Take a moment to look at this picture I took of a rock from this cliff face on the St. Croix River. When we gaze upon the natural beauty of our world, we often see more than is actually there. Concentrate your visual perception and focus on the image below. Allow your imagination to carve a path in new directions. I let my mind wander as it attended to this picture and discovered a number of fascinating images within this rock. I’ve listed a few of my findings in the polls below the picture. Cast your vote to see if other readers encountered the same pictures within the picture that you spy with (or without) your mind’s eye.
(Click on the image to zoom in.)
What else do you see? List your discoveries with a comment.
conditional cognition 
Okay, I know I’m a freak. I see Bigfoot and one of the old Muppet guys from the balcony. What can I say?
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You’re not a freak for seeing those things. I’ve seen quite a few more things in the image, but I only shared the tamer sights.
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I see an old man praying, a woman kissing something, someone yowling in pain at the sky (I think you said this was an eagle?), Sam the Eagle from the Muppets, and a chicken. :o)
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I think your old man was my Yoda and you’re probably right about my eagle. I think I may see Sam the Eagle, but haven’t a clue about the chicken.
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Follow old man/Yoda’s mouth line up to the chicken’s beak. The chicken has a beak, an eye just above that, and then the body is to the right of that.
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Sorry. I still can’t see it, but maybe I will sometime. I keep seeing new things each time, so maybe I will another time.
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CC, I seem to lack your vivid imagination. Your eagle looking at the sky looks more like a gorilla to me. Aside from that, what I mostly see are a few disembodied mouths and a lot of scrunched up faces.
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I do agree that that there’s plenty of mouths and faces, but I can’t see the gorilla. I do know that you have quite an imagination from the various discussions over time.
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I see a head lying down at the top left.
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I think I see a few heads up that way, though neither may be the one you saw.
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Hi CC, This is fun.
On the far left, I see an Indian with a feather headdress, facing right, looking up.
On the bottom, in the large crack I see a baby alligators head and back, facing left. (or T-rex)
Above the alligator, I see a gorilla head, facing left.
Back to back with the gorilla, I see Darth Vaders head, facing right.
Under the Indians shoulder, I see George Washingtons head, facing right….just the top to his nose….
Lots and lots of faces… a lion and more. :]
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I think I see your Indian, but no go on the alligator. I want to see this gorilla, because you’re the second person that’s seen it. I’m still looking for Vader and that makes 2 Star Wars characters so far. As far as GW and the lion go, no luck for me.
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Apophenia…
having spent some time with abstract photography, here I could pretty much see what I want to see.
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