i think my air conditioner is haunted

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"You may have once seen a giant face in the clouds. Perhaps it took you aback, amused you, or maybe it prompted an “uncanny valley” kind of sensation—realness, but with a lingering unease.

In the mid-19th century scholars came up with a word for seeing images of objects where none exist—pareidolia. Its etymology involves the Greek words “para,” meaning in this case “abnormal,” and “eidolon,” spirit-image. The Makapansgat pebble exemplifies visual pareidolia—Jesus on toast or the face on Mars. Experiences of visual pareidolia are not uncommon. It happens when we perceive visual patterns (data) in randomness (noise) and is the basis for the perception of stellar constellations and images in the famous Rorschach inkblot test.

Pareidolia is not, however, confined to a single sensory modality. There is another form—auditory pareidolia. Concise definitions of the phenomenon remain elusive, but in clinical circles it’s usually defined relative to the more common visual form—the perception of patterns in randomness where none exist, but via an auditory mode.

“I thought I was going crazy. When my air conditioner is on, I wake up and hear light conversations.” "

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i would cry

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