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Originally Posted by sillyputty
What you THINK you've seen is just a mental confusion.
Our brains like to see patterns and thats how it helps us to recognize faces.
Its called PAREIDOLIA.
We recognize shapes as other objects and it helps us to categorize things...and sometimes we get it wrong.
Its like when those losers find "jesus" in their piece of toast bread and think their almighty god would some how be capable of appearing on a slice of bread as if it had nothing better to do...
Do your research and you'll be surprised.
[h1][/h1][h1]Pareidolia[/h1]
Pareidolia (/pærɨˈdoʊliə/ parr-i-doh-lee-ə) is a psychological phenomenon involving a vague and random stimulus (often an image or sound) being perceived as significant. Common examples include seeing images of animals or faces in clouds, the man in the moon or the Moon rabbit, and hearing hidden messages onrecords played in reverse. The word comes from the Greek para- – "beside", "with", or "alongside"—meaning, in this context, something faulty or wrong (as inparaphasia, disordered speech) and eid