It's a phenomenon called pareidolia and it's something we humans tend to do.

这种现象被称为“空想性错视”，是我们人类经常产生的感觉。

This phenomenon is known as pareidolia, where we interpret vague information as being something we recognize.

这种现象被称为空想性错视，我们把模糊的信息解释成我们认识的东西。

" Growing up my sister Jenny and I had our own word for examples of face pareidolia: 'beezups.' "

“小时候，我跟我的姐妹 Jenny 给虚幻面孔起了个名字：‘beezups’。”

It's unclear whether a person's culture or individual history impacts these perceptions, but we do know that pareidolia isn't unique to the human experience.

我们不清楚一个人的文化和背景如何影响这些感知，但是我们知道，“空想性错视”不止在人类当中发生。

Humans see faces in all kinds of mundane objects, but these faces aren't real — they're illusions due to a phenomenon known as face pareidolia.

人们能在各种平凡的物品中看到面容，但这些不是真实的——它们是“人脸空想性错视”所导致的幻觉。

Participants who had initially reported more hallucination-like experiences were also more likely to report faces in the flashes of random noise. They were also better at identifying those images that contained face pareidolia.

在测试前的询问中曾反映有过更多类似幻觉经历的参与者，更可能在一闪而过的图片中识别出人脸。 他们也更善于识别出那些包含人脸的幻想性视错觉图像。

Pareidolia is just a trick that the mind plays on most of us when we see things that aren't there, like a face in a pancake, or a tiny woman on Mars.

Pareidolia 只是我们大多数人在看到不存在的东西时大脑玩的一个把戏，比如煎饼里的脸， 或者火星上的小女人。

Your brain may also add faces to images of random noise. Research has shown that patients who experience visual hallucinations are more likely than normal to experience pareidolia — see faces in random shapes, for instance.

大脑还会使人在随机噪声图像（就像电视机的雪花屏一样）中看出人脸。 研究表明，幻视病人比正常人更容易出现幻想性视错觉——比如，他们会在各种随机图形中看出人脸。