Thursday, October 31, 2013

Spooky Salt Lake Wishes You a Happy Halloween......How our Brain create images....

It looks spooky, but this is actually an image of a salt lake in Western Australia's Gibson Desert taken by astronauts on board the International Space Station. It's an example of how our brains often take random patterns and see them as faces or other familiar figures (like a ghost in this case), a psychological phenomenon called pareidolia.





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