Those 3D ’Magic Eye’ things | ADHD Information

I'm sure you know what I mean; those pieces of paper you hold up to your nose and send yourself crosseyed, which are then supposed to become 3D pictures.  Well, I can't work them.

I've absolutely no idea whether it's ADHD related or not, but I have never managed to get one of the wretched things to resolve itself into anything other than a lot of multi-coloured squiggles.

How about you good people?  Can you see them?  I'm curious to know if it's ADHD, or if I'm just blind as a bat.  Thanks in advance

Mark -

Mark, it's my bet you're trying too hard. My suggestion is don't hold it too close to your face. Then let your eyes and vision RELAX...almost to the point they cross by themselves. That's the clue. Ironically, for a change, you don't want to focus. Should be really easy for us AD/HDers.

You can practice/try this with just your hand. Hold it up in front of you, perhaps a foot away. As you let your vision relax and unfocus, see what happens to your hand. If nothing...then try looking at a point beyond your hand has you hold it in front of you. Anything?

I used to do this when I was a child in our bathroom, while sitting on the throne. The floor was those little hexagon tiles, you know the ones I mean. As I relaxed my eyes, the floor would become 3-D and raise almost up to my face!! I loved it. And that was long before they came out with those Magic Eyes! Too bad I didn't think of marketing it myself.

Good luck!! And if this doesn't help, well...you don't look like a bat, Mark. GypsyWomyn38459.6859259259I can't figure them out either.  I have never officially been diagnosed with ADD but the symptoms are all there.  I stare at those things for hours sometimes determined to see the dragon in the field of flowers.  Never see it!!!  My son who is ADHD can find it in seconds.  I think that the ones that can't see it are trying too hard.  All I know is that the harder I try the bigger headache I get.I finally got them to work when I pretended to look through the paper. Looking at the squiggles you will see just that, squiggles, but pretend you are looking through a glass window and slowly focus, and your eyes will settle on a previously imperceivable image.

oh, i love those.  You kinda have to look at them cross-eyed sometimes....sometimes the "close up and then back a way" method of looking does not work...

i can always make out exactly what it is a picture of....

but then again, as i mentioned before, i tend to have an artist's brain...their are a lot of art things that I tend to "get" and comprehend, when no one else can....

(not meaning to toot my own horn there, its just that i have so few things that i'm good at...)

I can't get them to work either, but I know how they are supposed to work. Your supposed to fool your eyes into thinking that different squiggles are actually the same squiggle. And you're supposed to do it by diverging your eyes, which seems impossible, but you might be able to do it like reizende said and look 'through' it. (I still can't though) The closest I have come was to make it work by 'crossing' my eyes. The problem there is that crossing your eyes inverts the 3D depths, and makes what is supposed to be a hole actually into a bulge, so that the image is kindof unrecognizable. However, I have been able to discern depth by crossing my eyes. You might try putting a toilet paper tube over one eye, and steer the tube to the proper squiggle.Yes, I have found they work when I go cross-eyed. Otherwise they don't work for me.
can't get them myself as wellI can't make those things work, but have you ever stared at a tile floor or some repeating pattern and the floor started to appear closer? That's cool :-P

I tried the cross eyed thing,,, stared at them forever .

Never worked.

I found that when you looked "out of focus"... and a little cross-eyed, that you could se... but I think it has something with luck to do... also

When I first saw one of these things, I couldn't get it either. The instructions said to hold the paper to your nose, and slowly draw it away. That's BULL and will not work!

The image suddenly popped out plain as day when I focused on the far wall, and then slid the paper up to my line of vision. I was looking through the paper, just as one would look through a glass window.

Ever since then, I've been able to get them within seconds. They are so cool!

Try this - as you are looking at your computer monitor right now, look through it as though you were trying to see the far wall. You will notice that the lines and letters on your screen go kind of funny. This is exactly what you need to do with the Magic Eye!
Ok That's one problem solved. Here's the next one. You are at a party and you think you are being warm and friendly when, in fact, you are being overbearing and boring. :-(