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Have you ever looked at a cloud and could swear you saw something familiar in it, rather than just a bunch of white fluff? Maybe you spotted an animal face staring back at you while eating lunch, or maybe something completely ordinary around you suddenly looked surprisingly alive. Well, it looks like you’ve experienced pareidolia.

Pareidolia is the tendency to recognize familiar shapes and patterns in things that aren’t actually meant to represent them. Our brains are particularly good at finding faces, but as the photos shared by the online community 'Pareidolia.org' show, the phenomenon can go much further than a couple of dots and a line resembling eyes and a mouth. The photos shared on the page are seriously entertaining, so we thought it would be fun to select some of our favorites and show them to you, dear Pandas.

Scroll down and see what your own brain discovers in these amusing examples. And don’t be surprised if, after looking through them, you start noticing faces, animals, and unexpected characters everywhere you go.

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Peppy
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1 month ago

I wood, looks like he’s lost his bark!

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    Robert T
    Community Member
    1 month ago

    Dog-eared! ;-)

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    Spittnimage
    Community Member
    1 month ago

    That's to Daddy George Bush. He said he hated broccoli and bout ruined the broccoli industry.

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    Whiskers
    Community Member
    1 month ago

    Fancy🙃! Almost like it!

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    #5

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    Kathryn Allen
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    1 month ago

    Of course there is!

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    #6

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    Kya Ajiira
    Community Member
    1 month ago

    That is creepy 😳

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    #7

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    Kya Ajiira
    Community Member
    1 month ago

    Awwww ribbit!

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    #8

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    Kya Ajiira
    Community Member
    1 month ago

    That's hilarious 😂

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    #9

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    LizzieBoredom
    Community Member
    1 month ago

    No matter where Rocky goes, there's a bell.

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    #10

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    Kya Ajiira
    Community Member
    1 month ago

    Holy dressing!

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    #11

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    Robert T
    Community Member
    1 month ago

    Me too, pepper. Me too.

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    #12

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    Ergur Neilson
    Community Member
    1 month ago

    Is that Geri, or Freki?

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    Ellie
    Community Member
    1 month ago

    she isn't?

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    #15

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    Janissary35680
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    1 month ago (edited)

    You are not incorrect. However that's not a ray; it's a s‍h‍a‍f‍t.

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    Never miss a story that brings joy to the world. Add us on Google

    #16

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    Lady Gypsy Rain
    Community Member
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    1 month ago

    The finger at the bottom swiping right

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    #17

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    Robert T
    Community Member
    1 month ago

    Oooh oooh ooh oooooh!

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    #18

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    Verity Stewart
    Community Member
    1 month ago

    That's me.

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    #19

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    Danny Haworth
    Community Member
    1 month ago

    My C6 along with my C5 & C4 are all bulging pressing on to my nerves causing severe chronic pain. Now they really are laughing at me!

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    #20

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    Marivali
    Community Member
    1 month ago

    The one thing that DIDN'T happen in 2020

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    #21

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    Sanguina
    Community Member
    1 month ago

    Looks like a zombified Pac-Man

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    LizzieBoredom
    Community Member
    1 month ago

    It must be made of duh.

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    #23

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    Kya Ajiira
    Community Member
    1 month ago

    It does look like a baboon face 😂

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    VisuallyChallengedPew
    Community Member
    1 month ago

    Bro... no... Bro... Listen, bro... carrot sticks...

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    #25

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    Kya Ajiira
    Community Member
    1 month ago

    Perfect for Halloween.

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    #26

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    Dan Cone
    Community Member
    1 month ago

    Give me back my inhalor

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    Littlemiss
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    1 month ago

    Those are shifty looking pants

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    Gábor Kopján-Kiss
    Community Member
    1 month ago

    MC Hammer.

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    CarEnthusiast
    Community Member
    1 month ago

    I think the face kinda looks like a smiling turtle brother from Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles

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    Kya Ajiira
    Community Member
    1 month ago

    It had no regrets.

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    g90814
    Community Member
    1 month ago

    Imagine what Saturn has with 293 moons

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    43Duckies
    Community Member
    1 month ago

    Looks like a grimacing newborn infant.

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    43Duckies
    Community Member
    1 month ago

    I very much appreciate that the installer used the correct slab of wood for each room.

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    #36

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    Mari
    Community Member
    1 month ago

    Better to skip the service on sunday in church nr 7

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    Kya Ajiira
    Community Member
    1 month ago

    I would call it the angry monkey orchid.

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    Robert T
    Community Member
    1 month ago

    My parents live near a bridge which makes the Batman symbol with its shadow. It is locally known as Batman Bridge.

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    Demdumpin
    Community Member
    1 month ago

    When the love of your life "desserts" you

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    Jan Mc
    Community Member
    1 month ago

    Awe. Even these structures get more love than I do. 😭

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    43Duckies
    Community Member
    1 month ago

    The only tolerable type of Brutalism. Still needs a powerwash every 5 years, though (and doesn't get one, so always looks filthy and decrepit).

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    Stephanie Goadsby
    Community Member
    1 month ago

    Immortal Scrat

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    #43

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    Salttypepper
    Community Member
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    1 month ago

    It’s a duck

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    #44

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    Robert T
    Community Member
    1 month ago

    Picard and Q

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    Janissary35680
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    1 month ago

    HAMLET: Do you see yonder cloud that's almost in shape of a camel? LORD POLONIUS: By the mass, and 'tis like a camel, indeed. HAMLET: Methinks it is like a weasel. LORD POLONIUS: It is backed like a weasel. HAMLET: Or like a whale? LORD POLONIUS: Very like a whale. (Hamlet, III:2)

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    CarEnthusiast
    Community Member
    1 month ago

    How the tables have turned!

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    VisuallyChallengedPew
    Community Member
    1 month ago

    No, but you do whatever the f*ck that mouse needs you to do.

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    43Duckies
    Community Member
    1 month ago

    Cóck-eyed, too

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    Apatheist
    Community Member
    1 month ago

    When I said "Spill the beans!", that wasn't what I meant...

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    Lady Gypsy Rain
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    1 month ago

    Oh. Naw. The entire thing to the dump. Everything must be replaced

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    Debby Keir
    Community Member
    1 month ago

    Wash your feet for G's sake....

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    Lady Gypsy Rain
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    1 month ago

    Or at the very least, taste you back

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    Janissary35680
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    1 month ago

    You might want to have an orthopedist or osteopath look at that.

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    Peppy
    Community Member
    1 month ago

    Edgar Allen Poe

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    43Duckies
    Community Member
    1 month ago

    There is DEFINITELY treasure hidden down there.

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    Michael Largey
    Community Member
    1 month ago

    Everything in Florida is already upside down.

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    Lee Gilliland
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    1 month ago

    That is one upset turtle.

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    Lemonenema
    Community Member
    1 month ago

    Goblin shark

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    Ellie
    Community Member
    1 month ago

    Just keep it 3 more years and turn it upside down into 9

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    Bigmomma
    Community Member
    1 month ago

    Awww poor dog

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