Are You Seeing Things?

Pareidolia is defined as a psychological phenomenon in which something remote, vague and possibly unrelated is perceived as significant to a human viewer. Typically, the term is associated with an incorrect

and sometimes even an imaginatively accurate interpretation associated with a human facial features.

According to a post published 1/31/2010, oddee.com, humans are conditioned from birth to recognize

and associate human facial features from a distance and under low lighting type conditions to identify other human faces in some type of mental cross reference. This can lead many of us to identify and associate even inanimate objects and geophysical type land marks with that of a human face. This post suggests there is an entire blog devoted to the exploration of pareidolia. That blog is titled, 'Faces in Places'.

Sidewalk Art

We would love to credit the artist for the photos we show in this post, if we knew who they were. Since we do not, we simply offer those creative few individuals our thanks for creating something we can blog about.

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Trio of Terms Worth Defining: imminent, eminent, and immanent

The definition of imminent is ‘close in time’ and can be assumed to reflect ‘likely to happen soon’. Imagine an episode of Law & Order and Jack McCoy is questioning a witness about a claim of self defense to a shooting. The witness is the shooter and claims he believed his life was about to end at the hands of the other individual. After closing arguments, the jury is instructed on the definition of ‘imminent threat of death’ and ‘beyond a reasonable doubt’. You get the idea, the word ‘imminent’ is assumed to an event planned to happen within a narrow time line.
Two other words are commonly and incorrectly used in place of imminent. Both words are commonly considered adjectives within the English language. These are eminent and immanent.
Immanent is cognitive, an act of the mind. It is something existing in the realm of the material universe and/or human consciousness. Finally, a quick definition of the third and final word in this discussion, again this one is an adjective. Define the word eminent? Eminent means Outstanding, as in character or performance; distinguished, prominent, renowned, and respected in a given field.