Apophenia is the tendency to perceive meaningful connections between unrelated things or random patterns, often leading to false interpretations or beliefs.
Pareidolia is the tendency to perceive a meaningful image or pattern where none actually exists. It's essentially the human brain's habit of finding familiar forms in random or ambiguous stimuli, like seeing faces in clouds or hearing voices in static. This phenomenon is a type of apophenia, the broader tendency to find patterns and meaning in random data.
The point is, your ears can be trusted, they just convert vibrations to neural impulses for your brain to interpret. It's your brain, that most easily fooled of human organs, that cannot be trusted.