Apophenia

Apophenia (Greek ἀποφαίνω “to make a judgment, to make manifest” ← ἀπο “from” + φαίνω “appearance”) is an experience consisting in the ability to perceive structure or connections in random or meaningless data. The term was introduced in 1958 by the German neurologist and psychiatrist Klaus Conrad, who defined it as “unmotivated seeing of connections,” accompanied by a “specific feeling of abnormal meaningfulness.”

From the perspective of statistics, apophenia is classified as a Type I error.