Two mirrors, odd reflection?

Question

In one mirror my face will look symmetrical and pleasing to my eyes. Then I take two mirrors and look at myself looking in the mirror by reflecting them back at eachother and my face will look totally different and unproportional and it disgusts me.

Is this normal..? I cant seem to figure out what this is.

Like I can take a picture of myself and it will look great, then when you flip it horizontally it just looks like im mutated. But isnt that what mirrors do?(flip horizontally) So wouldnt i look like i would in the in the mirror if i flipped the picture? And vice versa with the two mirrors?

So why do i look mutated when theyre flipped?

Answer 1

I think I get what your saying, but the wording is confusing.

I can somewhat relate though and I think thats why I kinda get it. But ive always had a weird a perception of myself. But not so much nowadays, I did when I was younger. Anyway, when Id look at myself in a regular mirror, I used to think I looked pretty nice, but than I opened my cabinet mirror a bit, so that like... the mirrors are reflecting each other and I see myself in the middle of the mirrors, with an "unflipped" view.. as in the way other people see me...

The wording was probably confusing in what I just said too. But for example, if I have a shirt with words on it, it will look backwards on a regular mirror, but the "unflipped" view will show the words correctly, because its what other people are viewing.

Anyhow, the first time I started doing that, I saw all this random ****, like my nose being crooked to one side, and one eye smaller, and one lip curved, yadda yadda... I thought I was hideous. Just relax. Honestly, if you don't have a NOTICABLY unsymmetricall face in the regular view mirror, or any mirror at that, nobody notices. Its just your own personal perception mostly. Nobody has a perfectly symmetrically face or body.

Answer 2

I don't know but it's not supposed to be like that.

Edit:

I mean it's supposed to look like a photograph of yourself or they way everyone else sees your face. So I don't know why you see a mutated face, it's supposed to be your real face, the way everyone else sees it.

Answer 3

Believe it or not.... not all mirrors are created equal! There are different materials that make some mirrors more expensive than others.  Also, they say that mirrors in dressing rooms at clothing stores have a tendency to make people look slimmer and taller, therefore they think they look better and buy the clothes.  

So, I would not worry about what you are seeing, especially if you are looking at your reflection in two different mirrors.   You are as HOT as you THINK and FEEL you ARE!  

Thanks for reading!

Answer 4

if you face two mirrors together that's called romonium surfaces.

infinite reflection,also why is our left hand in the mirror look like our right hand..

Answer 5

i think thats just your perception of it. im sure you dont look mutated.

Answer 6

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Answer 7

Most people, as you probably know, aren't symmetrical.  When you look at pictures, you're accustomed to seeing how you look, the correct way.  When you look at mirrors, you're used to seeing an immediate reflection of yourself in the opposite way.

So, when you look at a mirror image of a picture of yourself, it's unusual.  When you see a real-time image of yourself in a double-mirror (for lack of a better term), it's also unusual.  In both cases, you're seeing yourself in contexts that are almost exactly what you think you look like, but a little bit different.

I've done this before, although to be honest, I've never been disgusted by an image of myself.

FUN FACT: A lot of artists, when drawing a sketch, put their rough draft beside a mirror to give them an objective view of what they did wrong.

Answer 8

It's true. Our faces are asymmetrical. Look at the left and right side of any celebrity face in a magazine, and chances are that in 90% of cases the right side looks 10 years older - the mouth droops a little, the cheek sags more, the eyebrows are seldom the same. Even the eyes seem to have different expressions. So I suppose that's what happening in your multiple reflection experiments, and the right or (older) side is getting more attention than it usually does.