This disappearing dots picture is wrecking people’s heads

We just can't seem to get enough of the optical illusions.

We've had our fair share of optical illusions this year. We had the brick wall, the child's toy and the heart picture. A lot of them you have to find something wrong with a photo or figure out how something is happening in the photo. But there's a new one and it will just wreck your head. It's called the 'disappearing dots'. It has a design with boxes and crosses with black dots on some of the points. Most people will only be able to see a few dots at a time when, in fact, there are 12 dots in this picture. See for yourself:

There are twelve black dots at the intersections in this image. Your brain won’t let you see them all at once. pic.twitter.com/ig6P980LOT

— Will Kerslake (@wkerslake) September 11, 2016

Will also shared the image to Reddit where one person had an explanation about what was happening. They shared an extract from a piece of research called, "Variations on the Hermann Grid: An Extinction Illusion" which deals with a similar optical illusion. It says, "When the white disks in a scintillating grid are reduced in size, and outlined in black, they tend to disappear. One sees only a few of them at a time, in clusters which move erratically on the page. Where they are not seen, the grey alleys seem to be continuous, generating grey crossings that are not actually present." Still doesn't help how annoying the picture is.