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- EmileVictor, on 10/12/2007, -1/+114This video is a copy of a copy from youtube which is a screencast of the following website:
http://www.neave.com/strobe/
I suggest you give the one above a go, since it's full screen and works much better. - theRIAA, on 10/12/2007, -2/+53i was expecting another "screaming bloody face of death" at the end
- borninda818, on 10/12/2007, -7/+38i wouldn't say it made me hallucinate. an afterimage is hardly a hallucination.
- asdfasdf, on 10/12/2007, -1/+29I'll stick to LSD..
- Brickhaus, on 10/12/2007, -3/+30I've seen illusions like this before, but this one had the most 'intense' effect.
Did anyone peripheral vision go cloudy half way through the video? - TopherT, on 10/12/2007, -2/+28Did it while high (only weed). Was more confusing but not more intense :)
- inactive, on 10/12/2007, -1/+25If this turned out to be a scare-me video I decided I would never try one of these again. In actuality it's just as advertised and pretty cool.
- CKR600, on 10/12/2007, -0/+20download it and play in reverse.
- penguin06, on 10/12/2007, -0/+19WARNING: Don't bother if you have photosensitive epilepsy!! ;)
- 4degrees, on 10/12/2007, -4/+22news flash, thats not a hallucination! A hallucination is generated by one's mind often in reaction to something like a drug or dehydration. Neat optical trick, but no hallucination.
inaccurate - potato23, on 10/12/2007, -1/+15yeah this is pretty good, if you look at something solid right afterwards it appears all wavy and distorted.
- spyrochaete, on 10/12/2007, -0/+14If you view http://www.neave.com/strobe/ at work, mute your speakers first! Nothing draws attention to you quicker than a friggin gabber techno loop.
- ElectroOverlord, on 10/12/2007, -1/+15Everything would just look normal agian...
- inactive, on 10/12/2007, -4/+17http://digg.com/videos_animation/Optical_illusion_causes_hallucination_4
there it is - ElectroOverlord, on 10/12/2007, -1/+14Is that your desired effect?
- wibblewibble, on 10/12/2007, -1/+14You can get the same effect just by walking into a police station and asking for a complanit form. :)
- nepawoods, on 10/12/2007, -1/+13It's not an afterimage, and not a "quirk of the eye, most easily explained as your eye receptors get burned out and aren't able to process anymore".
You can view it for a while with only one eye, then look away and look at something with the other eye - you'll still get the effect. It's not happening in the eye, but further back somewhere. In the brain. Or maybe the liver. - TopherT, on 10/12/2007, -3/+14I dunno about hallucinate but you know that effect on that old windows screen saver that just takes whatever screen you're looking at and has a little magnifying effect that travels around the screen? Yeah. IRL.
- PrometheuZ, on 10/12/2007, -0/+11What's it mean when the effect doesn't go away after an hour?
- weareallzombies, on 10/12/2007, -2/+12Yep, like everything went dark around the outside (and I'm sitting in a bright room). Very bizarre, but cool.
- Chrysalid, on 10/12/2007, -4/+14I wonder what you can achieve with that when you are already high from a hallucinogenic drug like LSD for example. Must be cool :P
- GhostToon, on 10/12/2007, -0/+9LoL I did it and looked at my cat and she looked like she had bumps growing and moving under her skin.
- Recluse, on 10/12/2007, -0/+8If that's what is going to happen then I don't want to look into a mirror after watching this.
- whozyodaddy, on 10/12/2007, -0/+8Victor, thanks for the link. I used that one for 30 seconds or so and everything was all wavy and distorted! I think i'll try it again!
- 8ooTes, on 10/12/2007, -2/+10There is only a slight zooming effect which holds for about 3 seconds, not a big effect to be honest.
- Daisuke, on 10/12/2007, -0/+7not to downplay any possible jokes, but if you were serious about the effect continuing, look into Hallucinogen Persisting Perception Disorder, or HPPD. It's usually present after drug usage, but may even happen to those who have never taken recreational substances before.
http://www.hppdonline.com/index.php - lozaning, on 10/12/2007, -1/+8if this is what drugs do, count me in. i was all for substence free living ubntill i saw this. where do i sign up?
- vuzman, on 10/12/2007, -0/+7When instructed to look away, try looking at your hand. That's freaky!
- Moopy, on 10/12/2007, -1/+7Agree, this is a quirk of the eye, most easily explained as your eye receptors get burned out and aren't able to process anymore, therefore the ones which didn't get tired still go and without all the receptors working the image looks distorted.
- Madrox17, on 10/12/2007, -1/+7Usually on Martin Luther King Jr. Blvd...
- inactive, on 10/12/2007, -4/+9wasn't this illusion already on digg?
- subscribtion, on 10/12/2007, -1/+6Pretty neat. Reminds me of that screen saver that distorts part of the screen and moves around, you know the one I'm talking about. The music enhances the trippy-ness of the video.
- gumigecko, on 10/12/2007, -2/+7Fairly accurate to a real hallucination. Similar to the "breathing" effect. Very neat.
- ivanjs, on 10/12/2007, -0/+4Did anyone else get a phone call afterwards that said "In 7 days, you will die?" Freaky...
- Walker2323, on 10/12/2007, -0/+4Hallucination? More like seizure.
- spyrochaete, on 10/12/2007, -0/+4I don't think LSD would help in this case. When you view static images similar to this on on LSD you see all kinds of depth and colour illusions, but it's hard to focus on moving images like this - especially moving so fast. I would guess that you would hallucinate LESS by viewing this on LSD.
- violentvinyl, on 10/12/2007, -0/+4So true, I usually see things at work first, and I always have my sound off at work (for obvious reasons). Im always the guy that goes "There was suppossed to be sound with that?"
- Agret, on 10/12/2007, -1/+5http://www.neave.com/strobe/
- ayeroxor, on 10/12/2007, -0/+4tip: the scare-me videos don't work without the loud scream. Whenever I'm suspicious, I just mute my speakers.
- rassoodock, on 10/12/2007, -0/+3It's prolly like listening to the Dark Side of the Moon while tripping, the effects arent that interesting because they are redundant.
- Virion, on 10/12/2007, -0/+3I saw a complex fractal-esque pattern overlayed in my vision, nothing too special, though it's really taking a long time to fully fade away completely, which is more interesting.
- NSMike, on 10/12/2007, -2/+5When I think "hallucinate," I expected to start seeing dead relatives. Big let-down.
- 3rdMEgo, on 10/12/2007, -0/+3This illusion is par for the course for anyone who's ever played guitar hero... I remember the first time I played it wondering if the high scores screen was supposed to be all wavy and moving away from me... :)
- PepperMinty, on 10/12/2007, -1/+4When i look away, I only get the effect if i am looking at somthing flat like a wall.
Cool! - spyrochaete, on 10/12/2007, -0/+3Either Stewie Griffon or Bill Cosby has hypnotized you.
Now you're just gonna sit down and enjoy it. And Ghost Dad is the best movie since Leonard Part 6. - roadies, on 10/12/2007, -0/+2whoa that was trippy. I looked at my hand afterwords and it was like there was something moving under the skin.
- Zigerot, on 10/12/2007, -0/+2holy *****, that gets a little scary when it lasts longer then 5 seconds.
- ZeroMP, on 10/12/2007, -0/+2Try looking at your keyboard after - the keys will bulge and shift slightly. I've seen a tiny little .exe in the past that just runs this fullscreen until you press Esc. Pretty cool.
- rassoodock, on 10/12/2007, -1/+3Or good ones, even
- nepawoods, on 10/12/2007, -2/+4dozens of times
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