Apophenia and Pareidolia: The Owls Aren't What They Seem ... or Are They?🦉👀🤔👼⛅

Mini 6: Apophenia

I keyed up the term "Apophenia" into the Apple Podcast search engine on my iPad recently and a number of podcasts came up for me to listen to, one in particular caught my Apophenic mind having recently had a cup of damn fine (American) coffee and a piece of cherry pie in North Bend, Washington state where the Twin Peaks series was filmed -

I Was in the Same State (Colorado) as The Owl Guy, While He Was There ... Maybe?🌎🦉

Synchronicity is for the Birds?

Psychologically Minded Podcast

The podcast host Grace Fowler was talking about the psychological phenomena of "Apophenia"and she had used what seemed, to my mind at least, the floor pattern from the Twin Peaks series:-)

My owled mate Mike Clelland even wrote an amusing blogpost about the subjects of "Apophenia" and "Pareidolia" at his Hidden Experience blog -
Pareidolia, Owls, Synchronicity and March the 6th?

WikiListen: Apophenia

Hearing an owl flying overhead could be a bit difficult with a human ear;-)

I saw this '15 Minute Free Thinking' podcast episode below as a sign I should listen;-)

I must have had one too many as those colours on
the beer bottle bottlecap looks like a tiger to me;-)

Beer Day Britain and Welcome to Wrexham? 🍻⚽🐲

Making Sense of the Senseless:
Unveiling the World of Apophenia?

I love listening to shinks who think the universe is a meaningless place, which to me is just their view or lack thereof.  

Most shrinks are just under the illusion that they are sane, while everyone else who don't share their view is more or less crazy, in my expert opinion;-)

What Are the Eyes Actually Seeing?

Carl Gustav Jung
(26 July 1875 – 6 June 1961)

Speaking of Jung, Flying Saucers and Other Funny Coincidences on the Anniversary of Carl's Passing in 2025?📕👓👀🦉🛸👽

Life-Changing Synchronicities and Signs?🐟🎵🦢

S01 E06: Apophenia

I wouldn't have listened to this 'The Switchboard' podcast episode above if it wasn't for me having a case of "Apophenia" where I thought maybe I should.

My first reaction in trying to listen to that episode was, "what is this F#cking S#it!" and after a few minutes I turned it off.

Then I got up and turned on my computer and saw this screenshot below and decided to play the episode right through.

I listened to the whole 10 episodes of what is basically a weird radio play about a host of a radio broadcast from a lighthouse on an isolated island broadcasting to a world that seems to be hit with a world ending pandemic.

And this show was recorded in 2017.

The Switchboard

The show seems to be recorded in Dublin, Ireland from what I can gather and features one song per episode from some local Irish band or singer.

The song in the apophenia episode is a remix of Sugarplum Suicide's 'Rabbit Hole'.

Which ain't bad in my non-expert opinion;-)

I like how in that episode the host introduces the word "Randomania" to describe a tendency to dismiss or refusal to see obvious connections and patterns:-)

My father passed away on Roald Dahl's
100th birthday in 2016

Imaginary Friends?

'Sing Along Funeral Songs' by 'Whiskey Rebelion' is featured in episode 2.

'Temple' by 'Birdeatsbaby' is featured in episode 3;-)

I ask the universe for a dragon, and I see a Luck Dragon in the clouds?

Something Strange Happened to Me on THE WAY out of a Taoist Temple

Should I Get a Never Ending Story Tattoo?

The Mel Robbins Coincidence?🤔

'Till It's Over' by SJ Tucker is featured in episode 5.

"Angel" Signs or Apophenia? 👼🤔

Whiteford Point Lighthouse in
 the Gower Peninsula, Wales

This Winning Historic Photographer of the Year Award 2021 really Sums Up This Year ... and the Next?

'Incubus' by Hana Piranha is featured in episode 7.

'Overboard' by Kim Tillman is featured in episode 9.

The funny thing is that all this year since my trip to America my "Apophenia" seems to be suggesting that I take a trip to Ireland.

And at the end of every 'The Switchboard' episode it is suggested if you are ever in Dublin, why not checkout 'The Clockwork Door'.

I thought maybe I should look this place up and check it out if I do go for a trip and I find out it wound down this month:-(

The Clockwork Door

The Light Between Oceans