So when I look in a flipped mirror (so a true mirror, how I look irl), I look very weird and lopsided, even though the people I know say they don’t see that being the case. And that’s right, other people’s faces still look very normal even when flipped but they themselves might think otherwise. I’d see them how they’d see themselves in an ‘everyday mirror’.
Why is this? And do people perceive me looking weird and lopsided as I do, or do they perceive how I see myself in an ‘everyday’ mirror?
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Other people see you loopsided, so not how you see yourself in the mirror, but they are used to it just as you are used to seeing yourself in the mirror so it doesn’t look wierd. Almost everyone feel they look wierd in a flipped mirror because they are used to seeing themself in a normal mirror.
As for others seeing normal even flipped is just because you don’t notice the differences in others as easy as on yourself. We aren’t perfectly symetrical.
Seeing your “true” image feels weird for two basic reasons:
1. 99.9% of the time you ever see yourself, it’s in an ordinary mirror, so it’s what you’re used to. Seeing your true self is weird mostly because it’s so rare.
2. Since a non-reflected image of yourself moves in opposite directions to you, it feels disconnected – more like another person than like yourself.
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