Pareidolia

Pareidolia (payr-eye-DOH-lee-uh) is a psychological phenomenon involving a vague and random stimulus (usually an image) being mistakenly perceived as recognizable. Common examples are: seeing animals or faces in clouds, seeing the man in the moon, seeing Jesus in a burnt tortilla, hearing messages on records played in reverse, Marian apparitions, the Loch Ness Monster, etc. A similar phenomenon is the clustering illusion.

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\n*The Skeptics Dictionary's definition for 'pareidolia'\n*Lenin in my shower curtain