person in the mirror, who are you?
whenever i am in front of the mirror i have to make quick movements and do obscure things because i am convinced the person i see in the mirror is not me, but someone hiding inside of it.
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I don’t think I see myself the same way anyone else does.
I also think I look almost unrecognizably different from what I see in the mirror to what I see in photographs.
I think that to sometime. I really freak out.
There was another guy who had this, his story was in a neurology book I was reading… unfortunately I never got to finish it because we were house hunting, and the book belonged to the owner of the house. And the looking different in mirrors vs. photos is probably because of the consistency of viewpoint when you look in the mirror. Think about it: your eyes always face toward you, you’re usually about the same distance from the mirror. Try getting close, it will completely alter your perception. Then, if you have a hinged bathroom mirror or something, use mirrors to see yourself from a side angle. You’ll look way more like the photos.
Don’t watch the movie “Mirrors” x’D It’s about just that, a demon hiding in mirrors. All of them! and it can make you do stuff too, like rip your own head in two or slit your own throat!
I just read a study about the mirror/photograph discrepancy. Apparently, whenever we look at someone’s face (or our own in the mirror), our eyes are drawn to looking mostly at the left side. That means that if your face is not completely symmetrical, your perception of your reflection in a mirror is different from when other people look at you. Not to mention how different this perception would be if there actually is someone else in there…eek.