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Invisibilia
2015 · Film · 66 min
Directed by Victor Neves
Enzo is a young dreamer who studies hard to enter college and thus give his family better living conditions. He lives in a small town, in the interior of Rio de Janeiro, with his mother, Ruth, and his stepfather, Leví. Reserved, Enzo befriends Pato, a new student at the school, and everything changes when the two start to look at each other differently, feeding a feeling that will grow every day. The two, however, will be targeted by the villains Igor and Sapão, who are involved in the murder of a gay couple.
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Invisibilia just had a episode pertaining to this on July 22, "The Secret Emotional Life of Clothes." One of the sections had a study where the participants were asked to do a concentration test. The group that wore a doctors lab coat scored far better than the group who didn't. What was interesting is that when the coat was described as a painters coat rather than a doctors coat the results effect was not the same.
In spite of the misleading, click-bait title, I think it is interesting:
Mirror-touch synesthetes struggle with the constant intrusion of others’ feelings. At a symposium on mirror-touch synesthesia last year in London, a woman named Fiona Torrance of Liverpool described how she had once seen one man punch another. She promptly passed out in a car. Her boyfriend at the time found her unconscious and took her to the hospital. “I felt the punch,” she explained. As a child, she once saw a man kill an otter with a spade on television. She was inconsolable for a month, feeling as if she’d killed the otter herself. To this day, she takes medication to control the sensory onslaught, and she does not own a television. A recent episode of the NPR program Invisibilia profiled another woman with the condition who has essentially become a shut-in.
One of my favorite podcasts (really any NPR podcast) did part of an episode on this: http://www.npr.org/programs/invisibilia/382451600/entanglement
The woman in the podcast is debilitated by it. It also includes her family, specifically her daughters, views on it (she doesn't believe it is real) but also hints she might be developing it as well.