Faces, figures and other strange stuff!

[5string]

OK fellas. I consider myself a normal guy bigtime. But get this. When I look at tilework, textured walls, carpet and just about anything, I see faces of people, landscapes, animals......alll kinds of stuff. It's all very real and vivid. I'm not trying to do this, it just happens. This has only happened to me in the last few months.

What do you make of all this?

Maybe it's all the LSD I did when I was younger (kidding).

 

[joverby]

I know you said you were kidding but did you really do haulucinations when you were younger? I wouldn't be ashamed if you did, I personally think it's very natural and there was a scientific study showing if you used psybocilin(Chemical in magic shrooms) it changes your personality by making you open your mind more.

I'm sure you have already but can you think of anything that might of happened 3 months ago or around that time to make you see that? Some scary book or movie? Something traumatic?

 

[5string]

I know you said you were kidding but did you really do haulucinations when you were younger? I wouldn't be ashamed if you did, I personally think it's very natural and there was a scientific study showing if you used psybocilin(Chemical in magic shrooms) it changes your personality by making you open your mind more.

I'm sure you have already but can you think of anything that might of happened 3 months ago or around that time to make you see that? Some scary book or movie? Something traumatic?

Nope. Nothing traumatic in the last few months. It's strange. I was able to see a mans face coming out of what appeared to be clouds in a piece of tile in my master bath. I showed it to my wife. After I pointed out his eyes and other facial features, she was able to see it also.

I'm not freaked out about it by any means. Just don't know what to make of it.

I should ask the voices in my head what they think about this. :crazy:

 

[joverby]

I actually have this happen to me occasionally too.

I think I might know why.....I happened to you one time randomly, 3 months ago. That made you AWARE (even subconsiously) that you COULD see faces / other imagines in objects.

This start a perpetual cycle of you seeing things BECAUSE you were more aware of it.

Kind of like people seeing the clock at 11:11 or w/e all the time. It's because they've already made themselves subconsiously aware of it.

 

[Atom Smasher]

Perhaps you have crossed a threshold where you are becoming less rigid and formulaic in your thinking. Or perhaps you are experiencing less of a sense of control in life than normal.

Some interesting stuff here:
http://www.sciencemag.org/content/322/5898/115.abstract

I personally have the same thing in an auditory form. Often when I hear white noise, I perceive voices talking though I can't make out actual words. I'm probably putting patterns of noise together to mimic the sound of human speech. Or maybe I'm bat sh!t crazy.