Pareidolia: Seeing Faces in Things
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Published 2023-09-22
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Explaining the phenomenon of pareidolia, which causes us to see facial patterns in ordinary objects and surfaces. I also discuss illusions, paintings, and psychological research related to it.
All Comments (21)
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The Ambassador's painting's hidden skull was really the origin for Gen Z humor
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I love how this flipped between the most banger artworks you'll ever see and a distressed egg.
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Please tell me I'm not the only person who sees faces in cars. The head lights are eyes, and the bumper's a mouth. When I was younger I used to assign personalities to cars based on their "face"
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2:17 I used to walk by this statue all the time when living in the area. Even after countless times the effect was just as stunning: the face "turning" towards you as you went, as if following you with its gaze.
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I had a lot of this as a child/young teen(??) and it genuinely really creeped me out when I was doing something and looked at a door for example and it looked like it was looking at me - even though I knew it's not real it was really scary
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As an autistic, I’d like to add it can ALSO go the opposite way due to how the spectrum works. Just as we have “low social awareness”, we can also have EXTREME social awareness from overactive pattern recognition in our brains (which can also result in anxiety from overthinking what we perceive as a “pattern” that wasn’t there)
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As an Autistic person, I experience a lot of Pareidolia. I often see faces formed by the grills and headlights on cars.
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I hesitated a while before finally clicking on this video because I already knew what pareidolia was. However your video had me engaged the full 18 minutes and was never boring. I learned a lot, amazing video!
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This is a big part of my personality. I'm 32 and I do this even more now than I did as a kid. It's something I really love, and I take pictures of the instances I come across. My husband always points out to me any of the faces he sees because he knows I love it. I just sent him this video!
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The human being is an incredible creature, we naturally see art in our daily lives, we can transform our simple world into hundreds of meanings, man, living knowing this is fantastic
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I have c-PTSD from a lot of childhood trauma and I've noticed that I read patterns where there are none a lot more often than the people around me. Not just faces or humanoid figures in visuals (which I do see a lot and it freaks me out bad when I'm in an episode), but voices and music in sheer noise too. I've listened to instrumental tracks where I could hear someone shouting my name and been convinced someone had left a radio on when it was just running water. Pareidolia is a fascinating phenomenon.
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I can't tell you how many times I've been lying awake at night, just staring at nothing of note. Then I think I see a little face in the ceiling's stippling, or in the folds of a blanket. I always wondered why that happened.
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It is very interesting to learn that we only adapt to perceive in three dimensions, rather than that being an innate characteristic of perception. Also that our perceptual system is still faulty and subject to misfire. The human brain (and all brains in general) is fascinating!
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Dogs development of facial muscles to create expression happened in a remarkably short time after domestication. It's a weird quirk in evolutionary time scales.
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11:13 hes just a happy lil guy
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The power outlets in the good old U.S. of A. always looked like scared faces to me, to the point where I thought as a kid that it was intentional on the part of whoever designed them since you’re less likely to go sticking random objects into them with a scared expression on their “faces” than if they were happy like the power outlets from Denmark.
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I think, the conclusion of the video is what makes this video great, otherwise it would be basically the same video on youtube about pareidolia, thanks for creative and definitive conclusion
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Just so you know, Gala contemplating the Mediterranean sea is about 2.5m tall, not 30m. That would be outrageous, egregious, preposterous!
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"Hey evolution, can i have a pattern seeking brain?" "To avoid predators?" "Yes..."
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6:04 that painting is awesome, thanks for mentioning it, I could’ve gone my whole life without knowing about that.
