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Special fogs in the morning looking towards Barcelona from Matadepera, in Vallès Occidental. Low fog can be seen on the horizon.
But the sky is occupied by a large cloud that seems to have the shape of a gigantic bird, a figure in which the sun would act as the eye of this magical bird, as can be seen in these photographs in The Readers' Photos of La Vanguard.
Once again we see how a cloud invites us to imagine the shape of another element, in this case, a large bird. This phenomenon, of misperceiving a recognizable shape and giving it an interpretation in other objects, such as the silhouette of a bird in a cloud, is called pareidolia.
Surely we have identified the face of someone we know in the nature of a bush, or perhaps that of a heart in the random shapes of a cloud, or perhaps a simple face in the geometry that makes up a door between two windows.
It is a common psychological phenomenon that not only occurs in rocks, but we can also find it in any element that is around us.
