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<p>[QUOTE="LaCointessa, post: 2965166, member: 87186"][USER=91531]@RachelRuth[/USER], you may be experiencing something called Pareidolia </p><p><br /></p><p><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pareidolia" target="_blank" class="externalLink ProxyLink" data-proxy-href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pareidolia" rel="nofollow">https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pareidolia</a></p><p><br /></p><p>And it has also been observed that:</p><p><br /></p><p>"There is an universal tendency among mankind to conceive all beings like themselves, and to transfer to every object, those qualities, with which they are familiarly acquainted, and of which they are intimately conscious. We find human faces in the moon, armies in the clouds; and by a natural propensity, if not corrected by experience and reflection, ascribe malice or good- will to every thing, that hurts or pleases us." --David Hume<a href="http://www.class.uidaho.edu/mickelsen/texts/Hume-Nat%20Hist%20Rel.txt" target="_blank" class="externalLink ProxyLink" data-proxy-href="http://www.class.uidaho.edu/mickelsen/texts/Hume-Nat%20Hist%20Rel.txt" rel="nofollow">*</a></p><p><a href="http://skepdic.com/pareidol.html" target="_blank" class="externalLink ProxyLink" data-proxy-href="http://skepdic.com/pareidol.html" rel="nofollow">http://skepdic.com/pareidol.html</a></p><p><br /></p><p>Anyway, whenever this happens to me, I just relax and enjoy it. </p><p><br /></p><p>(I am studying a coin now on which I am sure I see frogs. After searching for a similar coin only one Greek coin seems vaguely similar so I am starting to suspect it is pareidolia at work again.)[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>
[QUOTE="LaCointessa, post: 2965166, member: 87186"][USER=91531]@RachelRuth[/USER], you may be experiencing something called Pareidolia [url]https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pareidolia[/url] And it has also been observed that: "There is an universal tendency among mankind to conceive all beings like themselves, and to transfer to every object, those qualities, with which they are familiarly acquainted, and of which they are intimately conscious. We find human faces in the moon, armies in the clouds; and by a natural propensity, if not corrected by experience and reflection, ascribe malice or good- will to every thing, that hurts or pleases us." --David Hume[URL='http://www.class.uidaho.edu/mickelsen/texts/Hume-Nat%20Hist%20Rel.txt']*[/URL] [url]http://skepdic.com/pareidol.html[/url] Anyway, whenever this happens to me, I just relax and enjoy it. (I am studying a coin now on which I am sure I see frogs. After searching for a similar coin only one Greek coin seems vaguely similar so I am starting to suspect it is pareidolia at work again.)[/QUOTE]
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