Creative Speculation
In reply to the discussion: Remember how many people believed the "Face On Mars" stuff back in the 80s, 90s? [View all]frogmarch
(12,153 posts)I see dead people. They're everywhere. Yesterday I saw Abe Lincoln in the speckled wall paper design in the bathroom, and I've seen George Washington, Charles Darwin, and many other famous dead people on walls and in clouds many times in my life. I once saw a really cool vampire in the knotty pine wainscoting of my parents' breakfast room. I named him Vern. I've also seen landscapes and cute furry animals in patterns my brain has created.
I see patterns everywhere. I can't help it.
None of the images fool me into thinking they're real, and I never believed the face on Mars was anything more than an illusion either. We humans are natural-born pattern seekers, but that doesn't mean we have to let our creative, pattern-conjuring brains go all goofy on us.