Our brains hate us. That’s not a theory, it’s cold hard science. How else could you explain how they make us freak out at the most ordinary things, as they convince us they’re actually monsters and demons? There’s actually a name for this phenomenon. It’s called Pareidolia, and it’s our evolutionary programming to see things like faces and animals in even the vaguest shapes and objects.In prehistoric times, it kept people alive. “Is that a saber-toothed tiger in that bush, or just an optical…
