Pareidolia is the tendency for perception to impose a meaningful interpretation on a nebulous stimulus, usually visual, so that one sees an object, pattern, or meaning where there is none. It is a type of apophenia.
Common examples are perceived images of animals, faces, or objects in cloud formations, seeing faces in inanimate objects, or lunar pareidolia like the Man in the Moon or the Moon rabbit.
I've never thought of it before now, but I think sound pareidolia is a thing too. For instance, hearing someone distantly calling your name - but it was just some random noise that your brain tried making sense of.
Pareidolia: the tendency to interpret a vague stimulus as something known to the observer, such as interpreting marks on Mars as canals, seeing shapes in clouds, or hearing hidden messages in reversed music.
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carl_dungeon@lemmy.world · 46 pts · 2y
He also has a boner
FlyingSquid@lemmy.world · 21 pts · 2y
And you don't?
carl_dungeon@lemmy.world · 23 pts · 2y
Now I didn’t say that….
Annoyed_Crabby@monyet.cc · 17 pts · 2y
He's happy to see you.
idunnololz@lemmy.world · 4 pts · 2y
That's just his shirt
Sotuanduso@lemm.ee · 34 pts · 2y
Cloud.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cloud
samus12345@lemmy.world · 15 pts · 2y
IndiBrony@lemmy.world · 23 pts · 2y
Cloud.
treadful@lemmy.zip · 12 pts · 2y
Cloud.
snor10@lemm.ee · 5 pts · 2y
Cloud.
IndefiniteBen@leminal.space · 18 pts · 2y
More accurate response:
Pareidolia
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pareidolia
pirat@lemmy.world · 2 pts · 2y
I've never thought of it before now, but I think sound pareidolia is a thing too. For instance, hearing someone distantly calling your name - but it was just some random noise that your brain tried making sense of.
YaksDC@lemmy.world · 15 pts · 2y
Pareidolia
Rockyrikoko@lemm.ee · 4 pts · 2y
Pareidolia: the tendency to interpret a vague stimulus as something known to the observer, such as interpreting marks on Mars as canals, seeing shapes in clouds, or hearing hidden messages in reversed music.
WhiskyTangoFoxtrot@lemmy.world · 3 pts · 2y
Weren't they actually flaws in the telescope lens?
IndefiniteBen@leminal.space · 2 pts · 2y
Whoops, missed this comment when I made mine... Here's the link: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pareidolia
einfach_orangensaft@feddit.de · 10 pts · 2y
ShitOnABrick@lemmy.world · 1 pts · 2y
No big peepee
dastechniker@lemmy.world · 9 pts · 2y
It is simply the Corpse of King Minos
MightyGalhupo@lemmy.world · 2 pts · 2y
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Kolanaki@yiffit.net · 7 pts · 2y
"Oh shit, it's a Final Fantasy character?!"
Foggyfroggy@lemmy.world · 7 pts · 2y
Jesus is coming…look busy!
synae@lemmy.sdf.org · 6 pts · 2y
Got to succeed, if not it's Satan's fall
kevinbacon@lemmy.world · 6 pts · 2y
Oh? You're approaching me?
Somewhereunknown7351@kbin.social · 5 pts · 2y
He has awoken
It has begun
Scubus@sh.itjust.works · 4 pts · 2y
Do you hear a bell ringing, by chance?
Rolando@lemmy.world · 4 pts · 2y
Nope 2
Getawombatupya@aussie.zone · 4 pts · 2y
Like this?
produnis@discuss.tchncs.de · 3 pts · 2y
This is a Carlos Castaneda Cover, or?
Go Yaki
Rooty@lemmy.world · 3 pts · 2y
Photoshop
0x4E4F@infosec.pub · 2 pts · 2y
Yes, Tesla is reborn!
GrammatonCleric@lemmy.world · 2 pts · 2y
REZZ?
odium@programming.dev · 2 pts · 2y
No, cloud.
db2@sopuli.xyz · 2 pts · 2y
Janosz!
metaStatic@kbin.social · 1 pts · 2y
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