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Have you ever seen BBQ Becky's face on a piece of toast, or a vision of Elvis in your tea leaves? It's a perfectly normal reaction, according to researchers at the University of Toronto in Canada.Their findings suggest it's common for people to see non-existent features because human brains are uniquely wired to recognize faces, so that even when there's only a slight suggestion of facial features the brain automatically interprets it as a face. Seeing faces in inanimate objects is called pareidolia and is a subset as apophenia - a general term that describes our tendency to see patterns in random data - from shapes in clouds to monsters in shadows.
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