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Pictoparanoia


















Also known as Pareidolia,
' ..hypothesized that as a survival technique, human beings are "hard-wired" from birth to identify the human face. This allows people to use only minimal details to recognize faces from a distance and in poor visibility, but can also lead them to interpret random images or patterns of light and shade as being faces.'
Recognizing faces in everyday objects is a crude hobby, there about everywhere. Here are some more from JIMWICh
or
on Flickr - Pareidolia