Pareidolia
Fascinating. It caught my eye.
I know I should so be studying but well...
I can't seem to stop looking for Pareidolia online. Its mind boggling!
For those of you who do not know what it is, a Pareidolia is an ordinary object or sound that is perceved to have some meaning. For example, you were lying awake in your bed. The wind rustled the papers on your desk and you thought you heard someone calling your name.
Its when you play a song backwards and you hear coherent sentences being formed by a robotic sounding voice (Back-masking)
Its when you are about to put a potato chip in your mouth and you notice that it has a face.
A famous example of this is the face seen on pictures of the Martian surface.
Its supposed to be caused by our brain's talent in recognizing patterns such as faces and sounds. Our brain wants things to make sense, it groups things together to make sense out of it hence, a series of little dots could look like a picture etc.
Check out this link... a picture of the Martian surface
On the image to your left, there's a tiny "big foot"- of course you have to enlarge it anyways...here's how it looks like up close:
Image sources: NASA
Cool eh? See if you can find it... its kind of like where's wally only much harder!
Anyways...yes, I am getting back to my revison. Term tests start TOMORROW!!
I know I should so be studying but well...
I can't seem to stop looking for Pareidolia online. Its mind boggling!
For those of you who do not know what it is, a Pareidolia is an ordinary object or sound that is perceved to have some meaning. For example, you were lying awake in your bed. The wind rustled the papers on your desk and you thought you heard someone calling your name.
Its when you play a song backwards and you hear coherent sentences being formed by a robotic sounding voice (Back-masking)
Its when you are about to put a potato chip in your mouth and you notice that it has a face.
A famous example of this is the face seen on pictures of the Martian surface.
Its supposed to be caused by our brain's talent in recognizing patterns such as faces and sounds. Our brain wants things to make sense, it groups things together to make sense out of it hence, a series of little dots could look like a picture etc.
Check out this link... a picture of the Martian surface
On the image to your left, there's a tiny "big foot"- of course you have to enlarge it anyways...here's how it looks like up close:
Image sources: NASA
Cool eh? See if you can find it... its kind of like where's wally only much harder!
Anyways...yes, I am getting back to my revison. Term tests start TOMORROW!!
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