat!

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deowolf@reddit

There is no Easter Bunny. Over there is just a guy in a suit.

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bradyblack@reddit

Someone just accosted the Easter Bunny

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rosstein33@reddit

THERE IS NO EASTER BUNNY!!

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frederichenrylt@reddit

If I look at it while crossing my eyes, then uncross them, I can see it.

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Shington501@reddit

It’s a schooner!

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RainerGerhard@reddit

It’s a schooner!

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SicilianShaver77@reddit

I've got a hues/saturation color-blindness defect. It's probably anomalous-trichromacy, but there are 27 or more different types. I think that has been my fault for never "seeing it"... if there ever was something to see.

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QuoVadimusDana@reddit

Yep, I loved them!

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Kittycorgo@reddit

Literally never lmao

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Alclis@reddit

I was always able to achieve the 3D perspective, but without the context of color or shades, it almost always just looked like 3D blobs and shapes to me.

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Klutzy-Delivery-5792@reddit

I tried and tried and tried. It turns out if you're farsighted you have trouble seeing them, even more so if you have a lazy eye. Yeah, I was the kid with the coke bottle glasses in grade school.

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singleguy79@reddit

I never saw shit.

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Express-Cow190@reddit

I tried so hard to see these but never could

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needsmorequeso@reddit

These things have always made me feel like Lisa in that episode of The Simpsons where all the other kids get the brain teaser and she worries she is doomed to a life of idiocy.

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ZzzSleep@reddit

Yeah, it’s just a matter of crossing your eyes the right way. Then you’ll see the 3D image pop. For me at least it was still hard to tell what the image was a lot of the time, especially if it was a complicated image because you’ll see the impression of it against the busy pattern.

Not interested in crossing my eyes anymore so probably won’t see one again haha

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Rumbananas@reddit

They’re not hard. Cross your eyes until adjacent patterns match. It’s penguins with a train in the background.

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Bombtek504@reddit

What you need is a fatty-boom-batty blunt! And I guarantee you'll be seeing a sailboat, an ocean, and maybe even some of those big-tittied mermaids doing some of that lesbian shit! Look at me, look at me, you sloppy bitch!

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xargos32@reddit

Never. And I'm sick of the people who always claim that everyone is capable of seeing these.

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Aggravating-Alarm-16@reddit

It's a schooner

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Snoop_07@reddit

Yes

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derango@reddit

That one kinda sucks, it's way too complicated, I thought I saw a train but couldn't figure out what the rest was because it was just a mess of shapes.

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Dazzling_Proof9813@reddit

“Wow, it’s a schooner!”

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One-Earth9294@reddit

I've seen it a few times literally staring at posters in the mall like Ethan Suplee in Mallrats, but I have a hard time forcing it and I've never been able to do it on a computer screen.

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just-the-teep@reddit

Never

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ass-to-trout12@reddit

In the books i saw them every time. The phone screen is too small to see what they are when they do work and half the time they dont

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Gold-Shopping-4137@reddit

Unless you're on acid

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BreakfastBeerz@reddit

It doesn't appear to me as easily as it does appear to other people, but yes, eventually I can see it.

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conspiracyeinstein@reddit

Once. It was a spider. I've never seen any others work for me.

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plaidbrarian@reddit

Not once.

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snippitysnap23@reddit

Never worked for me...

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theboxisempty@reddit

I have literally never seen a single one

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3OsInGooose@reddit

Pro tip: crossing your eyes gives you the inverse image on these.

It also makes solving the “find the difference between these images” game SUPER easy. If people don’t know the trick they legit think you’re a magician.

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Sleepy_cheetah@reddit

I didn't have the patience. My mind can't settle down long enough to stare at those things. But someone made a fortune off of them.

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katie_cat_eyes@reddit

I always could but it’s harder when it’s a digital file. In the books we had, those were easy for me but put it on a computer, and I can barely see it.

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