Do you look different in mirrors then the way people actually see u?

Question

If u get what I mean lol

Answer 1

You see a mirrored reflection of yourself.

To get a true reflection of yourself, take two mirrors and put them at a right angle to each other (like half-opened book), then look into the middle where they are joined. The two mirrors will flip the reflection the right way round.

Answer 2

Cheap mirrors can slightly warp a reflected image, making faces look slimmer or fatter depending. Just like fun house mirrors. A nice thick high quality mirror will reflect your true image. Compare photographs of yourself to your mirror-image to see if you spot any differences.

Answer 3

Yes.  You're flipped along a vertical axis.  In other words, your right hand is now your left hand.

Answer 4

Aside from being a reflection and facing the other way, not really. You look exactly the same objectively. But people are subjective. When you look in the mirror you're likely to see certain features as more prominent or less prominent compared to other people. if you feel you have a big nose you'll probably see it as bigger than others would.

In addition there are relative factors. Thin people might see you as fat, fat people might see you as thin. the same goes for height, hair colour etc.

So whilst you look the same, people may look at the same thing differently.

Answer 5

Yes - a mirror flips the image laterally - not true inversion, but not reality either.

Answer 6

In a way, yes, but not in a very significant way. When people look at you, they see your right side in their left visual field, and vice versa. When you look into a mirror, you see your right side in your right visual field, and your left side in your left.

Answer 7

i know!

i so dont look like me ina mirror

i also look fatter!!

Answer 8

yep.  you're backwards.

Answer 9

This is under the wrong category... if u get what i mean lol

Answer 10

Yes.  It's something I've noticed since I was a little kid, and I've never heard a good explanation for it:  Peoples' faces are distorted in a mirror, and the defects in their features somehow exaggerated, sometimes shockingly so.  I grant that it should not be so, but it is.

Answer 11

Yes, you do. Only a detailed photograph shows you the way are.

Answer 12

no , dumbass . but if your talking about personality , then h**l yeah .

Answer 13

Hmmm nice question. It's odd, really. I think I look great in the mirror, and people tell me I'm beautiful quite often, yet when I see pictures of me, it's really scary. Maybe i'm not photogenic or something but yes, I hope I look to others as I see myself in the mirror. hehe.

Answer 14

yes if you have an unsymmetrical face

Answer 15

Yeah! I had this mirror which was bent slightly to the bottom and i was convinced i had massive hips! Until i loked in another mirror like.

Answer 16

I look different in a mirror than the way I percieve myself, but i'm pretty sure the image would look the same (although only partial) to someone else looking at my reflection.

It is in the wrong section but its still an interesting question. The person who called you a dumbass has asked "what s*x is " ... enough said.

Answer 17

A gravity lens will make you look like two people! Try standing behind a large, dense star.

Answer 18

I'm supposing you are asking about objective differences, and not the subjective concept of "fat" or "pretty".

There's more than the obvious inversion you get in the mirror.

You eyes and, mainly, your brain is different than anyone's eyes or brain, so your interpretation of light signals (emitted by reality, allowing what you call vision) is also unique. What you see in a given color, someone might see it differently. Of course, you both call it "red" or "blue" although you might not be perceiving the exact same color (hence the existence of color blindness). Where you see red, I might see what you would call green. Except that I also call it red (showing that naming colors is only a social agreement) so we both get along.

Physiology is very important, and we don't have to go down to neural and brain level. Just think of people with eye problems, like nearsightedness, or even color blindness. They see you differently than you see yourself in the mirror because their eyes are different than yours in a minor minor detail in their structure.

Also remember that mirrors are hardly perfect: i.e., hardly perfectly straight, perfectly vertical. There are minor curves or swellings or defects that alter the image. A curved mirror will stretch your image or shrink it, depending on being convex or concave.

Lot's of things that define how you see the world, then.

The answer would be: Yes, very likely yes. Although usually not significantly.  

Answer 19

yes i am in constant denial when i look in the mirror i dont feel i look that fat but when i see a photo of myself i realise the truth so yes i so know what you mean!