ELI5. Why do mirrors flip the image horizontally and not vertically?

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ELI5. Why do mirrors flip the image horizontally and not vertically?

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They don’t. Your right eye is on the right, left arm is on the left. You try to turn things around in your brain to make it fit with how you’re used to physics, but it’s just a reflection.

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