When Adrien Brody called Michael B. Jordan’s name as Best Actor Oscar winner for his performances as twins Smoke and Stack in Ryan Coogler’s Sinners, a weird, almost straight-out-of-science-fiction thing occurred in a house in a garden square in East London, some 5,000 miles from the Dolby Theatre At Ovation Hollywood where the Academy Awards ceremony was taking place.
As Jordan sat, his mother by his side, overwhelmed by the magnitude of what had just happened, the roar of approval reverberating through the auditorium, my body, seemingly flooded with butterflies, appeared to dissolve into the screen.
Weird! I had the strange sensation of feeling I was inside the Dolby. Stranger things have surely happened in Mile End?
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Apparently it’s called mirror-touch synesthesia, others say it’s something to do with narrative transportation where your empathetic neurons get a bit whacky. If symptoms
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