0 a situation in which someone sees a pattern or image of something that does not exist, for example a face in a cloud:
A common human source of false revelations is pareidolia, where people see visions or hear voices where there are none.
Rumors of backmasking in popular music have been described as auditory pareidolia.
The script was said to expand upon the original story's exploration of pareidolia and rework the plot to feature a father and daughter.
Since it was originally first imaged, the face has been near-universally accepted as an optical illusion, an example of the psychological phenomenon of pareidolia.
Perceiving significance in these artifacts can be attributed to pareidolia.
Geologists and scientists are nearly in agreement that the inscription is the result of erosion and that the face is a product of pareidolia.
One explanation for this phenomenon is pareidolia, the tendency of the human brain to perceive meaningful patterns in random noise.
Misperception of patterns in random data is called pareidolia.
