You are ill my friend. That picture certainly gives me the optical illusion, but my keyboard...?
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Unibody keyboard...is it an optical illusion or am I ill?
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I see it on the keyboard once in a while actually. I guess some do and some dont. Im not being sarcastic by the way. Even my friends have noticed it lol.
I don't have the issue, but I remember reading about a person having this problem.
The way he resolved his problem was by putting blue tape down the rows of the keyboard. 5 horizontal thin blue strips of tape down the length of the keyboard. These would prevent the optical illusion to occur.
It was a picture on flickr or somewhere, but I can't find it now.
I see it all the time. Not when you directly look at it, but you catch it out of the corner of your eye. I've noticed it since I got my first generation Unibody.
I'm with you 
Dude, I love the internet for that quick self-assurance that I'm not going crazy. I was seeing the same thing when I looked at my keyboard too, so of course I searched it up to know if anyone else was seeing those dots. (I'm not tripping balls)
Try this: Search anything in Google, someone has already thought/done that something. Try it! Not only have they thought about it, but they also took the time to post it online....here's the best part: this phenomenon has always been true--the internet is just revealing the interconnectedness and spontaneity of ideas. (Kinda like the whole egyptian pyramid/mayan temple concept). All the human brains in the world are just part of a larger organism - Dare I call it, the master brain. And regretfully, to quote Holleywood:
Dom Cobb: What is the most resilient parasite? A bacteria? A virus? An intestinal worm?
Arthur: Ah, what Mr Cobb is trying to...
Dom Cobb: An idea. Resilient, highly contagious. Once an idea has taken hold of the brain it's almost impossible to eradicate. An idea that is fully formed, fully understood. That sticks, right in there somewhere.
[he points to his head]
(Inception)
At this point in evolution, I no longer see individual innovation as competitive...it's going to take larger and larger efficient teams of thinkers to create new innovation. Meaning, my idea, your idea, and your mother-in-law's idea has already been thought of...Just "google" it. To come up with new ideas, you have to be:
a) Albert Einstein or,
b) Part of a team of researchers
The age of individual contribution is nearing an end.
Dude, I love the internet for that quick self-assurance that I'm not going crazy. I was seeing the same thing when I looked at my keyboard too, so of course I searched it up to know if anyone else was seeing those dots. (I'm not tripping balls)
Try this: Search anything in Google, someone has already thought/done that something. Try it! Not only have they thought about it, but they also took the time to post it online....here's the best part: this phenomenon has always been true--the internet is just revealing the interconnectedness and spontaneity of ideas. (Kinda like the whole egyptian pyramid/mayan temple concept). All the human brains in the world are just part of a larger organism - Dare I call it, the master brain. And regretfully, to quote Holleywood:
Dom Cobb: What is the most resilient parasite? A bacteria? A virus? An intestinal worm?
Arthur: Ah, what Mr Cobb is trying to...
Dom Cobb: An idea. Resilient, highly contagious. Once an idea has taken hold of the brain it's almost impossible to eradicate. An idea that is fully formed, fully understood. That sticks, right in there somewhere.
[he points to his head]
(Inception)
At this point in evolution, I no longer see individual innovation as competitive...it's going to take larger and larger efficient teams of thinkers to create new innovation. Meaning, my idea, your idea, and your mother-in-law's idea has already been thought of...Just "google" it. To come up with new ideas, you have to be:
a) Albert Einstein or,
b) Part of a team of researchers
The age of individual contribution is nearing an end.
I see too
I just looked down at my macbook pro keyboard (which i've had for about a week now) and suddenly saw the effect which prompted me to search "Grey dot illusion macbook pro" which came up with this forum Definitely trippy, but hardly an issue, lol.
NOOOO CAN'T... FOCUS... DOTS.... DISAPPEARING...
I just looked down at my macbook pro keyboard (which i've had for about a week now) and suddenly saw the effect which prompted me to search "Grey dot illusion macbook pro" which came up with this forum
Definitely trippy, but hardly an issue, lol.NOOOO CAN'T... FOCUS... DOTS.... DISAPPEARING...
Odd... this illusion is only supposed to work when you have directly intersecting lines like the actual illusion. It shouldn't actually be possible on a keyboard layout.
Im so confused. Where do u guys see this grid on the keyboard?!
In between the keys. It obviously doesn't match exactly the grid optical illusion, just similar.