Researchers have also speculated that trypophobic reactions could be perceived as cues to infectious disease, which could be alerts that give one a survival advantage.
Instructions to the Test In this brief test, you just have to look at the picture, please make sure you are not distracted by anything in the environment and focus on the pictures presented.
The picture will haunt the sufferers for hours if not days, sometimes even leading to a compulsion of "having to see more pictures" that trigger the Trypophobia in the vain hope of experiencing relief by desensitization.