49 Activity – Pareidolia

One of the interesting and funny consequences of “automatic organizing” in human perception is that we have a tendency to see shapes, objects, or face that aren’t really there but which appear to be.  This tendency to impose meaning on random visual patterns is called PAREIODOLIA.   Here are some photos of things in a typical house where many people see faces.

 

See if you can discover faces like this in your house, neighborhood, or school.  Take a picture or describe the objects that you interpreted as a face.

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