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Pareidolia is defined as the temptation to find patterns in random data. It looks like at least a few people have a serious case of pareidolia, since they're predicting that the world will end -- just because it'll be 11/11/11 tomorrow.

By definition, Pareidolia is a psychological phenomenon which makes your brain see vague or insignifigant stimulus as something significant. In other words, pareidolia is your brain’s way of making the unfamiliar or vague seem concrete, like when several bruise marks on a banana resemble Jesus, or thinking a cloud looks like George Clooney. Whatever the case might be, your brain ...