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Word of the Day: Pareidolia

Pareidolia - the tendency for incorrect perception of an object or pattern such as seeing shapes in clouds, seeing faces in inanimate objects or abstract patterns.

My uncle had pareidolia because he saw panda bears in a wallpaper pattern.
 

An old school teacher of mine suffered from pareidolia, with him always asking the class, "did you hear that" or "what did you say".
 

When I was a kid we had very interesting bathroom tiles on the walls. In my pareidolia I would look at each one and see an image of one sort or the other and I would give each one a name. I called one "the strawberry man" because it looked like a man with a head shaped like a strawberry.
 

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