Thread: has this ever happened to anyone, and, does it have aname?

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A few nights in my
Life, I've awakened tosee something, and see it in the light as something ordinary. Once, Imy sister was moving, and I took her room. She had a pile of clothes on top of a box. I woke up startled to see a head. Another time, I was in Destin, FL with friends and family. One couple had a baby. I had to sleep on the sleeper sofa. The back of the sofa faced the back of the high chair. I was on my stomach. When I woke up, I saw a face.

So what you're saying is, there was something totally normal and harmless in the room with you, but in sleepiness and the confusion of having just woken up, you saw it as something else? I'm sure that's happened to a lot of people, but not sure if there's a name for it. It's kind of like matrixing... only not.

I'm sure there's a clinical name for it, there are times especialy coming out of sleep when the concious and subconcious mind mingle the unreal becomes real at least in your mind. Or maybe your being visited by the otherworld

It's got a name...

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pareidolia

I think the general stance on this is human beings are hard-wired to try to see human or animal forms in random shapes/nature.

Back when hurricane Ike hit down here, we lost power for over a week, and we had a LARGE tree that was visible from our bedroom that kept us amused with all the things we could see when we couldn't sleep. I swear that both my husband and I saw all sorts of figures in the branches of the tree - the really cool ones were a perfectly detailed Santa with his hat and Hoggle from the movie Labrinth (SWEAR it was like somebody drew him in there - both of us saw it and it was a dead ringer).

and of course I think there isn't a person alive that doesn't remember being a kid in their room at night and seeing something - clothes hanging on a doorknob, pile of books and toys - that looked like a scary monster.