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

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