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Pareidolia

Pareidolia is the phenomena of seeing faces/figures/forms in patterns; as opposed to where one normally sees faces/figures/forms (on animals including people/landscapes etc.)
Pareidolia is seeing what appears to the individual to be a representation of a face, figure, or form in the clouds, wood grain, marble, smoke, shadows, or any non-homogeneous area. It can also be an auditory phenomenon as in hearing white noise or a record played backward that sounds to the individual like words or a melody that isn't actually there.
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Pareidolia

A song made by Kevin Sherwood and Elena Siegman.
Whoa dude have you heard the easter egg dong from Shangri la?
Yeah dude it’s Pareidolia
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pareidolia

Misperception of an ambiguous stimulus as something specific.
Seeing faces in clouds is an example of pareidolia.
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Amongus Pareidolia

A type of pareidolia that happens when someone sees an object that vaguely resembles the characters of the gameamong us
Look at this egg shape, kind of sus! I think amongus pareidolia destroyed my brain.
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Amongus Pareidolia

Amongus Pareidolia is seeing the characters from the game 'among us' in random objects or patterns of light and shadow.
Amongus Pareidola is an everyday phenomenon. Once considered a symptom of psychosis, it arises from an error in visual perception.
I have Amongus Pareidolia, and i see amongus everywhere i go.
Do you see that Amongus character over there? I think i must have Amongus Pareidolia!
by යඞයයඞය SUSSY April 14, 2022
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Pareidolia

When you see the face of Jesus everywhere, especially on toasted bread and cloud shapes.
My friend: Look at that toast bread, Jesus appeared on it !
Me: You got pareidolia, dude
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Algorithmic Pareidolia

When the algorithm starts acting like it has a crush on your subconscious.
It’s the moment your feed lines up so perfectly with your internal thoughts, obsessions, or symbolic patterns that it feels like the machine is reading you — not because it’s conscious, but because your signal is loud.

The phenomenon where predictive systems drift into the negative space of your mind’s shape and accidentally mimic intention, meaning, or synchronicity.

It’s not the universe sending signs.
It’s not the algorithm “knowing you.”
It’s the overlap between your psychological heat and the machine’s guesswork creating the illusion of a dialogue.
“I was deep in a creative spiral and suddenly my entire timeline started mirroring it. Classic algorithmic pareidolia.”
by Pepe Xépe November 23, 2025
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