A Reflection of your Self in the Mirror

[biege]

I've watched this paranormal video long time ago wherein one expert shared that if you look at yourself one time at a mirror for about 30 seconds or more your face would change and sometimes you will see a demon. I've tried this one night and I had a bad experience, when I was staring at my face for about a minute, my facial expression suddenly changed to a creepy smiling reflection it's like I'm looking at a devil. I got scared at first of course but I held strong and conquered my fear as I said to my reflection that he cannot do anything to me and I have a full control about myself. After saying that to my reflection, my facial expression changed back to normal. I've ask some of my friends to do this as well in the past, most specially those who had personal problems and we had positive results after. I believe, this trick can be helpful for people who have phobias as well, I'm not really sure because I haven't conducted a documented research about this. However, this works with me and my friends, so I guess it would work to others as well.

 

[kingcool52]

Well that's the first I've heard of that. Never heard of this to be honest, I know about the bloody mary thing where you say it 3 times at night whilst looking at a mirror and she will appear but never heard about your own face turning. It's never happened to me, I mean I look at the mirror to do my hair and I take way more than 30 seconds.

 

[Jasmin Cottontail]

I think I heard something similar to this one, just can't remember the exact thing though. Anyway, I really find this creepy and scary, a bit intriguing as well. But no matter how intrigued I am, I surely will never try this, well I do look at the mirror to fix my hair or my face but don't really stare at myself for like 30 seconds or more without doing anything as my imaginations as wide and I'm afraid I might see something I will be scared of. But it's good that it turned out helpful for you and your friends. I just don't know if I can do it

 

[TheKnight]

I've written this in another thread. The reason behind this is because your mind tries to fill in the dark pieces of your face which results in your brain morphing your face. You can also do this while looking at pictures of someone in a poorly lit room. Sometimes, when your eyes can't see anything, your brain tries to create images and the same with sound. When you're in a very quiet room, you might hear things that aren't really there. It's pretty cool.

 

[Alexandoy]

I have done that mirror talk when I was in grade school. It was one afternoon when I had nothing to do and the mirror in my parent's bedroom caught my fancy. After making some faces, I talked to myself but nothing happened. But if I would do that at night, I'm sure something creepy will happen because I have a strong imagination. I have so many stories to tell about what's happening at night but that's for another thread maybe. With the mirror, I wouldn't do that now even at my old age, I admit that I would be scared to see something in the mirror out of the ordinary.

 

[janemariesayed]

At first you have told yourself beforehand what to expect and then it is your mind playing tricks on you.

Your post interested me because I've been a bit scared to look in the mirror when I go to the bathroom at night time. Just to get a glance of myself in the darkness with maybe a wee touch of moonlight. I've been worried that in my half sleep I might think it's a demon or a ghost or something and then end up having a weird scary dream once I had returned to my bed.

I think that we all need an open mind with all things, as you mentioned that you had not done a documented research on it, why don't you? and then document the results. It would not only be fun for you to do, but we all may learn some interesting things about our minds.

 

[misszerable]

Ermahgerd, it's still dark in here and I go read this thread! This reminds me why I don't like to have huge mirrors in my house. There are lots of superstitions about mirrors in my country specially when I was living in the countryside. I've lived in a city for more than two decades but I haven't gotten over these beliefs. I've coped with it by using a small mirror sparingly. But I still can't get myself to look at my reflection at night when I'm alone in my room. Somewhere at the back of my mind, I'm expecting something, someone to cast its/his/her reflection on the mirror. It's weird, really. I heard too many stories about mirrors. No, I don't think I'll try that trick. It's one of the fears that I really don't mind not conquering at this point.