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We called it scopophobia — a morbid dread of being seen. In minor degree, it is morbid shamefacedness, and the patient covers the face with his or her hands. In greater degree, the patient will shun the visitor and escape from his or her sight where this is possible. Scopophobia is more often manifest among women than among men.
Prosopometamorphopsia (PMO [1]), also known as demon face syndrome, [2] is a visual disorder characterized by altered perceptions of faces. In the perception of a person with the disorder, facial features are distorted in a variety of ways including drooping, swelling, discoloration, and shifts of position.
Satellite photograph of a mesa in the Cydonia region of Mars, often called the "Face on Mars" and cited as evidence of extraterrestrial habitation. Pareidolia (/ ˌ p ær ɪ ˈ d oʊ l i ə, ˌ p ɛər-/; [1] also US: / ˌ p ɛər aɪ-/) [2] is the tendency for perception to impose a meaningful interpretation on a nebulous stimulus, usually visual, so that one detects an object, pattern, or ...
Decked out in fake teeth, black contact lenses, a messy wig and heavily powdered makeup, Ford played along with the dare. He had Kidder randomly match with people on Omegle while he popped up in ...
Video of the effect. The flashed face distortion effect is a visual illusion involving the fast-paced presentation of eye-aligned faces. [1] Faces appear grotesquely transformed while the viewer focuses on the cross midway between them. [2] [3] As with many scientific discoveries, the phenomenon was first observed by chance.
The psychic staring effect (sometimes called scopaesthesia) is the claimed extrasensory ability of a person to detect being stared at. The idea was first explored by psychologist Edward B. Titchener in 1898 after students in his junior classes reported being able to "feel" when somebody was looking at them, even though they could not see this ...
“after watching a video of a cake smash with wooden stakes that (were) basically pointy chopsticks to hold the cake together, and seeing the aftermath of a girl losing an eye, yes this warning ...
People who have never been able to perceive 3D shapes hidden within an autostereogram find it hard to understand remarks such as, "the 3D image will just pop out of the background, after you stare at the picture long enough", or "the 3D objects will just emerge from the background".