Diabolical...it should be outlawed and the perpetrators punished severly. This is EXACTLY the kinds of thing the godless Commies would secretly put on our TV broadcasts late at night, so while we were blind, they could sap and impurify our precious bodily fluids without our knowledge and consent.
I don't know about motion induced blindness, but I remember from high school biology (25 years ago) that light strikes the cones (color vision) or rods (black and white) in your eye and disintegrates the various chemicals in them. Different wavelengths of light disintegrate different chemicals in the rods and cones. This causes an electrical impulse translated into vision. (simpified of course). The chemicals are continuously refreshed, but not quick enough. If you can stare at one object long enough without moving your eye, the light (object) hitting those rods and cones will eventually deplete the chemicals and it will disappear. By moving your eye, the object will reappear (using a different set of rods and cones) giving the ones that "went blind" a chance to refresh.
I try this often with my girlfriend, especially in the AM when she is scary looking and she does not seem to disappear. What am I doing wrong.
If I concentrate a bit, I find that all 3 dots remain, but change position. My eye doc said my periphial vision is off the charts, so that prolly has something to do with it. I know it helps a chit load racing/driving.
