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Spin Zone => Spin Zone => Topic started by: FastEddieB on January 25, 2016, 09:49:24 AM

Title: Cool example of paraedolia!
Post by: FastEddieB on January 25, 2016, 09:49:24 AM

Paraedolia is the tendency to see faces or other patterns where there are none. Man in the moon, Jesus on toast, that sort of thing.

Saturday Karen and I were driving near Jacksonville Beach. The sign below looked like a demonic face to me.

(https://farm2.staticflickr.com/1627/24580645016_8ce9509d90_b.jpg)

Karen said it looked like Frank Zappa to her.

Today we stopped and took a closer look:

(https://farm2.staticflickr.com/1674/23979960863_313ea7113e_z.jpg)

Anyway, we both thought it was a good example of paraedolia!

Title: Re: Cool example of paraedolia!
Post by: Bob Noel on January 25, 2016, 09:51:50 AM

Yeah, that's what drew your attention to the sign.

suuuuuuuuuuuuurrrrrrrrre.

Title: Re: Cool example of paraedolia!
Post by: Becky (My pronouns are Assigned/By/God) on January 25, 2016, 11:04:31 AM

I see the demonic face.  And learned a new word.

Title: Re: Cool example of paraedolia!
Post by: Mr Pou on January 25, 2016, 11:13:32 AM

Quote from: Bob Noel on January 25, 2016, 09:51:50 AM

Yeah, that's what drew your attention to the sign.

suuuuuuuuuuuuurrrrrrrrre.

That, and all the ones smokin' a hole in his pocket!

Title: Re: Cool example of paraedolia!
Post by: FastEddieB on January 26, 2016, 12:50:20 PM

Quote from: Becky on January 25, 2016, 11:04:31 AM

I see the demonic face.  And learned a new word.

Might as well learn it right.

I was corrected on another site. My mistake. The correct spelling is pareidolia.

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pareidolia (https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pareidolia)