Saturday, December 23, 2006

Pareidolia

It's a new phenomenon that scientists have named for the "perception of patterns where non are intended". The latest example is a water mark on a wall at home in Los Vegas that people are attributing to an apparition of the Virgin Mary. Another example is when one hears a strange sound in the house and attributes it so an intruder, when in most cases, it's just the wind.

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