SLCWđź’Ą · @slcw
349 followers · 3538 posts · Server newsie.social

The famous so-called face on isn't actually a face. It's a mountain with features and shadows that make it look like a face from certain perspectives. Our interpretation of it as a face is an example of —a form of —which is a phenomenon in which we perceive faces in otherwise abstract features. It's a quirk of the human mind based on our tendency to seek out patterns in chaos.

unilad.com/community/face-on-m

#mars #pareidolia #apophenia

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Kenneth Freeman · @Kencf618033
28 followers · 567 posts · Server disabled.social
Kenneth Freeman · @Kencf618033
251 followers · 5191 posts · Server social.linux.pizza

In a neat example of the Baader–Meinhof phenomenon a leonine young woman at the Flying M Coffee House inspired the fanciful thought "Her name is a lion". Couldn't manage a translation. Later, looking at Lojban t-shirts... mi fetsi cinfo... Furthermore, I have ~7% Hungarian ancestry, and lo! a MAGYAR license plate appears in front of me.

#lojban #apophenia #synchronicity

Last updated 2 years ago

elizabeth veldon · @elizabethveldon
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Jim Bowering · @arjaybe
80 followers · 910 posts · Server mastodon.cloud

@abbyjss Yes. I think everything is like that. . . . And the "blue field entoptic phenomenon." I think human traits lie on normal curves, so you get people who can't get what you're talking about and others that thought everybody was like that and everything in between.

#synesthesia #aphantasia #apophenia

Last updated 3 years ago

Weekly Photos · @weeklyphotos
49 followers · 1058 posts · Server glasgow.social

Great to explore somewhere different this week. The river levels were just right to catch this shot but can you see something spooky at the bottom of the hole?

@UKNikon t.co/uiFOO50qoP

#apophenia #fsprintmonday #sharemondays2023 #appicoftheweek

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Joseph Kanski · @JPK_elmediat
434 followers · 3559 posts · Server mastodon.art
Drew Burns · @drewburns
148 followers · 224 posts · Server mstdn.party

Dark beasts on Mars?

Whether this counts as or , there's a long history of finding images on Mars and thinking they prove "something's up there." I still find this fascinating.

msn.com/en-us/news/technology/

#pareidolia #apophenia

Last updated 3 years ago

Drew Burns · @drewburns
130 followers · 174 posts · Server mstdn.party

Dark beasts on Mars?

Whether this counts as or , there's a long history of finding images on Mars and thinking they prove "something's up there." msn.com/en-us/news/technology/

#pariedolia #apophenia

Last updated 3 years ago

Mike Nelson Pedde · @wolfnowl
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Joseph Kanski · @JPK_elmediat
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errors=panic · @minx
346 followers · 9828 posts · Server cybre.space

TFW you do a tarot reading and it's just uncanny.

Like, that RNG just got spooky...

#apophenia

Last updated 3 years ago

gaby_wald · @gaby_wald
70 followers · 16249 posts · Server framapiaf.org
gaby_wald · @gaby_wald
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