Do you really see what you think you see?

People see what they want to see. If you look long enough, it’s likely you will see it. Do your eyes play tricks on you or does your brain? Nevertheless, people seen what they think they see. Look up at the clouds and you might make out a face or an animal. Look at a nebula and you see an eye or a hand or a woman’s face. Many years ago whilst out on a family drive, I looked up at the sky from the moving car and I could have sworn I saw a cloud shaped like a sitting camel. I know my eyes were not deceiving me but when I pointed it out to my family, they didn’t see what I was seeing. It could be because the cloud had moved on.

And social media is filled with photos of things that supposedly look like something they’re not. One was a picture of what looked like a seascape with mountains and a bit of beach. The caption read, if you’re artistic you’ll see a beach but look again, it’s actually a close-up of damage to the back of a car. Another was a photo from the sky of a boat racing through blue waters. Again, the caption read, do you see a boat racing through water? Look again, it’s actually close-up of a tear in a sofa.

There are countless other such photos that could, according to experts, be seen in multiple ways depending upon your experiences, personality and what you were thinking about at the time you saw the photo.

The most well-known is a photo where you’re asked what you see first. Is it an old lady or a young lady? And apparently, what you see first, says something about your personality. Another one is where you’re asked if you see a rabbit first or duck. Again, whichever you see first says a lot about your personality. But these are optical illusions.

Social media is full of photos of the surface of Mars and its rock formations which are not optical illusions. The most famous image was of the face on Mars which astronomers think could be a sign that there were once humans on Mars and they carved out this image. They also believe that we were once on Mars and then, after the planet became barren, we came to Earth. Of course, I do not believe this and it is just a theory anyway.

Countless other images are being uploaded on to social media of mysteriously shaped rock formations. One rock formation has what looks like a perfectly round hole in the middle of it, suggesting that this is not natural erosion but that an intelligence has carved it out for an unknown purpose. Then there are rocks that have a perfectly flat and smooth top, again suggesting intelligence intervention. Then there’s a photo of a smaller spherical rock that is perfectly balanced on top of another rock.

To be fair there are many rock formations that seem to almost mirror those on Earth. For example, there are rocks that look like perfect pyramids much like those in Giza suggesting that whoever carved those also carved them in Egypt. There’s a formation that looks like a doorway to inside the rock. Then there’s rock that resembles a doughnut and one that looks like an avocado. In one of the photos I spotted something that the poster was not referring to. He was focussing on something else but I spotted one that looked exactly like Durdle Door. How is it that no one has spotted that? It was right there in the same picture.

Are folks seeing what they want to see? I find that things on earth are far more interesting than on Mars. There are, for example, countless trees on earth that have the most eerie shapes. There’s a tree whose trunk looks like a giant face. One that looks like it’s upside down. Another with 5 or 6 bright red trunks and another still whose trunk is filled with tear shaped holes in perfect symmetry. If you’re looking for weirdness, look no further than home.