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.

Archimony

a person looking at broken furniture

Vellichor

shelves with many books stacked and organized

Pithered

stacks of papers and folders piled high on a table

Blinkback

a wall full of pictures and objects

Fellchaser

a blurred shadow of a person in a dark room

Yeorie

a woman with tendrils of smoke moving across her face

Affogatia

miscellaneous items on a table

Aftersome

rows of opaque and clear marbles

Midsummer

a person standing in a garden holding a clock

Amentalio

a person in a white dress, facing away

Enterhood

adults with stern expressions holding a child

Solla, Solla, Solla

a hand reaching out for plant tendril

Fawtle

Aponemia

a group of people standing together

Hickering

Winnewaw

a person wearing a party hat

Cullaways

a lone sand castle on a beach at low tide

Wildred

Heartworm

Emorries

a magnifying glass over photos and books

Waldosia