Pareidolia (/prdoli/ parr-i-doh-lee-) is a psychological phenomenon
involving a vague and random stimulus (often an image or sound) being
perceived as significant. Common examples include seeing images of animals or faces in clouds, the man in the moon or the Moon rabbit, and hearing hidden messages on records when played in reverse.The word comes from the Greek words para (, "beside, alongside, instead [of]") in this context meaning something faulty or wrong; and the noun eidlon ( "image, form, shape"), the diminutive of eidos. Pareidolia is a type of apophenia, seeing patterns in random data. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pareidolia Apophenia /pfini/ is the experience of perceiving patterns or connections in random or meaningless data.The term is attributed to Klaus Conrad by Peter Brugger, who defined it as the "unmotivated seeing of connections" accompanied by a "specific experience of an abnormal meaningfulness", but it has come to represent the human tendency to seek patterns in random information in general, such as with gambling and paranormal phenomena. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Apophenia Eris (/rs, rs/; Greek: , "Strife") is the Greek goddess of chaos, strife and discord. Her name is the equivalent of Latin Discordia, which means "discord". Eris' Greek opposite is Harmonia, whose Latin counterpart is Concordia. Homer equated her with the war-goddess Enyo, whose Roman counterpart is Bellona. The dwarf planet Eris is named after the goddess, as is the religion Discordianism. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Eris_(mythology)