If I said the word ‘pareidolia’ then you may not know what I’m talking about but it’s the phenomenon that causes your brain and eyes to play tricks on you.
How you may ask… It’s when we see or hear something and it looks or sounds like something else. We’ve touched on this subject before with face pareidolia in the previous article – You Are Being Watched! Faces on Everyday Objects which we published many years ago and also items that look like food in Things That Look Like Tasty Food But Aren’t.
To see what I am talking about we’ve collected a gallery of things like look like other things take for example – An oil spill that looks like an eye and washing machine that looks like he’s sticking his tongue out!
The Evil Scientist Monkey Mop
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Shhh****t, Is that a tig…. Oh wait, no, it’s just a dog!
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Is that a frozen ghost trying to get in that house?
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Is that the spaceship from ‘Close Encounters’ or is it the stadium covered in fog?
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Is that a baby toothpaste monkey clinging onto the toothbrush for dear life?
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It does exist! Bigfoot appears after power washing
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Icy puddle looks like a photo of a frozen landscape
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No, it’s not a big collection of music cassettes, but a very busy bus parking lot in Mecca
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This oil spill looks like a giant eye
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Argggh! Space lobster!
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Dog or Baby Polar Bear?
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The inside of this grater looks like the background of an early 00s rap video
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The poorly sick washing machine
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The corrosion on this water tap looks like an ancient map
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This dog looks like a wall mount
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The rust stain that looks like a dog
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Could this be a herd of tiny dinosaur crossing the path?
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This hay bale looks like a freshly dug grave
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Why so serious?
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This drink contains a bubble map of Europe and Asia
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This frozen garden vase looks like an eye
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Just a bit of concrete eating spaghetti
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Not the set of the next ‘Saw’ movie, but a blood orange processing plant
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This triple printed printer malfunction looks like ancient hieroglyphics for us to decipher
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For all you Fiesta drivers out there…. Now you can never unsee Yoshi!
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The intergalactic cow
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The pumpkin that looks like a melon that looks like an apple!
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Happy Water Buffalo at the Dentist
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Beautiful window frost looks like Dr.Seuss illustrations
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Pac-Man ghost soap holder
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The Jellyfish that looks like it’s in space
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Spider-Man lurking in the ladies department
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Smoked cauliflower or an explosion?
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These bespectacled chickens have all brought a cake to the party!
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This photo capturing fireworks looks like another galaxy
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This very happy geode
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The plants are alive and crossing the road!
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This photo of the eye looks like a 90’s horror movie poster
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Iguana head fossil or just a rock?
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Broken egg looks like a snail
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Is that a strawberry inside that pepper?
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Tinned peach half that looks like a cracked egg
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Planes can fly underwater now!
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The fallen tree that looks like a dragon
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Flamingo found in pepper
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