Sink Eye

 

Is this cool or what?  I had a blog topic in mind and was searching for something to be distracted by this photo (which I stole). I was intrigued how even though it's water being drained out of the sink, it gives the illusion of an eye. 

  

This is known as pareidolia .  According to Wikipedia, it is described as a psychological phenomenon involving a vague and random stimulus (often an image or sound) being perceived as significant.

I'm sure we've all done it at one time or another as a child, did you ever look into the clouds and see an object or a possibly a silhouette of a person yet knowing that object or person is really not there?  Or seeing the face of Jesus or heck, even Santa in the woodgrain of a door? 

So, I learned something today, pareidolia. 

How about you, have you ever experienced a situation, excluding the cloud example, in which you noticed something unique .... like a man's face in a tree trunk?