Pareidolia.
Seriously, it's real. It's both an awesome name and an annoying ability to see "faces" in random objects and places where no such face actually exists.
I can recall sitting on the toilet in elementary school and staring at the dots on drop ceiling tiles and seeing faces. Happy, sad, scary, strange. Clowns and dogs and normal people.
I see the patterns on tile and in gum on the street. Splotches of paint, in drops of rain. Anywhere and everywhere I go I see these things.
According to google I might be nuts. Me?! Imagine that. I'm a weirdo, we know this. I don't try to hide it.
Isn't this a common phenomenon though? Does anyone else do this all the time?
I mean, it's hard NOT to see them. Right?
And if you haven't done it before, I bet you will now!
I do this all the time! I had no idea there was a name for it!
ReplyDeleteI totally do this all the time! Every time I'm in the bathroom I say hi the to cats on my shower curtain... No, it's not a cat themed shower curtain. I'll have to take a picture sometime and see if you can see it too.
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