/sci/ - Science & Math

Can someone explain to me, in scientific terms with regards to psychology or neurology, why when I was a young child or 4 or 5, the strip mall down the road from my house looked to me like an amazing ancient Native American relic of the past, filled with tribal native motifs, watch towers, and tee-pee settlements, which was no doubt created by skilled Native American craftsmen long long ago. But now that I'm an adult it just appears to be a shitty brown strip mall with zigzaps on the walls, with a couple fake plastic tee-pees on the roof...?