The incredible beauty of Pareidolia. 🧵
1. A cloud formation that resembles as Jesus Figure due to pareidolia—the brain's habit of seeing familiar shapes in randomness.
2. David Zinn's temporary street drawings are composed entirely of chalk, charcoal and found objects, and are always improvised on location through a process known as “pareidolic anamorphosis” or “anamorphic pareidolia”.
3. Waterfall of the Bride, Peru 🇵🇪
Legend tells of a couple torn by family rivalry. On their wedding day, the bride's father murdered the groom. Devastated, the bride begged Mother Nature to turn her into a waterfall, a symbol of her eternal love.
4. Move your phone as far away from your arm as possible and blink rapidly to create pareidolia, which makes the brain see faces where there aren't any.
5. Believe me, it's not just pareidolia…but a server room.
6. Huge waves combined generating a pareidolia of Poseidon, the god of the seas.
This image was captured in Lesconil, a population located in Britain, west of France.
📷 Mathieu Rivrin via mathieurivrin_photography
7. This breathtaking photo by Jayme Brown gives the impression that the sky is whispering to the earth.
8. The power of pareidolia
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10. Eruption on Mount Etna creates the illusion of a Phoenix in the sky
11. Named "The Thinking Tree" by locals, this olive tree in Apulia, Italy, is said to be almost 2000 years old.
12. The Elephant rock, Iceland 🇮🇸
13. An upside down great white shark looks like a laughing devil 😈
14. These rock formations in Thailand and Laos look like a giant petrified snake 🐍
15. Tavolara Island, the sleeping cat 🐈⬛
16. What’s the weirdest “face” you’ve ever spotted?
17. When the ancient abbey decides to give you the side-eye. 👀🏛️
18. Located in the Phu Sing Forest, on the border between Thailand and Laos, the Rock of the Three Whales is a 75 million-year-old rock formation that juts out majestically from the mountains inside a fault. It earned its name because from the right perspective it seems to see a family of whales or better still sperm whales.
Another example of pareidolia.
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