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#pareidolia

Passed Wonder
12 hours ago

As I wandered the #YeadingBrook through meadows & woods, I heard wind whistling through trees, over stones almost like a voice. And it was saying…
"Scram youngster! Old man Gutteridge don't SHARE his STICKS with NOBODY!"

HTs #pareidolia #TellingStories #NaturePhotography #river #LondonsRivers #photography #london #FacesInThings

On the side of a river, a  raised hollow has tufts and darker areas that give the impression of a face of dark earth and a hand of curling leaves. Below it there is a small area of mud and sticks. Behind there is a wide variety of undergrowth.
Cognissart
2 days ago

I haven’t posted any #pareidolia recently but this rock caught my eye today. It looks like a piece of #ChristmasCake to me! #lichensubscribe

A grey mottled rock (resembling fruit cakae) with white lichen on the top and down the top part of the side (resembling icing and marzipan)
Hans
2 days ago

I see watery eyes, nose, mouth, a beard, dark hair, and pimples on that grey face on the tree trunk - what a lichen!
Btw... it's a Lecanora dust lichen in the woods.

#lichen #LichenSubscribe #pareidolia

A grey crustose/dust lichen on a tree trunk looks like a face
Rebecca Nordquist
3 days ago

@LizEllisPhD There's a #Pareidolia tag here, which is highly amusing

michael
4 days ago

21-SEP-2023
Visual psychological phenomenon may have stimulated early humans to make cave art

https://www.eurekalert.org/news-releases/1002309
Specifically, the idea is
that cave artists may have experienced #pareidolia – a psychological phenomenon where people see meaningful forms in random patterns, such as seeing faces in clouds. #science #anthropology #humans #CaveArt

Rebecca Nordquist
5 days ago

Sad

Lepraria finkii (Fluffy Dust Lichen), I think, or at least this is what #iNaturalist tells me

#tree #woods #eye #nature #forest #Pareidolia #LichenSubscribe #NaturePhotography #Pentax #PentaxK70 #PentaxK70_RN

Photograph of a knot in a tree in the shape of an eye, with lichens under one corner that look like tears from the eye
form by heating and pounding
6 days ago

Shitty Apartment (b. out of code)
"Jabba the Hutt", 2023
• forced hot-air vent stain on drop-ceiling tile

#StarWars #Pareidolia #LetsLynchTheLandlord

A brown stain on white drop-ceiling tiles that looks like Jabba the Hutt.
Neil Clements
6 days ago
A beach pebble takes on the look of an “Grey” ET.
grateful wolf
6 days ago

Understanding the role of pareidolia in early human cave art - PhysOrg https://phys.org/news/2023-09-role-pareidolia-early-human-cave.html #RockArt #pictographs #petroglyphs #pareidolia

65dBnoise
1 week ago

Performer
(on a circular stage)

#Pareidolia

Processed, cropped MCZ_RIGHT, FL: 110mm
Sol: 916, RMC: 45.0000, LMST: 07:18:21
Original: https://mars.nasa.gov/mars2020-raw-images/pub/ods/surface/sol/00916/ids/edr/browse/zcam/ZR0_0916_0748238661_738EBY_N0450000ZCAM08923_1100LMJ01.png
Credit: #NASA/JPL-Caltech/ASU/65dBnoise

#Perseverance #Mars2020 #Solarocks #Space

David Bradley
1 week ago

Mrs Sciencebase spotted a Connie as we were heading back to the RSPB Arne car park.

Needless to say, I had to get a photo or two

Convolvulus Hawk-moth

Look at that little face on its thorax... #pareidolia

#mothmania #MothsMatter #mothematics #mothtodon #TeamMoth

Convolvulus Hawk-moth on my finger
65dBnoise
1 week ago

Ice cream rocks, at 7 AM

#pareidolia

Processed MCZ_RIGHT, FL: 110mm
Sol: 916, RMC: 45.0000, LMST: 07:10:00
Original: https://mars.nasa.gov/mars2020-raw-images/pub/ods/surface/sol/00916/ids/edr/browse/zcam/ZR0_0916_0748238143_769EBY_N0450000ZCAM08923_1100LMJ01.png
Credit: #NASA/JPL-Caltech/ASU/65dBnoise

#Perseverance #Mars2020 #Solarocks #Space

Spotted a crying building today.

#FacesInThings #OgdenUtah #Pareidolia

A building with water stains coming from two holes above a single door, which looks like a mouth, and a light that looks like a nose.
65dBnoise
2 weeks ago

Rocks conspiring against the enemy. Action seems to be imminent.

#Pareidolia

Processed MCZ_RIGHT, FL: 110mm
Sol: 913, RMC: 45.0000, LMST: 11:39:36
Original: https://mars.nasa.gov/mars2020-raw-images/pub/ods/surface/sol/00913/ids/edr/browse/zcam/ZR0_0913_0747988443_644EBY_N0450000ZCAM08920_1100LMJ01.png
Credit: #NASA/JPL-Caltech/ASU/65dBnoise

#Perseverance #Mars2020 #Solarocks #Space

essjax
2 weeks ago

Dunno what this geezer is so amused about
#pareidolia

Barbecue knobs looking like a smiley face
Jo Jitsu
2 weeks ago

I currently have a pronounced #pareidolia effect where I see birds and bird shapes everywhere. They are magically appearing in my painting.
Today there is a #heron added, and even yesterday's crop of the painting I noticed a peacock (her leg in purple.)

I really like #painting #birds it seems too.
#art #workinprogress #wipArt #oilpainting

painting of a grey heron with blue & white striped fabric draped behind, standing in a shallow rock pool of water with small goldfish.
Andrea Luck
2 weeks ago

@NeV_T find a rock that looks simply like a rock #pareidolia @65dBnoise 😅

Neil Clements
2 weeks ago

I got a stony-faced reception #pebblesofMastodon #pareidolia #silentsunday

Three beach pebbles with faces
65dBnoise
3 weeks ago

Martian geology never gets boring 😀

A pan? A sombrero?
(more choices in thread 😂 )

#Pareidolia

EDIT: finally after 2 days a full image arrived. Replaced the thumbnail with it.
EDIT2: For a 3D version, see @kevinmgill's https://mastodon.social/@kevinmgill@deepspace.social/111052780134184252

Processed MCZ_RIGHT, FL: 110mm
Sol: 907, RMC: 44.2062, LMST: 12:44:36
Original: https://mars.nasa.gov/mars2020-raw-images/pub/ods/surface/sol/00907/ids/edr/browse/zcam/ZR0_0907_0747459780_910EBY_N0442062ZCAM03761_1100LMJ01.png
Credit: #NASA/JPL-Caltech/ASU/65dBnoise

#Mars2020 #Solarocks #Space

65dBnoise
3 weeks ago

Brainy rock.

#Pareidolia

Debayered, processed, cropped MCZ_LEFT, FL: 110mm
Sol: 902, RMC: 44.0898, LMST: 11:48:22
Original: https://mars.nasa.gov/mars2020-raw-images/pub/ods/surface/sol/00902/ids/edr/browse/zcam/ZL0_0902_0747012461_521ECM_N0440898ZCAM08910_1100LMJ01.png
Credit: #NASA/JPL-Caltech/ASU/65dBnoise

#Perseverance #Mars2020 #Solarocks #Space

Mike Nelson Pedde
3 weeks ago

White Kitten
(playful little one...quite the purr...)

#photo #photography #yyj #Victoria #BC #JamesBay #kitten #pareidolia

A tissue box, with the top tissue pulled partway out for next use. The way the paper is aligned - folds and shadows - creates the perfect image of a white kitten.
Can O' Bitch
4 weeks ago

More from the vegetable pareidolia department ... I provided a red pepper for last night's scampi. My friend referred to my neighbor's new relationship with my mom as "the happy couple" while slicing the pepper, and this appeared!

(My neighbor is 80, my Mom is 81)

#garden #gardening #food #foodPorn #pareidolia

A slice of red pepper with what appears to be a smiley face in the center.
Can O' Bitch
1 month ago

Okay so my heirloom bubblebutt tomato got made into a Greek sandwich. That's right, @WecanbeGyros

But now I've forgotten all about her because of this hottie! Like way super even more sexy.

#Sexy #garden #gardening #FoodPorn #pareidolia

A tomato looking just like a super sexy rear end. This tomato got back, baby! 

Out of focus panels of Italian countryside in the background
flip
1 month ago

Little fella has seen things (or maybe just went way too fast). #thingswithfaces #pareidolia

A scooter with cutouts in the front, looking like a mortified, frowning face.
65dBnoise
1 month ago

Weird Rear Hazcam image: the rear right wheel is in the air, barely touching (if at all) the ground on the lower left. On the lower right, the shadow makes a very sad face.

#Pareidolia

EDIT 1: tnx @tom30519 for resetting my compass

EDIT 2: Wheel is not in the air. Tnx @thedudeabidez88 for pointing it out, below.

Quickly processed REAR_HAZCAM_LEFT
Sol: 896, RMC: 44.0820, LMST: 15:01:48
Original: https://mars.nasa.gov/mars2020-raw-images/pub/ods/surface/sol/00896/ids/edr/browse/rcam/RLF_0896_0746491752_943ECM_N0440820RHAZ02420_01_295J01.png
Credit: #NASA/JPL-Caltech/65dBnoise

#Mars2020 #Solarocks #Space

Draußen nur Kännchen
1 month ago

@Seesternchen evtl. ist #pareidolia oder #pareidoodle was für dich ☺️

65dBnoise
1 month ago

On Terra there would be archaeologists looking for ruins of past civilizations. Here on Mars, it's just Mars trying to make a Terran robot feel at home 🙃 😀

Remember Solaris, the novel by Stanislaw Lem? Something like that 🤓

#Pareidolia

Processed, cropped MCZ_RIGHT, FL: 110mm
Sol: 890, RMC: 44.0000, LMST: 12:46:38
Original: https://mars.nasa.gov/mars2020-raw-images/pub/ods/surface/sol/00890/ids/edr/browse/zcam/ZR0_0890_0745950760_598EBY_N0440000ZCAM08896_1100LMJ01.png
Credit: #NASA/JPL-Caltech/ASU/65dBnoise

#Perseverance #Mars2020 #Solarocks #Space

Bedrock on Mars, looking like familiar ruins on Earth.

Pareidolia is the tendency for perception to impose a meaningful interpretation on a nebulous stimulus, usually visual, so that one sees an object, pattern, or meaning where there is none.
Chris Grey
1 month ago

Sometimes, #pareidolia is quite uncanny. He even has a beard....[[|:-)

dutypo
1 month ago
1 month ago

@JonathanMBR V good, if that's not 'shopped.

#pareidolia

Mark H
1 month ago

Dragon skull cloud in the sky. That means something if you think cloud shapes are a thing and you're not familiar with #pareidolia.

#Cloud #Dragon

Clear sky in a grey-blue that indicates evening with a single cloud. It looks like the skull of a dragon pointing to the right with a snout, an eye socket, and the impression of where the ears and neck would be.
Mike Nelson Pedde
1 month ago

You know it's hot when...

#photo #photography #yyj #Victoria #BC #pareidolia

An image of a hand dryer in a commercial washroom. The dryer itself is simple in design; basically a brushed aluminum cylinder. There's a cutout on the front with an arc that suggests a smile. An LED has been inset into this arc. At the top is a logo with the company name (Frost) and the smile is glowing red. 🙂
Mago del Trueno :mastodon:
1 month ago

¿El cono adivinador?
#pareidolia

Squidbilly
2 months ago

#pareidolia
Found this parrot/dodo 🦤 hybrid in Lübeck yesterday.

You see a hook used for keeping a door open sticking out of a red brick wall. It looks somewhat like a bird with a strong beak and some sort of headdress. Underneath the hook there is a plant with yellow flowers growing out of a crack between the wall and a concrete sidewalk.
Passed Wonder
2 months ago

"Step into the light beam!
YOU HAVE TWENTY SECONDS TO COMPLY."

HTs #WeirdLondon #Robocop #HumansWillPairBondWithAnything #technology #security #Pareidolia

On the top of a green front door there is a motion detecting light. Three detector and two lights have been covered in gaffa tape so only thin  strips are left visible, creating the appearance of a face.
R. A. Poe
2 months ago

@Trilobyter I thought there's a giant frog enjoying an evening on the beach #pareidolia

Mandu 🥟
2 months ago

Teenage Mutant Ninja Loafers

#Pareidolia

marshalls loafers that look like teenage mutant ninja turtles faces
Joseph Meyer
2 months ago

#Hiking #pareidolia: Fossilized skull of #Batman nemesis, The #Riddler?

A limestone rock with holes that resemble eye sockets and the shape of a question mark where the nose would be, near the toe of my hiking shoe.
👹 Kraja 👹
2 months ago

🧑🏽‍🚀

#pareidolia #pareidoodle

the photo of a metallic circular structure in the concrete slab path
The scene of an astronaut fleeing from mischief, who pushes open a door, surrounded by glaring yellowish light, was digitally drawn into the outlines of the structures
Miakoda
2 months ago

Robo in my car!
#Pareidolia

Heated seat switches, and a partially closed cup holder cover look like a robot face with the parking brake lever being his arm.
[11:25.500 --> 11:45.500] This is dangerous, but the world is, the path, the whole world is, the path, the whole world.

#extremecomputermusic #pareidolia #etc

https://farmersmanual.bandcamp.com/album/stderr-0-ep
65dBnoise
2 months ago

A good boy's snout.

#Pareidolia

Processed MCZ_RIGHT, FL: 63mm
Sol: 868, RMC: 42.1460, LMST: 14:29:07
Original: https://mars.nasa.gov/mars2020-raw-images/pub/ods/surface/sol/00868/ids/edr/browse/zcam/ZR0_0868_0744004022_956EBY_N0421460ZCAM08873_0630LMJ01.png
Credit: #NASA/JPL-Caltech/ASU/65dBnoise

#Perseverance #Mars2020 #Solarocks #Space

👹 Kraja 👹
2 months ago

👰🏼‍♀️👻

#pareidoodle #pareidolia

Ein Stück nasser Papiermüll auf den Pflastersteinen
Aus der Form des Papierstücks hab ich digital eine ältere, geisterhafte Braut ins Foto gezeichnet
65dBnoise
2 months ago

The Lion's Mane!
By Catherine O'Connell-Cooper, Planetary Geologist at University of New Brunswick

Link to report: https://mars.nasa.gov/raw_images/1232326

Sol 3890
Processed, undistorted Front Hazcam image
Image Credit: NASA/JPL-Caltech/65dBnoise

#MSL #NASA #Solarocks #Space #pareidolia

65dBnoise
2 months ago

Donald Duck's foot, Martian edition.

#pareidolia

Debayered, processed, cropped MCZ_RIGHT, FL: 110mm
Sol: 859, RMC: 42.0000, LMST: 11:56:33
Original: https://mars.nasa.gov/mars2020-raw-images/pub/ods/surface/sol/00859/ids/edr/browse/zcam/ZR0_0859_0743195663_113ECM_N0420000ZCAM08865_1100LMJ01.png
Credit: #NASA/JPL-Caltech/ASU/65dBnoise

#Perseverance #Mars2020 #Solarocks #Space

Cody
2 months ago

Sad side of Culver's sign #pareidolia

Side of Culver's sign with holes that look like face.
Close up of side of Culver's sign with holes that look like face.
65dBnoise
3 months ago

Ares' helmet.

#pareidolia

Debayered, WB, cropped MCZ_LEFT, FL: 110mm
Sol: 847, RMC: 41.0000, LMST: 12:47:57
Original: https://mars.nasa.gov/mars2020-raw-images/pub/ods/surface/sol/00847/ids/edr/browse/zcam/ZL0_0847_0742133535_909ECM_N0410000ZCAM08853_1100LMJ01.png
Credit: #NASA/JPL-Caltech/ASU/65dBnoise

#Perseverance #Mars2020 #Solarocks #Space

65dBnoise
3 months ago

"Claws of the Beast"

#pareidolia

PRocessed SUPERCAM_RMI
Sol: 849, RMC: 41.0188, LMST: 11:47:05
Original: https://mars.nasa.gov/mars2020-raw-images/pub/ods/surface/sol/00849/ids/edr/browse/scam/LRF_0849_0742307359_233EBY_N0410188SCAM01849_0100I6J01.png
Credit: #NASA/JPL-Caltech/LANL/CNES/IRAP/65dBnoise

#Perseverance #Mars2020 #Solarocks #Space

Sabine
3 months ago

The bear is still sleeping 🙂 .
I wave to him every time I paddle past.

#rocks #lake #pareidolia

A rocky granite shoreline. The rock resembles a sleeping bear, with his head resting on his front paws. 
Dense forest beside the rock.
65dBnoise
3 months ago

A giant Martian Trichonympha campanula on the left and a giant Martian tardigrade on the right, facing off against each other. 😀

Variations on a theme: #pareidolia

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Trichonympha
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tardigrade

Processed, cropped MCZ_RIGHT, FL: 110mm
Sol: 845, RMC: 41.0000, LMST: 11:57:04
Original: https://mars.nasa.gov/mars2020-raw-images/pub/ods/surface/sol/00845/ids/edr/browse/zcam/ZR0_0845_0741952851_956EBY_N0410000ZCAM08849_1100LMJ01.png
Credit: #NASA/JPL-Caltech/ASU/65dBnoise

#Perseverance #Mars2020 #Solarocks #Space

65dBnoise
3 months ago

The shadows of the turret and the masthead (center left and right, respectively) seem as if discussing about the operation to be performed on the subdued rock (left, in the foreground).

Variations on a theme: #pareidolia

Processed, leveled, cropped FRONT_HAZCAM_LEFT mosaic
Sol: 845, RMC: 41.0000, LMST: 16:11:02
Original: https://mars.nasa.gov/mars2020-raw-images/pub/ods/surface/sol/00845/ids/edr/browse/fcam/FLF_0845_0741968519_255ECM_N0410000FHAZ00219_01_295J01.png
Credit: #NASA/JPL-Caltech/65dBnoise

#humor #Perseverance #Mars2020 #Solarocks #Space

65dBnoise
3 months ago

Drystane dykes of Seitah

Variations on a theme: #pareidolia

Natural layered rocks on Mars 🙂
Processed, leveled, cropped MCZ_RIGHT, FL: 110mm
Sol: 288, RMC: 9.0000, LMST: 07:19:41
Original: https://mars.nasa.gov/mars2020-raw-images/pub/ods/surface/sol/00288/ids/edr/browse/zcam/ZR0_0288_0692488315_409EBY_N0090000ZCAM08312_1100LMJ02.png
Credit: #NASA/JPL-Caltech/ASU/65dBnoise

#Perseverance #Mars2020 #Solarocks #Space

Rock formation at South Seitah, Jezero, Mars, looking like a man made wall or dyke.
65dBnoise
3 months ago

Dry walls of Jezero

Variations on a theme: #pareidolia

Natural layered rocks
Processed, leveled, cropped MCZ_RIGHT, FL: 110mm
Sol: 289, RMC: 9.0000, LMST: 16:10:58
Original: https://mars.nasa.gov/mars2020-raw-images/pub/ods/surface/sol/00289/ids/edr/browse/zcam/ZR0_0289_0692609844_473EBY_N0090000ZCAM08314_1100LMJ01.png
Credit: #NASA/JPL-Caltech/ASU/65dBnoise

#Perseverance #Mars2020 #Solarocks #Space

65dBnoise
3 months ago

Cyclops Polyphemus, surprised, looks around to see what's going on. Sees the eye of SUPERCAM staring at him.

#pareidolia

Animation showing laser zapped tailings of the #sample5 borehole. From Sol 268.

SUPERCAM_RMI
Sols: 268 & 269, RMC: 8.0000, LMST: 10:58:43
Original: https://mars.nasa.gov/mars2020-raw-images/pub/ods/surface/sol/00268/ids/edr/browse/scam/LRF_0268_0690726367_530EBY_N0080000SCAM01268_0050I6J02.png
Credit: #NASA/JPL-Caltech/LANL/CNES/IRAP/65dBnoise

#Perseverance #Mars2020 #Solarocks #Space

Eyeling
4 months ago

You're seeing this, too, aren't you? --- Ihr seht das auch, oder?
#pareidolia #MoosMittwoch #Mosstodon #infrared #infrarot

Moss on a tree stump looking like a skull
Even more creepy in infrared
It's smiling, though
R. A. Poe
7 months ago

Moss growing on the remains of a dead tree in a forest, creating something new. But what? A mini-forest? Or does it even look like a dog's head? #Pareidolia #Mosstodon

Moss growing on the small remains of a dead tree on the ground in a forest. The ground is covered with dead leaves. The moss creates a shape reminding me remotely of a dog's head.
NicholasR
9 months ago

@futurebird thanks for informing us about the difference between #pareidolia and #anthropomorphism :)

Alwin de Rooij
9 months ago

"Creative individuals are more likely to perceive recognizable forms in ambiguous stimuli"

Remarkable insight into the link between perception and divergent thinking ability.

https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S258900422201375X

#Pareidolia #Creativity #Perception #Psychology

👹 Kraja 👹
9 months ago

Und heute: der Wolf im Taschentuch

#pareidoodle #pareidolia #art #mastoart

Ein benutztes Taschentuch auf dem Boden, die zufällige Form erinnert an die Silhouette eines Wolfes
Digital wurde der Wolf ins Taschentuch gezeichnet, so wie er bettlägerig im Märchen Rotkäppchen beschrieben ist
👹 Kraja 👹
9 months ago

Kraja hat wieder Zeug in Flecken gemalt 👨‍👦

#pareidoodle #pareidolia #art #mastoart

Garrett Kelly
9 months ago

Hi: I’m Garrett. I do #paranormal stuff w/ liminal.earth (a crowdsourced map of strange experiences).

Into being a #weirdo, banging on pots and pans, building devices to talk to plants, #divination, #pareidolia, #lpfm, #occult, #magick, #hacking, #ruby #HamRadio, #makers, #diy, #FoundSound, #SoundArt, #SocialJustice, #witchcraft, #queer ness, #gender, trying to talk to #ufos with #tarot and leaving out baked goods to entice them!

#introduction
#introductions

Paisley P. Peinforte 🪬
9 months ago

LRT: ALL I CAN SEE IS IT SMILING SO CUTELY

#pareidolia

stereo set appearing to smile thanks to pareidolia
👹 Kraja 👹
10 months ago

Da tauchte heute Morgen plötzlich ein Capybara vor mir auf

#pareidoodle
#pareidolia #art #mastoart

Fotografie: ein Fleck auf der Straße und Krajas Schuhe
Digital wurde das Foto derart bemalt, dass in dem Fleck ein schlafendes Capybara deutlich erkennbar ist

👹Artist: #Davidzinn - City: #AnnArbor USA 🇺🇸 - Title: Marcia's ability to make friends is beyond belief."- ("Marcias Fähigkeit, Freunde zu finden, ist einfach unglaublich.")
#StreetArt #Art #Microart #Streetart #Mastoart #KeineKatze #Chalkart #Pareidolia #WaterCap #WildThing #sidewalkchalk 💕

Streetart - Chalkart - Little Grey Monster On The Street

❣️Artist: #HelgaStentzel - in City: #London UK 🇬🇧 - Title: "Laundry Diva"-#streetart #art #mastoart #installation #graffiti #IseeFaces ⬅️ (and click on the Hashtag ) #pareidolia #weekend ... See you 👋