Thread: Mirrors in Lucid Dreams (and bad experiences with them)

I don't remember my face being scary or distorted in dreams. I do remember being in a room full of bended and twisted mirrors (everything was distorted normally how it would be if the morror was bent IRL though). I have looked into mirrors a couple of times (non-lucid) and thought "wow, I'm looking pretty attractive today!" so it is actually quite pleasant for me.

In a lucid I was in our school's toilet. It felt like a force tried to pull me to watch my self from a mirror so I did, and in it I saw a terrifying, changing and distorted face of mine. It kept smiling to me like a demon and I was unable to pull my eyes off from it.

I never really had bad experiences with mirrors in my dreams. I do recall a couple of dreams where I looked in the mirror and saw a person standing behind me, that was creepy obviously but nothing happened, the person didn't do anything. My face looks a little distorted, usually, in dream-mirrors but never in a scary way, just slightly different than in RL.

I wasn't lucid, but this dream was extremely vivid.

I was looking in my mirror and it was EXTREMELY frightening. I looked the same... but it was just the way I was staring at myself so menacingly. That was the last time I remember feeling fear in a dream. It was a long time ago, when I was active on these forums and taking a dream class.

I hadn't heard anything about dream mirrors being scary, but I still believe dreams are all about expectations. You can certainly learn how to overcome the shock if a mirror through expectation.

Well I've had two experiences the first was actually only my second lucid dream and I was at an amusement park and i saw a mirror in the middle of no where so I looked and I saw myself as a 30 year old with a family but the more I looked the older I got and my family disappeared and for some reason it really played with my emotions and I burst into tears.

The second was a wild sort of so I just woke up randomly and I got up out of my bed and I walked to my lounge and there where no windows at all it was completely dark except for a light shining on a window so I looked into it and I rapidly started aging until it all stopped and I had no eyes just black with holes on my face and my teeth where chipped with holes and black and it was just a horrible sight almost like a demon crossed with a zombie and no doubt it woke me up so yeah that's what happened with me

I have a more positive attitude when it comes to dream mirrors. Whenever I come across a mirror in a lucid dream, I walk through it to see what's on the other side. It's a nice way to change the scenery. Another time I reached into the mirror and pulled out a bunch of fluffy baby dogs :-)

I came across this thread quite some time ago and was fascinated and thought “Okay, I need to try looking at a mirror in an LD and see for myself.” It seems last night I finally got around to trying it once (out of eleventy trillion other things on my LD to-do list).

My expectation was that nothing “scary” would happen (which is hard to imagine being possible when I already know I'm dreaming). When I looked, my reflection mostly looked normal, as far as I could tell during the dream (it's possible I might have looked different but didn't recognize the difference). Then I held up my hand and found my fingers were really short, almost like stumps, which I found amusing. I seemed to be remembering people talking about their hands looking weird in dreams in the back of my mind while doing this, which is probably why that happened. Other than that, I didn't notice anything too odd.

Of course, I'll have to try this some more sometime; maybe I can do some fun things with it.

Mirrors in dreams are interesting. When you are aware you are dreaming, the mirror often will become distorted, deformed, or just become something/someone bizarre. I don't find this scary personally, but I can see how one could. You can even have conversations with your reflection! I find this quite cool, and it can lead to insights about things. It's something to try.....but it's downright freaky so if that bothers you don't do it.

One of my lucid dreams, I looked in the mirror and it was demonic and my reflection screamed at me. I broke the mirror. Lol, but I tend to stay away from mirrors in dreams.

I sometimes have scary or creepy experiences with mirrors in my dreams, lucid and nonlucid. But recently I had a lucid dream in which I used a mirror a a sort of portal to summon an object. I reached into the mirror, expected to feel something, and then pulled out a couple of old books.

Originally Posted by insideout

I sometimes have scary or creepy experiences with mirrors in my dreams, lucid and nonlucid. But recently I had a lucid dream in which I used a mirror a a sort of portal to summon an object. I reached into the mirror, expected to feel something, and then pulled out a couple of old books.

I tried doing that before. It doesn't work for me