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Front page of HN. Funny to imagine thousands of people sitting in the office crossing their eyes at their computer screen right now.
by f0e4c2f7 2y ago
Front page of HN. Funny to imagine thousands of people sitting in the office crossing their eyes at their computer screen right now.
- Fnoord 2y agoAll it did was hurt my eyes. I'll opt out of playing, superpower be damned.
- haswell 2y agoI think the key is not "going cross-eyed" as much as it is relaxing your focus until the images merge. If you intentionally cross your eyes, it hurts. If you de-focus/relax your eyes until the images merge, it doesn't hurt.
- HaZeust 2y agoRelaxing focus for me doesn't cause merging or cross-eyed effects, it causes my vision to go too blurry to do anything lol
- boogieknite 2y agoi had the same thing where best i could get when i relaxed was a narrow merge, and when i crossed my focus was too close to my face to be helpful, plus strain. sudden clicked after fully crossing 5 or 6 times and then relaxing and was able to hold the "3rd image" very easily. felt like magic, even hardest difficulty was obvious
- Fnoord 2y agoFor me it just does not work right now. Maybe I have bad eyesight, I wear glasses and am past 40. I believe I was able to do this trick in past though. At the very least on psychedelics (various kinds). This also made me able to relax my eyes more, wheras I normally have too much pressure on them according to optician.
- Pxtl 2y agoThat's more for traditional "magic eye" pattern stereograms where you want to relax your eyes to look off into the middle distance behind the subject instead of intensely focusing on something unnaturally close to your face.
- haswell 2y agoFor whatever reason this is what worked for me to replicate what the author was describing.
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