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

Mirrors are very common in my lucid dreams, I often run into them, both when I'm looking for them and when I'm not. While mirrors can be scary, the only thing that I've noticed them be consistently is chaotic; they're always a little different from dream to dream.

In my experiences, the first thing I noticed regularly in mirrors is that the image was usually a little warped, though still human. When I tried interacting more directly with them, that's when things really got wierd. I once reached into a mirror in a dream, and my reflection tried to pull my hand in, and for a few dreams after that, it did act nightmarish, although always in different ways, but it stopped doing that after I stopped treating it like a hostile entity. After that, it was sometimes even helpful, although it's help rarely works. However, for every dream where my reflection was unusual, there was another where it was perfectly ordinary. In fact, around 70% of the time my reflection is almost normal, and only becomes unusual when I try to affect it.

I don't think mirrors are inherently evil or hostile in dreams, it's just that they're naturally changing things, and in dreams, without reality to hold them to just reflecting, these changes can spiral out of control. In dreams, everything changes a lot, and thus things that change even in real life, like the image in a mirror, would be unusually chaotic in a dream. They're only scary when by chance they change in a way that seems frightening, and when someone is frightened by some change, the fear causes it to become more frightening, and the whole experience causes them to expect mirrors in lucid dreams to be frightening, which ensures that they probably will be.

Mm- that sounds about right to me. Good thoughts I guess it's best just to confront the idea, if mirrors seem scary.

People say that mirrors will make you look funny so they do.... i wont ry to fix it because if i want to see myself i just ... well see myself, but i think it's what people say that makes mirrors what they are in your dream.