Rorschach Test -- Part Two
Feb. 19th, 2009 07:12 pm![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
nekosenseiOkay, one more creepy image from Bachelor's Grove Cemetery. After that, I'm done. I promise!
Sorry, I just had to get that out of my system.
I found this gem in Image 7777. I took said picture right after the one I linked to in a previous post. It's on the far left hand side, right above the fence.
Sorry, I just had to get that out of my system.
I found this gem in Image 7777. I took said picture right after the one I linked to in a previous post. It's on the far left hand side, right above the fence.
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Hee hee hee...
Date: 2009-02-20 01:28 am (UTC)Re: Hee hee hee...
Date: 2009-02-20 01:43 am (UTC)I can only guess...
Date: 2009-02-20 04:59 am (UTC)My estimated guess after looking at the original image 7777 is that it's two holes in a tree trunk surrounded by a discoloration and cut off by two branches in the foreground. There's also another very small branch cutting across just below the "nose area" that's helping the effect out.
The second possible explanation is we're human beings, and the eyes and brain are programmed to find recognizable patterns out of seemingly random images. The pattern humans recognize most are faces -- and that's because it's the very first thing we see from birth. We HAVE to recognize our parents' faces to survive. We HAVE to understand the human face to get along in social group. Evolutionarily speaking, knowing faces is one of our most essential and primordial traits.
Because of that, we tend to put faces together out of disparate components. Case in point: while looking at your "monk's face" in the original panorama, I spotted 6 other faces in the woods. One of them's in a big orange leaf to the right of your monk. There are others scattered across the background, culled out of random shapes. I would LIKE to think they're ghosts. That would be FRICKEN SWEET! But as a kid, I also spotted twice the number of facial patterns in the marble tiles of my Grandma's bathroom. And I seriously doubt that's haunted. Another case in point? Some of our LJ icons. Punkinberry and Fuzzyscribble's icons are abstract enough that I thought Punkinberry's two cats at her feet was supposed to be some sort of face. And Fuzzyscribble's icon of Linus' dog nose looked like a cloaked Ewok with a beard until she told me what it was. Apply that same sort of logic to the randomness of nature and poof -- we've got faces in the woods and men in the moon and elephants in the clouds.
But as I said, the picture is blurry. So I can't say with any certainty that I KNOW what that is. That's just my guess. *shrugs*
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Date: 2009-02-20 04:56 am (UTC)either that, or it was the spawn of satan. :-D
pleasant dreams :-D
it really is a creepy place.
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