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Focusing in

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Can you do those stereograph things? I can't. Stereographs are those images that you look like nothing but static. You look at them casually and nothing is there. Supposedly, though, if you cross your eyes and look a certain way and focus in the right direction, they will reveal some sort of hidden image. I've never been successful at finding the image. I remember, when I still lived with my parents, that my brother was really into them one year. He got a calendar that had a new stereograph image every month. I looked at the same image for a month and I still couldn't make the image materialize. Not if I crossed my eyes or looked over my nose or turned around three times and stood on my head. I just can't seem to see them. They just don't work for me. I've been told, though, that it is a matter or perspective. Just like 3D glasses in a movie, the idea is to change your perception. In the case of stereographs, you are changing the way your eyes look at