Well, tea-residue face, I guess.
It’s clearly a face, but for me it’s the first such face-by-pareidolia not triggered by eyes. I wrote that sentence a few ways to avoid the tricky question of the adjectival form of pareidolia. Pareidolic? Pareidoliac? The former sounds like parabolic, the latter evokes maniac. Neither sounds quite right, although at least the latter would offer an obvious theme song.
No eyes but charming hair. I wonder if the “hair trigger,” so to speak, would bring as many faces into perspective if one were to “set one’s mind to it,” so to speak. As scan the trees and bushes in view from my windows, I suspect they hold such visages in their branches. Or the boles of trees make faces with twigs and branches standing in for hair, like Tolkein’s Ents.
Laurna – It’s a good question. It took me a while to see my first face after determining to do so; we’ll see if the subconscious trains itself for a “hair trigger.” 🙂
You just introduced me to a brand new word: pareidolia.
Made my day!
Tom
Tom – Excellent.
Isabel – do you see a man or a dog in the moon? Usually I see a man, but if I work at it the dog comes into focus.
John – I have no impression of a moon face. I’ll look again in about 4 weeks. Do you see a dog’s head/face or the outline of a dog’s body?
Dog’s head. As with the man, it is the eyes that catch the focus
John – OK, thanks, I’ll take a look.
For me, the dog faces left. The “man” is face on.