Presented below is a series of black squares.  Do you notice anything peculiar about this pattern?

As your eyes scan this matrix, do you see dark phantom dots appear in the white intersections?  This illusion was proposed by Ludimar Hermann in 1870.  As such, it is referred to as the Hermann grid illusion.

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