All I saw was a sailboat :/

walkerhound: All I saw was a sailboat :/

You dumb bastard! That's not a schooner, it's a sailboat!

No thanks. I have minimal belly fat and my penis is large enough.

walkerhound: All I saw was a sailboat :/

Enjoyed the reference - loved that movie.

did it, it worked, and now what?

Is this the one weird trick discovered by a mom to reduce wrinkles for under $10, for which dermatologists hate her? Not to be confused with the one simple rule to reduce belly fat?

/Now to RTFA

Couldn't make it work. I gotta say that trolling in this day and age is getting WEIRD, man...

Well what surprised me wasn't so much that it worked, but how bloody clear an image I was getting! Imma be looking at mah bloodvessels for hours.

I_Don't_Want_FOP: Very nearsighted; I see stuff like that every time I take my contact lenses out.

I'm nearsighted as well, and I only need moderately bright light to hit my eye at a funny angle for this to happen.

Also, those little dots that dash across your vision are white blood cells, not UFOs.

I_Don't_Want_FOP: Very nearsighted; I see stuff like that every time I take my contact lenses out.

I'm not sure you're seeing what I'm seeing. I'm nearsighted myself, but all I ever see are those weird transparent squigly things that floet acroos your field of vision. Are you actually seeing a detailed network of veins?

Do it in a circle, and you'll get a web that almost looks like fractured safety glass, with some stronger lines.

Will it give me a headache like these 3D pictures?

PsyLord: Will it give me a headache like these 3D pictures?

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Only if you're doing it wrong.

Jobbers: I'm nearsighted as well, and I only need moderately bright light to hit my eye at a funny angle for this to happen.

Same here. I wondered how people thought seeing your vessels was new. Yeah, it's a pattern of squiggly veins, just for an instant, wow, hey, my retina.

Do trainers hate me now?

Fascinating video.

No need to have linked to Gizmodo to have seen it.

Direct Link.

AlanSmithee: SirRoderick: I'm not sure you're seeing what I'm seeing. I'm nearsighted myself, but all I ever see are those weird transparent squigly things that floet acroos your field of vision. Are you actually seeing a detailed network of veins?

Floaters are just debris and busted-up blood cells. The vein-sighting is a different beast.

Yeah, that was my point. I was replying to the guy who says it's all he ever sees.

Meh.

chazcali: did it, it worked, and now what?

You learned something new. Now you can get on with the rest of your life and you'll have a cool party trick to show.

jankyboy: walkerhound: All I saw was a sailboat :/

Enjoyed the reference - loved that movie.

brigid_fitch: Oooo, freaky. Reminded me of the House episode where the autistic kid ate raccoon poop & drew pictures of the worms floating in his eyeballs.

/Srsly, it was an episode
//When it's not lupus, they have to go to extremes.

It's NEVER lupus!

that is neat!!! it looks like lightning forks!!

There were a shiatload of words in that video. I'm stoned
Happy New Year Fark!

This actually worked for me -- the effect is a bit subtle, but there's what appears to be a transparent network of lines going all over the place on top of your vision.

Very cool, actually.

Here's another one - if you can contrive to find a small window at the end of a relatively long hallway, as you walk toward it you will note that the hallway and window are stable, but the scene through the window will begin to bounce up and down more and more as you walk toward it.

Your eyes correct for head motion by stabilizing the majority of your field of vision, but it can't stabilize small "keyholes" while holding the surrounding area "still". Thus your visual system will choose to stabilize the larger area of the wall and sacrifice stabilizing the view through the window.

We used to have a small window in a door at the end of a long hall where I worked, perfect for this.