Contagious: seeing faces everywhere – and these are the funniest
A screaming bell pepper, a laughing cup of hot chocolate: suddenly you see a face in your food. It even has a name: pareidolia. Would you simply eat this food with a little face on it? Or would you rather not eat anything that stares at you?
Recognizing a face in the front of a car, in a sliced bell pepper or a pastry is called pareidolia. According to Japanese researchers, it is a kind of automatic response by the brain, which automatically makes connections where there aren’t always any. Some people are better at it than others, and the University of Tokyo studied this. They had students look at random patterns, and also gave the participants a personality test. What did they find? Neurotic people recognized faces more often than people who were completely emotionally stable.
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- Ineens het gezicht van Jezus in een naan.
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- Aan welke Amerikaanse politicus doet dit gebakje je denken?
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- Vrolijk gezicht in je yorkshire pudding!
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- Binnenkort op bedevaart naar het fornuis waar Jezus in een koekenpan brandde.
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- Lachen in de koekenpan.
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- Ineens kijkt de komkommer je aan.
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- Wie wordt er niet vrolijk van chocomelk?
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- Dit koffiebroodje heeft het zwaar.
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- Oei! Boze reep!
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- Zou een paprika het toch voelen als je ‘m doorsnijdt?
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- Een lachend aardappeltje.
Test yourself
So these photos are a test: how neurotic and unstable are you? Do you see little faces, or do you simply see a frying pan, a potato and a sweet bun?
Also read:
- If you hate bits in your food
- Black coffee? You’re probably a dangerous lunatic
- Have you gone crazy? Who eats their pizza like that!
Source: Mirror, Facebook, Sad and Useless
