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stare negative
Stare at this picture of Jesus
There are numerous version of this image on the Internet. They all work the same way. Stare at the four dots in the center of the picture for about thirty seconds. Then close your eyes and tilt your head backward. After a few seconds while you will see an amazing picture of Jesus. Sometime it is described as a miraculous picture of Jesus." You may see this optical illusion better if instead of closing your eyes you look at a flat white wall:  There is nothing special or miraculous about this picture. It is an optical illusion. It has to do with persistence of vision. This optical illusion will, with varying degrees of success, work with any high contrast negative. What you see is the following image:  The relationship to the Shroud of Turin is probably anecdotal. Some have speculated that because the Shroud images are negatives, perhaps people stared at them for a long time and then closed their eyes or looked at a wall or the sky and saw the more realistic image that we see when the Shroud is photographed. And they might well have thought this was miraculous. Some have even speculated that this optical illusion may be at the root of post-resurrection stories. "
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