Look Here: A Deep Dive into the Eye Exam Landscapes

[@TREYtheExplainer]

It has come to my attention that fellow KZbinr @Jeffiot published an excellent video also on this subject about a week prior to me. By a crazy coincidence, we were apparently working entirely separate and without any knowledge of each other. We both seem to have independently verified that Forrest Gump Point in Monument Valley, Utah is in fact the location of the bottom half of the balloon chart image. So, congratulations to him! The location of the balloon chart has been pretty definitively discovered. Please check out his video because he does a really great job and seems to have found the exact balloon in the picture: kzbin.info/www/bejne/Z3Waemqcor-XhaMsi=BYyURFXGQsKQL9Ee I expect that even more discoveries surrounding the targets are soon to occur in the near future…

[@guythatlovespotato]

Man! Thanks for your efforts in making this vid. This is one of the greatest finds in the internet.

[@mattthompson2385]

You didn't include the tulip image! I've seen a tulip in two handheld autorefractors. Upon doing some research, it seems like that image is used in Retinomax autorefractors?

[@Saint_Stives]

Bruh both of yalls content is top tier man, awesome you gave jeffiot a shoutout too

[@soup_steward]

only way to sort this out is a collab video :)

[@caninehat6589]

Trey and Jeffiot making an overly long video on the same random niche topic within two weeks?!? Great minds truly think alike.

[@del7896]

Just like buses. You wait 20 years for just one single video on autorefractor imagery and two come along at once.

[@IslayAnderson]

I was like, wait what

[@hayleyquinnx94]

Same, the fact that Jeffiott has found the details of one image is so good

[@brewski118sempire]

I was worried it was going to have much of the same information but nope, they are great companion pieces.

[@EvdogMusic]

​@@del7896 Thanks, now I understand framerules

[@EmperorTigerstar]

I never knew I needed to be interested in this but I am now extremely fascinated by this.

[@kiwi_2_official]

cat

[@DiMadHatter]

@@EmperorTigerstar hey, Emperor, glad to see you here! :)

[@vschmerz]

The map video man himself!

[@TheImmortalArt]

I wear glasses since I was 2. I'm 39 now. Never have I seen these images... Back in Sarajevo, we had a bird in a cage/or outside of the cage. And when optician move several lenses, bird is either in or out. And that's it. Very fascinated that you all seen these...

[@cheetahslims7849]

I'm in Canada and my husband and I are the same age as you, both with glasses. We have also never seen them!

[@ivanalje42]

Hello from Belgrade. I'm 43, and I've seen the balloon picture numerous times at eye exams since I was a teenager!

[@57thorns]

Sweden here, never seen it,. I might have used a similar device, but I am pretty sure I did not. Then again, once you have a presecription they measure your old glasses when you get a new optometrist so I might have when I was nine and got my first glasses.

[@droppedpasta]

From the US, I’ve seen these and the bird one too

[@R_V_]

Never seen them when I was in France. There, they seem to use alphabet letters, or ask to focus on a detail of the wall behind the doctor (which is both primitive and efficient).

[@user-vn9ld2ce1s]

But wait, if the images are digital, they might still be recoverable by desoldering the rom chip or whatever other storage it uses and dumping the data from it. You might find a person able to do that.

[@Vizimech]

Yes this ^^ it has to be stored somewhere, even if it's digital. It's not super hard to desolder a surface mount EEPROM/ROM/etc and stick it in a EEPROM/ROM/etc reader and get the data of it for someone with the right skills and equipment.

[@pickles3128]

How did you make the word desoldering searchable on KZbin? I thought #hashtags looked different.

[@user-vn9ld2ce1s]

@@pickles3128 what do you mean? I don't see it as highlighted

[@crelos3549]

​@@pickles3128Maybe it's automatic for weird words

[@BryanLu0]

​@@pickles3128It's a new feature that KZbin is rolling out. I don't know how it decides which words to highlight though

[@CasperTheGhost64]

As someone who has worked in optometry for 11 years, I'm so hyped 🤣 you're awesome

[@zyplocs]

That’s fantastic, what do you do specifically? I’m a vision science student and am debating whether to pursue academic research or optometry.

[@mattisvov]

Trey lives up to his moniker. Picking a singular, very contained subject and explaining the heck out of it. Be it the functional images used in optometry, a fossil, a cryptid, or what have you. There is a special feel to this channel. Cannot really put my finger on it. But each video is a special treat. You're a treasure, lad, keep being awesome.

[@steadie]

when you went "its a different house! its not the sailboat!" i kid you not my jaw dropped. idk how you got me so invested

[@armintargaryen9216]

1 hour and a half of a seemingly random dull topic? This is going to be ABSOLUTE CINEMA

[@DiMadHatter]

The pure joy you emanate when seeing the image in the second machine is so awesome! Truly, not much is needed to feel happiness, im glad you had fun doing this and thanks for the video, Trey :)

[@connersterne7174]

having grown up in lexington, and taken many eye tests with the "red barn" i am amazed to find out that it was just down the road this whole time! thank you Trey!

[@Vizimech]

Trey, welcome to the field of digital archaeology! On machine 1, you can very likely date the machine (at least to a minimum date) by components on the motherboard. Many have date of manufacture on them, or copyright dates, or serial numbers by which you can cross reference when they were introduced to the market. Also, if an image is projected digitally it has to be stored on the board somewhere, likely an EEPROM/ROM or a flash memory module if it's newer. Those can be extracted from the board and read, which would result in a perfect copy of the image.

[@bradleygiven5193]

"Elicit a strong response" in this case means squirming in a chair, eyes watering at the anticipation of the jump scare of having my eyes blasted while the doctor tries to keep me from blinking obsessively and ruing the test.

[@mrnonamekid4030]

Yeah no I couldn't do the eye puff test, I squirmed and flinched far too much

[@ishmaelnemo8227]

Glad to know I'm not the only one that thing scared the crap out of. My doctor always seemed surprised I'd get nervous over some clunky machine ready to shoot compressed air right into my eyeballs.

[@bradleygiven5193]

Oh jeez... I watched this in two parts and just finished it. I am living in Lexington, KY. Absolutely wild. I guess I just assumed more places had long stretches of fences like that, lol. Although in my defense I think I've only seen the balloon during tests for the 12ish years I've lived here. We really didn't know.

[@Aquatarkus96]

It's crazy because once I just couldn't stop blinking so they used a different machine that didn't do the puff... I have always wondered why they just dont use that second machine!

[@timeforlaurynsopinion5138]

​@@Aquatarkus96 i had eye surgery a few months ago and every appointment i've had at the eye hospital they've used the little clicky one rather than the big puffy one and i thought the exact same thing.

[@user-randomlettersandnumbers]

havent watched yet but expecting a reveal that trey lives in the eye test house and flies around in the eye test hot air balloon

[@Sabatuar]

The yearly Trey video drop. Today we feast like kings.

[@saityavuz76]

It saddens me to know so much information is inaccessible to us. I admire your attempt at preserving seemingly unimportant information that contains value.

[@JonCrs10]

My favorite kind of video essay: random crap that no one actually thinks or cares about but has a lot of fascinating realities behind it, or "how the sausage gets made"

[@SimonClark]

Well I guess I'm going to bed late then

[@Brigtzen]

How the tables have turned!

[@hazardousmaterial5492]

Be a responsible father and go to bed on time

[@MiddlePath007]

So first, that dremmel would best serve you by slicing across the top of the screw to make it accessible with a flat head screwdriver. Second, there are different shapes on philips head screwdrivers, with some pointed and some with a flat cross at the tip. Third, the projected image is not from a laser, a single laser will emit a single color, and it would require an array of different colored lasers that, at the age of those machines, would have very large tubes associated with them. As for the image being projected into the eye directly, that would show a larger image further from the window that could be seen on thin paper, like parchment paper. To the camera, this would appear as a proportional image from further away, this is called relief in the optics world. Basically it means if you look at it from a distance, you only see a smlall portion of the image and that image stays nearly the same size as you get closer, just with more becoming visible. Finally, what you are looking for will follow the path of the mirrors. One path will lead to the sensor that records the eye, one path will lead to a lens that focuses the illuminated image onto a screen, likely a screen thats just a cople millimeters in diameter. The film you have from the second machine is probably the image. Get a laserpointer and shine it through the image onto a blank spot and see if any part of the image is projected. If you use a red laser, the red bits may show up while the rest is shadowing. If you have a microscope, look at the film. The image is likely miniscule. If it turns out to be there, you can use the lense in the machine to project the image outward with a bright light and pinhole camera, or _camera obscura_ The screens of the time would not have such a clear image, if it was digitally produced. Additionally, the instructions for one unit described swapping images for kids, so it may be accessible from the outside, especially considering the bulb that illuminates it would probably need to be changed at some point

[@MiddlePath007]

Seeing the internals, the image is inside the black tube on the bottom left of the screen at 42:44. I can clearly see the path is a single mirror projecting onto a view screen that is just a couple millimeters across. The knob outside of the frome is where the projector could be extracted to change the bulb and swap in a kid friendly picture, as well as adjusting the focus. That's it 100%. Your picture is inside that. Good luck

[@d3v1lsummoner]

There's a part around 42:30 where he says it's foolish to think that it would be a film projection rather than a digital one. I would think the opposite. Especially for these older machines, a digital projection system would be costlier to build and maintain than a film carrier and a projection light which are both readily replaceable and don't require a sophisticated multicolor digital projector. I don't know if the commenter above is correct, but I'm surprised Trey didn't try to run the machine while it was open to see if there was a recognizable light path.

[@elizabethb4168]

I hope he sees this comment!

[@starpokeheart664]

The timing on this is impeccable because I just finished my eye exam today

[@ToyInsanity]

How'd you do?

[@jakepotter5962]

I've been watching you for the past 6 years. Your, as far as I have seen, face reveal coming from a documentary about a tool for testing eyesight is both fitting and hilarious. You're much younger than I expected, which makes your immense historical knowledge even more impressive. As a near sighted person from mainland Europe, I'm fairly certain I've experienced one or two of those images while having my eyes tested. Learning about their origins has been extremely fascinating. Great job and keep up the high quality content!

[@eaglelord145]

I believe this is the first time his face has been in a video, but 9 months ago he made a dedicated video for it, it was the 1 mil sub special

[@lucabarra4138]

20:15 I'm sure the sailboat on lake target is used by Zeiss. My optometrist works only with that specific brand. We had small talks in the past both about the boat and Zeiss so I feel pretty confident about it

[@tanrekki]

Do you remember what it looks like? I've definitely seen it but it must have been years ago and I'd love to verify if my memories are correct

[@Airsaber]

I'm 100% sure I've seen what you call "the mountain house" with my own eyes a couple of times when I was a younger teen! I used to call it "a cabbage field house" (I mean, my country isn't exactly known for cotton), though. Otherwise I'm only acquainted with the red house/barn with the fenced road (I wonder just how many times I've seen it over those decades?), and, not gonna lie, it feels nostalgic to see it, especially since for me there's no unnerving aspect to it, only a cosy mystery of the "I would like to go there". My personal feelings aside, I suppose that some part of this nostalgia for the targets comes from the fact that for many of us folks with very bad sight having such a health issue since early childhood might have felt somewhat isolating and it might have even made us a target of bullying. In contrast, the optometrist's office used to feel like a wondrous place, and being asked to use one of those mysterious machines might have felt like some sort of a prize that "regular" kids would never get. Either way, not gonna lie, I used to wonder about these images, but not to the point of going on a chase and documenting it along the way. Awesome video!! The musings about the feeling of sonder/fernweh/pothos and about the liminal quality of the targets were like a cherry on top, as I love to ponder such aspects of life, too. I also appreciate the part about artists - an interesting commentary on the role of various "ordinary" artists in our society - necessary, but unseen. (Re: the sonder part - do you also get the impulse to exit the train or stop the car to go and explore places that make you feel this way? I can't say I've ever followed such an impulse, but man, is it tempting sometimes.) Side note: I'm still not sure about the images being digital - aren't they way too high quality for such old machines...? There **has** some kind of a manual for a service technician for one of those machines somewhere!

[@GlaurungtheRed]

It's really cool that you and jeffiot came out with videos on this topic but coming at it from different angles so close together.

[@emmaaa3003]

*giggling and kicking my feet*

[@pyrometheus4277]

Laying on the bed doing kickies

[@greylikesart756]

ME FR I LOVE MR EXPLAINER IM SO STOKED HE FINALLY POSTED AGAIN

[@matt6223]

For what?

[@emmaaa3003]

@@matt6223 new trey video :)

[@borelespork4510]

Funny

[@purple_swampert]

i'm so glad you learned about the airplane! when i was little, and very poor, we went to a really cheap eye doctor with old equipment, and i remember seeing the plane and thinking, "where's the balloon?" this stuck with me for years, and in all those memes, i never saw that ellusive plane.

[@miguelangelsb_]

When I was a kid, when I had that test, the "machines" were basically just a few mirrors, so what you ended up seeing was the doctor's eye looking back at you. A bit weird, now that I think about it lol.

[@ProminentCorpse]

Those still exist too, I got one only a year or so ago.

[@ouyangdabai]

The reason the screws would not "catch" was because you were likely using a standard US screwdriver when those screws are all JIS style screws, indicated by the little dot on the top of the screw, believe it or not they use a different screw driver which you can buy online by searching for a "JIS screwdriver"

[@RobertoElCreeper]

I had a target image with a lighthouse, I think it wasn't in color, but rather green and black. This was in Argentina in the early 2010s.

[@Venom_Mom]

You made a joke about doing surgery, but you really did end up dissecting that machine! :') Amazing video!

[@fen4554]

The starburst was like the image of just the farmland with all this straight spiky lines in the crops, but mirrored top to bottom so it filled your vision from point to peripheral. Glowing green on black. Intimidating as heck, like it was going to shoot a laser into you or something.

[@laureng6412]

Yes my optometrist STILL uses the Starburst! I saw him last December for reference. I think that he just didn't bother to update the machine

[@RebeccaS1231]

I'm pretty sure there -is- in fact a physical image in there. The operation manual for the Canon R-F10, which isn't the exact model but does still refer to the target as a 'red roof' so presumably has the same image, mentions a "Lamp for illuminating eye fixation target" in the service information, and likewise in the safety section it talks about the "Eye fixation target illumination LED". If the target is being illuminated by the lamp, then that suggests that the overhead projector idea, or something like it, was probably correct.

[@TheTrueGOATS]

There is a KZbinr by the name of Jeffiot that made a pretty good video talking about the hot air balloon image. Even found the exact balloon used.

[@silver1788]

just an hour in but i already know the part starting with 'the targets as art' has been one of the finest work and writing ive seen on your channel thats what i like about your view on archeology and the other subjects you make videos on explorations of sonder (like your incredible video on the russian school kid, drawing while being bored of homework), nostalgia and your deeply emotional and human perspective on the topics you choose to delve into i didnt grow up needing glasses and have never seen a ophthalmologist's office from the inside, but i was immediatly intrigued by them and everything i felt and noticed about them, you touch on during the part i mentioned in the beginning incredible stuff thank you so much for taking the risk of making a video so far outside of your usual field and daring to make something so personally valuable to you Edit: also big props to the music in this, the composer did an amazing job creating the feeling and athmosphere

[@sciencenerd7639]

0:48 ah yes the large evil, vile machines

[@Tmkmml]

trey the explainer drops are rare, memorable treats. he's one of yt's true auteurs, someone whose works are labors of love. if there were more creators like TtE, yt would be an immesurably better place

[@erwinklassen8467]

came for paleontology stayed for cryptids got an eyedoctor apointment ??? profit

[@Mishana10]

Yeah, I'm from the Czech Republic and I've always been measured by this Canon picture of a house. Thanks for the video, it's awesome :) I'm glad to learn something new regarding tech history.

[@ZimoNitrome]

Love the dedication of actually going there. I saw Trey's photos on Twitter and the dots immediately connected when I saw this video title and thumbnail.

[@Miki_Naz]

KZbin is truly an amazing and unique site. There is no other place where one could see a 1h 40min video about such a niche topic.

[@EASTTILEDEN]

Thought the thing you were cryptically tweeting about destroying for knowledge was some ancient artifact or smth crazy like that lmao

[@SkrapsElsewhere]

Lol same

[@daddykarlmarx6183]

I have glasses but I don't recall ever looking at photos of any sort for the test?? It's mostly the eye puff and the letter chart, anyways always glad to have more Trey the explainer Edit: so I've definitely used that machine where you put your chin on the thing, focus on a point, and then they puff air in your eyes, but again, there were no pictures involved, it was just a green dot I was told to look at

[@TryinaD]

Same! The eye puff was used in conjunction with the photos, those are different as explained by Trey

[@pickles3128]

Mine was a bright (green/pink) dot of light. And there's also that one where you can see the vessels in your eye, too.

[@SaurianStudios1207]

Seeing the iconic eye exam images certainly elicits a strong feeling for me on nostalgia, familiarity, and examination of my optic vision, but I never in a million years thought I would ask the questions of what is the significance of these images in both the context of eye examines, and visual imagery in general. So fascinating to learn the mysterious origins, nature, and significance of three simple yet iconic images that resonate strangely on a deeper level that I expected.

[@AndyHappyGuy]

Every time I thought the video would end and he'd give up, he had to reveal some new development lmao. With just 8 minutes left in the video, I thought the video was ending, then he revealed the whole barn.

[@Big_Man_Enjoyer]

Hot air balloons had so much prominence in the 90’s-2000’s and now I hardly hear about them I bet most of us Americans in the public school system had a textbook with hot air balloons on it

[@biancagiles3555]

PLEASE never stop these, this has absolutely lit up my entire year!

[@dessertstorm7476]

ok time to watch a 1:40:35 video on something I've never thought or cared about.

[@Sashko_Dee]

@04:08 Let me tell you about these cool Autrefractor machines and *completely ignore the levitating ophthalmologist on the right.*

[@joshuaraymer1705]

Gonna watch this tonight so excited

[@skeepodoop5197]

It's such a sombre irony that the infamously subliminal red barn's real life counterpart is similarly barren.

[@QuinnTheGM]

I thought this was going to be about rorschach tests when I saw the title and was surprised to learn that all of these images still depict my parents arguing

[@crypti9077]

thank you so much for featuring my art ♥♫ !!! It feels at home in this video - i've always been curious about these images. It was so neat to follow through ! Last time i got my eyes checked, i let out an audible "oooh" when looking through the machine - in 23 years, it was a first time seeing the little house instead of the air balloon ! (it prompted me to dive into google images which then inspired the drawing) it amused my ophtalmologist, and he explained that the image depended on the brand and date of the machine - he told me that some very recent ones display a football - i've never seen it and couldn't find it online but thought it could be interesting for the variants thing. seems less interesting than a faraway little house, i've gotta say. also i definitely remember that previous less-saturated variant of the air balloon ! Somehow seeing it again gave me an inexplicable feeling, haha.

[@Dragnfly_mynamewastaken]

7:13 I laughed at the cow getting something injected into its brain. So random

[@rabbithaver]

oh yeah that's a stun gun. used to stun a cow before slaughter. which IMO makes it 30 times funnier that he put it in

[@andrewhooper7603]

as soon as i saw the picture, i had the same thought, then the absolute madman threw it out there.

[@Friendlyziper]

@TREYtheExplainer Its cool to see YOU showing up more in videos, your channel continues to develop into an ever-better trove of information. Much love❤️ 🔥🔥

[@MAFDOMiNUS]

Hes back... Hes back... HE'S BAAAACCCKKKK!!!!

[@YXAJPW]

"WE LOVE YOU TREY!!!" we all shout in unison

[@attackongage]

using this as a source on my paper, not related at all but my professor needs to see this

[@melskunk]

I saw this title as a notification and went "what the heck is an eye exam landscape??". Then when I saw the red hot air balloon one in the first five seconds and went "OH YEAH THE EYE EXAM LANDSCAPES!!"

[@melskunk]

Addendum: I had my first eye exams just before the adoption of these images. I remember being asked to focus on dots (and a black 5 pointed star at one point) as a small child. By 1990, (11) i had diagnosed nearsightedness, and remember the balloon, probably from these later exams

[@TheDeadPollo]

The timing as I’m getting ready for LASIK surgery to correct my myopia… Thanks for making my last 1 hour and 40 mins of not being able to focus on anything further than 10 cm away from my eyes worth it 💕

[@PeachysMom]

LASIK was the best thing I ever did. I needed reading glasses soon afterwards but it was an easy trade off for being able to see, like, anything. You’ll be so happy with it once you heal.

[@TheRunningLeopard]

I’ve heard many stories of this surgery going poorly. I hope that you’ve thought whether possible life long complications are worth not wearing glasses anymore, you’re a stranger to me but please stay safe.

[@PeachysMom]

@@TheRunningLeopard It’s the internet. People are much more likely to post bad medical experiences than when surgery goes well. Everyone I know personally who had lasik is very happy with the result. As a doctor (not an eye doctor), I read many medical/surgical histories every day, on patients I consult on, but have never seen any complications from lasik surgery listed. Of course EVERY surgery has the risk of complications, and they should be taken seriously. As with any surgery you’re considering, you need to research the surgeon, their board certification, and their complication rate to minimize the risk as much as possible.

[@skylarkspinner]

The dedication put into this video is absolutely delightful. Thanks for sharing!

[@Shapio]

Video one, or video two. Video one, or video two. Video two, or video three. Video two, or video three.

[@slwrabbits]

I've hit a point where my response is, "I don't know. I can tell they're different, but I have no idea which one is clearer." My eyes are a bit messed up.

[@spirithawk6580]

​@@slwrabbits When that happens I just get stressed that I'm somehow doing the test wrong and guess which one looks better lmao

[@SaiyanHeretic]

Glad to see other people recognize the liminal space weirdness of these eye exam images. I feel like there's a lot of potential in this for one of those low budget "find the difference" psychological horror games.

[@archysimpson2273]

It's Been So Long, please come back to us, the world has changed so much.

[@axolotlhappy2340]

The house in the green field is definitely the most calming, in my opinion. The balloon one looks like I'm standing in the middle of the road, ready to be run over at any moment. Quite the opposite of calming I'd say.

[@Nico_Robin1033]

There was a sense of haunting beauty to this video, I thoroughly enjoyed it and I now feel so committed to knowing everything about it

[@psitaccus]

The thumbnail is amazing

[@jeffreywilliams3421]

Are we just going to gloss over that Antonio is floating at 12 minutes in? WHAT DOES IT MEAN?

[@PeachysMom]

IKR? What is that photo

[@aberrantartist]

There’s so much inexplicable joy in watching you geek out over these things. Thanks for sharing your passions with all of us and making us passionate too! Literally can’t stop laughing when you’re trying to disassemble these

[@notdancooper923]

THE KING RETURNS REJOICE REJOICE

[@MiloVeloz]

*Trebonius the Explainer has blessed us with a plentiful harvest*

[@martian_heidegger]

This video and the native Bigfoot video. You are really on your A-game recently.

[@ph0t0sh0pmast3r]

I’ve lived in Lexington for 20 years and as a bit of a local historian I’ve known about this image being this farm for several years now. I’m thrilled you made the trip to my city to see it! I used to work at Keeneland and it’s funny to me how you pronounce it. Also, as a professional hat maker I have to inform you that your hat is backwards.

[@Bionicneobeak]

1:07:54 if you're never in an episode of Smiling Friends I'm going to cry.

[@yangerdanger7744]

holy shit allen

[@carmineknight9123]

I was not expecting this to be a subject that would make me emotional. Goddamn, Trey. You made a serious banger. Your new videos are a genuine "babe wake up" event to me.

[@omerkaya545]

22:07 the upper left one is a biblically accurate representation of the eye sight target.

[@KimblesTheBrave]

I just had an eye exam a week ago and saw the balloon chart and thought "huh, that seems much more liminal than it was in the past". Now I can say with confidence that my optometrist's office switched from Visionix to Nidek machines. Neat!!

[@merrittanimation7721]

I can feel that puff of air on my eyeball just looking at these

[@captainkirk4271]

You bought not one, but THREE machines? THE DEDICATION! I love this channel.

[@anachibi]

I'm 36 and had regular eye exams from about 1995 to 2006, but I don't remember seeing images in a machine like this (or at least not color ones) until fairly recently, after 2010. I'm not sure I even used one until then, and definitely not the air puff ones (probably because I was still a kid). Maybe because I always went to small, family eye doctors before that?

[@juliajs1752]

Well, he does say that "originally, there was nothing" at around the 12-minute mark.

[@anachibi]

@@juliajs1752 Yeah, it's just that 1995 was a while after they started using the color images. It's very possible the small practices just had old machines.

[@ryleebarfield1795]

LOVE THISS YOUR HARD WORK SHOWS!!!

[@SamsDigitalGraveyard]

1:01:32 ever since I was a kid I’ve wanted to live on Wuhu Island from Wii Sports Resort. I’m so glad I have a word to describe that feeling now.

[@chaoticneuron3661]

never even had an eye test and yet here i am having watched the whole video so intensly

[@jimtsiakanikas1230]

Trey is like that cool cousin who you will meet randomly during summer or family events and WILL be the highlight of the whole thing.

[@laureng6412]

MY OPTOMETRIST USES A MACHINE THAT HAS A STARBURST IVE NEVER SEEN THOSE LANDSCAPE IMAGES!!!! OMG this makes soooo much more sense now. The guy is getting up there in years and I think I'm his only patient haha

[@hawkticus_history_corner]

I was pretty sure id never seen this but the moment you said "puff of air" I had a weird flash of memory. Pretty sure i got at least that test, probably when i got my eyes checked for my chronic headaches in High School Edit: I still respect the hell out of you buying those machines out of pocket. I can't imagine junked ones are cheap

[@tentativeentertainment3363]

45 minutes of deep dive and another 40 minutes of Trey just getting straight up emotional about this picture as a piece of art. I love this lol

[@sean..L]

UMAMI made a great animation inspired by these images called 'What do you see?'.

[@ArkhanNightman]

I didn't expect to be as captivated as I was. I didn't get glasses until somewhat recently in my adult life, so I have not really reflected much on this art. Truly fascinating stuff. 💚 Here in Sweden, I belive that the one I had was either the lone house or the horse farm. I recall it as a slightly surreal experience. 🏠

[@DudeManDude-ot5fv]

Trey is by far the best looking KZbinr.

[@Girl_In_Bread]

Always a good day when Trey uploads idc what the topic is I'll never miss a video ☮️💜

[@LBJshowedmehisJ]

I wonder how hard it would be to dump the autorefactor's computer ROM/flash.

[@CofaMakesVideos]

I like the sound track of this video as it really sets the odd mood. While I have never seen these images it does give me a weird sense of nostalgia, it reminds me of an odd memory. I live in the midwest and when we go out, most of the time, basically all of the time in early childhood, it was through this intersection, the south road was home and east and west roads were straight to necessary places, but the north road was never crossed. As a kid I poundered what was beyond this road, all bizarre and strange. I saw this weird ad where the other side of deer mount is the lower half of the deer, so in this one dream we went to the north road to find a place where they had deer diagrams covered by mounts of deer backsides. Around when gravity falls came out I poundered if Bill Cipher was down that road. I think such images can give nostalgia to those who never seen them, specifically Americans, because there is that one road that you have never crossed that you poundered about, alongside the uncanny imagery

[@Dancinghats]

At work last night I was thinking about rewatching the Bigfoot video just for you to drop this, the stars man

[@SamsDigitalGraveyard]

I’m so excited about this video. Those eye test images always fascinated me.

[@eduardoeller183]

I love you Trey you're doing gods work

[@doomslang]

Thank you for showing me these Peter Sis paintings. I am absolutely floored by them.

[@SnowyGingerAle]

WHAT IS THIS CLARVOYANCY YOU'RE USING?! I litetally went to the optomotrist after 5 years of procrastinating it and when I went there my first thought was "that's a weird picture lol."

[@PeachysMom]

There are so many comments like this, it’s wild! Maybe he does have clairvoyance lol

[@alicematalice]

The emotional aspect of these images really spoke to me. I have this vague memory from when I was very little of this picture with a vast field of sunflowers, and I remember it giving me a very similar feeling to the targets.

[@jigssingson8566]

Always a great day when Trey uploads

[@fearlessjoebanzai]

Holy moly. It's silly how buzzing I am watching this. Only the other day I was looking, hopefully, longingly even, to see if Jo Jo's Bizarre Explainer had uploaded and maybe I'd missed it... only for this to appear now! I am 25mins in, astonished that a video such as this, has me not only invested, but excited that I still have essentially a movies length of visual and audio storytelling to enjoy!!! Thank you Trey 🙏 May many blessings be upon you.

[@fearlessjoebanzai]

Holy, holy moly! I paused the video in order to write the original comment and after posting it, read a few comments from other people... I'm astonished, to some degree, how similar it seems their sentiments are to that of my own! You certainly have that factor! Bravo good sir.

[@fearlessjoebanzai]

...ylom yloH I'mm'a need to backtrack... You do know that you can take things apart without using saws, drills and hammers - right? There are peeps on YT that would love to help you with such things I'm sure 🤦‍♂️