Thread: Have you looked in the mirror?

I've only remembered my reflection once, and I looked younger and I had longer hair than I do in real life. Have you ever tried to walk through it? Pretty fun, try it if you remember.

I'll definitely try that if I remember. I wasn't lucid so I had no control, but you'd think seeing an old man in the mirror would make me stop and say hmmm...well that's not right.

I have only had two mirror dreams that I recall.

Dream 1: I looked in the mirror and realized I had a beard. It was a rather nice, scraggly chin beard. I remember liking it a lot, but then realizing that it wasn't normal for a female to have a beard...

Dream 2: I was standing in front of the mirror with my boyfriend. My memory is a little fuzzy here...but i said something to my boyfriend's reflection, and then his non-reflection body collapsed and I heard ambulance sirens and I was thinking about how this was all my fault...

I went into a mirror. Turned me and everyone around me into kids. I looked at another mirror while in a mirror, and say my unchanged self with glowing yellow eyes, I just walked around a bit more then the dream snapped me back to before I went in.

I think it was my third LD I did that.

In one of my first lucids I was climbinb a sky scraper and noticed my reflection in the glass. It looked perfectly normal and I was so suprised by the level of detail that I accidently leaned in and bumped my head on the glass and fell back down a few stories.

In all the other times Ive looked in mirrors its always been normal. I tried using mirors to teleport me to my dream guide but it always destabilized me and caused me to wake up.

Originally Posted by JaneDoe

then realizing that it wasn't normal for a female to have a beard...

Lol, that's pretty funny.

One time I was taking a nap, which ending quickly. I looked in the mirror, and I was also old. I had a mole on my forehead. It scared me so much, that I screamed and woke up. So basically I had a nightmare. :p

I glanced at a mirror while going somewhere. I looked normal, but blurry since I was hurrying.

Yes, I have. Each time it meant something special. I would know myself.

I find that difficult to believe as I am not that bright.

Originally Posted by Philosopher8659

Yes, I have. Each time it meant something special. I would know myself.

I find that difficult to believe as I am not that bright.

Do you mean that if you were someone else, you would still know it's you, or what?

I've dreamed of looking in the mirror quite often. It isn't usually a lucid dream, although it has triggered lucidity before because the reflection is never right. It always looks like me, but with exaggerated features.

For example, I have freckles across my nose and cheeks, but in mirror dreams, my freckles cover my entire face and always look really dark in contrast with really pale skin (I actually have a pretty tan, olive complexion). It's weird.. almost like a zombie effect or something.

In one of my first LDs I was wondering around my house and looked in the bathroom mirror. I looked suprisingly... normal. I was expecting to look disfigured or something. It was an amazing experience. Is it not the exact same thing as "Residual Self-Image" from The Matrix?

Originally Posted by Spiderman800

Do you mean that if you were someone else, you would still know it's you, or what?

I have only seen myself in the mirror. Every time, it seems to signify a turning point in my life--beyond which I have seen nothing.

What I means by "know myself" what I am, why I am, and where I am going.

Course, in order for that to happen, something I don't expect anyone to comprehend in a moment, I would have to be married to what some would call a "soul mate"--I don't see that as happening in my life. I don't see any possibility of that at all.

In the mirror my hair was a medium brown (my hair's actually black) and a little longer than it is now (it was just above the waist). My skin was more tan than it usually is (light olive). My eyes were hazel instead of light green/blue with gold flecks. My cheekbones were sharper, my eyes had shadows around them... I was frowning too, although my friends say I do it without realising (thanks for your genes, dad...). Then suddenly the image blurred and I waved my arms around, but my reflection didn't move at all. It should have been creepy but I found it kinda funny.

I was looking at myself in the mirror in my dream this morning. I have short darkish brown hair in real life, and in my dream I had long blackish hair. And my face looked a little different. I kept making different looks in the mirror. It wasn't lucid either.

I was in a warehouse with nothing but a table and a full body mirror. One of the ones that has legs. Then I looked into the mirror and I was wearing a different outfit. It made me excited. I laughed about it, I was so excited that I kicked the table with my shin and made it crash into the ceiling.

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Every time I see myself on a mirror I see... myself! There is no distortion really.

Heh, my first recalled nightmare involves looking into a mirror. It was a rather frightening morph from my normal reflection into a skeleton, which promptly left the mirror and chased me. I think I was something around 6 or so at the time, since then I haven't recalled looking in a mirror ever again.

Havent been on here in a while, actually was looking to start a similar thread after my various tests of self perception.

With the intent of looking into a mirror, i saw myself as a little girl (i am male), cast in the undead light that normally huants a dream. Another time i saw myself more or less as i was at one point in life, which wasnt at all reflective of the situation. Another time, when i wasnt lucid but managed to autosuggest my way in front of a mirror anyways, i saw what appeared to be an energy field that almost made me look like a classic alien given the way it curved to every feature on my face, though this was through a dirty mirror which i presume reflected the fact i wasnt lucid. I tried looking at my hands and saw the same but then i went invisible, which seems to happen alot when looking oneself for too long.

I was actually surprised to read that people have tried walking through them, i guess you would have to stop assuming things within dreams possess properties (ie the matrix) to do so. Anyways self perception seems to be the missing piece of the puzzle that is a dream, if only there was some sort of consistency to extract a meaningful interpretation from.

When I walked through, I fell into a black void, but could see the dream on top on me, getting smaller as I fell through the darkness, like how if you glitch a level in a video game and fall through. I landed in another dream in the past though. In that dream I went looking for another mirror and found one, as I was falling through this void again, I woke up. I thought it was going to take me into another dream like the first, or else I would have spun.

The mirror is the window to the soul. There is a certain technique of the looking glass.

Find a miror that has a special personal meaning. Larger in this case is better. You have to have a connection therefore more easily to manifest the dreamworld. A portal device.

More later...

In my first LD I was in my hallway, in front of the bathroom door. When I glanced in the bathroom and looked at the mirror, I just saw a bunch of colorful shapes.

I've looked in the mirror tons of times, mostly in lucids. And while I'm looking in the mirror, I seem to enjoy changing the color of my eyes! They've been pink, red, green, and bright yellow.