Some people say that when they look at the moon they can see a face, albeit somewhat distorted.
I cannot see it at all. Can anybody help?
There are actually a couple versions of the Man in the Moon, but this page highlights the one of the more popular ones, along with a few other patterns seen in the Moon.
That’s funny, the man in the moon that I see follows a completely different outline than the ones that they draw. Theirs seem pretty crappy to me. It reminds me of some constellations in which four stars somehow become a man riding a horse.
That guy has one HELL of a zit that needs popping!
Yeah, there’s a bunch of different ones. I’m trying to find a page that highlights a few of them.
The first one looks like a bowling ball!
The old version is that the figure in the Moon is a man with a bundle of sticks on his back, but as the illusion was owing to “moon-spots” which change over time perhaps the old guy can’t be seen as our ancestors saw him.
‘Most of all, Galileo had discovered moon-spots, as later he discovered sunspots. To some extent, the spots implied change or decay from perfection, which up to the time of Galileo had been limited to the sublunary world. The “great or ancient spots” on the moon man had always known, drawing them into various patterns of “the man in the moon.”’
From Virginia.edu
A Japanese friend told me about the “rabbit in the moon”. She pointed it out to me and now, I can’t see anything but a rabbit.
I prefer to think of the face I see as the woman in the moon. It just looks female to me. 
My husband can’t see it though, male or female.
Man, those drawings really did look like crap.
My Man in the Moon looks just like Beavis from Beavis and Butthead. Yours can be too. Look at the second picture down on the left side on Q.E.D.'s link. Look in the middle roughly at the top. See that fluffy mound? That is his hair. Now follow the outline down to the right. You can clearly see a white dot for an eye and then the outline forms a nose followed by a white line for a mouth. If you follow the grey all the way down, you will find a rough arm and then two legs at the bottom. I think that God is clearly a Beavis and Butthead fan and probably inspired its creation.
I can’t see anything but a rabbit, either. I found out about the Japanese view in one of those Time-Life Facts books I read when I was roughly four.
I seem to remember it was a “rabbit cooking ricecakes”.
It’s “deformed rabbit” to me.
It’s my favorite!
Alas, the full moon just passed. I want to look for the MoonBunny! (My husband calls me “bunny” and variants, so…)
There’s a variation that has a crab. The squiggle on the page that’s supposed to look like the woman’s hair – that’s the crab’s pincer, and the rest of the dark blob is the crab’s body.
I don’t remember which culture that is, maybe Hawai’ian?
Me too. It appears as a side view of the face. Of course this is all just a subjective impression. Of course there is no “person in the moon”. Just that my mind sees a woman in the moon as a side view. (Of course, with even a modest telescope I don’t see this.)
Yes, it is sort of a side view to me, too. I can see both her eyes, but she is looking down and off to the side. HEr mouth is in the shape of an O. She looks friendly.
I always thought it was the second one, who I think has a resemblance to Ronald Reagan.
One of our Japanese friends said thesame thing.
