Thread: Looking in a mirror while lucid...

Mirrors are one of the hard things for dreams to get right. Most people's reflections are pretty strange, seldom ever what they expect to see.

I looked in a full-length mirror once, and it showed me as being made of light, glowing like nuclear fusion (the sun? a star?)

Originally Posted by HellsWake

last night I had a lucid dream

I found a mirror and looked in it, but what I saw was not my face. It was constantly changing,

Wow, thats interesting. Have never encountered mirrors in LD. I am currently at the stage of fairly regular vivid LD's and am slowly gaining a level of control. I have mastered flying but am interested in doing other things. I will deffinatly have to try the mirror thing.

I noticed that another member listed one of his goals as walking THROUGH a mirror.

I was once in a nonlucid and looked in a mirror while in the bathroom. My face was much fatter and had one large eye in the middle, like a cyclops or leila from futurama, and I had duke nukem style hair. I was like "oh no I'm fat!", my dad responded from the kitchen "relax son you're only dreaming", I was like "oh, ok". (became lucid)

Yeah I have had interesting experiences with mirrors while lucid. My reflection will often start out completely normal but then my clothes will change or my face will morph into something devilish!

A number of people also find that when they touch a mirror in a lucid dream they get an electric shock. I experienced this myself before knowing it was a common thing.

Mirrors are loads of fun. I haven't walked into one yet but I definitely plan to at some stage whilst lucid

speaking of which, what'll happen if you lean into the mirror and merge with your reflection

Originally Posted by Sephiad

I noticed that another member listed one of his goals as walking THROUGH a mirror.

I think that's me, but I'm not entirely sure

One of the more memorable LDs i have had, was when I found myself in some old wooden rotting shack. After exploring the place, I found a full-length mirror - which started to bow and ripple as I approached it. As I got closer I remember a distinct feel of vibrating energy trying to repel me - similar to when you put the reversed side of magnets together.

When I finally got to look in the mirror I saw I 'shadow-self' - a somewhat 'Golem' like looking character. He wasn't that great and sneered whilst holding a dagger. After given myself a moment to recover I embraced him telling him that I loved him.

Mirrors are very odd things in dreams...

I ´ve never looked in a mirror before, but that sounds really interesting.
I think that´s something I´m gonna try in my next lucid dream.

I often see myself with long hair (my head is shaved in waking life) when I look in a mirror. This happens pretty frequently and for a long time had an obsession with growing my hair long. Unfortunatly the fascist bastards at my jib won't allow such a thing. One time while looking in the mirror I saw me with long hair and then suddenly my reflection morphed into a friend of mine who passed away years ago. Kind of trippy.

For whatever reason, oftentimes when I see mirrors I decide to push through them and go somewhere else. The mirror usually takes on a strange, cool but moldable texture and I can feel it wrap around my face and then suddenly I'm somewhere else.

If I don't decide to do this, my reflection usually looks like me for the most part.

Originally Posted by yuriythebest

my dad responded from the kitchen "relax son you're only dreaming", I was like "oh, ok". (became lucid)

facinating

I've seen myself in a mirror many times; usually the reflection is a fatter or thinner "me".

Once though, I was beheaded, but "looked" into a mirror and saw my headless body. Then I looked into another mirror in the same scene, and had a dog's head (which resembled one of the dogs I had at the time).

Originally Posted by Sephiad

Wow, thats interesting. Have never encountered mirrors in LD. I am currently at the stage of fairly regular vivid LD's and am slowly gaining a level of control. I have mastered flying but am interested in doing other things. I will deffinatly have to try the mirror thing.

I noticed that another member listed one of his goals as walking THROUGH a mirror.

hahah that would be me! I want to use a mirror as a gateway to go to a parallel society or just a new scene by phasing through the mirror! that would be awesome

Several!! In some occasions my image looked just like staring at a fun house mirror , and once i had fingers for ears, it was weird haha.

I have had a "mirror dream" but i didn't see anything in the mirror. hhmmm maybe I should have turned it around. Of course up until a little while ago I didn't know you could control your actions in a dream.

I went into a mirror in a dream once, but it was all blurry and i felt uncomfortable. So i left that parallel universe.

Originally Posted by HellsWake

So last night I had a lucid dream where I was in a mall of some sort. I remember rubbing my hands together and trying to focus my attention on a towel, it was really detailed and felt and even smelled like a towel. Anyways, shortly after I found a mirror and looked in it, but what I saw was not my face. It was constantly changing, every few seconds, to a new face. Some of them looked similar to myself, but some of them didn't. The face did mirror what I was doing; I smiled, it smiled; I frowned, it frowned, etc. Anyone else have similar experiences with mirrors?

the exact thing happens if you look in the mirror on acid or shrooms.

this is a PERFECT example of what your face looks like when u look into a mirror

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wdZfiwdZWxo

Interesting thread. I've only experimented with mirrors a few times. My hair always seems to be a lot longer than it is in real life.

I accept with information:One of the more memorable LDs i have had, was when I found myself in some old wooden rotting shack. After exploring the place, I found a full-length mirror - which started to bow and ripple as I approached it. As I got closer I remember a distinct feel of vibrating energy trying to repel me - similar to when you put the reversed side of magnets together.

The few times that I've encountered my reflection in my dreams, I too have experienced something similar. Although, instead of a constantly changing reflection, I got a more solid one that still did not resemble me at all. For example, I remember once that I looked into the bathroom mirror and saw that I was African American....In reality, I am clearly not. I had an afro

Yeah, it's sorta strange, isn't it?

Now that I think about it, I have never encountered a mirror in my dreams. I'm trying to get back into LDing, so I suppose I'll make it my first goal to find a mirror. I'll post results as soon as I do it.

Originally Posted by MakoEyes

The few times that I've encountered my reflection in my dreams, I too have experienced something similar. Although, instead of a constantly changing reflection, I got a more solid one that still did not resemble me at all. For example, I remember once that I looked into the bathroom mirror and saw that I was African American....In reality, I am clearly not. I had an afro

Yeah, it's sorta strange, isn't it?

Nice thread - some good stuff to consider.

One time in an LD I got the acid trip face-morphing effect, but the other two times I've encountered a mirror in an LD I used it shapeshift in a more fictiony manner rather than just wanting to be another form, by using my reflection to choreograph the transition. When I see mirrors in my non-lucid dreams, they tend to be pretty accurate. A few times in memory I've seen the wrong person in my reflection, but I know myself to have actually been that person in the dream beforehand.

Well i still havn't had a LD yet but i got told if you look into a mirror it can make you relize your dreaming, or atleast help you relize... In my dream last night i looked into a mirror and just saw myself looking back so i just carried on in my dream... I read that i should look into a mirror every now and then in real life to get used to doing it for when i dream, do you think i got so used to doing it that i got my reflection perfect in my dream?

Weird :/