While this is a real illusion, I don't think it has anything to do with ADHD. There are small involuntary eye movements called microsaccades (en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Microsaccade) which make it difficult for anyone to focus on a single point for too long. I also have ADHD, and I can easily make the dots disappear when I go to fullscreen and get close to the monitor, as the dots are large relative to the size of my eye's microsaccades. When I move further away from my monitor, the dots consume a smaller portion of my visual field and it becomes harder to maintain the illusion.
Same. I'm currently drinking Guinness watching Independence Day and was thinking I needed to stop and go to bed because everything was spinning... That movie was better in the 90's right? I mean it's 1,000 clichés rolled into a movie.
This might help some who are confused. Unless you've trained yourself to keep your eyes perfectly still, there will always be a micro-twitch and it will break the illusion. Blinking also breaks this illusion because: 1. You have to refocus on the center 2. Your eyelids exert a tiny amount of pressure against your eyes which causes movement The human body isn't meant to be as still as stone unless we're dead. There will always be some form of movement. What this test is supposed to show is if you're actively moving your eyes to focus on the other three dots. Also, another fun fact, I can keep concentrated on the center and still see the other dots because I have trained myself to use my peripheral vision more than most others. Your mind will "forget" the other dots are there because you are used to only looking ahead, but if you can learn to use your peripheral vision and widen your field of view to a certain degree.
Using my trained peripheral vision actually made the dots disappear easier at will. You just have ADHD my dude. For context, I trained my peripheral vision because a book on speed reading told me to do so. It improved my reading speed a bit, so it worked.
It's just severe acute mental instruction to simply focus and keep focus. Once you start don't stop simple as that. Any thought that rises? Ignore, fight, and replace it to maintain focus. I use this at the gym too and I'm accomplishing goals I never thought possible
They blink in synchronization to when the spots transition from the red marks to the dark spaces in between. The blinking is actually a cloaking effect helping the spots blend in and disappear. If they didn't blink they wouldn't disappear.
I'm diagnosed with ADHD. No dots disappeared- they flickered but then my eyes were immediately drawn to them. Can people make them disappear for a few seconds?
WayOtt a second maybe...i look at the center then one or two disappear then i look at them slightly trying to focus in the middle then the other one disappear then i only focus on the center...but they keep appearing and disappearing unintentionally paying attention to them😅
1:05 frustrating to see so many comments either bragging or making it a huge deal. As someone who has been diagnosed with ADHD, I can BARELY do all 3 for half a second no matter how hard I focus and fixate on it. this is a fascinating test and good if you can but don’t diss on the video or others if they can’t fr
don't worry there is little merit to this test in connection with ADHD. if anything its just an optical illusion. there is no way to reliably test focus here. i might be undiagnosed or slightly non neurotypical and i can only make the dots stay invisible for mere moments before one or two of them re-appear for a split second. this test really isn't about focusing. the rotating dots force their way into your perception regardless
@@drewjn same, the flashing light makes me want to blink. I couldn't spend anymore than 3 seconds without my eyelids closing by themselves, resetting the dots back on to the screen, taking another second or two to disappear just to spend anotehr 2 or 3 seconds until my eyelids blink by themselves.
I would notice a dot or two disappear, but then quickly reappear. I could feel this twitch in my eyes every time a dot or two would disappear, and the dots simultaneously reappear. I felt like I was still looking at the center dot! Why'd that happen? I was determined. I had watched this video for the third time when I mentally said at myself, "Why won't these dots disappear!" I'd been thinking about the dots not disappearing. The task is to look at simply look at the center dot. The task is not to make the outer three dots disappear. Sure, I'd been physically looking at the center dot with my eyes. I'd wonder if my thoughts are immediately turning inward for stimulation. I thought of a plan to somehow focus on something I can focus on doing all day and connecting that task with staring at the center dot. Immediate thought was how I get a song stuck in my head all the time. Time to turn this dot-staring task into a song and see what happens. This dot's flashing between the colors green and blue. It's flashing quick like some fast-paced metal Motorhead! I started mentally hearing Lemmy shouting "Blue! Green! Blue! Green! Blue! Green! Green!" As soon as I consciously thought of saying the wrong color I noticed all three dots reappear. WHAT? When did the dots disappear? Eh, screw it. I'm just sitting here getting my Jimmies rustled over some dots. There's no reward for completing anything this video tells me to do. I do have this idea for a weird heavy metal song, though. Edit: For years I've been working on improving memory. I can make the dots disappear for about a second or so with my best efforts.
Cause you are seeing distractions in real life to the sides of your screen. You gotta have it fullscreen, without seeing around your device at distractions
I’ve been doing this weird meditation lately where I just stare at a fixed point for a prolonged time and eventually I notice my vision starts to get blurry and it looks like the background is shifting. Eventually the object or point I’m staring at “disappears” into what looks like a black hole/spot and I can hold this for a few seconds until I have a thought about noticing it and then I have to try again. I’ll do this for 15-25 minutes sometimes just because it feels so good doing it. All my stress and worries dissipate for a temporary period and I feel like my mind is free
Awesome! I’ve been doing this for years starting around the age of 10(I had convinced myself that one day I was going to be able to see through the ceiling I feel childlike folly/wisdom influence what happen next) I am now 45. It’s an amazing way to relax the body and the mind initially. Eventually with extended focus and time I began to see what I call the violet wash. It looks almost like someone’s slowly pouring a viscous fluid across my visual field which is Violet but somehow contains all of the other colors on the spectrum within its core. Not sure how else to explain it. Then in about my mid to late 20s I began to see an additional type of what I would call fractal light webbing emerging from the violet light. Said webbing was sensitive to my focus. And would create what I can only describe as eddies within the energetic field that I was seeing, as if my focus created a vortex and affected the general field. I began applying this focus in different settings within my life Walking/talking/hiking/yoga. Somewhere around age 27 or 28, I went for a walk on a new moon evening and began my normal focus routine as I walked around the neighborhood. A few minutes into my walk/focus meditation, everything within my field of view began to spiral into what I can only call a pitch black vortex, all of what was real and what I could see was draining into nothingness. I was in an extremely rural area so there were no street lights and almost no lighting around. But what I thought to be a pitch black knight that surrounded me was dwarfed by the blackness that all I considered to be reality was draining into. As all of what I could see drained into this black nothingness it began to transform into all I can describe as a iridescent flaming serpent looking energy that was coming directly out of my forehead, it was almost like a fireworks display in its expression But it was innately connected to the violet light I describe as if to be born of and emerge from it. Well! Thank you for listening or reading if you did. I just wanted to say keep doing what you’re doing there’s something else within us that has capabilities beyond what we consider to be normal. It’s amazing
yeah its called trataka but idk if you know this technique with a different name. used for achieving focus at a single point , it is a technique which is used in spiritual practices.
I was diagnosed with ADHD when I was a child, and then later when being tested for another disorder at 27, I was told that the ADHD didn't show up on the test. It wasn't that I had been misdiagnosed, as a child the symptoms of ADHD were definitely present. I believe I just got better at working around the disorder until it no longer affects me on a measurable level. I can make 2 dots, the bottom two usually, disappear for over 5 seconds, but not over 10. And I can make all 3 dots disappear for 2 to 3 seconds.
I call bull crap. I have adhd and I pretty quickly got all three to disappear for a few seconds because I got distracted and started thinking about something else while staring straight ahead lol.
There are several mitigating circumstances that can cause one to fail this "test" lol. I tried it both with and without caffeine consumption and it was a challenge, but entirely doable, without caffeine, while with caffeine I found it nearly impossible to make more than two dots disappear. The other comment about microsaccades is spot-on.
I have ADHD. I was able to make all dots vanish, but only for about two seconds. But I also agree with some commenters that this doesn't prove wether I have it or not. There are several other factors not taken into account.
@@ananyabhagat7052 I think so? I mean I don't have proof in front of me right now but I remember being on a medication that was supposed to help me focus in school. They later decided it wasn't working, but I think part of that was because I was being sneaky and spitting them out sometimes. They sometimes got stuck in my throat and made me feel VERY ill. My coworkers are also saying that's it's obvious I have it lol
@@TheOddHawk ahh right, i asked bcoz my result is similar to yours. I was also able to make them vanish multiple times but for a really short time frame. So just wondering do i have to do something extra to match the ppl who have a normal attention span??
@ananyabhagat7052 no idea! I think I'd maybe be able to do it for longer if it didn't make my eyes hurt lol. When it comes to add, its not as simple as just having a short attention span. You might get very distracted while trying to read a high school history textbook, but have laser focus when reading your favorite fanfiction or whatever. If it's not something I'm interested in, reading it takes several retries and all of my effort. But yeah, big part of this is that it just makes my eyes hurt so the effect doesn't last long for me.
There are a billion things that can limit attention, eg your ability to focus is higher at the start of the day, if you have fewer stressors etc. This is not an adhd test.
What if your eyes are just dry af and you can’t go long without blinking. This is actually something the brain does naturally. I saw it in Brain Games.
I am diagnosed with ADD, and I managed about 6-7 seconds on my first watch of this movie. The way you do it is to let go of the focus in the same way as with far-away eyes when you are looking off in the distance and not focusing on anything with your eyes.
i have adhd and couldnt focus at all, but when you gave me the challenge with the 10 seconds it was no problem at all. i even forgot, that i am sitting in a car with loud music and heavy bass on
So I saw this video a week ago - this was my wake up call that I need to seek medical help. not only did I not manage to make the yellow dots to disappear I couldnt resist to look or notice them . After help Currently on 20mg Foclin XR for ADHD and I feel wierd and unsettling because I have never in my life felt this way it’s so wierd a new to me I know hold my focus on the dot for 4-5 seconds, and I for the first time have a clean room for 1 week in a row . The only bad thing is , it’s so new to me that I get mild headaches at the end of the day because I’m not used to doing stuff at all. I worked on my entire quarter of missed work on my computer for 9 hours non stop , because I didn’t have a reason to stop . That gave me a throw bing headace hopefully I get used to working long .
@@JonnySolomon hey, congrats for your achievement. Sorry for digging this up but does your ability to communicate and stay connected with your friends improved?
@@al201103I completely stopped Focalin XR and switched to adderall works wonders and my life has improved but had to stop taking it because I got a job that’s very fast pace and versatile and it would make me a perfectionist taking my time on everything I did and I would get nervous. Hoping to restart soon.
It took me 19 seconds before I could make them disappear and that was whenever I was trying. The first time I watched this video they would only disappear for a second at most. Probably more like milliseconds. They don't stay away for more than 1-2 seconds at most. I was diagnosed with ADD a few years ago though.
First attempt watching this I made 1 dot disappear for 3 sec and could do 2 dots for 2 seconds. After practicing a few dozen times, I figured out a trick, and can now get all dots to go away. Avg time is 3 seconds, but I was able to hit 6 seconds several times. The trick for me was.. 1st I made sure my distance to screen was comfortable (I wear glasses and get double vision). I then allowed my eyes to blur on the green flicking and while I got distracted, I allowed my peripheral vision to pay attention the ends of the red square as it started to rotate. If the square is roating smoothly, I'm in the zone and doing it right. Seems my mind, allows me to peak at the red tips for a sec and go back to green without reintroducing the dots.
The fact that I went back and focused on the yellow dots to make sure they actually disappeared because of the illusion is probably also an indication I don't have ADHD.
Token Diagnosed ADHD here, as a kid I my ceiling light or points on the wall til it disappeared from view all the time as a kid when I couldn’t sleep. Didn’t know this was a well documented thing. Glad to finally have an explanation for what this thing I’ve so frequently encountered is, but funny to see the people who seem to struggle with it the most are people with my very same condition. Makes you wonder I suppose.
There's a ton of study on the cognitive benefits of regular exercise for people with ADHD! Especially intense cardio! Comparing executive function to a gas tank that runs out throughout the day, you not only get an immediate temporary boost to your gas tank the day you exercise but also level up your baseline and increase the capacity of your gas tank after months and years of consistent habitual exercising. Stimulant medication is the first line of treatment and has the greatest immediate effect, but habitual exercise is the second most beneficial thing you can do. Rant over.
@@albertnan2999 hyperfocus is a symptom of adhd, basically what happens when you are unable to control your focus and once you've hyperfocused on something, you literally cant bring yourself to stop for hours
@@albertnan2999 I'm not diagnosed (yet), but personally every few months or so I can hyperfixate on one specific thing (whether it's a show or subject or whatever), and it's the only thing I'll be able to solely focus on without being distracted for a while. if I try I can make myself, but usually it only lasts for a few seconds.
They are flashing for me because I keep laughing Everytime one goes bye bye ADHD is painful to live with. Emotionally. Sometimes you can see yourself struggle like an out of body experience, you're looking at yourself and asking yourself "what do people think of me? Do they see this too? Why am I like this? Can't I just stop already? I bet people think I'm on some sort of drug." I wish I didn't have ADHD and to the people with me that do, we can all get through it. And to the people that don't that fake it, you're not cute. And to those who are just curious about what ADHD is like, ask a fellow person who has been diagnosed. They will try to explain it. My favorite way to explain it, is my mind is like a broken windows computer, two tabs are playing music, one is a podcast, a game is running and the home screen crashed. All at the same time.
stared at it for so long now the comment section is wavy. got to 10seconds tho. staring at it without blinking helps, moving your eyes all over the place will break the illusion.
As I was scrolling on my phone at night, the color of the crosses changed from a hot pink at standstill to a deep red as I was scrolling by. Not sure what that is but that’s what made me click on the video!
I almost had it but I couldn’t make them vanish, it felt like my eyes had a mind of they’re own and the second the dots were about to disappear my eyes would do what felt like a jerking motion
I don't believe the validity of the test. Unfocus seems to work just as well as focus. Keep in mind that these guys have no idea how anything really works, they just find rough correlations and devise tests like this that give partial/false result. Like most tests, the ONLY thing it proves is that you can pass the test, which means you MAYYYYY be able to focus. Like JamBooBx said - People are making the obvious mistake that staring at a dot = "focus" = "attention" = "ADHD" and pretty much none of this is real, brains are extremely diverse and the mechanisms of all these functions are unknown (they'll lie and say otherwise)
I can make them vanish for a tiny amount of time like 4 seconds at most,I think this is also why I'm so good at multi tasking so it's a disability and a power at the same time
I keep getting to the point where I'm seeing the last one disappear and then my brain just goes "where did it go" and then I search for it like a dumbass.
Ok but trying to listen on what he's saying while trying to make the dots disappear is the real challenge. Idk how many times I went "wait what did he said?" and went 10 seconds backwards. Don't tell me I have ADHD... because I am diagnosed anyways lol.
When you begin to start trying to aim for ten seconds and realize just how difficult your body has to remain still in order to reach it. Breathing is detrimental, blinking is absolute. While getting closer is easier to clear dots, lasting is far harder.
im 36 years old, i have learned to control myself more than I used to, i had huge trouble getting all 3 to disappear, I think i did it for a second, then couldn't again no matter how hard i tried, i had about 2.5 disappear at any given point, the 3rd so close. interesting.
Im diagnosed ADHD, have been off of meds since 2013, and I absolutely could make all the dots disappear. Not only that but this doesn't even make sense. ADHD doesn't make you unable to focus on things. Its the exact opposite actually. Sometimes we aren't able to control what catches our interest but that's very different from your ability to focus.
I tried it over and over, I can't make them disappear. And yes I am diagnosed with severe ADHD. Legit medical diagnosis by multiple independent psychiatrists, NOT self-diagnosed.
The so-called "normal" individuals can blend parts of their reality into nonexistence, making them more compliant and better at following orders and half-truths while ignoring the full picture. Conversely, those who perceive the entire reality and can't compartmentalize parts of it (leading them to ask more questions) are often labeled as having ADHD and are prescribed medication. 🤔 Thanks for posting 📫 🙏 I truly understand what is exactly the problem is and it is not really my problem but the problem of managing society 💯
Wow that's deep but actually makes sense to be honest. a lot of these "conditions" are actually superpowers they want to make us afraid or ashamed to use
If you allow the center green dot double, it makes it easier to sustain and stay focused on more than 3 outter yellow dots. By allowing the balance to continue,.... My results was that no for disappeared. Pretty cool visual experiment. I don't see a commonality with adh. Further experiments might draw a different conclusion.
The fact that we know before the test even starts, what to look out for, completely destroys all of its viability because the more you make the viewer concentrate on the dots disappearance, will make them more present. It shows the viewer is very aware of your voice and the things you say. If you make all the dots disappear, you are probably just high af.
Is this test legitimate? I was tested at a psychological clinic in 2020 and was told that I don't have ADHD, yet I failed this test. Could anyone post a reply and explain this to me? I am concerned.
You can have ADHD and not "test" that you have ADHD. ADHD is often misdiagnosed as another condition. ADHD can also fall under the "clinical" threshold meaning you have the traits but not severely enough to qualify as "clinical" ADHD. Give yourself some grace, and get a second opinion.
Those with ADHD from childhood trauma, think this over and over: "Let it hypnotize you. You are safe. You are safe here. You are safe." It worked like a lightswitch for me. All dots disappeared for a pretty decent amount of time until I got excited about it actually working lol the over-analyticism and overthinking were the issue. Edit: Let the thought fade into a whisper and you might get sleepy lol
Im diagnosed and managed all the yellow dots for roughly 4 seconds on 3 occasions then towards the end couldn't make any dots disappear. Have just had coffee and am quite relaxed. Can't imagine it working if I wasn't.
While this is a real illusion, I don't think it has anything to do with ADHD. There are small involuntary eye movements called microsaccades (en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Microsaccade) which make it difficult for anyone to focus on a single point for too long.
I also have ADHD, and I can easily make the dots disappear when I go to fullscreen and get close to the monitor, as the dots are large relative to the size of my eye's microsaccades. When I move further away from my monitor, the dots consume a smaller portion of my visual field and it becomes harder to maintain the illusion.
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@@Maus_122 still true, but he should of gone to the Wikipedia sources
@@Maus_122 skull emoji 💀
Tip: start @1:48. This will make it much easier to make all 3 dots disappear!👍🏼
😂😂😂👊(yeah,you got me!)
Bro it made the lights flash and dance 😢
@@y4duv33r no that was something else!🙃
@@bjones5791🤣🤣
It did disappear! Thanks for the tip!
For those worried, this is not a screamer. It is a legit video.
Thank you for this. Those AOL emails still haunt me 😂
man PTSD is real
That's not why I was worried😅
Thank you 😂 I was scared
wow
Now all the text is swirling and my eyes are juttering. Thanks!
Mine too.. 😂😂
Me tooo
Same. I'm currently drinking Guinness watching Independence Day and was thinking I needed to stop and go to bed because everything was spinning...
That movie was better in the 90's right? I mean it's 1,000 clichés rolled into a movie.
@ I miss the newness of 90’s movies.
😂😂😂😂 haha thought the same
This might help some who are confused.
Unless you've trained yourself to keep your eyes perfectly still, there will always be a micro-twitch and it will break the illusion.
Blinking also breaks this illusion because:
1. You have to refocus on the center
2. Your eyelids exert a tiny amount of pressure against your eyes which causes movement
The human body isn't meant to be as still as stone unless we're dead. There will always be some form of movement.
What this test is supposed to show is if you're actively moving your eyes to focus on the other three dots.
Also, another fun fact, I can keep concentrated on the center and still see the other dots because I have trained myself to use my peripheral vision more than most others. Your mind will "forget" the other dots are there because you are used to only looking ahead, but if you can learn to use your peripheral vision and widen your field of view to a certain degree.
No, you got ADHD 😂
U just cant do it lol
Muzafer Sheriff used this autokinetic property of the eyes to study the formation of norms in groups back in 1936
Using my trained peripheral vision actually made the dots disappear easier at will. You just have ADHD my dude.
For context, I trained my peripheral vision because a book on speed reading told me to do so. It improved my reading speed a bit, so it worked.
That one adhd person who managed to completely hyperfocus: 🙂
It's just severe acute mental instruction to simply focus and keep focus. Once you start don't stop simple as that. Any thought that rises? Ignore, fight, and replace it to maintain focus. I use this at the gym too and I'm accomplishing goals I never thought possible
I thought I could
I’ve been trying for 5 mins
I thought all the ppl with ADHD or ADD get distracted?
@@a_multidimentional_mess5561 it just happens sometimes when you try to focus my guy
Blinking ruins it
Yeah I’m tired and my eyes hurt if I keep them open too long
Yup, but if you keep it for like 10-15 seconds then it works even if you keep the screen away
Something cool is when it’s over close your eyes in a dark room and you see circles spinning backwards :)
Or even If you Move your Eye Balls slightly
They blink in synchronization to when the spots transition from the red marks to the dark spaces in between. The blinking is actually a cloaking effect helping the spots blend in and disappear. If they didn't blink they wouldn't disappear.
I'm diagnosed with ADHD. No dots disappeared- they flickered but then my eyes were immediately drawn to them. Can people make them disappear for a few seconds?
WayOtt a second maybe...i look at the center then one or two disappear then i look at them slightly trying to focus in the middle then the other one disappear then i only focus on the center...but they keep appearing and disappearing unintentionally paying attention to them😅
WayOtt yea me too their just flickering
have you tried it with medication? curious if any difference
I get scared when they disappear 😂
WayOtt I’m diagnosed with ADHD also no disappeared
1:05 frustrating to see so many comments either bragging or making it a huge deal. As someone who has been diagnosed with ADHD, I can BARELY do all 3 for half a second no matter how hard I focus and fixate on it. this is a fascinating test and good if you can but don’t diss on the video or others if they can’t fr
don't worry there is little merit to this test in connection with ADHD. if anything its just an optical illusion. there is no way to reliably test focus here. i might be undiagnosed or slightly non neurotypical and i can only make the dots stay invisible for mere moments before one or two of them re-appear for a split second. this test really isn't about focusing. the rotating dots force their way into your perception regardless
What are we trying here, as soon as I look at middle 3 of them dissappear
Have adhd too, I can make them disappear for maybe 3-5 seconds
Oh I'm not diagnosed but I can barely make them all disappear for a half second before the disappearing makes me look away....
I got it for like 1 second or less in the beginning, then I'd die to even get 2 hidden after that 😭
Great, now everything in my room is spinning.
And i feel the need to kick myself with my foot.
....careful with what youre watching cuz it could put in some subliminals in there.
This has nothing to do with concentration. It has to do with how long you can hold your eye muscles still which is extremely hard for any human.
Ugh thank you
Yeah, the moment I blink it's a full reset. I don't consider blinking as an inability to focus
@@drewjn when you blink you eyes move up so it resets.
@@drewjn same, the flashing light makes me want to blink. I couldn't spend anymore than 3 seconds without my eyelids closing by themselves, resetting the dots back on to the screen, taking another second or two to disappear just to spend anotehr 2 or 3 seconds until my eyelids blink by themselves.
Skill issue.
I’m diagnosed with ADHD and when I couldn’t make any disappear after trying four times I got angry 😂
Priscilla R same 😂😂😂
👍😳
It is not ADHD since we have hyperfocus. You might just be regarded
Me neither
Lol. I threw the iPad on the bed
I would notice a dot or two disappear, but then quickly reappear. I could feel this twitch in my eyes every time a dot or two would disappear, and the dots simultaneously reappear. I felt like I was still looking at the center dot! Why'd that happen? I was determined. I had watched this video for the third time when I mentally said at myself, "Why won't these dots disappear!" I'd been thinking about the dots not disappearing. The task is to look at simply look at the center dot. The task is not to make the outer three dots disappear. Sure, I'd been physically looking at the center dot with my eyes. I'd wonder if my thoughts are immediately turning inward for stimulation. I thought of a plan to somehow focus on something I can focus on doing all day and connecting that task with staring at the center dot. Immediate thought was how I get a song stuck in my head all the time. Time to turn this dot-staring task into a song and see what happens. This dot's flashing between the colors green and blue. It's flashing quick like some fast-paced metal Motorhead! I started mentally hearing Lemmy shouting "Blue! Green! Blue! Green! Blue! Green! Green!" As soon as I consciously thought of saying the wrong color I noticed all three dots reappear. WHAT? When did the dots disappear? Eh, screw it. I'm just sitting here getting my Jimmies rustled over some dots. There's no reward for completing anything this video tells me to do. I do have this idea for a weird heavy metal song, though.
Edit: For years I've been working on improving memory. I can make the dots disappear for about a second or so with my best efforts.
Bruh, just by how long this comment is (and the little idea for a heavy metal song) I can tell you have some form of ADHD
Y'all try to act quirky so fucking hard like we can tell
''I do have this idea for a weird metal song though... 🤔😜🤘'' gurl stfu
@@qannicc its not that deep take a breath
I aint reading allat
What's funny is as soon as a dot disappears, my sight instantly shifts to check it out, bringing it back. It becomes a cycle if I try to hold it.
They keep popping in and out of existence!! Maddening!
How close your eyes are to the screen makes a huge difference, as I've noticed
That's the flaw of this test
I didn't find any such flaws.
Cause you are seeing distractions in real life to the sides of your screen. You gotta have it fullscreen, without seeing around your device at distractions
I get the same phenomenon either way.
I feel like this video is basically just to test your eyes' blind spots. I remember seeing videos like this but for the blindspots
When the video ended, I looked at my bedpost and the center was swirling. Cool illusion!
Me too, not your bed post but mine 😂
I’ve been doing this weird meditation lately where I just stare at a fixed point for a prolonged time and eventually I notice my vision starts to get blurry and it looks like the background is shifting. Eventually the object or point I’m staring at “disappears” into what looks like a black hole/spot and I can hold this for a few seconds until I have a thought about noticing it and then I have to try again. I’ll do this for 15-25 minutes sometimes just because it feels so good doing it. All my stress and worries dissipate for a temporary period and I feel like my mind is free
Fixed point meditation 🙂
Idk if you know or not, but it's a legit technique
Awesome! I’ve been doing this for years starting around the age of 10(I had convinced myself that one day I was going to be able to see through the ceiling I feel childlike folly/wisdom influence what happen next) I am now 45. It’s an amazing way to relax the body and the mind initially. Eventually with extended focus and time I began to see what I call the violet wash. It looks almost like someone’s slowly pouring a viscous fluid across my visual field which is Violet but somehow contains all of the other colors on the spectrum within its core. Not sure how else to explain it.
Then in about my mid to late 20s I began to see an additional type of what I would call fractal light webbing emerging from the violet light. Said webbing was sensitive to my focus. And would create what I can only describe as eddies within the energetic field that I was seeing, as if my focus created a vortex and affected the general field.
I began applying this focus in different settings within my life Walking/talking/hiking/yoga.
Somewhere around age 27 or 28, I went for a walk on a new moon evening and began my normal focus routine as I walked around the neighborhood. A few minutes into my walk/focus meditation, everything within my field of view began to spiral into what I can only call a pitch black vortex, all of what was real and what I could see was draining into nothingness. I was in an extremely rural area so there were no street lights and almost no lighting around. But what I thought to be a pitch black knight that surrounded me was dwarfed by the blackness that all I considered to be reality was draining into. As all of what I could see drained into this black nothingness it began to transform into all I can describe as a iridescent flaming serpent looking energy that was coming directly out of my forehead, it was almost like a fireworks display in its expression But it was innately connected to the violet light I describe as if to be born of and emerge from it.
Well! Thank you for listening or reading if you did. I just wanted to say keep doing what you’re doing there’s something else within us that has capabilities beyond what we consider to be normal. It’s amazing
yeah its called trataka but idk if you know this technique with a different name. used for achieving focus at a single point , it is a technique which is used in spiritual practices.
I know this!
Can you update what happened after continuing to do this if you did?
I was diagnosed with ADHD when I was a child, and then later when being tested for another disorder at 27, I was told that the ADHD didn't show up on the test. It wasn't that I had been misdiagnosed, as a child the symptoms of ADHD were definitely present. I believe I just got better at working around the disorder until it no longer affects me on a measurable level.
I can make 2 dots, the bottom two usually, disappear for over 5 seconds, but not over 10. And I can make all 3 dots disappear for 2 to 3 seconds.
I was never diagnosed but yeah the upper dot is hard to make it disappear. I can only do it for a fraction of a second
I call bull crap. I have adhd and I pretty quickly got all three to disappear for a few seconds because I got distracted and started thinking about something else while staring straight ahead lol.
There are several mitigating circumstances that can cause one to fail this "test" lol. I tried it both with and without caffeine consumption and it was a challenge, but entirely doable, without caffeine, while with caffeine I found it nearly impossible to make more than two dots disappear.
The other comment about microsaccades is spot-on.
I can't freaking hold my laugh when they actually disappear lol
Youjust have a low attention span, iv had 5 coffees today and can make all of them disaster for a few seconds
@@milindusha lol. Lmao, even.
I can manage 2 secs at most.
Same here
Same, damn this is actually quite hard
More like 2 dots for me
Not even two for me
Wait what I am doing in the comment section 🙂🙂
I have ADHD. I was able to make all dots vanish, but only for about two seconds. But I also agree with some commenters that this doesn't prove wether I have it or not. There are several other factors not taken into account.
Is your adhd diagnosed?
@@ananyabhagat7052 I think so? I mean I don't have proof in front of me right now but I remember being on a medication that was supposed to help me focus in school. They later decided it wasn't working, but I think part of that was because I was being sneaky and spitting them out sometimes. They sometimes got stuck in my throat and made me feel VERY ill.
My coworkers are also saying that's it's obvious I have it lol
@@TheOddHawk ahh right, i asked bcoz my result is similar to yours. I was also able to make them vanish multiple times but for a really short time frame. So just wondering do i have to do something extra to match the ppl who have a normal attention span??
@ananyabhagat7052 no idea! I think I'd maybe be able to do it for longer if it didn't make my eyes hurt lol.
When it comes to add, its not as simple as just having a short attention span. You might get very distracted while trying to read a high school history textbook, but have laser focus when reading your favorite fanfiction or whatever. If it's not something I'm interested in, reading it takes several retries and all of my effort.
But yeah, big part of this is that it just makes my eyes hurt so the effect doesn't last long for me.
There are a billion things that can limit attention, eg your ability to focus is higher at the start of the day, if you have fewer stressors etc. This is not an adhd test.
@@IkigaiObi idk about hypnosis but it is certainly misinformation to get views from people desperately trying to confirm they have ADHD
@@simonflodin5109exactly im diagnosed as adhd and i dont think it has to do wkth attention span more so eye sight and sub conscious recognition.
ADHD brains were the top hunters and gatherers of their tribe, it's a gift
*CITATIONS NEEDED*
What if your eyes are just dry af and you can’t go long without blinking. This is actually something the brain does naturally. I saw it in Brain Games.
I am diagnosed with ADD, and I managed about 6-7 seconds on my first watch of this movie.
The way you do it is to let go of the focus in the same way as with far-away eyes when you are looking off in the distance and not focusing on anything with your eyes.
Also diagnosed ADHD. Tried this, still couldn't get any to disappear. I also haven't slept in a couple days so idunno how useful this test would be
i have adhd and couldnt focus at all, but when you gave me the challenge with the 10 seconds it was no problem at all. i even forgot, that i am sitting in a car with loud music and heavy bass on
In 1:49 I got it 😅
At 150 I started getting frustrated thinking this guy was lying to me
So I saw this video a week ago - this was my wake up call that I need to seek medical help. not only did I not manage to make the yellow dots to disappear I couldnt resist to look or notice them .
After help Currently on 20mg Foclin XR for ADHD and I feel wierd and unsettling because I have never in my life felt this way it’s so wierd a new to me I know hold my focus on the dot for 4-5 seconds, and I for the first time have a clean room for 1 week in a row .
The only bad thing is , it’s so new to me that I get mild headaches at the end of the day because I’m not used to doing stuff at all. I worked on my entire quarter of missed work on my computer for 9 hours non stop , because I didn’t have a reason to stop . That gave me a throw bing headace hopefully I get used to working long .
Wtf-I’ve never taken my time to write stuff like this in my entire life
The headache is probably a side effect of the drugs. I'd stop taking them for a week or two and see if that helps.
@@JonnySolomon hey, congrats for your achievement. Sorry for digging this up but does your ability to communicate and stay connected with your friends improved?
Three years later - how are you doing?
@@al201103I completely stopped Focalin XR and switched to adderall works wonders and my life has improved but had to stop taking it because I got a job that’s very fast pace and versatile and it would make me a perfectionist taking my time on everything I did and I would get nervous. Hoping to restart soon.
I’m not diagnosed with ADHD, but I always saw the dots. They just never disappeared for me:-(
i have ADD, but since the video was interesting i got hyperfocused and the dots disappeared for the entire video lmao
ADHD is more common lol also it definition should be change
this means you're going to die soon :(
It took me 19 seconds before I could make them disappear and that was whenever I was trying. The first time I watched this video they would only disappear for a second at most. Probably more like milliseconds. They don't stay away for more than 1-2 seconds at most. I was diagnosed with ADD a few years ago though.
I love watching the dot in the middle turn from royal blue, to green, to a mix of blue green..
Fun
And then there's me who needed to give my eyes a break. And every time I blinked, all the dots would reappear again.
Same, 8 seconds in and I’m too overstimulated to even continue watching it.
More of a test of how long i can keep my eyes open x(
First attempt watching this I made 1 dot disappear for 3 sec and could do 2 dots for 2 seconds. After practicing a few dozen times, I figured out a trick, and can now get all dots to go away. Avg time is 3 seconds, but I was able to hit 6 seconds several times. The trick for me was.. 1st I made sure my distance to screen was comfortable (I wear glasses and get double vision). I then allowed my eyes to blur on the green flicking and while I got distracted, I allowed my peripheral vision to pay attention the ends of the red square as it started to rotate. If the square is roating smoothly, I'm in the zone and doing it right. Seems my mind, allows me to peak at the red tips for a sec and go back to green without reintroducing the dots.
Can anyone make an hour long video of this??? Would love to use it for my meditation practice
I can. Are you still here? Also it wouldn't be on this channel it would be on my other channel @fake10hourentertainment17.
The fact that I went back and focused on the yellow dots to make sure they actually disappeared because of the illusion is probably also an indication I don't have ADHD.
Token Diagnosed ADHD here, as a kid I my ceiling light or points on the wall til it disappeared from view all the time as a kid when I couldn’t sleep. Didn’t know this was a well documented thing. Glad to finally have an explanation for what this thing I’ve so frequently encountered is, but funny to see the people who seem to struggle with it the most are people with my very same condition. Makes you wonder I suppose.
I had an easier time making them dissapear after doing some running.
There's a ton of study on the cognitive benefits of regular exercise for people with ADHD! Especially intense cardio! Comparing executive function to a gas tank that runs out throughout the day, you not only get an immediate temporary boost to your gas tank the day you exercise but also level up your baseline and increase the capacity of your gas tank after months and years of consistent habitual exercising. Stimulant medication is the first line of treatment and has the greatest immediate effect, but habitual exercise is the second most beneficial thing you can do. Rant over.
If you have hyper focus during watching this while having ADHD I'm sure you can make them all disappear for a while.
how do you get hyper focus and adhd at the same time???
Why would you hyper focus on something so boring
@@albertnan2999 hyperfocus is a symptom of adhd, basically what happens when you are unable to control your focus and once you've hyperfocused on something, you literally cant bring yourself to stop for hours
@@albertnan2999 hyperfocus or hyperfixation is a trait of adhd :)
@@albertnan2999 I'm not diagnosed (yet), but personally every few months or so I can hyperfixate on one specific thing (whether it's a show or subject or whatever), and it's the only thing I'll be able to solely focus on without being distracted for a while. if I try I can make myself, but usually it only lasts for a few seconds.
That ability to hyperfocus and the rare occasion where your allergies aren't causing you to blink constantly: Magic.
“You’re easily distracted and cannot hold your focus for long.” Yea I needed a RUclips video to tell me that.
two years later and I still have trouble doing it properly, even though a random Tuesday when my mind was finally at ease, I could do it
THAT HURT!
I was thinking that my eyes hurt...
They are flashing for me because I keep laughing Everytime one goes bye bye
ADHD is painful to live with. Emotionally. Sometimes you can see yourself struggle like an out of body experience, you're looking at yourself and asking yourself "what do people think of me? Do they see this too? Why am I like this? Can't I just stop already? I bet people think I'm on some sort of drug." I wish I didn't have ADHD and to the people with me that do, we can all get through it. And to the people that don't that fake it, you're not cute. And to those who are just curious about what ADHD is like, ask a fellow person who has been diagnosed. They will try to explain it. My favorite way to explain it, is my mind is like a broken windows computer, two tabs are playing music, one is a podcast, a game is running and the home screen crashed. All at the same time.
stared at it for so long now the comment section is wavy. got to 10seconds tho. staring at it without blinking helps, moving your eyes all over the place will break the illusion.
as an ADHD person, i could focus the longest without any dots appearing are 7 and a half seconds (7.5 seconds), due to hyperfocusing.
As I was scrolling on my phone at night, the color of the crosses changed from a hot pink at standstill to a deep red as I was scrolling by. Not sure what that is but that’s what made me click on the video!
Me: can barely make two dots vanish for more than five seconds
Also me: *F U C K*
I almost had it but I couldn’t make them vanish, it felt like my eyes had a mind of they’re own and the second the dots were about to disappear my eyes would do what felt like a jerking motion
Glad I finally found something to help. I'll watch it later.
😂😂
Well when you know, you know.
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Reading after watching this is a trip
What REALLY disturbed me was when I looked down at the comments after doing the exercise and they were all swirling....
I don't believe the validity of the test. Unfocus seems to work just as well as focus. Keep in mind that these guys have no idea how anything really works, they just find rough correlations and devise tests like this that give partial/false result. Like most tests, the ONLY thing it proves is that you can pass the test, which means you MAYYYYY be able to focus.
Like JamBooBx said - People are making the obvious mistake that staring at a dot = "focus" = "attention" = "ADHD" and pretty much none of this is real, brains are extremely diverse and the mechanisms of all these functions are unknown (they'll lie and say otherwise)
Impossible. I've not even been diagnosed with ADHD and it was impossible.
I can make them vanish for a tiny amount of time like 4 seconds at most,I think this is also why I'm so good at multi tasking so it's a disability and a power at the same time
Wild. In the first few seconds all of the yellow dots vanished, freaking me out, and afterwards I had great difficulty making them vanish again
This also seems to be an indicator of dry eyes lol, every time I blink the dots come back. This is really cool!
I have ADHD, I've been meditating, I can make all 3 go away, short term though, with practice you can go indefinitely.
i find it hard to look at an exact spot like my eyes twitch a bit but i can make them vanish no problem
Same
I keep getting to the point where I'm seeing the last one disappear and then my brain just goes "where did it go" and then I search for it like a dumbass.
“Disappear from consciousness” - no.
“Disappear from field of view” - yes.
Instructions unclear. I am now a lamp post.
Can’t focus while listening to him talking about the other dots lol 😂
Need to turn sound off
The three yellow dots were gone when I staring the flashing dot
Why... is it really possible to make them all dissappear? I can't, no matter how hard I try... at least one of them is always visible😭
Severe ADHD here. All dots vanished with no problem.
Great test.
Ok but trying to listen on what he's saying while trying to make the dots disappear is the real challenge. Idk how many times I went "wait what did he said?" and went 10 seconds backwards.
Don't tell me I have ADHD... because I am diagnosed anyways lol.
this hurt my eyes. ouchie. and I could barely manage getting one dot to disappear
When you begin to start trying to aim for ten seconds and realize just how difficult your body has to remain still in order to reach it. Breathing is detrimental, blinking is absolute. While getting closer is easier to clear dots, lasting is far harder.
In 2024, people’s attention span is cooked💀
im 36 years old, i have learned to control myself more than I used to, i had huge trouble getting all 3 to disappear, I think i did it for a second, then couldn't again no matter how hard i tried, i had about 2.5 disappear at any given point, the 3rd so close. interesting.
Im diagnosed ADHD, have been off of meds since 2013, and I absolutely could make all the dots disappear. Not only that but this doesn't even make sense. ADHD doesn't make you unable to focus on things. Its the exact opposite actually. Sometimes we aren't able to control what catches our interest but that's very different from your ability to focus.
I tried it over and over, I can't make them disappear.
And yes I am diagnosed with severe ADHD.
Legit medical diagnosis by multiple independent psychiatrists, NOT self-diagnosed.
I think watching this video instead of writing my English paper says a lot of me
I was able to make the dots disappear but every time they did that my eyes went to see what happened and it went away.
The last one doesn't go away. And I do have ADHD.
Do u have an official diagnosis?
nyan does gaming Yep I do
Tuan Nguyen yea same but only 1 faded
I am diagnosed with adhd and I can proudly say that I made it through 0 visible dots for 11 seconds
My guy got us to watch his whole show multiple times
AHHHH MY BRAIN HURRRRTS AAAAAAAAHHHHHHHHHH!!!!!!!!!!!!
...WTF... I've already posted here!? MY BRAIN DOES HURT!!! WHAT IS HAPPENING!?!??!
The so-called "normal" individuals can blend parts of their reality into nonexistence, making them more compliant and better at following orders and half-truths while ignoring the full picture. Conversely, those who perceive the entire reality and can't compartmentalize parts of it (leading them to ask more questions) are often labeled as having ADHD and are prescribed medication. 🤔 Thanks for posting 📫 🙏 I truly understand what is exactly the problem is and it is not really my problem but the problem of managing society 💯
Wow that's deep but actually makes sense to be honest. a lot of these "conditions" are actually superpowers they want to make us afraid or ashamed to use
I agree. And well said. Thank you.
If you allow the center green dot double, it makes it easier to sustain and stay focused on more than 3 outter yellow dots.
By allowing the balance to continue,.... My results was that no for disappeared.
Pretty cool visual experiment.
I don't see a commonality with adh. Further experiments might draw a different conclusion.
I did it through sheer will. I never had bad add but I still had to create tricks in order to survive in this world
Making the grid disappear makes you the real gangsta.
I can only do one but then when I notice it going away it comes back ffs lmao
I have attained sharingan
I tried really hard and it didn't work.... but I do not have ADHD
Not sure the music needed to be so ominous for something like this.
The fact that we know before the test even starts, what to look out for, completely destroys all of its viability because the more you make the viewer concentrate on the dots disappearance, will make them more present. It shows the viewer is very aware of your voice and the things you say. If you make all the dots disappear, you are probably just high af.
Shhh. I need to concentrate...
Is this test legitimate? I was tested at a psychological clinic in 2020 and was told that I don't have ADHD, yet I failed this test. Could anyone post a reply and explain this to me? I am concerned.
You can have ADHD and not "test" that you have ADHD. ADHD is often misdiagnosed as another condition. ADHD can also fall under the "clinical" threshold meaning you have the traits but not severely enough to qualify as "clinical" ADHD. Give yourself some grace, and get a second opinion.
ADHD is 2007. I have ADUHD
AD8K bro get with the times
Those with ADHD from childhood trauma, think this over and over:
"Let it hypnotize you. You are safe. You are safe here. You are safe."
It worked like a lightswitch for me. All dots disappeared for a pretty decent amount of time until I got excited about it actually working lol the over-analyticism and overthinking were the issue.
Edit: Let the thought fade into a whisper and you might get sleepy lol
As a child, I was able to hyperfocus so much, I could make my surroundings disappear around CRTs and transparency film projections.
I have a bad case of adhd and I'm 9
I have it really bad and I'm 11
I got them all gone bitches
@@lucaslopez1155 lmfao
Nope, it’s called peripheral vision. Nothing disappeared.
Thanks jackals I just rear-ended the car in the lane beside me
That tripped out my vision a little bit when I went to read the comments
Staring at this then reading the comments. Everything was swirling.
Im diagnosed and managed all the yellow dots for roughly 4 seconds on 3 occasions then towards the end couldn't make any dots disappear. Have just had coffee and am quite relaxed. Can't imagine it working if I wasn't.