From now on everything I do involves a mirror. Some things I do already involve mirrors, like driving and brushing my teeth.

Much more plus book soon.

So apparently wordpress auto centers all you tube videos. UGLY.

He saw “two insignia of witches, the goat’s horn and the besom” in a rock and wondered “what demon it was who had put [them] … just there and in my way on this particular morning.” A building then looked like an oven and he thought of Dante’s Inferno.

He sees sticks on the ground and sees them as forming Greek letters which he interprets to be the abbreviation of a man’s name and feels he now knows that this man is the one who is persecuting him. He sees sticks on the bottom of a chest and is sure they form a pentagram.

He sees tiny hands in prayer when he looks at a walnut under a microscope and it “filled me with horror.”

His crumpled pillow looks “like a marble head in the style of Michaelangelo.” Strindberg comments that “these occurrences could not be regarded as accidental, for on some days the pillow presented the appearance of horrible monsters, of gothic gargoyles, of dragons, and one night … I was greeted by the Evil One himself….”

The clustering illusion is the natural human tendency to “see patterns where actually none exist (MIND EYES).” Since, according to a branch of mathematics known as Ramsey Theory, complete mathematical disorder in any physical system is an impossibility, it may be more correct to state, however, that the clustering illusion refers to the natural human tendency to associate some meaning to certain types of patterns which must inevitably appear in any large enough data set.

Also known as pareidolia and/or apophenia.

Boundaries represent an imaginary line or point of division, as an imaginary concept boundaries can not be universally accepted. Practices such as colonialism, manifest destiny, and gerrymandering have trampled “agreed” boundaries for hundreds of years. 25% of the world’s population lives in an area that is disputed by two or more parties. If one considers a boundary as a physical object then it is an object that when viewed by two or more people will appear differently to each of them. This phenomenon is known visually as multistable perception and is clearly represented by impossible or ambiguous objects such as these:

While these objects have a limited number of possible perceptions, the clustering illusion offers an infinite number of possibilities to an infinite number of viewers. Similar to the concept of boundary perception, when a large field of meaningless data is viewed by a group of people each will discover a completely unique pattern or image.

If one considers the physical world as a large set of meaningless data, it is of no surprise that people find supposedly “miraculous” images hidden in nature/pop tarts/whatever.

CASE IN POINT: there is a wooden pig in my bathroom. ->

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