<p>Going in the opposite direction and artificially <em>increasing</em> Pareidolia (<strong><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pareidolia" rel="nofollow noreferrer">the tendency for perception to impose a meaningful interpretation on a nebulous stimulus, usually visual, so that one sees an object, pattern, or meaning where there is none</a></strong>) seems quite easy.</p>
<p>Actually reducing it seems hard, there exists no drug to my knowledge that would make you see <em>less</em> meaning or patterns in things. Why is this? Could you achieve reduced pareidolia through other means (e.g. brain stimulation)?</p>

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Pareidolia as appears in  relation to certain personality-traits or to extremis-states such as hypervigilance?
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The former, but not entirely sure what you mean by "extremis-states".
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Reducing pareidolia?
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# Reducing pareidolia?

(Asked by: username_0 on 2022-02-28)

Going in the opposite direction and artificially *increasing* Pareidolia (**[the tendency for perception to impose a meaningful interpretation on a nebulous stimulus, usually visual, so that one sees an object, pattern, or meaning where there is none](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pareidolia)**) seems quite easy.

Actually reducing it seems hard, there exists no drug to my knowledge that would make you see *less* meaning or patterns in things. Why is this? Could you achieve reduced pareidolia through other means (e.g. brain stimulation)?

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> **username_1**: Pareidolia as appears in  relation to certain personality-traits or to extremis-states such as hypervigilance?  
> **username_0**: The former, but not entirely sure what you mean by "extremis-states".  

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