Pareidolia Prompts
Faces may be the best example. How many times have you seen faces in wood grain, in the patterns in plaster walls, or in the smudges on the sidewalk? A surprisingly large part of the human brain is devoted to seeing faces — when we look at a person’s face, a huge amount of brainpower is expended in interpreting it. When we’re not looking at someone
... See moreRaph Koster • Theory of Fun for Game Design
Being a first-class noticer, and cultivating the ability to attend to what others overlook, is crucial to any creative process.
Rob Walker • The Art of Noticing for Writers: From The Art of Noticing (A Vintage Short)
“We’re all remarkably adept,” Bogost noted, “at ascribing human intention to nonhuman things.” We do it all the time. Consider the related tendency to see human faces in non-human things, a specific subset of the phenomenon known as pareidolia, which is the tendency to assign meaning to seemingly random patterns.
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