You’ll Swear These 23 Things Are Totally Different Things. But Look Again… Because NOPE.

[Catty1]

<header>June 2, 2014 Entertainment (http://www.viralnova.com/category/entertainment/)




</header> Have you ever walked down the street, only to be surprised by a happy little face you see in the concrete? Or the parking meter? Seeing faces in inanimate objects or when things look like other things is called pareidolia (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pareidolia). It’s an awesome kind of visual illusion that even has its own sub-Reddit (http://www.reddit.com/r/pareidolia).
After you see this, you’ll be spotting faces in everything. Even your seatbelt will look like a happy little man (and you won’t feel crazy for thinking that).
1.) Owww, my eye!
http://content4.viralnova.com/wp-content/uploads/2014/06/pareidolia.jpg (http://content4.viralnova.com/wp-content/uploads/2014/06/pareidolia.jpg)
Reddit (http://www.reddit.com/r/pareidolia)


2.) YAAAAAY, I’m a seashell!
http://content4.viralnova.com/wp-content/uploads/2014/06/pareidolia2.jpg (http://content4.viralnova.com/wp-content/uploads/2014/06/pareidolia2.jpg)
Reddit (http://www.reddit.com/r/pareidolia)


3.) You stepped in something, sir.
http://content4.viralnova.com/wp-content/uploads/2014/06/pareidolia3.jpg (http://content4.viralnova.com/wp-content/uploads/2014/06/pareidolia3.jpg)
Reddit (http://www.reddit.com/r/pareidolia)


4.) Quack, quack, I’m going to eat you.
http://content4.viralnova.com/wp-content/uploads/2014/06/pareidolia4.jpg (http://content4.viralnova.com/wp-content/uploads/2014/06/pareidolia4.jpg)
Reddit (http://www.reddit.com/r/pareidolia)






5.) USB drive… or a soldier in the Queen’s Guard?
http://content4.viralnova.com/wp-content/uploads/2014/06/pareidolia5.jpg (http://content4.viralnova.com/wp-content/uploads/2014/06/pareidolia5.jpg)
Reddit (http://www.reddit.com/r/pareidolia)


6.) Meet Shirtface.
http://content4.viralnova.com/wp-content/uploads/2014/06/pareidolia6.jpg (http://content4.viralnova.com/wp-content/uploads/2014/06/pareidolia6.jpg)
Reddit (http://www.reddit.com/r/pareidolia)


7.) Google’s self-driving car is totally ready to take you anywhere.
http://content4.viralnova.com/wp-content/uploads/2014/06/pareidolia7.jpg (http://content4.viralnova.com/wp-content/uploads/2014/06/pareidolia7.jpg)
Reddit (http://www.reddit.com/r/pareidolia)


8.) Oh hai! I’m a pipe!
http://content4.viralnova.com/wp-content/uploads/2014/06/pareidolia8.jpg (http://content4.viralnova.com/wp-content/uploads/2014/06/pareidolia8.jpg)
Reddit (http://www.reddit.com/r/pareidolia)






9.) Don’t blow away, dandelion man!
http://content4.viralnova.com/wp-content/uploads/2014/06/pareidolia9.jpg (http://content4.viralnova.com/wp-content/uploads/2014/06/pareidolia9.jpg)
Reddit (http://www.reddit.com/r/pareidolia)


10.) Woah… that bird has SKILLS.
http://content4.viralnova.com/wp-content/uploads/2014/06/pareidolia10.jpg (http://content4.viralnova.com/wp-content/uploads/2014/06/pareidolia10.jpg)
Reddit (http://www.reddit.com/r/pareidolia)




Read more at http://www.viralnova.com/things-look-like-other-things/#1cCsG67wqTMhcaMt.99

[Catty1]

11.) Someone’s really happy to see you.
http://content4.viralnova.com/wp-content/uploads/2014/06/pareidolia11.jpg (http://content4.viralnova.com/wp-content/uploads/2014/06/pareidolia11.jpg)
Reddit (http://www.reddit.com/r/pareidolia)


12.) Evil Stormtrooper accordion is evil.
http://content4.viralnova.com/wp-content/uploads/2014/06/pareidolia12.jpg (http://content4.viralnova.com/wp-content/uploads/2014/06/pareidolia12.jpg)
Reddit (http://www.reddit.com/r/pareidolia)


13.) Don’t move, I’ll shoot!
http://content4.viralnova.com/wp-content/uploads/2014/06/pareidolia13.jpg (http://content4.viralnova.com/wp-content/uploads/2014/06/pareidolia13.jpg)
Reddit (http://www.reddit.com/r/pareidolia)


14.) D’awww, turtle popcorn.
http://content4.viralnova.com/wp-content/uploads/2014/06/pareidolia14.jpg (http://content4.viralnova.com/wp-content/uploads/2014/06/pareidolia14.jpg)
Reddit (http://www.reddit.com/r/pareidolia)


15.) I’m so happy to be a stick!
http://content4.viralnova.com/wp-content/uploads/2014/06/pareidolia15.jpg (http://content4.viralnova.com/wp-content/uploads/2014/06/pareidolia15.jpg)
Reddit (http://www.reddit.com/r/pareidolia)


16.) A giant iron man was found lurking behind the school.
http://content4.viralnova.com/wp-content/uploads/2014/06/pareidolia16.jpg (http://content4.viralnova.com/wp-content/uploads/2014/06/pareidolia16.jpg)
Reddit (http://www.reddit.com/r/pareidolia)


17.) Just put down the knife man, no carrots have to get hurt…
http://content4.viralnova.com/wp-content/uploads/2014/06/pareidolia17.jpg (http://content4.viralnova.com/wp-content/uploads/2014/06/pareidolia17.jpg)
Reddit (http://www.reddit.com/r/pareidolia)


18.) Chihuahua fence. x2.
http://content4.viralnova.com/wp-content/uploads/2014/06/pareidolia18.jpg (http://content4.viralnova.com/wp-content/uploads/2014/06/pareidolia18.jpg)
Reddit (http://www.reddit.com/r/pareidolia)


19.) Oh nooo! My engine is dirty.
http://content4.viralnova.com/wp-content/uploads/2014/06/pareidolia19.jpg (http://content4.viralnova.com/wp-content/uploads/2014/06/pareidolia19.jpg)
Reddit (http://www.reddit.com/r/pareidolia)


20.) Don’t step on meeeeee.
http://content4.viralnova.com/wp-content/uploads/2014/06/pareidolia20.jpg (http://content4.viralnova.com/wp-content/uploads/2014/06/pareidolia20.jpg)
Reddit (http://www.reddit.com/r/pareidolia)


Read more at http://www.viralnova.com/things-look-like-other-things/#1cCsG67wqTMhcaMt.99

[Catty1]

21.) Plank wants to haunt your dreams.
http://content4.viralnova.com/wp-content/uploads/2014/06/pareidolia21.jpg (http://content4.viralnova.com/wp-content/uploads/2014/06/pareidolia21.jpg)
Reddit (http://www.reddit.com/r/pareidolia)


22.) This is the happiest bit of pavement in the world.
http://content4.viralnova.com/wp-content/uploads/2014/06/pareidolia22.jpg (http://content4.viralnova.com/wp-content/uploads/2014/06/pareidolia22.jpg)
Reddit (http://www.reddit.com/r/pareidolia)


23.) Silly Cookie Monster. There aren’t cookies in frozen streams.
http://content4.viralnova.com/wp-content/uploads/2014/06/pareidolia24.jpg (http://content4.viralnova.com/wp-content/uploads/2014/06/pareidolia24.jpg)
Reddit (http://www.reddit.com/r/pareidolia)




There are chipper lil’ guys in the world around you, you just have to keep an eye out for them. Famous astronomer and scientist Carl Sagan (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Carl_Sagan) hypothesized that as a survival technique, human beings are “hard-wired” from birth to identify the human face. That’s why we look for it in our coffee foam now.

Read more at http://www.viralnova.com/things-look-like-other-things/#1cCsG67wqTMhcaMt.99

[Karen]

The human brain is hard-wired to recognize faces in the environment, but some of these, only the power of suggestion by the text really convinces one it is a face.

[smokey the elder]

This is amazing. It is very easy to fool yourself. I think when my grandfather said, "Believe none of what you hear, and only half of what you see", he had this in mind!:)

[RICHARD]

I see faces all the time.

(LOL, no it's not because of my time in the 70's....)

There used to be a tree in my mom's yard and one afternoon I went out to play in the front yard and saw a snake wrapped around the trunk.

I went into the house and spied on the snake every few minutes........It wasn't until later that I saw it was the knots on the truck and the sun shining behind the tree that made it look like a snake!:eek:

I have a deep fear of snakes and 'see' them all the time.:rolleyes: