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If there is no such thing as the supernatural, then how do you explain this?

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RE: If there is no such thing as the supernatural, then how do you explain this?

July 16, 2014 at 3:12 pm

What we have are double exposures, primitive lenses and pareidolia

Quote:Pareidolia (/pærɨˈdoʊliə/ parr-i-DOH-lee-ə) is a psychological phenomenon involving a vague and random stimulus (often an image or sound) being perceived as significant, a form of apophenia. Common examples include seeing images of animals or faces in clouds, the man in the moon or the Moon rabbit, and hearing hidden messages on records when played in reverse.

The word comes from the Greek words para (παρά, "beside, alongside, instead") in this context meaning something faulty, wrong, instead of; and the noun eidōlon (εἴδωλον "image, form, shape") the diminutive of eidos. Pareidolia is a type of apophenia, seeing patterns in random data.

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If there is no such thing as the supernatural, then how do you explain this? - by Revelation777 - July 15, 2014 at 3:28 pm

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