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<p>[QUOTE=&quot;desertgem, post: 3372139, member: 15199&quot;]Korey, it is a type of pareidolia, </p><p>From Wikipedia, </p><p><br /></p><p><b>Pareidolia</b> (<a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Help:IPA/English" target="_blank" class="externalLink ProxyLink" data-proxy-href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Help:IPA/English" rel="nofollow">/pærɪˈdoʊliə/</a> <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Help:Pronunciation_respelling_key" target="_blank" class="externalLink ProxyLink" data-proxy-href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Help:Pronunciation_respelling_key" rel="nofollow"><i>parr-i-DOH-lee-ə</i></a>) is the tendency to interpret a vague stimulus as something known to the observer, such as interpreting marks on Mars as canals, seeing shapes in clouds, or hearing hidden messages in music.</p><p><br /></p><p>Common examples are perceived images of animals, faces, or objects in cloud formations, the <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Man_in_the_Moon" target="_blank" class="externalLink ProxyLink" data-proxy-href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Man_in_the_Moon" rel="nofollow">Man in the Moon</a>, the <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Moon_rabbit" target="_blank" class="externalLink ProxyLink" data-proxy-href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Moon_rabbit" rel="nofollow">Moon rabbit</a>, <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hidden_message" target="_blank" class="externalLink ProxyLink" data-proxy-href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hidden_message" rel="nofollow">hidden messages</a> in recorded music played in reverse or at higher- or lower-than-normal speeds, and hearing indistinct voices in random noise such as that produced by air conditioners or fans.<a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pareidolia#cite_note-1" target="_blank" class="externalLink ProxyLink" data-proxy-href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pareidolia#cite_note-1" rel="nofollow">[1]</a></p><p><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/File:Martian_face_viking_cropped.jpg" target="_blank" class="externalLink ProxyLink" data-proxy-href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/File:Martian_face_viking_cropped.jpg" rel="nofollow"><img src="https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/7/77/Martian_face_viking_cropped.jpg" class="bbCodeImage wysiwygImage" alt="" unselectable="on" /></a></p><p>Satellite photo of a <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mesa" target="_blank" class="externalLink ProxyLink" data-proxy-href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mesa" rel="nofollow">mesa</a> in the <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cydonia_(region_of_Mars)" target="_blank" class="externalLink ProxyLink" data-proxy-href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cydonia_(region_of_Mars)" rel="nofollow">Cydonia region of Mars</a>, often called the &quot;<a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cydonia_(region_of_Mars)" target="_blank" class="externalLink ProxyLink" data-proxy-href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cydonia_(region_of_Mars)" rel="nofollow">Face on Mars</a>&quot; and cited as evidence of <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Extraterrestrial_life" target="_blank" class="externalLink ProxyLink" data-proxy-href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Extraterrestrial_life" rel="nofollow">extraterrestrial</a> habitation.</p><p><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/File:Viking_moc_face_20m.gif" target="_blank" class="externalLink ProxyLink" data-proxy-href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/File:Viking_moc_face_20m.gif" rel="nofollow"><img src="https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/2/2d/Viking_moc_face_20m.gif/220px-Viking_moc_face_20m.gif" class="bbCodeImage wysiwygImage" alt="" unselectable="on" /></a></p><p>A more detailed photograph taken in different lighting in 2001 shows how it is a natural rock formation. </p><p><br /></p><p>From me,</p><p><br /></p><p>Most people who have not spent a long time using magnifiers or those using USB camera with low resolution and high enlargement. The human brain tries it best to make sense out of a group of stimuli, but if it random , but outside&nbsp; of the normal type of stimuli for the person, the brain tries to associate it with something known. </p><p><br /></p><p>Here is an interesting site with examples</p><p><a href="https://www.livescience.com%2F25448-pareidolia.html" target="_blank" class="externalLink ProxyLink" data-proxy-href="https://www.livescience.com%2F25448-pareidolia.html" rel="nofollow">https://www.livescience.com/25448-pareidolia.html</a></p><p><br /></p><p>Error collectors looking for errors early in the hobby, see extra letters, numbers, eyes, etc.&nbsp; It tends to fade when you convince your brain that it is just random. Stains , small corrosion becomes extra doubling, mm, buttons, extra feather, etc.&nbsp; &nbsp; A person doesn&#039;t really see what the eye processes as visual data, they only see it after it is processed internally in the visual cortex. Fight Pareidolia !!!&nbsp; Jim[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>

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