Do You Sometimes See Faces In Clouds? Here’s Why

Well, sorry to tell you the truth but you may be naturally a little accustomed to paranoia.

OR you realize that our brain is incredibly trained when it comes to perceiving and analyzing connections and coincidences.

The problem is that if you search long enough, you always find strange coincidences. The perception of connections or patterns in information is called “Apophenia”.

One kind of Apophenia is “Pareidolia”.

This occurs when you see or hear something that should not be there.

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For example, when you hear your name being called, or your phone ringing, or the sound of the sink running, or English words in a non-English song, or faces that aren’t there.

Our brains are good at this kind of work, probably because this greatly increased perception of patterns and faces can save our lives.

If there is an ambiguity about whether something in the shadows turns out to be a threat or just a shadow, it is an advantage to believe in a threat when in doubt.

Creatures with a healthy sense of Apophenia live longer, long enough to have and raise offspring, and so naturally become the norm.

There’s another interesting way our brain connects input and it’s called the…