Fatigue test: Spinning Kite illusion. Burnout process Active image movement

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The most famous optical illusion - "Spinning Snakes". In 2005 it was first demonstrated to the public Japanese psychology professor Akieshi Kitaoka. Since then, this and other "moving" figures have become hits on the Internet. Many argue that mysterious pictures are not only art and entertainment, but real health tests.

The most common interpretation is this: if the image before your eyes does not move, then you can rejoice - you have a strong mental health, minimum stress and overall everything is great (if suddenly you didn’t notice this without the pictures). When colored snakes are still moving, but slowly, you have accumulated fatigue, physical and mental, but the situation is not yet critical, and you can correct the situation by starting to get enough sleep (remember, for an adult from 18 to 65 years old, the average sleep norm is 7 - 9 hours, but someone individually may need 10 hours). If the snakes are actively moving, then the stress level is very high, there are already serious problems with the mental state - in a word, it’s time to see a doctor.

The most famous optical illusion is Spinning Snakes.

Skeptics, however, note that in different times day, after work or rest, and even more so after a glass of wine, the optical illusion looks different - it is unlikely that serious changes in health can happen so quickly. So what to believe and why are these mysterious pictures really needed?

EVERYTHING DEPENDS ON BRIGHTNESS AND SPEED

In the scientific community today there are two main versions of how the illusion of rotation works, one of the leading Russian experts in the study of visual illusions told KP, Head of the Scientific and Educational Laboratory of Cognitive Research High school economics Igor Utochkin. The first explanation is that neurons (i.e. nerve cells) the visual cortex of our brain reacts at different speeds to light of different brightness. Namely: the brighter the point or fragment of the picture we are looking at, the faster the corresponding neurons turn on and the brain processes the image. Darker and faded details cause neurons to respond a little slower.

Thanks to this difference in the speed of processing color and light, it is apparently possible to create the effect of rotating the picture. “Kitaoka used in his pattern a regular alternation of elements of different brightness, arranging them in a certain sequence: black-blue-white-yellow-black, etc.,” explains the expert. “As a rule, we see movement in the same direction.” That is, spots of different colors cause neural reactions in visual cortex not simultaneously, but sequentially - just as happens when perceiving real movement.

Optical illusion "Disappearing blue dots"

WHEN THE EYES RUN

Another version is related to eye movement. Try looking intently at the center of one of the circles, and then move your gaze, trying to take in the whole picture. In the first case, the effect of pattern movement disappears, in the second it appears and intensifies, the faster you move your eyes or blink. “Since we are mobile, the picture before our eyes is changeable,” says Igor Utochkin.

But when we look at other images, read a book and blink, there is no sensation of a running line - why?

Our brain is designed in such a way that it usually distinguishes its own eye movements from the real movement of objects and, due to this, gives the command to perceive the picture as stable if it is actually stationary. But it is known that in such a recognition system failures are possible during micro-movements of the eyes - the brain may not notice them, and then the small displacements of the picture caused by these micro-movements are interpreted as movements of the pattern.

This illusion was invented by Japanese psychiatrist Akioshi Kitaoka. According to him, “visual illusions”, like nothing else, help determine a person’s mental state at a given moment. Look at the still image above (not an animation).

• If the image is absolutely still- you have nothing to worry about, your mental health is in perfect order. This result is possible for a balanced, calm and rested person.
• If the image moves slowly— you need rest, both physical and mental. Particularly important is proper sleep, which is the best antidepressant.
• Active image movement serves as a symptom of accumulated fatigue, high levels of stress and deteriorating health. You need rest - maybe even a medical facility.

Perhaps you should slightly adjust your lifestyle or thinking patterns in order to establish spiritual harmony and improve your health.

Akioshi Kitaoka, Professor of Psychology at Ritsumeikan University (Kyoto, Japan), specializes in visual perception and visual illusions. His optical illusion “Rotating Serpent” brought the talented psychologist world fame, and his works were repeatedly awarded prizes for original research.

Akioshi was born on August 19, 1961 in Kochi.

At the University of Tsukuba, the future professor studies the psychology and behavior of animals, as well as the brain activity of monkeys at the Department of Biology, and receives a bachelor's degree.

In 1991, Akioshi Kitaoka received a doctorate in psychology, specializing in illusions of movement, visual illusions, perception of geometric shapes, color, brightness and other visual phenomena.

According to Akioshi Kitaoka, with the help of pictures, so-called “visual illusions,” one can determine a person’s mental state; they help reflect his inner mood.

01. If the drawings are absolutely motionless, you have nothing to worry about, your mental health is in perfect order
The professor believes that such a result is possible in a balanced, calm and rested person

02. If the drawings move slowly, you need rest, both physical and mental
Particularly important is proper sleep, which is the best antidepressant.

03. Active movement of the pattern can serve as a symptom:
accumulated fatigue
the high level of stress you are currently experiencing
deterioration of health

Perhaps you should reconsider your lifestyle and thinking patterns, turn to a psychologist for help in order to establish mental harmony and improve your health. Of course, this test cannot be used to accurately diagnose your mental state.

Look. Analyze. And be healthy!

To make sure that the image is static, you need to focus your vision on one area of ​​the picture - the movement, if you observed it, stops. This convinces us that the movement of the drawing is created by our imagination.

Yes, Akioshi Kitaoka is also famous for the fact that Gaga used his drawings for the album cover.

Yes! Pictures can be printed and hung above the table. For current diagnostics, so to speak!

Be healthy!

This illusion was invented by Japanese psychiatrist Akioshi Kitaoka. According to him, “visual illusions”, like nothing else, help determine a person’s mental state at a given moment. Look at the still image above (not an animation).

• If the image is absolutely still- you have nothing to worry about, your mental health is in perfect order. This result is possible for a balanced, calm and rested person.
• If the image moves slowly- you need rest, both physical and mental. Particularly important is proper sleep, which is the best antidepressant.
• Active image movement serves as a symptom of accumulated fatigue, high levels of stress and deteriorating health. You need rest - maybe even a treatment facility.

Perhaps you should slightly adjust your lifestyle or thinking patterns in order to establish spiritual harmony and improve your health.

Akioshi Kitaoka, Professor of Psychology at Ritsumeikan University (Kyoto, Japan), specializes in visual perception and visual illusions. His optical illusion “Rotating Serpent” brought the talented psychologist world fame, and his works were repeatedly awarded prizes for original research.