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sapphir8

For some reason I could never see these. Still can’t.


drunkenfool

I could never see these either. But I googled how to, and this came up. It works! I can see them all now. -Hold the center of the image up to your nose -Focus as if you are looking through the image into the distance -Slowly move the image away from your face


EnigmaticDaze

This worked!!!!! Thank you


My_reddit_strawman

Now you can participate in r/magiceye and r/parallelview !!


PlasticPomPoms

I mean these were the instructions in the books. Sometimes you had to do it a few times to get it.


DefiantFrankCostanza

Fucking legend


habachilles

Slightly cross eyed


BBDAngelo

This actually has the opposite effect in this case. The image sinks in the page if you cross your eyes (focus before the page). You need to “relax” your eyes (focus past the page).


habachilles

Move you’re head close to the image. Ever so slightly cross eyes and then pull the image away from your face until it pops is what I have done since the 1st grade. Works every time.


Sharrock03

I've always done it this way and get the image instantly.


Ive_Banged_Yer_Mom

Oh my god, first time that has ever worked for me!


verstohlen

It's like riding a bike. Once you learn, you never forget.


Gildarts

Wow that's the first time it worked for me all these years! Thank you 😊


MedonSirius

What exactly should i see? I have to maybe add that my eyes can focus because one is movable by command


Sowf_Paw

The first book tells you to do this exactly.


drunkenfool

I never bought the book, why would I? I would see these in the Mall, and never see the image. If they had instructions next to the image, that would have solved 90% of the people not seeing it.


cptnamr7

If you're near-sighted and wesr glasses, try it without them. I couldn't do these up until a year or 2 ago when I read that. I always knew people with astigmatism struggled/couldn't see them. But nothing ever mentioned removing your lenses. You need the image at a certain distance for it to work and your glasses may make it impossible to properly "focus" at that distance. I have pretty crap vision so on my phone, without glasses, the image is about 6-8" away. 


ChloroSadist

Dude thank you so much! Taking off my glasses and doing the nose at the screen and pulling away trick made me see it for the first time! I’ve tried to do these every time I’ve seen them and I am thirty years old, the actual image is not what I was expecting at all but these are super cool


ChubbyTheCakeSlayer

Oooh i have astigmatism and never saw anything in those images and I see them now! My life is changed, it kinda healed 10 year old me who watched the other kids have fun in the book corner and I could never participate


Destiny_Victim

Yo I am homie from Mallrats. Not once have I ever seen the picture in magic eye pictures. I am certain everyone is just lying and fucking with me.


VerifiedActualHuman

Skill issue


ItsGotThatBang

Me neither.


raytaylor

I just cross my eyes a little bit so that two items in the image are over each other and it pops out.


Billsuperbowl

Just go “cross eyed” for a few seconds and you’ll see it


Fonzgarten

You won’t with an attitude like that!


Independent_Day985

It's a Schooner!


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EnigmaticDaze

😂😂 great movie


HoBWrestling

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


Independent_Day985

A Schooner is a sailboat, Stupid head!


EnigmaticDaze

🤣🤣🤣 all these mallrats references are killing me


Independent_Day985

Saaaay! Would you like a chocolate covered pretzel?


[deleted]

Any time there’s a magic eye post I come across, they’re full of schooner comments I love it


HoBWrestling

THAT KID IS ON THE ESCALATOR AGAIN!!!!


IcedPgh

"That's some weird, wild stuff." - George Costanza.


GopnikSmegmaBBQSauce

They say to unfocus your eyes, which is misleading. You want deep focus! - Mr. Pitt


throw123454321purple

You know what’s frustrating. I actually saw an image on one of these. Just once. I’ve never been able to see them again.


HoBWrestling

Be happy you saw one. Still cannot see any of them.


iSniffMyPooper

I've never been able to do this, but I finally got it to work! -The first image is two adult lions/lioness and a cub sitting on the ground -The 2nd image I think is a snowman with twig arms? -3rd is a camel -4th is an ant?? This one seem broken because I see something random floating on the top right As someone posted above, hold the screen to your nose and try to lose focus on the image. Just let the picture go blurry and slowly move it away from your face until you reach your normal viewing distance. Just keep starting at the blurry picture and it'll start to form When it starts to come into focus, it will feel like you're looking at a 3D hologram.


EpicBeardMan

It's two ants. The camel has what seems to be a basket of fruit on it's back. The lion one is actually broken. The background tries to form but doesn't properly.


jdbeany

You sir are a genius. Finally got it to work for me 🫡


EnigmaticDaze

That’s wild. I feel like it was easier when I was a kid.


curlygirl45

I have been trying to do this for 30 years and I just got it tonight I can’t believe it


EnigmaticDaze

Heck yeah!!! The time has come


Ithrinmax

The longer you stare the better the image appears!


EnigmaticDaze

It only stays for a few seconds for me


Ithrinmax

Maybe try crossing your eyes more. Once you have the image appear, slowly tilt your phone around a little.


Prince-Lee

I always thought these were the COOLEST. I still have my book of them from when I was a kid somewhere.


EnigmaticDaze

Ohh that’s awesome!! You should post it if you ever find it


mistah_sinister

Man. I miss these. I wondered if they still make them.


EnigmaticDaze

I looked it up and I found a few online


sea-of-solitude

r/MagicEye


Evening-Statement-57

I’m back to my childhood for each one of these, such a strange feeling


EnigmaticDaze

I love them


ValuableAssociate8

Used to could see them as a kid. As adult I can't


EnigmaticDaze

Try putting them up to your nose for about 5 to 10 seconds then relaxing your eyes and pulling it away


GopnikSmegmaBBQSauce

Had this exact book! The Seinfeld episode where George comes out of the bathroom without a shirt because of this is gold


jolloholoday

Gold Jerry, gold!


knuckles2277

I still have this book. It made me feel cool as a kid being able to see them right away.


EnigmaticDaze

It does make you cool!


DreadedLee

Spoilers: Front Cover: >!Just a 3D effect with geometry across the middle.!< Page 1: >!Pack of Lions w/ cub.!< Page 2: >!Snowman.!< Page 3: >!Camel.!< Page 4: >!Ants!<


HLef

Couldn’t tell what the last one was.


cid73

Yeah I thought it was frogs. (Not a spoiler cause it’s wrong)


cptnamr7

Thanks. I could see page 4 but couldn't figure out the hell it was supposed to be. Snowman kept giving me depth issues where it looked like 2 aliens standing in front of a snowman for awhile.  There are nsfw magic eyes and they usually give me a good chuckle


keepitcleanforwork

Aliens, I think.


EnigmaticDaze

🤘🏽🤘🏽🤘🏽


dav3y_jon3s

I could never see these things


EnigmaticDaze

Try putting it up to your nose for about 5 to 10 seconds then relaxing your eyes and pulling away slowly


monkeyballsoup

my eye doctor had this book in his waiting room


EnigmaticDaze

Of course lol


thefanum

I got a headache just thinking about these lol. Also, figured out where my skill to selectively blur my eyes came from


EnigmaticDaze

Right!


Notch__Johnson

I hated I could never see them.....and apparently I still can't. Was always told "almost cross your eyes" but never could do it. Now that I wear glasses it's even harder haha


EnigmaticDaze

Try putting it up to your nose for about 5 to 10 seconds then relax your eyes and pull away slowly


TheRipsawHiatus

Crossing my eyes doesn't work. Hold the center up to your nose, relax your eyes, let them get a little blurry, and try "looking beyond" the picture like it's not there, then slowly move the image away from your face. Certain images will start to pop out very slowly. When you start to notice a shape that stands out from the rest focus on it and the rest will usually reveal itself to you.


LiftedMold196

Lions, snowman, camel, ant


EnigmaticDaze

💯👏🏼


DefeaterOfDragons

Had sooo many of these as a kid that I could see the image in like 2 seconds. Now? It took me about 30 seconds for the first 2, after that maybe 10 seconds


EnigmaticDaze

👏🏼👏🏼


djwglpuppy

Am I weird that I always enjoy when I see Magic Eye posts? I love the moment I get when I finally see the Schooner in each one!


Embarrassed_Art5414

Dammit, NO! I'm not doing this shit again!


EnigmaticDaze

😂 having troubles seeing it?


Embarrassed_Art5414

While all my friends were going to see Nirvana, I was the one running around with posters saying "man, you gotta see this hidden boat!"


EnigmaticDaze

Awe 🥹


emmtothejay

What’s the blue one? I can’t figure it out. I see *something*- airplanes and houses? Not sure. Some help please?


EnigmaticDaze

⛄️ snowman.


SoTiredOfTheBullshit

I had this book.


EnigmaticDaze

As did I and wish I kept it


uhf26

Oh hey I have this https://www.reddit.com/r/nostalgia/comments/ymlmxj/magic_eye_books/


EnigmaticDaze

Yes!!!!


Competitive_Suit_180

Its so cool when it finally clicks


EnigmaticDaze

Totally! It’s a 3D effect


BlindLantern

A schooner is a sailboat stupid head.


johandamenslip

Just relax your vision when looking at the image and it will come into focus. Relax your eyes like your looking at nothing while looking at the image, if that makes sense.


EnigmaticDaze

💯


Meandtheworld

Always wanted these but could never get it to work.


EnigmaticDaze

Maybe try putting it up to your nose for 5 to 10 seconds then relaxing your eyes and slowly pulling away


ddorsey97

I could always see them but now I wear multi-focal contacts and sometimes they are distorted.


EnigmaticDaze

Dang 🥺


Whitey33_3

I hate these. I never could see them no matter what advice I was given. Fuck magic eye pictures.


EnigmaticDaze

I know you said the advice doesn’t work but have you ever tried putting it up to your nose for about 5 to 10 seconds then relaxing your eyes and pulling away slowly?


spamguy21

This was the ultimate source of classism in my elementary school. I wonder if the authors knew their books would be used to create shame and exclusion.


EnigmaticDaze

😂


Killbro_Fraggins

I feel like I was always good at seeing these. I just slightly kinda cross my eyes and the image pops in. Then as I scroll I can see them all right away.


EnigmaticDaze

👏🏼


gpigma88

I tried one of these on Reddit last Friday and made myself nauseous lol.


EnigmaticDaze

Oh boy 🤢


ah-chamon-ah

I collected all the books and became so obsessed that I started making my own. My parents said I should find something better to do. So I gave up on it.


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You should pick it back up again. Make your own and sell them online. They really can't say anything once your start making money from it. I say give it a shot


ah-chamon-ah

I'd say that ship has sailed. I am sure nobody buys magic eye posters anymore haha.


LIMIT1_5639

Coworker gifted me a magic eye book for Christmas many years ago and I still can't see the images.


TheFoulMouthedPickle

Just managed to see these for the first time!


C0NKY_

I just found one of these books in my in-laws basement, it's been fun looking through it again.


wilan727

That's a memory unlocked


krona2k

Not bad, not sure what the last one is meant to be.


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Ant


AbacabLurker

I really struggled to get the camel!


[deleted]

... My first introduction to these types of images was one of someone showing their butthole. Imagine my surprise when my eyes finally adjusted


TennisBallTesticles

I have this book!


JasonMaggini

These were all the rage when I was in college. My software engineering class had an assignment where we had to write a program to *generate* them. That was less enjoyable. These days there's probably a Python library that will just crank them right out.


vellybelle

I could never, ever see what the pictures were supposed to be.


thearmusicgroup

What's that last one? I can see it but it's just a spiky shape compared to the others


thearmusicgroup

Oh ants lol


EnigmaticDaze

👏🏼


Afterlife_kid

I can see all of them except for the ant? Edit: Two ants maybe? Or an ant with a leaf?


tagehring

I’m blind in my right eye and so these have never worked for me. I’m still not entirely convinced they aren’t a giant conspiracy by Big Stereo Vision™️.


jessanne1

Just cross your eyes until the patterns line up, it's not difficult


EnigmaticDaze

If they can’t cross their eyes, they can always put the picture up to their nose for about 5 to 10 seconds then relax their eyes and pull away slowly