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	pareidolia
		Pareidolia is a type of illusion or misperception involving a vague or
		Pareidolia explains Elvis, Bigfoot, and Loch Ness Monster sightings.
		Under clinical circumstances, some psychologists encourage pareidolia as a means to understanding a patient, e.g., the Rorschach ink blot test.
	skepdic.com /pareidol.html (1175 words)

	Pareidolia - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		Pareidolia (pronounced /pɛɹaɪˈdoliə/ or /pæraɪˈdəʊliə/) is a psychological phenomenon involving a vague and random stimulus (usually an image) being mistakenly perceived as recognizable.
		Skeptics assert that sightings of religious or iconic figures in everyday objects, such as Marian apparitions, are examples of pareidolia, as are electronic voice phenomena.
		The Face on Mars is a phenomenon that succeeded the Martian canals, both eventually attributed to pareidolia, when the "seen" images disappeared in better and more numerous images.
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Pareidolia (305 words)

	Pareidolia: Facts and details from Encyclopedia Topic (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-04)
		Pareidolia is a psychological phenomenon involving a vague and random stimulus (usually an image) being mistakenly perceived as recognizable.
		Thumb300pxrighta solid tone rendering of the first of ten cards in the rorschach inkblot test.the rorschach inkblot test (pronounced approximately as "roar-shock"...
		The face on mars is a large feature on the surface of the planet mars located in the cydonia region....
	www.absoluteastronomy.com /encyclopedia/p/pa/pareidolia.htm (880 words)

	NationMaster - Encyclopedia: Cydonia (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-04)
		One of the Cydonian mesas, situated at roughly 40.9 degrees North latitude and 9.45 degrees West longitude, took on the striking appearance of a human "face on Mars" in a photo taken by Viking 1 in 1976.
		Whilst generally held to be an optical illusion (pareidolia), some people interpreted it as evidence of a long-lost Martian civilisation.
		Pareidolia (from Greek para- amiss, faulty, wrong + eidolon, diminutive of eidos appearance, form) is a psychological phenomenon involving a vague and random stimulus (usually an image) being mistakenly perceived as recognizable.
	www.nationmaster.com /encyclopedia/Cydonia (898 words)

	Word Spy - pareidolia
		Pareidolia is common enough, and predates the space program by a millennium or two.
		He attributed the belief that the image is the Virgin Mary to a phenomenon called pareidolia, a psychological term for the mind's obsession with finding patterns in essentially random objects, from clouds to wood grain.
		In the case of handwriting analysis, this might be the idea that writers of large capital I's are egotistical, or those having varying slants are unpredictable.
	www.wordspy.com /words/pareidolia.asp (332 words)

	Believing is Seeing by Robert Novella
		This is called pareidolia, which means misidentifying a vague, obscure stimulus as a distinct object or person.
		Pareidolia is not an obscure phenomenon that affects a minority of people with hyperactive imaginations.
		Pareidolia is the result of our extensive visual processing coupled with our hardwired drive to find recognizable patterns everywhere.
	www.darkmattermag.com /april2004/dark_science.htm (1984 words)

	Pareidolia (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-04)
		Pareidolia (payr-eye-DOH-lee-uh) is a psychological misconception involving an image or other stimulus that is vague and random being perceived as being a recognizable image of something that occurs in real life.
		Common examples are: the man in the moon, Jesus in a burnt tortilla, Marian apparitions, the Loch Ness Monster, messages on records played in reverse, etc. A similar phenomenon is the clustering illusion.
		It uses material from the Wiktionary page "Pareidolia".
	www.serebella.com /encyclopedia/article-Pareidolia.html (172 words)

	Dicionário do Cético: pareidolia
		A pareidolia é um tipo de ilusão ou percepção equivocada, em que um estímulo vago
		Em circunstâncias normais, a pareidolia fornece uma explicação psicológica para várias ilusões baseadas na percepção sensorial.
		Em circunstâncias clínicas, alguns psicólogos incentivam a pareidolia como um modo de entender o paciente.
	brazil.skepdic.com /pareidolia.html (709 words)

	Pareidolia and EVP (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-04)
		EVP also refers to hearing voices amongst other types of random electronic stimuli, such as static, radio interference, and telephone hum.
		Pareidolia is considered by most skeptics to be a form of hallucination, that the wishful thinking of the listener determines what they actually hear or see.
		However, the validity of pareidolia has never been officially determined.
	www.sodalitasquaerito.com /pareidolia.htm (368 words)

	Subliminale o Pareidolia? - ScienzeAntiche Portal \| Forums \| News
		In questo viaggio alla scoperta della PAREIDOLIA, attraverso alcuni esempi, cercheremo di comprendere meglio il fenomeno, di eliminare quella confusione che fa scambiare (a salvaguardia di chi lo usa) il SUBLIMINALE per PAREIDOLIA.
		E' mera PAREIDOLIA una macchia di muffa, che senza manomissione alcuna, mostra l’immagine di Padre Pio su un muro.
		E’ PAREIDOLIA ossessiva quando si tende a vedere sempre la stessa cosa, senza bisogno di particolari artefici.
	www.scienzeantiche.it /portal/link.asp?TOPIC_ID=123&view=lasttopic (1851 words)

	Hokum-Balderdash Assay: The Incredible Likeness of Beings: Religious Simulacra and Pareidolia
		"Pareidolia is a psychological phenomenon involving a vague and random stimulus (usually an image) being mistakenly perceived as recognizable" (Explore Dictionary of Psychology)
		In my case, then, I perceived a simulacrum of Mary as I remembered her depicted by the Christian culture, and my perception of her likeness is attributable to the psychological process known as pareidolia.
		The drawbacks of pareidolia come to fore when the face is that of a prominent personality of one's religion since "believers tend quickly to deduce the hand of God" in these simulacra, deeming them to be apparitions of the divine (Sagan, p.
	web.tri-isys.com /egtan/hokum/pareidolia.html (2490 words)

	Pareidolia.US
		Abstract Extraction is the Forefather of the Visual Pun (top left corner), which is the Forefather of Optical Illusions.
		Many time the word pareidolia is used when Abstract Extractionism should be used.
		Those who study pareidolia or use it as an art will more than likely come across scribblism, abstract extractionism, the secret of the sages.
	www.pareidolia.us (1119 words)

	NationMaster - Encyclopedia: Marian apparitions (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-04)
		They are often given names based on the town in which they were reported, or on the sobriquet which was given to Mary on the occasion of the apparition, or on her reported clothing and hairstyle.
		They have been interpreted as psychological (pareidolia), and as religious phenomena, occasionally as theophanies.
		An unusual depiction of a religious figure is when a well-known religious figure is shown on something on which you would not normally expect to see them.
	www.nationmaster.com /encyclopedia/Marian-apparitions (3907 words)

	MindHack (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-04)
		Pareidolia is a term used to describe the tendency of the mind to make visual associations between common imagery and otherwise unrelated or random objects.
		You may have noticed this mindhack whenever you catch yourself paying particular attention to a group of random water droplets, pebbles, or cloud configurations.
		When you sense that you “recognize” something, whether tangible or merely a gut feeling, you may be noticing the effects of pareidolia.
	www.mindhack.net /viewhack.php?id=94 (248 words)

	The Newsletter of The North Texas Skeptics
		Pareidolia is a type of illusion or misperception involving a vague stimulus being clearly perceived as something or someone.
		Some examples of pareidolia include seeing the image of Jesus Christ in a burnt tortilla or a tree wound; seeing the image of the Virgin Mary in a cloud or on a public toilet floor; and seeing the image of Mother Theresa in a cinnamon bun.
		Under clinical circumstances, however, some psychologists encourage pareidolia as a means to understanding a patient.
	www.ntskeptics.org /1998/1998april/april1998.htm (3031 words)

	The Pareidolia Illusions Images For Healing Meditations (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-04)
		By use of the images that consists of pareidolia illusion may be improve subliminal influence in meditation and can significantly change our feelings, thoughts, and intuition.
		The pareidolia illusions give remarkably easy meditation for relaxation and stress relief.
		To focus completely on pareidolia illusions images in order to reach a saturation of life's energies.
	www.visnsoft.com /art/cd2.htm (174 words)

	The Ghostbusters Message Board - Ghost cat
		I notice you use that pareidolia link far too lightly anyway peter, you wrote in the evp thread that this was all evp was, you clearly have never tried it properly.
		Yes, I believe that EVP is an example of pareidolia, and that's what this board is about when it boils down to it, it's a matter of what one does and does not believe.
		I think that pareidolia is very useful in explaining some areas of the paranormal, and EVP is one such area, as is the cat-like smudge upon the mirror.
	forums.ghostbusters.net /viewtopic.php?p=77722 (1700 words)

	Challies Dot Com: Pareidolia & The Bible
		The people who led this study concluded that this was a type of Pareidolia.
		Pareidolia is “a type of illusion or misperception involving a vague or obscure stimulus being perceived as something clear and distinct.” (Skeptics Dictionary) Other examples of this are seeing Mother Teresa in a cinnamon bun or seeing the face of a man on the moon.
		In the case of the people gathered at Loch Ness, they saw something vague and yet were able to describe it in detail.
	www.challies.com /archives/000282.php (1566 words)

	Antibufalam - pareidolia (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-04)
		The innate tendency to impose a pattern on random shapes is known as pareidolia.
		Coupled with religious beliefs, this leads to the frequent "sighting" of religious symbols in smoke, clouds, patterns in tortillas and in the skin of animals, features of the landscape, and stains on walls (even pieces of burnt toast).
		Si tratta di un fenomeno ben conosciuto, che ha un nome preciso: pareidolia, ossia la tendenza istintiva e automatica a trovare forme familiari in immagini disordinate.
	www.attivissimo.net /antibufala/11settembre_demonio/volto.htm (1603 words)

	Russell Sipe's Birding Pages
		There is a term for what is happening when we look at the Faceofjesus Hawk: pareidolia.
		It's what causes some to see the the face of a man in the moon, or to see the face of Jesus in the discolorations of a burnt torilla.
		You can read about the phenomenon of pareidolia in Robert Todd Carroll's "The Skeptic's Dictionary".
	www.sipe.com /birding/html/face.html (671 words)

	[No title] (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-04)
		Es virtud de la pareidolia, explicar estas apariciones «milagrosas», y así, cerrar la puerta a charlatanes que buscan sacar beneficio de este fenómeno.
		Hay pareidolias famosas, que aún hoy, son tema de discusión.
		Famosa también, es la pareidolia de «expertos científicos», quienes aseguran que en los ojos de la imagen Guadalupana, han encontrado las figuras del obispo Zumárraga, de Juán Diego y hasta de un traductor (¿¿??).
	www.prodigyweb.net.mx /ortegak9/pareidolia.htm (514 words)

	pareidolia - General Practice Notebook (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-04)
		Pareidolia is a state in which real and unreal percepts exist side by side; however the unreal percepts are recognised as so.
		This condition can occur in the delirium of fever; occasionally it can be induced deliberately.
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	www.gpnotebook.co.uk /cache/523567116.htm (104 words)

	iszoloscope official website - encyclopedia
		An alternative explanation is that the white noise provides random sounds that may be interpreted as voices by people who expect or want to hear voices.
		This explanation is consistent with the theory that the entire "phenomenon" is an example of pareidolia, in which a vague or random stimulus is mistakenly perceived as recognizable.
		There is a more complex form of EVP known as ITC: Instrumental Transcommunication, which is the forming of extended, two-way contacts with the "spirit world" through means such as telephones, televisions, computers, and specialized audio equipment.
	www.iszoloscope.net /iszoloscope/encyclopedia.html (7631 words)

	View topic - Project Syzygy
		Pareidolia is finding incorrectly finding meaning in something which is a natural random occurence.
		Is it just an innocent answer saying that danhon will be in #unfiction, or that he will lurk in pareidolia.
		Or is this just pareidolia, another wrong direction and nothing has gone live yet.
	forums.unfiction.com /forums/viewtopic.php?p=36109#36109 (1619 words)

	Subliminale o Pareidolia? - ScienzeAntiche Portal \| Forums \| News
		Per PAREIDOLIA s’intende l’abitudine di scorgere le sembianze di cose, persone, animali, nelle nuvole.
		La PAREIDOLIA non comporta l’elaborazione (fisica) di un'immagine, un particolare è visto senza l’ausilio di uno specifico intervento.
		Compreso, che la PAREIDOLIA, può essere un veicolo, usato per diffondere messaggi destabilizzanti.
	www.scienzeantiche.it /portal/link.asp?TOPIC_ID=123 (1851 words)

	Repeat after me ..... "pareidolia" ...... - Bad Astronomy and Universe Today Forum (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-04)
		On the other hand, there are folks out there who think NASA has already doctored the photos it posts, because - as we all know - the government is always hiding something.
		More interesting, and just as entertaining, are folks who see strange things in photos from space.
		Skeptics have coined a term for this phenomenon - pareidolia, an illusion or misperception involving a vague or obscure stimulus that's perceived as something clear and distinct.
	www.bautforum.com /showthread.php?t=9633 (460 words)

	Majikthise : Adventures in pareidolia
		Steve Gilliard explains that the winkin' blue-eyed Jesus of Hoboken is a seasonal manifestation of the endemic pareidolia of North Jersey:
		Pareidolia, aka "seeing stuff in stuff" is by no means unique to North Jersey.
		Folklorist Mike Pinney of Texas A&M university has recently uploaded a huge collection of pareidolic images and simulacra from around the world.
	majikthise.typepad.com /majikthise_/2005/08/adventures_in_p.html (848 words)

	Today in Pareidolia : Via the Sun of God :: Quantum Philosophy.net :: Linearly Accelerated Media (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-04)
		Stunned mum-to-be Erica Brazier saw the image seven months into her troubled pregnancy with her daughter.
		General concept...our brains have evolved mechanisms for quickly and 'accurately' recognizing familiar faces.
		This work is licensed under a Creative Commons License.
	www.quantumphilosophy.net /modules.php?op=modload&name=News&file=article&sid=1903&mode=thread&order=0&thold=0 (228 words)

	Worth1000.com \| Photoshop Contests \| Are you Worthy \| contest
		Pareidolia - Misperception of an ambiguous stimulus as something specific.
		Basically, it's seeing an image of Jesus in the burn marks of a tortilla, or the Madonna (or Madonna) in the bark of a tree, a smokey old man, as in Ironkite's themepost, above, or Abe Lincoln in your grandma's stretch marks...
		The rules of the game are thus: Photoshop an image to show the phenomena of pareidolia (see above description).
	www.worth1000.com /cache/contest/contestcache.asp?contest_id=3129&display=photoshop#entries (1268 words)

	keanuvision: of course, if anyone could find the hidden meaning of a giant dandelion...
		It's important to note, however, that not all wonders and marvels are the result of pareidolia.
		For instance, the personal message you think you discern in a billboard or tortilla this week may really be a communication directly from an angel of mercy to you.
		To distinguish authentic breakthroughs from mere pareidolias, strike a balance between skepticism and open-mindedness.
	www.keanuvision.com /archives/001838.html (412 words)

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