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  1. Pareidolia alert 🚨

    In this view of the Moon, the crew of the Orion spacecraft captured the rings of the Orientale basin, one of the Moon’s youngest and best-preserved large impact craters. Credit: NASA.

    flic.kr/p/2s6nzVS

    #pareidolia #facesinthings #Moon #Artemis #Artemis2 #Orion #Integrity #OrionIntegrity #spacecraft #NASA #space #news #astrodon #lunar #flyby #lunarflyby

  2. #FacesInPlaces - and misty legs, floating arms. I know we're a few weeks off #Halloween, but it was getting a bit spooky as the @Metwalkers wandered around #Chelsea yesterday

    #Walktober #London #photography #walking #pareidolia

  3. I am extremely suspicious of claims that particular #opticalIllusions reveal some aspect of your #personality. Humans are #pattenRecognition machines with tendencies for #apophenia and #pareidolia. It is in our nature to seek out patterns in noise, and to recognize faces in random data. I'd be interested in actual studies that establish a link between these phenomena, and an individual's personality, but I suspect they don't exist.

    express.co.uk/life-style/life/

  4. The famous so-called face on #Mars isn't actually a face. It's a mountain with features and shadows that make it look like a face from certain perspectives. Our interpretation of it as a face is an example of #pareidolia—a form of #apophenia—which is a phenomenon in which we perceive faces in otherwise abstract features. It's a quirk of the human mind based on our tendency to seek out patterns in chaos.

    unilad.com/community/face-on-m

  5. LOL Just noticed this fish skeleton pattern in a wood flooring plank we installed about six years ago. An example of #Pareidolia ?

    Uh-oh! TIL (via Wikipedia) #Apophenia was coined by psychiatrist Klaus Conrad in his 1958 publication on the beginning stages of schizophrenia 🤷🏻‍♂️