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Magic Eye Beyond 3D: Improve Your Vision

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I bought this book shortly after getting Magic Eye II, and I can see how much they've improved their techniques in the intervening years. There are some gorgeous images in this book. I particularly like the butterfly floaters. They've also made it easier to see the images with the help of the two squares at the top of each page, that let you know when you've diverged your eyes just enough. The vision improvement info is another story. Why does Marc Grossman claim you can only do the "palming" exercise for 3 minutes? What terrible thing does he think would happen if you did it longer? (Such as a 1/2 hour, which is how long I routinely do it, without a problem.) Also many of the claims seem over the top. Magic Eye can bring you serenity? Make you more intuitive? Even give you feelings of love? C'mon. Nevertheless, for fans of stereograms, this is well worth adding to your collection.

I was always able to see the "floater" images within the pictures. The books calls this "divergence". When I do it, totally relax my eyes, I see the image within seconds. The problem for me was when I read in this particular MagicEye that I need to practice convergence. In other words, bringing the eyes together, and seeing the opposite of the 3D image. It's like a sunken image. At first, I had pain from doing this. It caused me eye strain, which was similar to eye strain I always feel after reading or sitting in front of the PC for a period of time. Now, after practicing the techniques to increase convergence (i.e. the pencil moving in and out for 10 seconds), I see the image, and more important, no more eye strain! It does work, or at least it worked for me..........

the best magic eye book ever !!!! it discusses how just by using magic eye pictures a person can tap into how their brain works. the 3D pictures are amazing and fun and the text helps us think about vision in a whole new way. way to go magic eye!!

If you are new to stereograms here are a few basic tips when choosing a book to buy: Buy a hardcover book. The paperbacks tend to bend and distort the images and it is much more pleasurable to view the depth of the images when the photo itself is rigid. Look for page size. This book has a good page size and you can move the photo in and out to arms length with certain images will have an apparent depth of up to 8 feet. One book, recommended by another reviewer on this page, I own in a paperback with small pages, yes the artwork is excellent but the depth of the photo appears to be 6-12 inches in most cases. This one is an excellent choice if you are only going to buy one.

I'm 35 and from the age of 10 have had to do eye exercises, I have great vision, but intensity at one focal point [ie reading computer screens] can strain the convergence on long distance.

This book really helps, if you gaze long enough a little bit each day, you really feel it set your eyes and inhibit any strain that day to day work can cause. I never knew how effective these images could be.

The eye have it.

Looking at the images in this book just makes my brain happy. It puts me in an altered meditative state instantly. Sometimes I can feel my body just wants to look at the book again.
I wish the other magic eye books were as good, because I do feel sometimes I'd like some new images, but the other ones are not as good and don't do as a good a job of putting me in that state.
The text is mediocre but it doesn't matter. The book is great...it's all about the experience for me. I think it does also improve vision. I've given it as a gift to many family members and recommend it regularly, especially to those who "can't meditate" or those who want to improve their eyesight.

The last book like this that I reviewed was Magic Eye II ;which I reviewed on May 25,2004. That book was published in 1994 ,several years after we first became familiar with these 3-D or Stereograms. This book was published in 2004 and we can see that there has been considerable advances in this artform.The one characteristic of these pictures has been that thay are easy to identify because of the repeatibility of about 6 panels or bands. This has always been a dead giveway.
The thing most noticeable is that the bands are much less obvious.The picture on page 11 is so good that one would hardly suspect as having floating beans within it.The picture on page 33 is very obviously a 3-D picture but at the same time is an excellent "floater".Of all the pictures,the one of the gravel on page 39 was the most interesting to me. It is so good,that one would likely not even suspect it to be a 3-D picture,unless it was in a book like this.I guess the ultimate would be when a picture is created that shows no signs of repeatibility at all. At that point you would have the perfect "hidden picture".
By far the biggest difference with this book in in the claims of how these images can be used to improve vision and all other sorts of things. The book is sprinkled with many testimonials from people who have experienced great things.I have considerable problem with accepting this stuff without the research and science to back it up.Otherwise;it has to remain in the area of "alternative medicine".It does not surprise me that there is a Disclaimer to the claims on page 2.
Nonetheless this is a good book showing how much 3-D pictures have improved since the early 90's.

I think that this is a good product, just like other books that I own. So if you have time to look at it, this will help you relax. If you never been able to see the images have patience sometimes it takes a while read the instruction on how to do it, there are three different ways, so one of those should work for you, it's just a matter of time. Once you are able to see the images it will become easier to see there rest of the pics I remember I used to think that this stuff was fake cause I could never see I spend 3 hours looking at one page and never got it, but it was because I kept trying to look for something, what work for me was to look past the image and that would let the 3d image pop out.

The pictures in this book are good, but beware! About every other page is a full page of text, of self-gloating from the authors! I am sure that their arms are tired from patting themselves on the back; and there are a bunch of stupid quotes from supposed customers of how their pictures cure cancer and the like... I would say that half of the book is a waste of paper because of this. I do not think I would buy this book again, false advertising.

My daughter and I love this book. I like the part that introduce you to see how our eye works and how 3d image help eye function.