Your Brain Tricks You Into Seeing Things That Aren’t Real All The Time (25 Pareidolia Pics)
Pareidolia is when your brain tricks you into seeing meaning in an otherwise plain, innocuous item. Our brains want to seek meaning in everything we see, so when it cannot make sense of the input it’ll give you the best guess.
We see faces in all kinds of things. A random spec on the wall perceived as a spider. The chair with your laundry on it looks like a demon in the middle of the night. Our brains are powerful computers but can still be pretty faulty.
1. Started drawing over to show what I see in detail, here’s a sad bear trapped in a wall!
2. The resemblance is uncanny.
3. I think the pancake I made this morning may be pregnant.
4. Cloud formation looks like a giant landing eagle.
5. I overcooked an egg and it looks like a person is trying to climb out of it.
6. Turtle with a reflection that resembles a face of a man.
7. I pity the tool.
8. Saw this horrifying beast during my morning walk today.
9. Lens flare in this photo looks like Eric Cartman.
10. He died for our shins.
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14. Look it’s a straw-BEAR-y.
15. Cat is surprised by the atomic explosion.
16. This Kookaburra looks like a baby goat if you look close enough (outline for reference)
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18. My friend’s shoes are screaming.
19. The back of this speaker.
20. There’s a pareidolia museum in Japan that displays natural rocks that happen to have faces on them.
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23. Ok I’ll go to space again but I won’t enjoy it.
24. My new friend.
25. This rebar showing through the worn concrete.
