Pareidolia
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Pareidolia is a psychological phenomenon involving a stimulus (an image or a sound) wherein the mind perceives a familiar pattern of something where none actually exists.
Common examples are perceived images of animals, faces, or objects in cloud formations, the "man in the moon", the "moon rabbit", and hidden messages within recorded music played in reverse or at higher- or lower-than-normal speeds.
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Perfectly healthy, a remnant from times when predators lurked in the woods ready to pounce on us.
Unhealthy when someone doesn't realise it has it.
Sees a face where there is no face and refuses to acknowledge it's only a trick of the mind.
Like the Ajdovska deklica near Vršič, Slovenia.
It's a natural rock formation, no one carved it and it still registers as a face.
