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Satellite photograph of a mesa in the Cydonia region of Mars, often called the "Face on Mars" and cited as evidence of extraterrestrial habitation. Pareidolia (/ ˌ p ær ɪ ˈ d oʊ l i ə, ˌ p ɛər-/; [1] also US: / ˌ p ɛər aɪ-/) [2] is the tendency for perception to impose a meaningful interpretation on a nebulous stimulus, usually visual, so that one detects an object, pattern, or ...
There is strong evidence that psychedelic drugs tend to induce or enhance pareidolia. [ 9 ] Pareidolia usually occurs as a result of the fusiform face area —which is the part of the human brain responsible for seeing faces—mistakenly interpreting an object, shape or configuration with some kind of perceived "face-like" features as being a face.
It can be seen by shining the beam of a small bright light through the pupil from the periphery of a subject's vision. This results in an image of the light being focused on the periphery of the retina. Light from this spot then casts shadows of the blood vessels (which lie on top of the retina) onto unadapted portions of the retina.
'The Night Before Christmas' reading is a tradition in the Woodward household. Brad (left) has been reading the book to his children for over 20 years.
The light projects the observer's shadow through the mist, often in a triangular shape due to perspective. [2] The apparent magnification of size of the shadow is an optical illusion that occurs when the observer judges their shadow on relatively nearby clouds to be at the same distance as faraway land objects seen through gaps in the clouds ...
Illustration of a person seeing visions of "a bright world of angels, with the Redeemer in the midst" while lying ill in bed, from the 1844 short story A Forlorn Hope. Deathbed phenomena refers to a range of paranormal experiences claimed by people who are dying. There are many examples of deathbed phenomena in both non-fiction and fictional ...
The hallucinations are normally colorful, vivid images that occur during wakefulness, predominantly at night. [3] Lilliputian hallucinations (also called Alice in Wonderland syndrome), hallucinations in which people or animals appear smaller than they would be in real life, are common in cases of peduncular hallucinosis. [1]
The House in the Night was well received by critics, including starred reviews from Booklist, [1] Kirkus Reviews, [2] and Publishers Weekly. [3]Kirkus Reviews called the illustrations "breathtaking", noting that they "embody and enhance the text’s message that light and dark, like comfort and mystery, are not mutually exclusive, but integral parts of each other". [2]