Your brain tells you it is what?
The size of this object is 7 millimeter in height.
What do you make of it?
Or maybe you even know what it is, as I do not. There were some associations, but I will keep them to myself. As I do not want to spoil yours. To get a reasonable image I had to crop the original photo, creating a zoom in effect. Also I used the Snapseed app to enhance the image.
According to Wikipedia Pareidolia is 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.
Did it trigger it like that for you?
It is real, but what is it actually?
Photos by me