On an especially lazy day in Florida, I peer up at the partly cloudy sky. Most of the visible sky shines blue with only the occasional patch of clouds. Like most people who observe the cloud formations, I eventually see different shapes that resemble real-life objects. The monochromatic shapes metamorphosize from one object to the next. They aren’t the actual objects, of course. The clouds are merely collections of humidity suspended in the atmosphere. Their resemblance to any real object is merely a coincidence.
However, our minds fool us. We desperately impose order in shapes that occur strictly randomly. If you should see a woman’s face or an AT-AT Walker in a cloud formation, it merely reflects what currently occupies your mind. The objects that we see have no correlation to real life. If anything, what you perceive reflects your mind, not the image that you gaze upon.