PROOF THAT YOU SHOULD NEVER BELIEVE YOUR EYES

Your peripheral vision makes up part of your overall field of vision, which is around 190 degrees. However, it’s far from perfect, and sometimes it causes us to see things which don’t really exist. We’ve found a cool way to prove this to you.

All you need to do is focus on the cross at the center of the picture below, without glancing away. You’ll notice how your peripheral vision turns people’s ordinary faces into those of ’monsters.’

PROOF THAT YOU SHOULD NEVER BELIEVE YOUR EYES

– All you need to do is focus on the cross at the center of the picture, without looking away. Right there.

– There’s an area of our retina which is called the yellow spot. It covers around 10% of the entire range of our vision and shows what our eyes are directly focused on.

– In this case, our main field of vision is empty. There’s just a dark area with a white cross. The brain tries to take information from other sources located outside the main field — in this case, the alternating pictures on the left and right.

– These sources aren’t very ’reliable,’ and the brain tries to combine them into one image. It’s also trying to process the photos in a very short period since the images change very quickly.

– As a result, the ability to discern faces is lost, and the brain merges different features from the faces into a single whole. That’s why we end up seeing ‘monsters’!