Often refered to as Matrixing, Pareidolia is the phenominon often uses to explain faces seen reflected in 'haunted mirrors,' and many ghost 'photographs' It is the idea that the brain and eye recognises certain shapes and automatically translates that it is a more common form such as a face.
By definition, it is a psychological phenomenon involving a vague and random stimulus (often an image or sound) being perceived as significant. Common examples include seeing images of animals or faces in clouds, the man in the moon or the Moon rabbit.
I first was made aware of this phenominon on one of my fave shows (mentioned before as one of the key influences for this idea) ghost hunters. As i was not able to find a clip of this show on youtube without a whole episode, i did find this video below done by another Paranormal investigation team. Which explains it in good detailing.
Other, more common examples of matrixing is seeing images in clouds as well as the ink blot test.
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