Pareidolia is a psychological phenomenon involving a vague and random stimulus being perceived as significant. Common examples include seeing images of animals or faces in clouds, the man in the moon, and Jesus or Maria on a toast.
The word comes from the Greek words para (“beside, alongside, instead”) in this context meaning something faulty, wrong, instead of; and the noun eidolon (“image, form, shape”) the diminutive of eidos. Pareidolia is a type of apophenia, seeing patterns in random data.
Weird. I had never heard this word before I did the post “focus” and here’s the word again. Synchronicity!
Hehe, must be synchronicity (the experience of two or more events as meaningfully related, whereas they are unlikely to be causally related)!
I’m doing some research on how people perceive non-human images as faces, with the hormone Oxytocin (or placebo) in their bloodstream, and even though its pretty nerdy I find it interesting 🙂
Nerdy us good 🙂
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