Are You a Pareidoliac?

[Friends just call me Ross]

http://earthsky.org/human-world/seeing-things-that-arent-there?

 

If you see animals in clouds, or a face in the moon, you could be a pareidoliac.

 

The following photos can test your ability to see things that aren’t there:

 

 

[Friends just call me Ross]

[Friends just call me Ross]

 

 

The “face of Jesus” in this photo is actually a child with a bonnet, and the hair is vegetation in the background. Anonymous Swedish photograph from the late nineteenth century

[Tortuga]

 

If you see animals in clouds, or a face in the moon, you could be a pareidoliac.

 

The following photos can test your ability to see things that aren’t there:

 

 

That's not fair, I always see things that aren't there.

 

 

umm...is that a spider on your back?

Nevermind, just lint...I think.   

[Friends just call me Ross]

[Friends just call me Ross]

[Friends just call me Ross]

[Friends just call me Ross]

 

 

Seeing recognizable objects or phenomena in otherwise random or unrelated objects or patterns is called pareidolia. It’s a form of apophenia, which is a more general terms for seeing apparently meaningful connections between unrelated patterns, data or phenomena.

Everyone experiences it from time to time. Nearly everyone occasionally sees animal or human shapes in clouds, for examlpe. This post contains photos that let you test your ability to see things that aren’t there.some ways, the pareidolic images we discover tend to indicate things about which we are most interested, whether they be people, puppies or planes. Finding such “embedded” images can fun and interesting, almost a hobby for some. But for some they can also fuel obsessiveness and paranoia. Enjoy finding your own pareidolic images, but keep in mind that what you are seeing is not really there, but in your mind.--Larry Sessions

I am most definitely a pareidoliac.  I see images in my bathroom carpet, tiles, wooden doors...you name it.   

[Brother Arellano]

I guess I assumed everyone was that way. The representations of things in those images are quite obvious, glaring even. I can't imagine not being able to see them.

[ChrisC]

I see faces behind beards.

[JSmith]

I remember many hours spent picking out faces and animals in the bathroom paneling as a child... Oh, not just the bathroom! Other rooms too (though probably not as many hours)

[CHecker]

At one place where I work they have marble walls, I see so many things! The other day I tried to NOT see something and got a headache!

And do you remember the pic I took on my way to work that looked like the fish on the left was going to eat the fish on the right?? COOL!

[Tortuga]

We have 'casino' carpet at the KH and sometimes when my mind drifts I see a lot of things in the carpet pattern.

[Old]

Do you mean like the Black Jesus on Mugzi's behind?

Edited August 21, 2015 by Old

[Tortuga]

Do you mean like the Black Jesus on Mugzi's behind?

 

 

That is just so wrong....

 

   

[1gemstone]

That went just too far ...

[Good-O]

Thank you all.  I really needed that laugh this morning.  One of our elders is very sick and in ICU and we are all so stressed .  I needed something to bring a smile to my face.  Thank you again.