You know that thing you can do with your eyes kinda blurry, that thing where your eyes make images from blobs and colors? (Sorta like our eyes do with the objects around us that in actuality have a much less distinct form than we perceive.)

The thing that guy in Mallrats stood around all day in front of that picture trying to do. It was supposed to be a sailboat…

Well, I don’t know why, but my eyes always do that without any trying whatsoever. Wood grains in paneling. Strings. Scattered leaves. Clouds. Landscapes. Lighting fixtures. Hooks on the backs of doors.

Seriously.

For this reason, I will most certainly not miss our bedroom wallpaper in our old house.

I don’t mind the color. It’s a mossy green.

I think it’s supposed to be an impressionistic grape leaf design?

But the images I can’t help but see are so — I can’t think of a better word than — yuck that I have to force myself not to look.

They’re like demonic Raggedy Ann and Andy dolls or something. Their eyes are big and round, darkened in a wide-open stare. #shudder

A couple of places, the design forms a much better, more interesting image, though. It looks like an old hippie guy with a funny hat on his elongated head and a goatee.

See if you can spot him.