Apophenia

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Apophenia is the tendency to perceive meaningful connections between unrelated things. A common example of this is seeing the image of a face in a cloud (Figure 1. Seeing patterns in random data).

Cloud face
Figure 1. A random distribution of water vapour is seen as a face.

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