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

Originally Posted by miggsy

I had a drem last night and became lucid.I decided to look into a mirror in the bathroom.At first my face was normal but then it changed into this hiddeous looking creature with fangs and with the neck ripped open.I was a little scared but continued to look at it.I began to talk and its lips moved in sync with mine which indicated to me that this was my reflection.I thought dreams were able to be controlled by the dreamer? i was wishing for that to happen so why did it? any anwers?

You were wishing for what to happen?

As far as dream control, what is your idea of dream control?

I don't think its necessarily belief, but I don't think there's any truth to the superstition about not being "supposed" to look into mirrors in dreams.

I have looked in mirrors in dreams, and I've never gotten a reflection that looks like me. There were a few times I was deformed, and more often than anything else I'm just another person with a completely different appearance. I don't think it has to have anything to do with belief, either though, because I dont remember ever hearing that rumor before now. I think its a lot like when you look down at your hands in dreams, and you have the wrong number of fingers or they seem to melt away. Or when you look at a clock in a dream and the time keeps changing. Its just because there's a level of realism that isn't present in dreams, and perhaps sometimes its also symbolic.

however, the power of suggestion can be a powerful thing, so if you hear something like that, I think its more likely that it might pop up in a dream of your own.

Look in the mirror while tripping on shrooms. Now thats creepy/cool.

Yeah if your lucid mirrors can be fun, like making yourself skinner, different colour hair, fangs... options are endless.
But the non-lucids can be alittle unnerving like watching your teeth falling out.
Though it can encourage you to focus on detail.

I find that lucid dreaming is a skill. It develops and refines as you continue to dream. When I first looked into a mirror (I was scared too) I saw myself and could identify the figure as me - I had my main features, like the right hair style and body shape. But often your face doesn't quite look as you'd expect. Not to say it will be deformed and disturbing, but I personally don't see those important features like contours of the face or anything like a freckle. I imagine this is because faces are very detailed really, and to remember the exact look and style of a face can be hard.
I once had a haircut and it took a while before my LDs were "updated" to the new hair type. As I say, the more you look in the mirror the more realistic it gets. In fact, its better in a dream because I loose the frizz to my hair.

I have not had any bad experiences looking in mirrors in dreams, though these are non-lucid dreams, as I'm just starting to learn lucid dreaming. In one such dream, my reflection in the mirror looked really great (though not much like the actual me, and not wearing clothes I would ever wear), and in the next, I looked just like myself, but with longer hair. (In the dream, I thought, "That's odd--wasn't my hair quite short just earlier today?" but didn't realize I was dreaming.)

I am a newbie in the field of lucid dreaming but I am very intrigued by the concept. Last Thursday I bought Laberge's EWLD. On Friday it arrived. On Saturday morning I read the first two chapters. On Sat. afternoon I took a nap on my couch. I had a dream that a immense table lamp was rising out of the sea. I said to myself, "that's impossible I must be dreaming" immediately the lamp turned into the disembodied gray head of a large Rottweiler like dog and came towards me menacingly. I awoke.

On Sunday morning I dreamt I was in an unfamiliar apartment that belonged to me. The living room had wall to ceiling mirrors. I looked in the mirror and saw that I was black. I immediately said to myself, "that's impossible I'm not black, I must be dreaming." Once I realized this everything became extremely lucid. I calmly regarded my surroundings and I said to myself this is amazing. This reality is more real than my waking reality. The dream went on for quite a while.

So for me the mirror or my reflection in it became a Dreamsign that I was able to use to realize that I was dreaming. A truly positive effect.
I am really amazed by all this and look forward to working with lucid dreams as much as possible

I've had all sorts of weird run-ins with mirrors in my dreams. They are not always frightening, but they are always bizarre or disturbing. There is definitely something about looking at yourself in a mirror while lucid. Something about the extra self awareness of being lucid layered on top of the reflection. Strange stuff.

This reminds me of a task of the month we did a few years ago:
http://www.dreamviews.com/community/...ad.php?t=44482

I can only remember two dreams with mirrors in them..

In one of them I was lucid in the blackness of a dream so I tried to summon an angel(Ariel)by vibrating the name and drawing a sigil. Then I felt my wrist being squeezed as if to make me aware that they were there so I said "I know your there can you help me with what I wish to know", and instantly I found myself standing infront of the mirror in my bathroom staring at the reflection of someone else. Which was freaky and gave me a shock. He had a very bright blue aura around his head which was coming out his hollowed eyes which showed little black spots under his eyes. And I could hardly speak because I was in shock but I introduced myself and when I did I spoke with many voices inside me and it was like it echoed which made me feel like the reflection was inside, which made it even more freaky but he sensed that and left soon after.

And then in the other dream with a mirror, I tried to call for Ariel again and found a large mirror in a castle which a small green mexican walking fish looking creature crawled out from(a black hollow mirror)and frilled its head at me as if to attack, when it did that it tured red, so I flew away across the shore and it followed me and turned into a chinese style dragon. Which I just flew away from because it grew so fast and it was huge, so I flew away until I woke myself up. lol, And I dont run from things often in dreams especially when I'm lucid.

I just got a shock to see a walking fish.

I looked once into the mirror in my dream and one half of my face was my brother's, the other was a mutated version of mine, since I'm into unnatural things it was lovely

In one dream it felt like I was high off my ass, on Cannabis , and I looked in the mirror to check my eyes out... They were all off center and fucked up... In the dream, I thought to myself, "Wow, I've never been this high before" hahha

I've never had a mirror experience that really scared me. Probably the worst thing that's happened was I was making love to a woman, and then looked up into a mirror and saw that she was some old haggard ghoulish looking thing. I just said, "Do you really have to look like that?" And she became a beautiful brunette. It's a little weird because I'm pretty sure that would scare me in real life.

Other than that, I often see myself looking like a different person, or I'll have a beard, or my head will be too big. I've even seen a female version of myself. Nothing that I found scary though.

I really shouldn't of gone onto this thread just before bed

I'm terrified about looking in mirrors in dreams, mostly b/c of what I've heard. I don't recall ever actually having a bad experience tho.

(I had about a year of lucids where I was IN people.Two separate consciousnesses one body)

Yes the mirrors can be disturbing in Dreams. I think then we really SEE ourselves, not in the filtered down waking "reality" state of awareness.
Seeing myself and MY eyes on/in the body of a girl being abducted by what she thought was aliens..disturbing as hell, being I could not save her.



Morrigan

In the Physical World what you see is what you get, in the Dream World what you think is what you'll get.

And I saw demonic eyes. I had never heard of this or read about not doing it. There was no self-fulfilling prophecy there. I was smiling, looked evil, had green glowing eyes. The mirror was in front of me, and I was afraid to look, knowing it was a dream and could likely be distorted. I had deja vu, as though, I had had other lucid dreams where a mirror was in front of me, I was afraid to look, but forgot the lucid dream -- only to be remembered in the dream. The mirror was in front of me, a large mirror, I think, in a sky scraper being built, way up high at night. I think I flew there. The reflection didn't manifest, it was like I was a ghost, until I wanted to see myself. And there I was, brave and fearless to look and discover that I looked like a sociopathic monster/ demon. I looked like I needed the exorcist for sure.

Wonder what that means??? I had been trying really hard to see myself through someone else's eyes recently, someone that hates me and thinks I'm psycho. Maybe I've been trying too hard to do so that I've actually started believing I am what he thinks I am... interesting...

Actually, reading some of the other responses, I realize my fear of mirrors came from the whole, never look in a mirror while tripping thing... perhaps it was a self fulfilling prophecy after all. I am disappointed I see myself as being so insane. I looked hot though, something like, a Megan Fox succubus.

Probably my earliest dream memory was from my early childhood, around 5 years old. I looked in the bathroom mirror and I was a large reptilian extraterrestrial. I then proceeded to eat my mom's arm. Strange to say the least.

Originally Posted by pixiedust

a self-fullfilling prophecy, or is there really something to the "don't look at yourself in the mirror in the dream" thing?

I ask because as I read this forum I've come across quite a few posters who say looking into the mirror in a lucid was scary/disturbing. I've read that people saw their mirror image as deformed, that they looked normal except their eyes turned black (which sounds more than a bit scary to me), and other similar things. What I'm wondering is, is this just happening because people read of other's experiences, and thus have that mindset that "looking in a mirror in my dream might be scary", so when they do - it happens.... or is it at all possible that there really is something (what kind of something? I have no idea, that's why I'm asking) about looking into a mirror in your lucid dream that generates negative experiences. Could we really not be "supposed" to look in a dream mirror? As a realist I want to doubt such a thing, but the experiences on this forum make me wonder.

How many folks here have looked in a mirror and had nothing scary or strange happen at all?

As for me personally, I'll be avoiding mirrors in my dreams for the forseeable future.

Look in mirrors in dreams! It's cool!

I had a lucid dream where I looked in a mirror, and did an RC with my hands, and my hands only appeared in the mirror, but not in front of my face!

I had a non-lucid where I looked in the mirror, and I saw some a-holes gave me a military haircut, and I had a lot of grey hair. I was pissed, shouting: WHO DID THIS TO ME?

I went through a mirror before, and everything was backwards, right was left, left was right, and all words were backwards. I was hoping for something more.

I thoroughly believe you should always do the exact thing you are afraid to do in dreams. Doing this will decrease your fears, and increase your powers. Just say, "this is a just a dream."

(I say "F*** this! This is a dream!" but, that's just me.)

I like looking in mirrors in my lucid dreams. I almost always see myself with something "different" about me. One time I saw myself with 1 eye like a cyclops, another with long curly black hair, another with no mouth. It's some cool stuff. No need to be afraid.

I came across a mirror on one of my first lucids. 3 mirrors, actually, standing together on a table. I was curious to see what I would look like because of all these rumours, but my reflexion was pretty normal. I then started to morph myself for kicks. Only after I was through with all the morphing and enjoying my handiwork did i see my reflexion start to change on its own and make me look deformed.
It's was fun.

I did once in a dream I posted here and saw my sisters face. I quickly morphed it back into mine though.

I rember looking in the mirror once in my dream, and when I looked, I saw my eyes white, like upside down. Could be coincidence, I saw a lot of creepy stuff that night

My first experience of looking at myself in the mirror was a projection of who or what I wanted to be back then. 'T was a fun experience. I was staring at an awesome J-Pop artist. (I'd like to think so xP)

But as I acquired these info about how unpleasant it would be to look at oneself in the mirror, it actually turn out to be a scary experience. It was inevitable, as I couldn't help but feel and think about it at that event. I believe it really just gets stimulated from what you are anticipating, from an acquired fact or your mere suppositions. Intentionally or otherwise.

Now what I really wanna experience, is walking through it or entering one. And watching the world from a visually opposite perspective.

I've had a lot of interesting experiences with mirrors in dreams...not exactly bad, but sometimes creepy or startling. I rarely see myself accurately. Many times the image is someone who looks nothing like me. Sometimes it moves around on its own, and if I yell at it to act like a proper mirror image, it just makes faces or rude gestures at me, lol.