Stare at this mind-bending optical illusion and you could start seeing black spots… but are they really there?

THIS mind-bending optical illusion is sending people's heads in a spin as they see flashing dots that aren't really there.

Although just a static image of white discs on the intersections of grey bars on a black background - it appears to show the dots changing colour.

The white dots appear to randomly flash black across the image.

But if you keep your eyes fixed on a single disc, the dark dots do not appear.

The frustrating picture is known as the scintillating grid illusion, discovered by E and B Lingelbach and M Schrauf in 1994.

It is considered a version of the Hermann grid illusion - which shows a black grid on a white background.

Despite having no dots, viewers are left scratching their heads as they can see grey discs at the intersections.

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A clip appears to show a static shot of a room - but by the end many things have changed.

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