There’s a rare neurological condition called Mirror Touch Synesthesia where people literally feel what they see others experience. Not emotionally physically.

Here’s how wild it gets:

✓If they see someone get slapped, they feel a slap on their own cheek.

✓If someone is touched on the shoulder, they feel a ghost touch in the same spot.

✓Some can’t handle crowds or medical shows because the input becomes overwhelming.

Brain scans show they have hyperactive mirror neurons the same system that helps us empathize but theirs don’t stop at observation. Their brain maps other people's experiences onto their own bodies.

It’s like being stuck in a constant, involuntary neural VR of everyone around you.

•Have you heard of this before? •Could this kind of hypersensitivity become useful in human-ai interaction or virtual reality design?