What is your opinion on shapes in photos?

Question

You know the photos where fog shows a shape of a human or dense foliage where the plants seem to have a shape of a human in them. I say that if we look hard enough we can see shapes in clouds, fog, smoke brush, dense flowers etc. I say it is nothing paranormal and simply the same as getting excited over seeing Jesus or Mary in oil spots.

What do you think? Is this evidense of ghosts?

Answer 1

No, it's evidence of wishful thinking and imagination. Human minds are fantastically good at detecting patterns, even meaningless ones that we then ascribe meaning to.

Answer 2

i just like to look at the shapes. they arent amazing unless they totally dont belong there. like i took a picture of a bed in a cabin once, and it turned out with a fog image of a racecar driver wearing red. that was weird. there was no red anywhere else in the picture. in oil spills, i dont think "seeing jesus" is amazing. i think thats in peoples head, even though i like to see what people are crazy enough to believe.

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Answer 3

I have a few odd pictures with "mist" or fog in them.  I want to know where it came from, it wasn't there when i took the photo.  I try to not look to hard for a face or shape because I know one will show up if I look too long.  I'm just trying to find out what happened to get the fog on a digital SLR camera.

Answer 4

your spelling of evidense is wrong...it should be EVIDENCE..OKAY?

Answer 5

Same as watching clouds... we can see what we want to see.. folding monetary notes to make different things...The devil in a puff of smoke at the twin towers on 9/11...

In short, I don't put much stock in such things.

Answer 6

For the most part I think it's the film, camera, or developer's fault that it happens. Sometimes when things seem really obvious, it's obvious its a hoax. Once in the greatest while, maybe some paranormal stuff shows up, but hardly ever.

Answer 7

Wiccan..LOL LOL....Guess you showed us!!! I was a teacher (actually, I think you never stop being one) .I cringe at the grammatical errors I see on here. I don't really mind as long as I can make it out. I don't dare say anything because I make grammatical errors too. But what gets me is the kids who are still in school messing up so bad. Makes me wonder if they'll graduate(or if they should) I hear movie stars & politicians making mistakes all the time. I hate it when they say something like "They gave it to her and 'I'" . (Should be "me")

OK...back to the question...I grew up finding faces etc. in the clouds. It was our favorite car game. In Fl. when I would pick up sharks teeth...when I got hope the linoleum  looked like sharks teeth to me. I think your eyes do some kind of trick that makes people see these things. As for Jesus & Mary..I think people want to think that any man with a beard is Jesus & any woman with a head scarf(?) is Mary.

Answer 8

Okay, so I won't criticize your errors.  I rarely do that, anyway.

I have seen many photos that represent several different understandable photographic effects and errors.  And then there are those that are deliberately hoaxed.  Nothing yet has ever made my jaw drop, (except to yawn).

Is this because I am narrow-minded and would refuse to accept any evidence?  No, not at all.  I'm just not impressed with auras and blobs that I understand the cause of.

Answer 9

I got even better than that. One day my son got all excited because a pile of laundry he was working on cast the shadow of Abraham Lincoln's profile on the floor. It was rather good, and I got a picture of it.

I think people just like to see familiar things, and faces and people are familiar images to see.

My brother, me and a friend were in the White Mountains of New Hampshire one day and our friend could not see the Old Man in the Mountain (before it fell down). We had to walk up to a picture and point out to him, here is the nose, here is the forehead etc.

Answer 10

I tend to agree. Humans are wired from birth to look for faces in abstract images. It's something we learned very early as infants looking up at our parents faces and learning to recognize them. And we're good at looking for other shapes too, as anybody with imagination and a nice afternoon of cumulus clouds can demonstrate.  :)  Scientifically, the word for this is pareidolia, where a vague or random image is perceived as recognizable as a specific object.

Answer 11

alot of the reports and evidence is called matrixism and that is :

"Shapes and faces reported in inanimate objects of photographs. The faces and shapes are caused by the brains natural tendency to make since out of unrecognizable patterns and shapes. A result of the mind creating a recognizable image out of random patterns, and falsely identifying them as true and accurate images."

.... Alot of people don't have an open mind enough to began rethinking of what it could be by using a skeptical approach i think there are a few but like i said before, I use a camera with 3 megapixel or lower because anything higher usally drowns out the spirit or Supernatural anomalous proof in "some" photos.

Ryan ~Paranormal Investigator/Researcher~

www.theprosonline.com

Answer 12

How about the "Teapot" grouping of stars in Sagittarius?  The resemblance is really striking once you recognize it.

But the best example is when Al Bundy "sweated Elvis."  You've got to find a tape of that classic Married With Children episode!

Answer 13

no, more like evidence of Photoshop

Answer 14

The human brain learns to recognize objects through spatial points and distances. When the brain sees an object with the same or similiar spatial arrangement, it interpets the image to be familiar to the observer. As an example, we have all seen people that remind us of someone else we know. That is because the outline and physical characteristics of that person are similiar to the person we know.We also learn to tell identical twins apart by minor physical characteristics(i.e.-one has a nose bent to one side that the other doesn't have).Visit naturescorner.com, my website.

Answer 15

i agree with you that if you look hard enough you can see faces in almost anything...

for example...you know those ceilings with the popcorn stuff on them?

if you stare at it long enough you will be able to spot a face or two.

however... who's to say that in some of these photo's that some are not really of the paranormal?

oh yeah....

and as far as your spelling..... who cares if you misspell something...those that were criticizing you for it just have way to much time on their hands.

blessed be ...

we may never know for sure but i do believe in earth bound spirits as i have seen a few things not easily explained through conventional means...

so anyway as i said who knows? maybe they are or maybe they aren't.