This is a post by guest blogger Ellen Bulger.
Light up some incense, if that helps. Crank up some new age music. Break out the wind chimes. Lay out some crystals. Surely you must have a geological souvenir from the gift shop of a children’s museum? No? Well, hell, how about rock candy? Table sugar is a crystal. Sprinkle some of that around. Just set the mood, will ya?
Comfy? Got your mind wide open with the breeze blowing over all those meaty lobes? Good.
Now what do you see?
Pareidolia Follies 2 Studio © Ellen Bulger
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Enkidum
September 4, 2012 at 15:01 (UTC -5) Link to this comment
Water. A stream over some kind of rocky bed. Do I get some kind of prize?
dpearson
September 4, 2012 at 15:07 (UTC -5) Link to this comment
It’s the face of jesus…oh…sorry had a smudge on my glasses. It’s what Enkidum said. Guess I’ll just eat my sugar cube now.
michaeld
September 4, 2012 at 15:11 (UTC -5) Link to this comment
Light glare on an uneven surface probably either water as already suggested or maybe glass. The glare itself to get into the spirit of things looks slightly wingy with feathers but that’s all in my mind.
maddog1129
September 4, 2012 at 15:13 (UTC -5) Link to this comment
An elephant in a car wash.
E.V.
September 4, 2012 at 16:18 (UTC -5) Link to this comment
A windblown gorilla smoking a cigar.
wholething
September 4, 2012 at 16:19 (UTC -5) Link to this comment
It’s a squid. Oh wait, this isn’t Pharyngula.
Nathaniel Frein
September 4, 2012 at 16:53 (UTC -5) Link to this comment
It makes me think of a bird’s wing. But that’s probably wrong. I suck at these XD.
The blue is really throwing me off. It looks (to me) exactly like the same color and texture of the chalk dust that I was using in my chalk line earlier to mark off cuts on lattice.
Dendritic Trees
September 4, 2012 at 16:56 (UTC -5) Link to this comment
Water over rocks, probably a creek, although it took me a minute to get it, it looked pretty abstract at first.
machintelligence
September 4, 2012 at 16:58 (UTC -5) Link to this comment
I fear this one is going to take some priming. What are we supposed to see?
JuliaL
September 4, 2012 at 18:52 (UTC -5) Link to this comment
Weather from way, way up.
Bob Jase
September 4, 2012 at 20:47 (UTC -5) Link to this comment
One of the TMNT sticking his head out of a cave.
articulett
September 4, 2012 at 23:40 (UTC -5) Link to this comment
Chupacabra
Charles Sullivan
September 4, 2012 at 23:48 (UTC -5) Link to this comment
Bird in water.
Paul Durrant
September 5, 2012 at 01:33 (UTC -5) Link to this comment
My guess is that someone’s saying it’s an angel’s wing. I think it’s a picture of cloud cover from above (satellite photo?)
lochaber
September 5, 2012 at 04:35 (UTC -5) Link to this comment
I’m almost certain it’s a pic of water pouring over something, and the colors are mostly reflections in the ripple pattern and such.
But I was pretty wrong on the last one, and, well, yeah…
rookieatheist
September 5, 2012 at 06:47 (UTC -5) Link to this comment
The pareidoilia effect gives me the impression there’s a bearded old gorilla along the right hand side.
Other than that, I suppose it’s water running over rocks in a stream/shallow river, with ripples caused by an object not in the photo.
Coragyps
September 5, 2012 at 08:47 (UTC -5) Link to this comment
Clint Eastwood talking at a convention of some sort……
left0ver1under
September 5, 2012 at 09:29 (UTC -5) Link to this comment
Umm…a piece of driftwood, frozen in ice? Or a marine animal surfacing?
Tabby Lavalamp
September 5, 2012 at 09:59 (UTC -5) Link to this comment
I see a monkey reaching into water…
Jake
September 5, 2012 at 17:06 (UTC -5) Link to this comment
It is clearly the Creature from the Black Lagoon, but apparently some HEATHENS see an “Old Gorilla”
robb
September 6, 2012 at 10:30 (UTC -5) Link to this comment
it’s a picture of water flowing into a stream. the shutter was left open a bit so things are a little blurry. the feathery looking things are wave crests/ripples from surface disturbance.i bet the brown thing is a stick under the water.
Chris
September 6, 2012 at 10:47 (UTC -5) Link to this comment
The wings of an angel!
Either that, or the terrible-to-behold face of our lord Cthulhu about to break the surface of the watery deep.
A+ Hermit
September 6, 2012 at 11:27 (UTC -5) Link to this comment
That weird stuff growing under the plastic wrap in my fridge…
Yellow Thursday
September 6, 2012 at 11:54 (UTC -5) Link to this comment
It’s pretty.
What? Isn’t that enough?
jamesskaar
September 6, 2012 at 17:07 (UTC -5) Link to this comment
i’m with julial.
anne mariehovgaard
September 7, 2012 at 18:03 (UTC -5) Link to this comment
The wing of a horror movie version of Archaeopteryx (winged/clawed monster!)
mildlymagnificent
September 10, 2012 at 02:35 (UTC -5) Link to this comment
It looks like a reflection of some kind of spotted cat (at the bottom of the image) in running water ?
DaveN
September 11, 2012 at 23:58 (UTC -5) Link to this comment
An orangutan, face in top right, looking off to our right, opening his/her mouth slightly in anticipation of some yummy tropical delights…
Or wait… Never mind, just another alien, hungering for some finger food….