While psychic experiences can happen when you\u2019re awake, and often when you\u2019re drifting in and out of sleep, unless the experience has some recognizable usefulness<\/strong>, it\u2019s usually best to just shrug it off.<\/p>\n Whether wide awake, falling asleep, or waking up, seeing images of things or faces of people or animals in abstract forms is also normal.<\/strong> For example, seeing a \u201dghost\u201d image or face<\/u> in a blurred photo or an image with light distortions, seeing the image of Jesus on a burnt piece of toast<\/u>, or seeing little faces when staring at a textured wall<\/u>.<\/p>\n These are just as normal and have the same cause as seeing shapes in the clouds. It\u2019s called pareidolia<\/u><\/strong>. The fact is, our brains are hardwired to see faces in everyday objects.<\/p>\n The more creative you are, the more familiar you will be with these experiences. In fact, many famous artists throughout history used pareidolia to help in the artistic process from inventing new landscapes in paintings to sculpting forms from stone.<\/p>\n![\"sarah\"](\"http:\/\/qpsychics.com\/center\/membership\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/08\/sarah.png\")
<\/a>Whether wide awake, falling asleep, or waking up, hearing your name called<\/u> is common and not a psychic experience. Hearing other things like tones, instruments playing, and even hearing the phone ring as you\u2019re waking up or falling asleep are normal experiences.<\/p>\n<\/a>Our brain is constantly trying to understand and explain what we are seeing, and in doing so, it is regularly looking for things we can recognize. Faces are something our brain is always looking for, so when we see something that looks like a face, but isn\u2019t actually one, we might see a face in a random object<\/strong>.<\/p>\n<\/a>When we are waking up or falling asleep we may have many images from our day flash in front of our closed eyes including faces that may shift and change from one face to another<\/u><\/strong>. Images can also include the faces or forms of animals and a lot of other stuff.<\/p>\n<\/a>Pareidolia can become more noticeable when you are stressed out or anxious because you are on\u00a0<\/a> and\u00a0<\/a> your surroundings more. Also when anxious, the once pleasant faces you see can become distorted and be \u201cevil\u201d or scary-looking \u2013 like an evil-looking bell pepper<\/u><\/em>.<\/p>\n