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The camouflage effect of the Predator with the blurred mirror like visual came from a dream one of the writers had.
In the dream he saw a strange being made of reflective chrome inside a sphere of similar reflecting chrome and in effect became invisible.
Today, this visual effect to display an invisible being is the most common and has been used in a wide variety of different media since then.
The best way we have come up with to see invisible beings came from a dream.