A man with a guilty conscience might momentarily mistake a stranger for his wife while entering a hotel with his mistress. The mother who is searching frantically for her missing child at a crowded department store and mistakes an unknown child for her own has almost become a cliche.

On the pattern of lapsus calami and lapsus linguae, is there a term for these revealing "slips of the eye"?

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