pareidolia paranoia - always being watched
Dick Wonder ₐ wₒₙₖy, wₐᵥy wₒₙdₑᵣ,
Sat 14 Jul 2012, 10:04,
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A field of wheat, a cricket bat and my slippers are three things that might argue with that.
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Captain Howdy,
Sat 14 Jul 2012, 10:07,
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it's just thatyou look at a bunch of colors and shapes and say its a field of wheat, slippers, bat and whatnot
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Sat 14 Jul 2012, 10:29,
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Pareidolia is your mind making recognisable associations from a vague source.But if you see Elvis on a slice of toast, it doesn't become Elvis, it's still a slice of toast, albeit one where the visage of The King is apparent to you/others. This is pareidolia.
Seeing a field of wheat is just seeing a field of wheat and knowing it for what it is. This is called recognition.
Try it this way - what do you see?
2.bp.blogspot.com/-0gs7nQrdxEE/TZko79CWJ3I/AAAAAAAAAf4/ZOh0U8MjQIA/s1600/Wheat+Field.jpg
And now?
www.msss.com/education/happy_face/smile.gif
One picture is pure recognition - I see no faces, no sleeping monkeys, no reaching hands. I see wheat in a field. The possibility for pareidolia is there, but it would take a high level of concentration to look for something that is not instantly obvious to all. And where you might see a face, I (and many others) may not.
The other is 100% pareidolia
(Seeing a field of wheat is just seeing a field of wheat and knowing it for what it is. This is called recognition.
Try it this way - what do you see?
2.bp.blogspot.com/-0gs7nQrdxEE/TZko79CWJ3I/AAAAAAAAAf4/ZOh0U8MjQIA/s1600/Wheat+Field.jpg
And now?
www.msss.com/education/happy_face/smile.gif
One picture is pure recognition - I see no faces, no sleeping monkeys, no reaching hands. I see wheat in a field. The possibility for pareidolia is there, but it would take a high level of concentration to look for something that is not instantly obvious to all. And where you might see a face, I (and many others) may not.
The other is 100% pareidolia
Captain Howdy,
Sat 14 Jul 2012, 11:52,
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RISthe second one doesn't look anything like a field of wheat
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Van Da Graph is sufferng wth an intermttent 'i' key,
Sat 14 Jul 2012, 13:24,
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