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This innate ability which human beings possess in everyday life is referred to by the scientific literature as pareidolia and is a very well documented phenomenon.<ref>Seeing Jesus in toast: Neural and behavioral correlates of face pareidolia | http://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S0010945214000288</ref><ref>Pareidolia in Infants | http://journals.plos.org/plosone/article?id=10.1371/journal.pone.0118539</ref><ref>Why People See Faces When There Are None: Pareidolia (psychology today) | https://www.psychologytoday.com/blog/how-think-neandertal/201608/why-people-see-faces-when-there-are-none-pareidolia</ref> Common examples of this include spotting faces in everyday objects or perhaps viewing clouds as a variety of potentially different objects.

During this experience, pareidolia can become significantly more intense and pronounced than it would usually be during everyday sober living. For example, scenery may look remarkably like detailed images, every day objects may look like faces and clouds may appear as fantastical objects, all without any visual alterations actually taking place. Once an image has been ~~recognised~~ within an object or landscape, the [[hallucinatory states|hallucinatory effect]] known as [[transformations]] ~~may further exaggerate this recognition~~ so that it goes beyond pareidolia and becomes a standard visual hallucination.

During this experience, pareidolia can become significantly more intense and pronounced than it would usually be during everyday sober living. For example, scenery may look remarkably like detailed images, every day objects may look like faces and clouds may appear as fantastical objects, all without any visual alterations actually taking place. Once an image has been perceived within an object or landscape, the mind may further exaggerate this recognition through the [[hallucinatory states|hallucinatory effect]] known as [[transformations]] so that it goes beyond pareidolia and becomes a standard visual hallucination.

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 This innate ability which human beings possess in everyday life is referred to by the scientific literature as pareidolia and is a very well documented phenomenon.<ref>Seeing Jesus in toast: Neural and behavioral correlates of face pareidolia | http://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S0010945214000288</ref><ref>Pareidolia in Infants | http://journals.plos.org/plosone/article?id=10.1371/journal.pone.0118539</ref><ref>Why People See Faces When There Are None: Pareidolia (psychology today) | https://www.psychologytoday.com/blog/how-think-neandertal/201608/why-people-see-faces-when-there-are-none-pareidolia</ref> Common examples of this include spotting faces in everyday objects or perhaps viewing clouds as a variety of potentially different objects.
-During this experience, pareidolia can become significantly more intense and pronounced than it would usually be during everyday sober living. For example, scenery may look remarkably like detailed images, every day objects may look like faces and clouds may appear as fantastical objects, all without any visual alterations actually taking place. Once an image has been recognised within an object or landscape, the [[hallucinatory states|hallucinatory effect]] known as [[transformations]] may further exaggerate this recognition so that it goes beyond pareidolia and becomes a standard visual hallucination.
+During this experience, pareidolia can become significantly more intense and pronounced than it would usually be during everyday sober living. For example, scenery may look remarkably like detailed images, every day objects may look like faces and clouds may appear as fantastical objects, all without any visual alterations actually taking place. Once an image has been perceived within an object or landscape, the mind may further exaggerate this recognition through the [[hallucinatory states|hallucinatory effect]] known as [[transformations]] so that it goes beyond pareidolia and becomes a standard visual hallucination.
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