This reminds me of masks, but unexpectedly used in real world rather than in acting and/or improv. For more on masks, if someone’s interested, read Impro by Ke

This reminds me of masks, but unexpectedly used in real world rather than in acting and/or improv. For more on masks, if someone’s interested, read Impro by Keith Johnstone and (tangentially) Emissary’s Guide to Worlding by Iain Cheng. Also, British comedy improv trio Pappy’s comes to my mind—in some podcast episodes there is a time where Tom spontaneously drops into another persona; Matthew immediately switches to addressing that mask instead of Tom, until Tom snaps out of it. It would’ve sounded incredibly bizarre to me had I not read Impro prior.