Show us your pareidolia images

[Bobby Rico]

I been interested in pareidolia for a long time now. I thought a thread with a collection of images maybe of interest to TFF. So if you have any photos pareidolia please post here. Cheers Bobby 

 

First up a fantastic painting by Giuseppe Arcimboldo : The Cook (1570) We quite a few Arcimboldo prints in our house. 

 

 

[Bobby Rico]

This is probably the most famous pareidolia image of all. It’s the so-called  face on Mars, originally captured in a 1976 image from the Viking 1 orbiter. NASA explains how subsequent spacecraft revealed the “face” to be a play of light and shadows.

 

Edited April 15, 2023 by Bobby Rico

[Kane]

Sleeping dragon

[Bobby Rico]

This one is my favourite . The images of  Poseidon taken on the British cost( bbc new thread)

[Bobby Rico]

4 minutes ago, Kane said:

Sleeping dragon

Cheers Kane that’s great.

[Denis Arcand]

This picture really plays with our minds! At first glance, I thought I saw a ghostly figure, but then I noticed the fee-like features. It's amazing how our brains can create meaning out of randomness and see things that aren't really there. Who knows, maybe the gofee is the next big thing in supernatural creatures!

 

[Denis Arcand]

Photographer Daniel Biber captured my favorite pareidolia image after spending four days attempting to photograph a murmuration of starlings. He achieved his goal, but it wasn't until he reviewed the images at home that he realized the starlings had formed a massive bird in the sky.

 

[piranha]

From my collection. This Scyphocrinites is a striking doppelganger from the original 1968 "Planet of the Apes"

 

[Ludwigia]

I collected this concretion years ago in the Provence in southern France and knowing that crystals could be found within, I cut it open and lo and behold, an ibex with a calcite crystal heart appeared.

 

[Bobby Rico]

@Denis Arcand  @Ludwigia thanks both for adding these cool Images. 
 

@piranha cheers Scott I found a planet of the apes stone 20 years ago on Brighton Beech. I have turn the house upside down tomorrow I think I still have it . 
 

Fossilised slice anybody 

[Denis Arcand]

3 hours ago, Bobby Rico said:

 

@piranha cheers Scott I found a planet of the apes stone 20 years ago on Brighton Beech. I have turn the house upside down tomorrow I think I still have it . 
 

Fossilised slice anybody 

 

Well, well, well, look what we have here! This prehistoric pizza is tickling my taste buds and making me feel all Jurassic. I mean, it's almost souper time, and this fossilized feast is definitely bringing the dino-mite hunger out of me. Let's chow down before the T-Rex comes knocking! 

[ynot]

 

[Randyw]

Heres my favorite example!

[Bobby Rico]

@ynot thanks for the heads up . That’s an old thread that I missed. I am sure it is ok to update it now. Sorry if it not I try and delete it or something.

[JohnJ]

3 hours ago, Bobby Rico said:

@ynot thanks for the heads up . That’s an old thread that I missed. I am sure it is ok to update it now. Sorry if it not I try and delete it or something.

 

Got you covered, Bobby.  I had a few eggs in an old basket.  

[doushantuo]

from the "Morphologisches Jahrbuch"

 

 

 

Edited April 16, 2023 by doushantuo

[doushantuo]

the "happy one!"

 

[Bobby Rico]

5 hours ago, JohnJ said:

Got you covered, Bobby.

Thanks John much appreciated.
 

 

[Bobby Rico]

Pareidolia is banded around the fossil ID section a few times a month. manly regarding members who believe  they may have found a fossil skull of some sort. Wrongly in a context of a lD, Pareidolia can be misconstrued as a derogatory term   “It is just your imagination” but I will try to in this thread explain what I believe. I believe it is not a foolish thinking to see a face in rock, in a waves or a cloud but we can’t help ourselves, it is how our mind is wired up.  As does a mere colon , dash, and a end bracket  will make us smile :-)

From a evolutionary point of view, hearing a strange sound (also Pareidolia referring to sounds) seeing a face in the bushes would course a fight or flight response. As we all know flight would be the correct action to take as some of the  dangers may have been real,

 

In the animal kingdom Pareidolia can be a defence mechanism to . Like the European Peacock  butterfly has  “eye spots” on their wings, that remain hidden until the butterfly or moth is startled and then quickly opens those wings to reveals the hunter within (illusion of eyes facing in front of the head) to deter the snacking predator.

 

 

Edited April 16, 2023 by Bobby Rico

[Bobby Rico]

SALVADOR DALÍ, Mae West is a another great example of Pareidolia in action, in fact, the whole of visual art is, in some sense, relying on the phenomenon. 

 

 

As Rene Magritte remarked: ceci n’est pas une pipe. of course, it’s not a pipe but oil paint on canvas that just reminded us of the smoking paraphernalia.

Edited April 16, 2023 by Bobby Rico

[Bobby Rico]

11 hours ago, Randyw said:

Heres my favorite example!

If it blinks I am off. 

[Bobby Rico]

2 hours ago, doushantuo said:

happy one!"

Thank you. This one is really cute. 

[Bobby Rico]

[piranha]

A little known Star Wars secret: The fossil sigil of the Mandalorian is a trilobite! 

 

   

 

[rocket]

my Owl