Pareidolia is a type of apophenia, which is a more generalized term for seeing patterns in random data. People often report seeing human faces or forms in inanimate objects. For instance ...

Has this ever happened to you? Of course it's happened to you. Seeing faces in non-human objects is something people from every culture experience. I mean, there's a whole subreddit for this kind ...

That's the scientific name for seeing faces in everyday objects such as food, clouds or plants. Now, new research has revealed that when people experience face pareidolia, most visualise a young ...