Pareidolia Theater

Pareidolia Theater is a sociological phenomenon in which a culture responds to a stimulus, usually an image or a sound, by perceiving a familiar film or video, where none exists (e.g., in random data).

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  Satellite photo of a mesa in the Cydonia region of Mars, often called the "Face on Mars" is a classic example of pareidolia. High-resolution photos from multiple viewpoints demonstrate that the "face" is in fact a natural rock formation.

Fiction cross-reference

• Crown of Cthulhu
• Gnomon algorithm
• Gnomon Chronicles
• Pareidolia Follies

Nonfiction cross-reference

• Calendrical pareidolia (nonfiction) - the phenomenon of responding to a calendar-based stimulus (such as births and deaths, occurring on the same day in the calendar but otherwise evidencing no causal relationship) by perceiving a familiar pattern where none exists.
• Pareidolia (nonfiction)

External links

• Pareidoila @ Wikipedia