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Alissa of Rochester, NY
Find a spot in your eye where you can't see anything!
- To find your blind spot, take a piece of paper and draw a small X on the right side.
- Now, take your ruler and measure about 5 inches to the left of the X.
- Draw a dot there about the size of a penny.
- Hold the paper in front of you and close your right eye. Look at the X. Even though you're looking at the X you should be able to see the dot out of the corner of your eye.
- Slowly move the paper in front of you. Try moving it left and right or closer and farther away. Remember to keep looking at the X. At a certain point, the dot will seem to disappear out of the corner of your eye.
Here's the sci scoop on why this works: On the back of your eye, your retina, you have cells called rods and cones that catch light and send messages to your brain along your nerves, which are like wires. All your nerves go through your retina in just one spot. In this spot, there are no rods and cones. Since you don't have any rods and cones there to catch light, you can't see with that part of your eye.
The reason you don't notice your blind spot is because your brain fills in that part of your vision with what it thinks should be there. So when the dot goes into your blind spot, your brain fills in that space with the color of your paper because that's what surrounds it.
How big is your blind spot? Will the dot still disappear if it's as big as a quarter? How about if it's a different shape, like a square or a star? Try it out, and send your results to ZOOM.
Navya, age 9 of Atlanta, GA wrote:
It worked out awsome!!!
Rachel, age 11 of West Monroe, LA wrote:
my circle vanished. it was awesome.
Autumn, age 12 of OK wrote:
It worked great and it was unbelievable!
Christina, age 10 of San Francisco wrote:
I did want you guys did and instead of a circle I put a star. When I did that it work just as well as the circle.
Mimi, age 14 of Wells, UK wrote:
Wow! Amazing experiment. The dot just vanished at a certain point. Really like it!
Emily, age 11 of Anderson, IN wrote:
It was awesome! It totally worked! I love that project!
Renee wrote:
Wow I tried it and it automaticly disapear but very cool experiment!!!
Melvin, age 13 of Staten Island, NY wrote:
when I tried this and it worked, I was like wow didn't I see this already. So awesome!!!
Martha, age 13 of Corona, CA wrote:
It wuz so amazing... I tryd it with my older cuz... we thought it wouldnt work...but boy wre we surprised when it did...
Yu, age 10 of Singapore wrote:
It disapeared away so quickly!!!
Jailene, age 10 of El Paso, TX wrote:
It was cool and it looked like it really disappeared.
Samantha, age 12 of Wilmington, OH wrote:
it worked the X went away
Fabian, age 14 of Chicago, IL wrote:
I was speechless because it disapeard
Lorin, age 9 of Renfrewshire wrote:
WOW. That is amazing. I love this experiment.
Ashley & Sherly, age 13 wrote:
when I held the paper on front of me and then in moved it back and forth. then the dot dissapeard. AWSOME!!
Alexis, age 12 of Washington, MN wrote:
The dot disapeared. I showed to my Mom, and she said WOW!
Diamond, age 10 of Philly, PA wrote:
the dot stayed on the paper the whole time
Taylor, age 8 of TX wrote:
the dot wint a way
Edwin, age 9 of Duarte, CA wrote:
the dot did disaper
Luke, age 10 of Lincroft, NJ wrote:
This is a really cool trick but I've done it before so I knew how to do it. I love how the dot disappears.
Jose, age 10 of Alton wrote:
I saw the dot then it disappeared.
Isabel, age 9 of Dallas, TX wrote:
I tried it and it worked! So cool! This is a great project, I'm thinking about adding it to my list of what to do this year for my science project.
Mykaila, age 12 of Lashburn, SK wrote:
it didnt fully fade away but it faded so it was jus a small dot
Izela, age 10 of Las Vegas, NV wrote:
when I held the paper in front of me and closed my right the dot autamaticly dissapeared. that was so awsome!
Rose, age 9 of Arlington, MA wrote:
It worked and my did it and it worked on them too! I'm doing this experiment for my third grade science fair project.
Cheyenne, age 10 of Evansville, IN wrote:
it didn't work like it was supposed to do
Hannah, age 16 of Somerville, MA wrote:
It worked almost immediatly I couldn't belive it. It was so cool. I tried with a square and an 'x' and it still worked.
ZOOM Fan, age 11 of Fort Collins, CO wrote:
I thought I did not have a blind spot, but when I diid the experiment I was weong and it was very easy to find my blind spot!
Summer, age 13 of Laurel, MS wrote:
This is so cool. I didn't think it was working but then I realized that I was using the wrong eye, so then I tried the other one and I saw it almost right away.
Jessica, age 11 of New York, NY wrote:
When I looked back at the dot it came back and I tried to put my finger in the dot when I couldn't see it. I even did the oppisite side which means I did the same thing with the x.
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