faceseverywhere

Is it just me, or does this dry seed hanging from a tree branch make you think of Edvard Munch's iconic painting too?

According to the Oxford dictionary, pareidolia is "[t]he perception of apparently significant patterns or recognizable images, especially faces, in random or accidental arrangements of shapes and lines". Basically, it's our tendency to see faces everywhere.

Inanimate objects, buildings, shadows, clouds and even the moon all seem to be fertile ground for our imagination to break loose and create human features where no humans are to be found.

This BBC article explains the science behind the phenomenon, detailing how our brains may indeed be wired to look for human-like attributes in the world around them.

This cool yet mind-boggling tendency has found its way to social media and Yoors is no exception, as the hashtag #faceseverywhere illustrates.

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