Backmasking

a woman's face with a double exposure

Backmasking

n.
the instinctive tendency to see someone as you knew them in their youth—a burned-in image of grass-stained knees, graffitied backpacks, or handfuls of birthday cake, superimposed on an adult with a mortgage, or children of their own.

In audio recording, backmasking is a technique wherein a sound is deliberately recorded backward, so it’s only intelligible when played in reverse.

Daguerreologue

Daguer-reologue

a man sitting in blurred silhouette at a desk

Aulasy

a blurry image of a house on the road

Amentalio

a person in a white dress, facing away

Clockwise

a close-up of flower along with polaroid pictures

Etterath

a graduation cap and gown on a chair

Mithenness

a person standing on the side of a road

Yeorie

a woman with tendrils of smoke moving across her face

Alpha Exposure

a close-up of a baby with diffusion filter

Appriesse

a blurry image of a person looking at mounted images

Enterhood

adults with stern expressions holding a child

Fellchaser

a blurred shadow of a person in a dark room

Cullaways

a lone sand castle on a beach at low tide

Lisolia

a bookcase containing objects

Walloway

water faucet that seems to emanate from the ground

Halfwise

a train coming towards the camera shot from the tracks

Blinkback

a wall full of pictures and objects

Nowlings

a pile of black and white puzzle pieces

Solla, Solla, Solla

a hand reaching out for plant tendril

Thwit

close-up of a person with forehead wrinkled and holding their head

Anaphasia

Foreclearing

Nodrophobia

close-up of a stained shirt

Fygophobia

Furosha

a storm raging in the sky over a building

Énouement

a hand opening a curtain

Harke

a dreamlike image of a person's face over water

Mcfeely