Cringe // Feeling what you see & Synesthesia

[@KnowingBetter]

It's interesting that you say animals feel embarrassment too. I immediately thought of when I walk in on Wheatley (my ferret) pretend wrestling with a stuffed animal. He looks at me the same way I imagine I looked at my parents when they'd walk in on my playing with legos, giving them voices and making explosion sounds and everything. And was that a successful wink at the end there?! You did it! 😜

[@SophsNotes]

I reckon you walked in a few seconds earlier, you would've heard Wheatley giving the stuffed animal voices and making explosion sounds too. I know!! Been in constant training since the last attempts

[@connorhutchinson9615]

Thanks for turning me on to this channel!

[@TheDarthReagan]

KB I gotta say thanks for introducing me to Soph's Notes cuz this channel is awesome!

[@iammrbeat]

When someone comments that one of my videos is cringy, I take that as a compliment.

[@CuriousBiscuit]

Wow... didn't expect to see you here Mr. Beat.

[@michaelevenhuis4683]

It's the little things that make your channel so great. The ''your flaws are my pain'' part is great! Or the little drawing of the ''open fly''. Besides that the content is genuinely interesting. Keep up the good work!

[@DonYagamoth]

Huh.. I guess I probably have Mirror-touch synesthesia.. That kind of explains a lot o.o.. Maybe not quite as significant as explained in the video. Although, for me it definitely also applies to listening to or reading explanations of detailed accounts of how an injury came to be And to maybe to respond to this (3.5 year old) case of whether someone like that hates you - I dare to say when I was younger I would want to have watched this video at all. But these days it's easier to just frame it in my mind of people like you having fun, and getting that idea instead ^^ Thanks to Tom Scott Plus for introducing me to your channel :)

[@chrisrosenkreuz23]

Here is the other end of the spectrum. This is the first time in my life I've heard about this mirror touch synesthesia. I, for one, thought the way I felt stuff was normal and everybody felt like this. Turns out I have it and this makes me think other people are living in complete empathetic darkness.

[@missloretta]

Lol yes, now I can forgive my husband a bit, he's not stupid, he's just not a synesthete. 😂

[@nafisalabiba9451]

Me too!

[@ManishKumarMishra6016]

wow, I did always think of cringing as a more sub-conscious response than a voluntary reaction to something but the fact that something like Mirror touch synesthesia exists is mind-blowing! I don't even know how I reached here but it was worth it :)

[@yay-cat]

So do I have some mirror touch synesthesia or am I just a hypochondriac? I am however the worst person in the world to watch a movie with. Run away from TV and up stairs because I can't handle the tension/fear or yelp full volume when my friends dragged me to watch IT at the cinema

[@pererau]

My wife absolutely lives for reading embarrassing stories on Reddit. It gives her some kind of perverse sense of comfort. Now I know why!

[@robertbruder5718]

My worst cringe-inducing moment: back when I was in grade school, I was at a public water park and was given a wedgie so bad it ripped open the front of my swimming trunks. I didn't realize my swimsuit had ripped until - after several minutes crouching in pain - I stood and, noticing that my friends' eyes immediately darted downward, followed their gaze to the large, gaping tear in my swimsuit. I ended up holding the front of my swimming trunks closed as I sprinted across the water park to change my clothes. Years later, I realized it probably would've been better to just crouch back down and ask a friend to bring me a towel...

[@lunawonderlust]

I've always experienced this..especially when I see something painful and I get this sharp glowing pain through my whole body

[@hamiltonchampagne5025]

I really love how goofy u are because it makes me laugh a lot. U are a breath of fresh air compared to so many boring punk ass people in this world.

[@gordonr-k8471]

Wow. Mirror-touch synaesthesia... I think I might have some small version of this from being the worst at funerals and the like to seeing someone with a cast of obvious injury and feeling tingles in the same place. Thanks for bringing it to attention :) Just found the channel and about to do a deep dive!

[@MrMarkVanSomething]

Lots of parents , myself included, cant help opening their own mouths when they are putting food in their kids mouths. For me it's involuntary, and I struggle to not do it. I am not deliberately moving my mouth to encourage my daughter to eat. It feels more like I am *being her* eating. I assume this is a very common form of mirror touch synesthesia.

[@MikaTimeTravels]

i loved your video!! i'm doing mirror touch synesthesia atm because i think i have it too! it's really hard for me to differentiate what's considered normal when perceiving others pain. i feel an echo/shadow of someone's pain in my own body but not with all pain. it's mostly pain that i have also experienced at one point or can imagine what it must be like really well. i believe MTS is the reason why i can't watch action movies/violence in movies, it always makes me jerk and i just can't watch because it makes me feel the echo pain as well :/ but to my surprise: i don't have high emotional empathy! (i'm also autistic) my brain is so confusing to me haha

[@mariannetfinches]

I heard an Invisibilia about this last year. It's fascinating! Thanks for sciencing it. Going to trawl those references 😬😁

[@sherylhosler9487]

I hope you'll be marketing that garbage-bag dress!

[@ytpanda398]

This is a great video. Your channel is underrated!

[@rox4884]

I think that the reason for MTS might be closer to them having a poor proprioception, sense of where their body is in the world and high empathy. I Remember those experiments where people feel the pain when someone puts a rubber hand by a mirror and trick the brain into thinking it is their real hand? These people don't need the mirror.

[@jazzygeofferz]

I've had run-ins with glass doors as well.

[@hamiltonchampagne5025]

Whenever I see people kiss in a TV show or movie, I can feel the sensation on my lips when they kiss someone.

[@DanielBroadberry]

So Frensham which sounds like friend shame actually translates as stranger shame? Would explain all my trips to Germany!

[@shannonlyons887]

Thanks for this, you did well with the mirror touch explanation, If you pop by and leave a note, I'll send you the link so you can pick a piece of chromesthetic art and I'll send you the file. This was perfect.

[@mylena3086]

Everyone familiar with the plot of the film /comic 'The Crow'? Feels relatable

[@hamiltonchampagne5025]

I am very empathic and when u had that leaf in ur teeth I cringed so hard because I felt like I had some shit in my teeth too. 😂🤣

[@missloretta]

Omg! I have that mirror touch synesthesia! And I became a massage therapist and I have that exact feeling when I give massages! 😂 I also hate violent movies and find them traumatizing. I couldn't watch all of John Wick for instance and had to run out mid way through crying. Lol

[@missloretta]

Omg and I do that same thing, like focusing on calm people and becoming them or calm objects, to help control my state of mind.

[@edb7121]

OMG, I bounced off a glass wall at the bank just a few weeks ago! The bruises are pretty much gone now:)

[@IkhtionikosVDS]

Not a cringe moment, more like a case of mirror synesthesia. In this regard I'm most sensitive when it comes to eyes. If I see someone with red eyes, or someone tells me my eyes are red, or someone asks me to see if there's someething in their eye, I instantly tear up, and I get a burning sensation in my own eye.For a while I even had trouble having my picture taken, because looking at the camera about to snap, my mind was anticipating the unpleasantness of the flash, and I would be again tearing up, even before the photographer said "smile". The two most extreme cases was when I was looking at a needle, and my idiot brain imagined it being slowly pushed in my eye... instant pain and headache. The other was when I was watching a documentary about antilopes, and as a result of two males batting antlers for dominance, one got it's eye completely poked out. Gruesomeness warning!!! The injured antilope's eye was literally rolling down it's face. The next second I was clutching my own eye, on the same side as the wound on TV, grunting in pain.

[@snowball_from_earth]

I've never heard about that, but just reading the text made my eyes water.

[@neurotransmissions]

Wow, so what you're saying is that I'm super empathetic? Lol. I think about things from my past and can't help but shrink into a corner. Great acting, btw! I feel like I am Clarissa. Anyway, I love it and I am going to share this video now!

[@SophsNotes]

Ah so while Neuro Transmissions are the Fremdscham type, Phil you're more of a Schadenfreude person ... all part of the rich (German) tapestry of personalities I guess?

[@SophsNotes]

Also fyi Clarissa is actually my true form

[@neurotransmissions]

I knew it!

[@omarmuhammed4171]

I felt cringe watching this

[@faroukgo4988]

lol me too

[@muddybattv8328]

i really enjoyed this video, keep up the amazing contetn

[@bobobo748]

I found this on April 13, 2021 .... Happy Birthday!

[@SophsNotes]

Belated thank you! :)

[@StepanBab]

Oh dear that song at the end. Time travel.

[@vule92994]

Thank you for this video

[@zarrenhattery6038]

Does Mirror Touch Synesthesia work the same for reading a book as it does with actually “seeing” stimuli?

[@sarahdasilva1111]

It does for me

[@carloscarbo4210]

I gave a class presentation on my family and when I got to the topic of my father I missed it and put farther, everyone laughed

[@SophsNotes]

hehe farther

[@carloscarbo4210]

SophsNotes so what happened at McDonald's

[@NotKyleChicago]

Great song in the outro.

[@Baamthe25th]

Synesthesia in general is pretty crazy.

[@amellirizarry9503]

Apes are very violent with those who doesn’t follow the social norms, maybe that’s why we relate embarrassment with physical pain

[@kynanmk]

Love the way your videos keep improving

[@safurahx]

omg she used to teach at my school XD

[@jimmy_ink]

So, uhh, I'm wondering why you ran into a glass door at macca's (McDonald's) back in 2010. If it makes you feel better, this one time in 4th grade I tripped on a pebble and dropped all my lunch on the ground. Rest in peace my squished banana, lest we forget.

[@SophsNotes]

hahah McDonald's was actually on purpose as a punchline to a stupid joke, I feel your clumsiness pain though. RIP your banana, you live on in our hearts. I hope that pebble is doing serious time

[@juststeve5542]

Thanks for this Soph, you're obviously quite potty, but this is not a bad thing - well not unless you're looking for the last bin bag in the house. I'm still part giggling, part going "eeeew" to the open fly cartoon. There's no way I'm sharing my history of embarrassing myself! I could write a book on it, or go on mastermind. Next up we have Steve, specialist subject - saying/doing the worst thing at the worst possible time. I can torture myself with the all too clear memories of these events all on my own thanks! E.g. If I was in a room full of Nuns, the only jokes that would come to mind are rude ones. Room full of feminists, well that would be sexist jokes. Germans, war jokes. It's almost like my brain is wired in the most anti-PC way possible! And would I be able to avoid telling one of these inappropriate jokes? Possibly, but it would almost be physically painful holding it back, and it would always be on the tip of my tongue, disrupting my thought processes, desperate for some justification to be told! Please let me never be in a room of French, teetotal women. There is no way I could avoid telling Pierre the famous French fighter pilot joke, complete with accent. Anyway, synesthesia, fascinating subject. I'd never heard of the mirror touch variety before, so I'm off to check out your recommended reading links on this very wet afternoon. I shall be educated!

[@maazhassan5427]

Some one make this thumbnail into a meme I beg you

[@niensaddestofthesad8151]

. . Keep scrolling ... Okay Wait a bit more . I could But ....... . Nah lol I just wasted Your time And Your still wasting ur time Tut tut tut Ight last one .

[@major1388]

Very entertaining lol and informal! Thanks

[@snowball_from_earth]

And then there's the opposite: Schadenfrude.

[@virgil9940]

Ha! The skit got me lol. I loved it, keep it up.

[@rorygal2991]

EVERY TIME WE TOUCH, I FEEL THE STATIC thank you, I needed a boost of seratonin today.

[@Xbox360gamer5000]

How can you not have 1M Subscribers. Epic Kontent! Fremdscham who doesnt subscribe.

[@thatchannel195]

I will never conform

[@m.l.4181]

5:00 Low-key flexing is more cringey :)

[@CooperAATE]

Interesting, smart, funny, and attractive (the least important quality, but a quality nonetheless).

[@Peter-pp6kj]

what is happening with my eyes when I watch your video??

[@KelikakuCoutin]

That plug was American! בס״ד

[@brickbybrick4692]

Is anyone here from TierZoo???

[@sajjadali8552]

love from the first sight

[@maximillianwronski-peterse2889]

Nice vid, great topic

[@diditheslayer4854]

Vsause 4?

[@cotykawaii]

Hello! I'm not native english speaker and I don't understand what cringe (the verb) is. Is what you did at 0:08?

[@priscillah6064]

It's a bit more like what she did at 1:05. :)

[@Somefool669]

WHAT HAPPENED TOO YOU! YOU HAVEN'T UPLOADED ANY VIDEOS IN 5 MONTHS!

[@faithhull4823]

What does cringe feel like? 😐

[@mentalmtb3104]

People born in April should stick together we are a very specific bunch of people

[@etherealradar]

You are hilarious! Also cute 👉👈

[@felixbeutin9530]

1:06

[@chrisrosenkreuz23]

Also, Joel and other synesthetes would not necessarily cringe while watching someone embarass themselves because our sense of self is not as developed as so called normal folk so we wouldn't mind as much, thus not having a need to cringe

[@chrisrosenkreuz23]

mirror neurons

[@MasterJCT]

You're a cringe centre! x)

[@SophsNotes]

'The Cringe Centre' is my superhero name..

[@MasterJCT]

SophsNotes Your powers would be absurd. In a hypothetical situation fighting Superman. He would use his X-ray vision to find your location. Then fly ridiculously fast towards towards you with the intent to defeat the awkward being that is Cringe Centre. Upon arrival, Superman is suddenly overcome by a strange, electrifying field of raw power. He is suddenly aware that he is infact wearing his underwear outside of his suit, that he really isn't fooling anyone by wearing glasses. The feeling builds. It erupts. Superman explodes into a ball of white cringematter, leaving nothing behind. Cringe Centre 1 - 0 Superman.

[@psa110]

Do you ever stop? I mean, are you like this all the time?

[@DandyCZE]

Is this video cringy on purpose? :D

[@BillboMC]

6:15 four letters, p o r (you know the last one I can’t say it because idk how KZbin tracks my data)

[@jamespagous3954]

Idk why this happens but every time I get cosy, happy or excited, my stomach starts to cramp and I have to sit or lie down because it makes my body go almost weak. Can I have some sort of answer? Do other people get the same thing?

[@mattBLACKpunk]

This whole "more likely to be perceived as trustworthy if we are embarrassed for our achievements" thing makes me sad since it basically validates false modesty :c Edit: since you asked, when I was 8 I thought I'd convince all the kids in my class I was a werewolf if I told them I eat raw meat and drink blood while wearing a wolf t-shirt. Yes, I was weird (still am probably)

[@SophsNotes]

I agree!! I feel like we should be less afraid to be proud of our achievements... but maybe that explains how much people trust me

[@Volatile-Tortoise]

You're adorable.

[@atlanciaza]

What an amazing person. I wish I could meet you

[@abodjamal1595]

You're so cute🌸

[@theunbanned4553]

People who say default things on KZbin like "first"

[@medisto4703]

dude I like your avatar tell me the key words to search?

[@medisto4703]

might be a little cringe but i would appreciate that

[@theunbanned4553]

@@medisto4703 I made it myself.

[@alcoinmaster6529]

Psychology/sociology are psudosciences, in many cases a form of activism.

[@christianordonez5704]

Moist

[@aluminiumsandworm]

wait you have an english accent but used american plugs whats happening help

[@SophsNotes]

Ahh I was trying to get in the mind frame of American Joel Salinas! That's how seriously I take my research... Good spot though, you really are the sharpest marble.

[@hibachi090]

Ur acting made me cringe

[@SophsNotes]

mission accomplished