Balloons and the mind of the beholder

Balloons at the sky is an image that is known all over the world as a celebration of a happy occasion and at the moment someone looks at the sky and find them out it will be a brief moment of joy.

In June, 18 2010 balloons released into the sky by a kindergarten sparked a security alert when the country's military mistook the formation for parachuting North Koreans.

The left picture by Photolibrary was published at The Telegraph telling the story. (read it here)

Sometimes we mistake some images, for the good or for the evil, according to our mood and thoughts. I hope today you see a lot of good images. What a better day for balloons than Sundays?

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Image of the devil on the hair of the Queen: Pareidolia

Last month I published about pareidolia, when an illusory image is perceived, and the example was the Canadian dollar bill that was taken out of the market because people saw the devil at the Queen's hair.
This picture shows in red what is seen. 

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Pareidolia took Queen's Elizabeth Dollar Canadian bill out of the market

I love Nicholas's Intelliblog and whenever I visit it I learn something or something touches me. Today it was the concept pareidolia that I knew by experience but didn't know it had a name:

Pareidolia is a peculiarity of our brain wiring whereby it attempts to look for the familiar in the unfamiliar. The burnt toast really doesn’t look like President Obama, we know that. Our brains tell us that it’s an impossibility, however, this doesn’t stop us from seeing something resembling human features in the configuration of light and dark areas of toasted bread.

Likewise, listening the constant drone of rushing water while in the shower can give rise to an experience of an auditory pareidolia (or to be more precise, a paracusis). We may think we hear the phone ringing or snatches of conversation. The white noise of the falling water stimulates the brain to manufacture all sorts of auditory misperceptions.
Scientist Carl Sagan proposed that pareidolia confers on humans an evolutionary advantage, especially where visual stimuli are concerned. He proposed that the human brain has evolved so that it is “hard-wired” to recognise the human face and easily distinguish a myriad variations of the basic features. This allows fast discrimination of friend from foe, but will also allow us to create order out of a chaotic pattern of light and shade, manufacturing a resemblance to a face of patterns on inanimate objects. Pareidolia is perhaps the most innocent form of this tendency of humans to create order out of chaos. (emphasis mine)

How many times I experienced pareidolia! Watching at the clouds and seeing animals appearing and disappearing, faces in stains or at the morning toast.

I really like the idea that it is "an innocent form this tendency of humans to create order out of chaos".

The Queen's Elizabeth portrait appeared on a Canadian dollar bill in 1954 and so many people saw the devil on the Queen's hair (highlighted area) that the bill went out of circulation. The drawing was done from a photography and of course there was no devil.

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Reverse Psychology: planting your ideas in people's mind

The video is funny, very funny. Poor boy! But the site... you have to take a look just not to fall in someone's trap or... should I say: "Don't watch the video, the site is good for nothing." I guess I have to read more. An advice from the blogger: 

"Again, I'd like to take this opportunity to remind everyone that planting ideas in the minds of others is not necessarily a nice thing to do. Use this information to detect when someone's doing it to you and not necessarily as a guide to do it to somebody else."

Nice, isn't it?

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