Have you ever seen a strange face in a photo and wondered who or what it was and whether your eyes were playing tricks on you? In this episode, you join me as we explore Amy’s question: 'What is pareidolia and am I going crazy?' We look at what pareidolia is, how and why we see faces and whether people’s fear of ghosts or darkness triggers them to see images of faces in objects or photos, Is my mind playing tricks on me?
RESEARCH SOURCES:
https://hub.jhu.edu/magazine/2024/winter/pareidolia-faces-in-nature/
https://thedebrief.org/auditory-pareidolia-the-voices-in-your-head-may-have-a-rational-explanation/
https://www.artsandmindlab.org/pareidolia-research
https://www.education.com/science-fair/article/hear-what-they-want-to-hear/
https://phmuseum.com/projects/pareidolia-primeval-awareness-or-generative-biological-intelligence
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