Celebrity Synesthetics

September 3, 2012 2:15 PM

Celebrity Synesthetics
My girlfriend has a strange synesthetic reaction to celebrities' faces. We are collecting them for posterity.

Role: Curator

posted by TheCoug (5 comments total)

I fail to see what is synesthetic about this. It reads like "creative but odd descriptions of celebrity faces."
posted by asnider at 5:14 PM on September 3, 2012

Does she only have this with celebrity faces and not with normal people's faces? It might support the theory that we rely on different parts of the brain for recognizing celebrities and normal people. ( Which the Separated at Birth program was predicated upon. )
posted by RobotHero at 5:20 PM on September 3, 2012

Also, does it change at all with different photos of the same face, different facial expressions, or make-up?
posted by RobotHero at 5:22 PM on September 3, 2012

I like those descriptions, and want to read more of them.
posted by Faint of Butt at 7:58 PM on September 6, 2012

My girlfriend has a strange synesthetic reaction to celebrities' faces.

Her reactions could be described as "surreal," "non sequitur," or "stream of consciousness," but I don't see anything synesthetic about them.
posted by John Cohen at 6:36 AM on September 7, 2012 [1 favorite]