The Whipgraft Delusion

The Whipgraft Delusion

n.
the phenomenon in which you catch your reflection in the mirror and get the sense that you’re peering into the eyes of a stranger, as if you’re looking at a police sketch of your own face aged forward twenty years, which would imply that the real you is out there somewhere, wandering the streets of your old neighborhood, still at large.

In horticulture, whip grafting is when you fuse the top of one plant to the bottom of another. In psychology, the Capgras delusion is the conviction that a loved one has been replaced by an identical-looking imposter.

Viadne

Nighthawk

Emodox

Flichtish

Mcfeely

Aesthosis

Trueholding

Addleworth

The Giltwrights

Nementia

Altschmerz

Indosentia

Vicarous

Maugry

1202

Povism

Liberosis

The Standard Blues

Evertheless

a person floating in water

O’Erpine

a person looking at a grave

Symptomania

Keyframe

a large rock in the water with emanating ripples

Rubatosis

Emodox

The Unsharp Mask

a mirror with a reflection of a person

Elosy

a blurry image of a person in a subway car

The Giltwrights