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Have you noticed faces in things?

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Re: Have you noticed faces in things?
« Reply #100 on: 25/04/2015 18:57:47 »
human-shaped cloud emerging from the ash of Chilean volcano eruption ...


https://twitter.com/YahooNewsUK/status/591923115615105024
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Re: Have you noticed faces in things?
« Reply #101 on: 26/04/2015 10:00:25 »
Problem is, once you start you can't stop, you see them everywhere.
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Re: Have you noticed faces in things?
« Reply #102 on: 27/04/2015 09:00:23 »
9/11....

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Re: Have you noticed faces in things?
« Reply #103 on: 27/04/2015 21:55:30 »
Quote from: Aemilius on 27/04/2015 09:00:23
9/11....

You've cropped out the Cyberman & cartoon beaver ...

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Re: Have you noticed faces in things?
« Reply #104 on: 27/04/2015 23:25:07 »
Bush appears a couple seconds later from a different angle....


Yes I know it's fake, I made it.

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Re: Have you noticed faces in things?
« Reply #105 on: 27/04/2015 23:50:01 »
Quote from: Aemilius on 27/04/2015 23:25:07
Bush appears a couple seconds later from a different angle....

I vote photoshoppery on that Bush one : it looks like it's been inspired by this image ...   [ Invalid Attachment ]


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Re: Have you noticed faces in things?
« Reply #106 on: 28/04/2015 01:19:37 »
Quote from: RD on 27/04/2015 23:50:01
I vote photoshoppery on that Bush one : it looks like it's been inspired by this image ... 
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Right, like I said (beneath the image)....

Quote from: Aemilius on 27/04/2015 23:25:07

Yes I know it's fake, I made it.

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Re: Have you noticed faces in things?
« Reply #107 on: 28/04/2015 06:03:55 »
When i wear a T-shirt in the summer i see faces in my sweat stains.  Once it was Hey, Kool Aid.  Once it was Jesus with a crown of thorns.
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Re: Have you noticed faces in things?
« Reply #108 on: 29/04/2015 12:37:59 »
Quote from: yamo on 28/04/2015 06:03:55
When i wear a T-shirt in the summer i see faces in my sweat stains.  Once it was Hey, Kool Aid.  Once it was Jesus with a crown of thorns.

Funny, I always get Hitler....

Yes I know it's fake, I made it.
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Re: Have you noticed faces in things?
« Reply #109 on: 16/05/2015 13:41:49 »
Google Earth faces.

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Re: Have you noticed faces in things?
« Reply #110 on: 21/08/2015 18:51:46 »
Top-quality retro pareidolia ...



The giant moustached face in profile is actually a young girl wearing a white T-shirt & bonnet.
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Re: Have you noticed faces in things?
« Reply #111 on: 15/07/2017 05:51:55 »
Golden Re-tree-ver ....

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Re: Have you noticed faces in things?
« Reply #112 on: 15/07/2017 15:52:24 »


https://www.indy100.com/article/volcano-on-fire-mount-vesuvius-smoke-cloud-skull-apocalypse-mountain-notorious-7840466
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Re: Have you noticed faces in things?
« Reply #113 on: 07/08/2017 05:03:01 »


Un-be-leaf-able
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Re: Have you noticed faces in things?
« Reply #114 on: 07/08/2017 18:09:07 »
That is quite impressive.
Problem is when you see one you start seeing them everywhere.
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Re: Have you noticed faces in things?
« Reply #115 on: 07/08/2017 21:52:52 »

https://www.yahoo.com/beauty/photo-every-makeup-lover-laugh-170404302.html
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Re: Have you noticed faces in things?
« Reply #116 on: 07/11/2017 06:14:39 »
Dogeared Trump ...
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Re: Have you noticed faces in things?
« Reply #117 on: 09/11/2017 01:32:37 »
These are good, especially the more unconventional.

We are actually hard wired to see "faces" in things, by that i mean 2 dots over another dot. It is where the devil et al come from, the beast and the predator, your hard wired self presevation instinct.
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Re: Have you noticed faces in things?
« Reply #118 on: 09/11/2017 07:40:38 »
This interview about how the brain recognises a face that was aired in the latest episode of the Naked Scientists Podcast may be of interest to readers.

In the above, the researchers obtain neural recordings from an epilepsy patient undergoing studies ahead of brain surgery. Some of the electrodes are in a region called the FFA (fusiform face area) at the back of the brain. Intriguingly, when this area was stimulated, the patient saw a face on top of whatever he was looking at.
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Re: Have you noticed faces in things?
« Reply #119 on: 10/11/2017 11:37:27 »
This podcast is about those who cannot recognise faces - Oliver Sacks and Dr Karl are some people who suffered this condition.
And it talks about those who are extraordinary at recognising faces.
This all points to specialised brain areas involved in recognising faces (30 minutes).
http://www.abc.net.au/radionational/programs/allinthemind/whats-in-a-face-prosopagnosia/8269742
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