6 http://knowyourmeme.com/system/icons/323/thumb/lolchair.jpg?1247848971 http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pareidolia http://encyclopediadramatica.com/Things_With_Faces http://knowyourmeme.com/system/icons/323/square/lolchair.jpg?1247848971 2009-06-06T18:04:50Z The crevices of your brain http://www.youtube.com/watch?v= active Face, Happy, Emo, Chair 39 <h2>Background Information</h2> <p>Pareidolia (from the Greek words para- which means &#8220;with&#8221;, or &#8220;alongside&#8221; but in this context it means something is faulty or wrong and eidolon which means &#8220;image&#8221;. So basically &#8220;faulty image&#8221;.) is an illusion involving a vague or obscure stimulus being interpreted as clear and definite.</p> <h3>Example</h3> <p align="center"><img src="http://bad-language.com/images/leninshowercurtain.jpg" alt="" /></p> <p align="center">Do you see Vladimir Lenin on this shower curtain?<br /> If you do, it&#8217;s pareidolia.</p> <h3>Famous examples of pareidolia.</h3> <ul> <li><a href="http://science.nasa.gov/headlines/y2001/ast24may_1.htm">The Mars face</a></li> <li><a href="http://www.indiana.edu/~jkkteach/P335/nunbun.html">Nun Bun</a></li> <li><a href="http://www.ibiblio.org/pub/electronic-publications/stay-free/5/jesus.htm">Whenever someone says they&#8217;ve seen Jesus in anything</a></li> <li><a href="http://www.skepdic.com/inkblot.html">The Rorschach inkblot test</a></li> </ul> <p>Just to name a few.</p> <h2>Internet Usage</h2> <p>On the internet the &#8220;Stuff With Faces on It&#8221; meme is when you find objects that&#8230;look like they have a face on &#8217;em and show them off. Happy chair is perhaps the most well known, and there are thousands of emotives and narrative pictures all over 4Chan, Youtube, and the majority of community websites.</p> <p>Usually this meme is used to comment on posts, e.g. &#8220;Angry <span class="caps">BBQ</span> is angry at OP&#8221;</p> <p>This is the meta-meme of several variations such as the <a href="http://knowyourmeme.com/memes/om-nom-nom-nom">OM <span class="caps">NOM</span> <span class="caps">NOM</span> meme</a> which involves drawing facial features on inanimate objects.</p> <h2>Nifty Collections</h2> <ul> <li><a href="http://www.flickr.com/groups/11192513@N00/">Flickr Group</a></li> <li><a href="http://wtface.com/">Wtface</a></li> <li><a href="http://facesinplaces.blogspot.com/">Faces In Places</a></li> </ul> <li> 2009-11-16T13:43:56Z 323 11 http://knowyourmeme.com/system/icons/323/original/lolchair.jpg?1247848971