Pareidolia? Don't worry, I didnt know that word either, until quite recently.
The dictionary describes it as "the tendency to impose a meaningful interpretation on a nebulous stimulous, usually visual, so that one detects an object, pattern, or meaning where there is none."
For example, seeing faces in inanimate objects.
It just so happens, this perfectly describes an affliction I've had for most of my adult life: I see faces everywhere!
A few decades ago I started taking photographs, or scanning and downloading images, whenever I thought I saw a "face".
Some of the examples below are better than others, but here are a few of the images I've collected over the years.
Always more to come :-) |