Word of the Day – Pareidolia

Pareidolia (noun)

parr-i-doh-lee-ah

The phenomenon of the human brain where the mind interprets random images to find faces or other familiar objects.

So now you know why you could always see monster faces in the flowery wallpaper when you were a child.

Example sentences

“They keep seeing human faces on Mars, but it’s clearly just the trick of the mind they call pareidolia.”

“To her the curtains looked like they were full of faces, not roses but she knew this was just pareidolia.”