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.

Lisolia

a bookcase containing objects

Aulasy

a blurry image of a house on the road

Epistrix

several doors standing in a dark room

Spinning Playback Head

silhouette of a person looking out a window

Mithenness

a person standing on the side of a road

Tirosy

a close-up of a young child's face

Daguerreologue

Daguer-reologue

a man sitting in blurred silhouette at a desk

Kerisl

piles of old books scattered in an abandoned room

Zysia

a kite soaring above an empty landscape

Keir

a snowy landscape with trees and a fence

Thwit

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

Amentalio

a person in a white dress, facing away

Fellchaser

a blurred shadow of a person in a dark room

Backmasking

a woman's face with a double exposure

Affogatia

miscellaneous items on a table

Etterath

a graduation cap and gown on a chair

Appriesse

a blurry image of a person looking at mounted images

Vellichor

shelves with many books stacked and organized

Pithered

stacks of papers and folders piled high on a table

Rasque

close-up of the shards of a broken vase

Aoyaoia

a person holding a guitar

Siso

Knellish

a blurry image of a person lying on a bed

Alpha Exposure

a close-up of a baby with diffusion filter

Nemotia

a city with clouds of smoke

Hailbound

Hickering