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1: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/pareidolia
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**Pareidolia** (/pærɨˈdoʊliə/ *parr-i-**DOH**-lee-ə*) is a psychological phenomenon involving a vague and random stimulus[2] (often an image or sound) being perceived as [significant](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Meaning_(semiotics%5C[3])), a form of apophenia[4]. Common examples include seeing images of animals or faces in clouds, the man in the moon[5] or the Moon rabbit[6], and hearing hidden messages[7] on records[8] when played in reverse.
2: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Stimulation
3: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Meaning_(semiotics%5C
4: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Apophenia
5: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Man_in_the_moon
6: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Moon_rabbit
7: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hidden_message
8: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gramophone_record
The word comes from the Greek[9] words *para[10]* (παρά, "beside, alongside, instead") in this context meaning something faulty, wrong, instead of; and the noun *eidōlon*[11] (εἴδωλον "image, form, shape") the diminutive of *[eidos](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Eidos_(philosophy%5C[12]))*. Pareidolia is a type of apophenia[13], seeing patterns in random data.
9: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Greek_language
10: https://en.wikipedia.org//en.wiktionary.org/wiki/para-
11: https://en.wikipedia.org//en.wiktionary.org/wiki/%CE%B5%E1%BC%B4%CE%B4%CF%89%CE%BB%CE%BF%CE%BD
12: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Eidos_(philosophy%5C
13: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Apophenia
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**Image**[14] ^(i)[15] - *A satellite photo of a mesa in Cydonia, often called the Face on Mars. Later imagery from other angles did not contain the illusion.*
14: https://i.imgur.com/jIMGs0n.jpg
15: https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Martian_face_viking_cropped.jpg
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^Interesting: ^Perceptions ^of ^religious ^imagery ^in ^natural ^phenomena[16] ^| ^Lunar ^pareidolia[17] ^| ^Unusually ^shaped ^vegetable[18] ^| ^Moon ^rabbit[19]
16: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Perceptions_of_religious_imagery_in_natural_phenomena
17: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lunar_pareidolia
18: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Unusually_shaped_vegetable
19: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Moon_rabbit
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