Jess BrooksFeb 26
“Mirror Touch”
“MILLER: This condition is called mirror-touch synesthesia.
BANISSY: Mirror-touch synesthesia.
MILLER: ‘Cause, you know, synesthesia is when your senses get crossed. And here, their touch system is crossed with their visual system.
BANISSY: If people, for example, see me, let’s say, touching an ice cube or something like that, they’ll say they’ll get a sensation in their fingertip of coldness.
MILLER: And Banissy says mirror-touch isn’t just about physical feelings. They seem to contract people’s feelingsy feelings.
BANISSY: Emotions. So for example, if you see somebody upset, and you feel upset in response to that. And it’s in this type of empathy that we find that mirror-touch synesthetes differ to non-synesthetes. They have higher levels of this.”
Mirror Touch
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I have this total love-hate relationship with this show so far (I actually sent them an email about how they are being unintentionally problematic), but this story was very good and sort of beautiful and fascinating and enlightening.
