Wednesday, March 11, 2009

Finally Tonight, Pareidolia

Pareidolia:

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, and hearing hidden messages on records played in reverse.

Might I add, the Face on Mars and all the Virgin Mary/Jesus you could imagine literally.

There is an pool of photos on pareidolia at Flickr. Check out this one in toast. Do you see it? The Big Bang. Or this one?

Psychologists utilize this predisposition when performing the Rorschach Inkblot Test to determine whether your thoughts will be projected upon the visual ques.

1 comments:

JSKC said...

jesus, that video is tortuous.