You know when text lines up to form an odd vertical or diagonal optical illusion scar upon a page... Is there a name for that?

I know I’m not the only one to have noticed this. Yet I’m unsure as how to describe it. It works with both printed paper pages and monitor text. Sometimes one or two words in each line seem to line up on top of one another forming a dimensional scarring upon the copy.

I know it sounds crazy, but sometimes I take these words out and attempt to form a new sentence from them. And though it’s not perfectly structured, the newly formed sentence often seems to embody the meaning of the entire paragraph.

Before you call the white coats on me, at least admit if you’ve seen this phenomenon for yourself. Once I see it, I can’t not see it. And I’ve tried to make it happen quite unsuccessfully. Sometimes it happens on a page design I’m working on and I’ll have to reformat the text box just to get it to disappear.

Have you seen this ghost? What’s its name?