In July, I went for a little outing in a park not too far from my home. Once there, I noticed that there were trees cut by the city and that the trunks and pieces were still there. Once the picnic over, I took my camera and went to walk around the trunks and slices to see if I could find some photos to make.
While watching a slice of wood, I was surprised to see what seemed a mouth on one of it! I had to be a paretoidolia:
Pareidolia (/pærɪˈdoʊliə/ parr-i-DOH-lee-ə) is a psychological phenomenon in which the mind responds to a stimulus, usually an image or a sound, by perceiving a familiar pattern where none exists. Common examples are perceived images of animals, faces, or objects in cloud formations, the Man in the Moon, the Moon rabbit, hidden messages in recorded music played in reverse or at higher- or lower-than-normal speeds, and hearing indistinct voices in random noise such as that produced by air conditioners or fans (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pareidolia).
It was funny to see this picture since it gave me the impression that only the mouth had surfaced to make me grimace, so I called Mr. Unhappy!
