Seeing Myself For the First Time in a True Mirror

[@zebfross]

Oh man, I hate seeing my hair parted the other direction, lol

[@geemy9675]

I hate seeing no hair over my head no matter the direction

[@0204shah]

😂😂​@@geemy9675

[@violahero4life]

​@@geemy9675 😅

[@uncroppedsoop]

this is the one thing that always gets me

[@wildfire9280]

⁠​⁠@@geemy9675 I especially hate seeing hair over my head that isn’t mine and when I reach to touch it it disappears. Mondays.

[@savageprince9829]

My self esteem wouldn't survive this tbh

[@bringbacktheoldyoutube]

My self esteem can't even handle regular mirrors and selfie pictures. No mirrors in my residence and I freak out when I accidentally click reverse camera on phone and get really depressed after seeing myself

[@trashboat115]

​@@bringbacktheoldyoutubedamn

[@kashmirandal6282]

@@bringbacktheoldyoutube dang

[@inanjarif1388]

​@@bringbacktheoldyoutube Then maybe you'll find the true mirror more attractive? What do you look like in photographs other people take of you?

[@soupisfornoobs4081]

​@@bringbacktheoldyoutubethat reminds me a lot of myself before I transitioned. Turns out most of what I hated seeing was just regular masculine features of my face. Ironically I became a lot more comfortable with my appearance after I began to transition

[@Kronosbattlemaps]

This explains why when I see a photo of myself I'm like 'who tf is that abomination' but in the mirror I'm like 'eyyyyyy' (wink and gun)

[@ihateyoutube8789]

What's the gun for?

[@TRVPHAUS]

uhhmmmmm. no

[@ThePhrog714]

@@TRVPHAUSuhmmmmmm, yeah.

[@TheHaddonfieldRegistry]

​@@TRVPHAUSit does, though. It's been well documented that people become acquainted with their flipped selves more than true selves.

[@Frozy_lolipop]

Heheh hi😂

[@CharliesOpus]

I both want this and never want to encounter it at the same time

[@Ashishlahre]

Vsauce - Mirror don't flip images, we flip those images.

[@bornbydawn]

This is what I don't understand based on what Vsauce explained. Mirrors show us what we show them. Since we are standing in front of the mirror, it is showing us what we look like to someone who is in the place of mirror which means standing in front of you.. Then how is what the mirror shows us not what we look like to other people?

[@areadenial2343]

​@@bornbydawnMirrors don't flip images horizontally or vertically, but they do flip images in the forward/reverse direction. This makes sense; the person you see in the mirror is facing towards you! But due to how symmetry works, a forward/reverse flip is identical to a horizontal flip plus a rotation. This is why the image in the mirror appears flipped left-to-right. You can only see a non-mirrored image by using two mirrors, which in this video are placed at right angles to each other. Another way is to stand between two mirrors facing in opposite directions. Behind the first mirrored image, which is facing backwards, you can see another image of yourself facing forwards!

[@felixmoore6781]

@@areadenial2343 If the mirror faces you and is in front of you (or behind, but then you can't see it), it flips your image in the front-back direction, if it's next to you, it flips it left-right, and if it's above or below you, it flips it upside-down. In any case, however, it flips the handedness of chiral objects, so your right hand looks like a left hand in the mirror and vice versa. That's perhaps where the confusion is. A single mirror always flips the image, but not necessarily left-right, unless you mean handedness, in which case it always does. Yeah, I can't make this explanation any less confusing...

[@TheCatBilbo]

​@@areadenial2343Thank you for the explanation, it makes my brain ache but makes sense! We really need people who can explain the science 😊

[@damianmeyer1132]

​@@bornbydawnBro im trying to find an answer to 😂 for me it should mean light goes straight into Someones eyes Like in a normal mirror? Where tf is IT Flipped Like in a true mirror??

[@HoShIfox19]

yes BUT the perception of yourself without the asymmetry is still more accurate to what people may see of you as they are too used to see your face the way it is and dont really see your asymmetry anymore

[@geemy9675]

subjectively more accurate, objectively less accurate. people can think your face is asymmetric, you close ones probably don't even notice it anymore. But of course no one ever said "you nose is crooked the wrong way" or "bigger left ear is way better than bigger right ear". unless maybe of course they know your face very well and you send them a flipped selfie

[@uncroppedsoop]

​@@geemy9675 it's to say that the impact it has on your perception of it, isn't how other people will react. it's not literally more accurate, but it is more accurate to the reaction others will have seeing your face

[@badcaseofstripes]

@@uncroppedsoop The only problem with this is that when people see you for the first time, they aren't likely to see every asymmetry on your face as a 'flaw'. Whereas, if you've always looked at your own face for 20+ years in a regular mirror, and then suddenly see it in a true mirror, it's much easier to pick out those 'flaws' in your own face. So you're actually more likely to have a negative reaction to your own 'true' face than anyone else.

[@uncroppedsoop]

@@badcaseofstripes yeah I'm not disagreeing with that. I mean the impression you get from it flipped like you're used to will basically be what other people feel seeing it in reality

[@alaakela]

😂😂😂 OMG i was not expecting "emotional damage" 😂😂😂

[@bozobarr]

Gold 🥇🪙😂

[@Maxarcc]

But that means others have gotten used to your facial asymmetry as well. Emotional healing.

[@biggestsigh]

Fun fact: this is why you think your selfies look better in the preview unless you have it set to remain flipped! Artists also use this to check if there's any obvious flaws in their art, since it makes them basically look at their artwork with fresh eyes!

[@charliezard64]

This happens to me when I see my cat’s face in the mirror. She’s a calico, and her markings become flipped, and it’s weird, because I couldn’t describe the patterns on her face from memory, but I KNOW they’re backwards when I see them in the mirror.

[@TRVPHAUS]

okay psycho

[@charliezard64]

@@TRVPHAUS Why did you call me that?

[@ALBINO1D]

@@TRVPHAUS WHY DID YOU SAY THAT NAME?!?!?

[@leaf_y]

this is why u always flip ur canvas

[@ougazu32]

fellow true artist 🤝

[@createusername6421]

why So?

[@MagusFlorren]

@@createusername6421when working on any form of art, it’s good practice to flip the canvas upside down. Or if on digital, you can flip it horizontally. Doing so will help you notice things that you hadn’t seen before. It’s a whole thing :)

[@Lu14355]

​@@createusername6421 flipping your canvas reveals the errors you've been accustomed to after spending a lot of time on a drawing

[@summerlovinxx]

​@@createusername6421 if you never flip it you'll get used to seeing it the way it is, meaning it'll be less likely you catch any mistakes or things you wanna change. just like how he immediately notices specific facial features, he's used to seeing the flipped image of himself so any "flaws" are a lot easier for him to spot.

[@aurelspecker6740]

To account for this, video call apps like Microsoft Teams show you the MIRRORED version of yourself, while the others get to see the unmirrored version. I realized that, when I realized they also mirrored the company background with the logo on it. Super funny that they go the extra mile to adjust for our human quirks.

[@carultch]

I do tutoring over video calls, and I've had to train my brain to read in reverse, when I show video of physical books, and watch the little preview on my screen to keep track of my place.

[@vivid_xyz]

Man's never looked into a non-mirrored selfie camera

[@alihms]

The image is far smaller and the color is not as lifelike as what a mirror shows you. The illusion is just not the same.

[@DmitriiGlandarius]

Or never looked at any photo or video of himself.

[@um2913]

@@DmitriiGlandariusa picture or video is not the time. Theres something about it being presently in front of you rather than a video you took 1 minute into the past.

[@sir_john_hammond]

Man's never taken his nose away from his phone screen

[@chaos.corner]

He did specify stereoscopic. But yeah, same difference.

[@catherinethecatlike]

It’s like when the front camera isn’t on mirror mode and you think you took a nice photo but it’s of someone you’ve never seen before and get so self conscious

[@kadebrockhausen]

This is why digital artists should flip their canvases around every once in a while

[@Marshimized]

taking a mirror selfie and flipping it destroyed me

[@mindspace3863]

Us all lol

[@reuben1798]

Idk if I ever wanna see myself as others see me. I’m not ugly, I’ve just stopped caring soooo much about my looks. It’s mentally/psychically exhausting

[@SnowLily123]

New insecurities unlocked

[@electrollama2127]

I've always wanted a corner mirror like this. Another advantage is you can see yourself in the center of it no matter where you're standing in the room.

[@TheAllMightyGodofCod]

I lost it with Steven and he's "emotional damage"! 🤣

[@KRJayster]

This is partially why we think we look weird in pictures of ourselves. Because our mental map of our appearance is the flipped one from the mirror, not the actual appearance that other people and pictures take.

[@herbderbler1585]

Digital artists use this phenomenon, mirror flipping their work periodically to make sure they don't become blind to issues with proportion or perspective. They don't wanna get dug into the details and miss the forest for the trees.

[@davidfryer9359]

This is the BEST channel.

[@4amlibra]

This is why so many of us hate how we look in photos, even when we like how we look that day - it’s not that we look bad, it’s just that we look different.

[@JolieG659]

This is how flipping your canvas during art works

[@cadenelson891]

My mom’s bathroom mirror is on two adjacent walls and creates this phenomenon already. I’ve always known this happens since I was kid, that’s so funny

[@silivrengamer]

That’s what I said! I had Tri- and dual-door mirrors in my houses usually so I’m flabbergasted that others don’t know about it!

[@trashboat115]

I too have done this

[@chaos.corner]

@@silivrengamer It's pretty well known (though not too surprising that some don't). This product seems to be constructed to eliminate (or reduce) the join line.

[@tjsudac]

But when you think about it, other people are also used to see your unflipped image, meaning they see you the same way you see yourself in the mirror.

[@TheCatBilbo]

No, that's the issue: everyone else sees the unflipped version, in a mirror we see a flipped image. That's why it can be a shock if you reverse that. If you take a photo of yourself logos are backwards; if you look in the mirror the same happens. That's the image we have of ourselves. Flip the photo to see what others see.

[@ejro3063]

But it isn't the same way

[@falcon_hockey]

to make a True Mirror all you need is two mirrors put them at a 90 degree angle and then look at the intersection hope this helped

[@gt4941]

The good news at least is if you don’t notice anything in your mirrored self, people around you wing notice it in real self. You may not be used to it, but it’s basically how others see you. We are just so hyper familiar with our reflection we notice it. But give it a few minutes and you will grow accustomed to it

[@sneakythumbs9900]

Dude has never been on a zoom call

[@carultch]

Zoom calls show you your mirror image in your little preview of your own face. They show the rest of your team, the correctly oriented version of you.

[@geemy9675]

same with selfie cams. I keep the "save selfie as previewed option" checked to prevent emotional damage

[@revenevan11]

Saaame! I do it with my webcam preview in video calls too.

[@tedwintheslyfox9382]

this has the same logic as flipping your art canvas in digital drawing:"You get to see the ugly side."

[@rebeccahermosillo6]

I love the reference to Steven He in the video and Vsauce in the comments 😂 this is a great community 👍🏼

[@JosephsDesign]

Mirrors don’t actually flip images, they mirror them. Your left is still on the left ect. This true mirror actually flips the image by mirroring it twice.

[@felixmoore6781]

Mirrors do a reflection transformation on images, which is pretty much what "flip" means. So they do in fact flip images.

[@kanaka2010]

So a lot of apps give you the option to horizontally flip the image of your camera as well. Ive spent way too long looking at all the things i didnt notice about my face lol

[@THATBLUEBLAZER]

The reason your face looks different just so happens to be the same reason artists flip their canvas, it’s to make sure there is no mistakes.

[@ragingwillie483]

that emotional damage clip had me laughing out loud for longer than i would like to admit

[@bradnotbread]

Yeh it's been a while since I've seen that!

[@cccorbulo213]

They have this in my local Mcdonalds's bathroom lol, it's always trippy

[@TheMexxjam]

Never seen a photo of yourself before?

[@ahmeddjeghri6879]

My man is a Panasonic GH user, a man of culture 🤌

[@ProductBasement]

No one here has ever flipped their self-view on a video chat before?

[@trimutts4275]

Adding to wishlist

[@armoule8596]

yeah like you need even more reasons to feel bad about yourself

[@trimutts4275]

@@armoule8596 I look good even with my flaws, & that's not cockiness, it's confidence.

[@-yaqoob.]

@@trimutts4275all hope is not lost. Simply, if you have a bathroom mirror with a medicine cabinet on the wall right next to it, look into the cabinets mirror and open it. Keep messing around with how open/closed you have it till it captures your reflection of the mirror on the wall. Only issue is you won’t be making direct eye contact with yourself

[@Puleczech]

I've bursted out laughing at the ED meme. Well played.

[@jeffreysokal7264]

Mirrors don't flip images - the reason an image appears to be right/ left flipped is because you present it backwards to the mirror.

[@carultch]

What mirrors really do, is flip front and back. If you look at yourself in a mirror on the interior north wall, and hold up your east hand, Mirage (as I'll call your mirror image) is also holding up his east hand. Likewise, if you switch to your west hand, Mirage switches to his west hand as well. The mirror leaves east and west alone. What does it really flip? It flips north and south. Your nose is on the north side of your head, and Mirage's nose is on the south side of his head. Our brain just imagines how a person would get into Mirage's position, and mentally reconstructs things from his point of view.

[@UserName-vt8ly]

i hope these eventually replace traditional mirrors. whats the point in seeing a flipped version of myself that no one else sees?

[@courtneyisaseagull]

I became accustomed to my face...

[@King63Kobra]

If this makes you self conscious fret not! Asymmetry is not only normal but research indicates that having a degree of asymmetry in your face is more likely to be considered attractive than someone with perfect symmetry. People who have perfect symmetry enter the uncanny valley, usually.

[@Lastmeerkat]

And this is why artists flip their canvas to spot errors

[@stephenbailey6878]

This is random but I'll be honest- I used to be annoyed by your voice until I saw how adorable you are. And now I freakin' love your voice lol. It's kinda fascinating how the brain works sometimes. Hehe.

[@TRVPHAUS]

OK WEIRDO

[@MidTierVillain]

We study ourselves in the mirror to the smallest details, the way we see ourselves? Nobody sees that, unless it’s your significant other, because they are now around you much much more to notice little flaws, or whatever.. but, we judge ourselves extremely too harsh, at times, while others are far too kind with the critique of themselves. Sidebar: either you’re extremely attractive, or ugly, you know where you stand in life.. but, the real torture? Being mildly attractive.

[@yuyutubee8435]

I mean, smartphone selfies do the same thing so we've all seen ourselves "unflipped"?

[@britaeirikr8609]

Wow! I want one. Also, are there apps or settings that allow you to take pictures this way? Probably a simple setting...

[@agustingonzalez3878]

So, you never looked at a photo of yourself?

[@bottomtext251]

Photographs should give you an accurate self-depiction

[@TheCatBilbo]

It depends, selfie cameras usually don't, photographs taken by others should. I find wearing a logo/writing t-shirt helps to check!

[@Gnomon01666]

This is one of my fav channel

[@Hasan-r8h1n]

Step 1 : Take a selfie Step 2 : flip it

[@utopiajj]

I died at the"emotional damage" clip 😂😂😂

[@ElizabethsFantasy]

Its like the canvas in your art

[@shaman5433]

Never used the flip image option in most webcam Apps before?

[@frankpower97]

Seeing you commenting your asymmetries you acknowledged for the first time makes me remember an Italian piece of literature we all studies in school. In English is called: "One, No One and One Hundred Thousand" by Luigi Pirandello.

[@revenevan11]

Thank you for bringing that novel to my attention! I was familiar with the concept behind it but have never heard of that book that it seems like popularized the notion of a "different version" of ourselves built inside the minds of everyone we interact with. Looking on its wikipedia page, the novel also seems to lead to the rabbit-hole of mathematical-philosophy-upending discoveries that were happing in the early 20th century, too.

[@frankpower97]

@@revenevan11 Pirandello loved to make that kind of work, especially in a In the last part of his literary evolution. It was connected to the decadent movement, In short for Pirandello in particular and in italy by its influence the decadent movement can be summarized like this: the newfound knowledge about psychology and the unconscious part of our mind lead the to the crisis and lastly to the denial of the ideas of positivism and rationalism, so a crisis of values, of the capacity of the man to control his own life, and a closer look to the mess inside a broken mind. Another good novel by Pirandello is The Late Mattia Pascal, about a man declared dead because of a lookalike, but that decided to trash his old life since he was unhappy instead of correcting the mistake. Ironically I find that the crisis of the youth today is perfectly described by a 1900 Italian literary movement In Italy we also studied Italo Svevo who wrote Zeno's Conscience (la coscienza di Zeno), that work has some similarities in the themes.

[@um2913]

I want one so bad I wanna meet myself for the first time.

[@alexp7274]

Can't you just do that with the flip setting on the selfie side of your phone?

[@joshuasword]

My man’s never seen a picture of himself

[@h.b16]

But when you look at a picture of yourself it’s not flipped. So just look at a picture of yourself to see how other people see you.

[@matthewread9001]

Amir doesn’t rotate things, it shows you exactly what you show it. For words, you are the one that rotates it when you pointed at the mirror.

[@amberv9424]

Oh man I really want to see myself in one now!!

[@courtney-ray]

Zoom can flip you. And if you’ve ever seen yourself in a double mirror situation you see yourself the true way too 🤷🏽‍♀️

[@CorporateCupcakes]

Most of my nightmares have been of a mirror being the right way like this

[@TheCatBilbo]

It can be disheartening, even shocking, to see the 'real you' after so long looking in a mirror, or from selfies that aren't adjusted correctly. We need to remember that people see us as a whole, & as a personality. The small things we worry about don't usually get noticed, because we deal with faces overall. And, we are people more than just an image: everything about you is what others like, love, & want to be around!

[@Aromatic.Bleach]

When i used to draw portraits a lot (essentially my entire life until i became disheartened and depressed a decade or so ago) and one trick i always used was to flip the paper and hold it up to the light, or photograph it and flip it. It was a way to immediately detect flaws and issues you couldnt see normally, and I wouldnt hand so-and-so a crap portrait where one eye was 2 inches lower than the other lol.

[@aaronkriegman]

If you change the angle to be a sixth of a full circle, or an eighth, tenth, etc., you'll also be able to see yourself in the corner, with your orientation flipping every time. You may also see something interesting at a third, fifth, etc.

[@seanc41556]

It's like taking pic and thinking "Wtf?! Why do I look like that, why do I look so different?!"

[@Thedirtylittletruth]

Im ready to truly see myself. I hope I'm beautiful

[@i_cam]

Everytime i see a photo of myself i have to remember that that’s the version OTHER people are used to seeing, and it doesnt look as weird to them

[@TheosAdventures2018]

The true question is. When I look at other people, they don’t look asymmetrical. Let’s take for example your mother or father. You know how they look. Right? So. Check their photos. Check their reflections in the mirror. And compare them with yours. The truth is that you look exactly the same as you do in the mirror to real life. It’s a fact. It’s because left and right eyes have a different perception. You understand now?

[@jazzymoon8272]

I'm sick & my chest hurts from coughing so much so when the "emotional damage" came out I laughed too hard! 😂😂 I'm crying and laughing now. Lol 🤦🏻‍♀️

[@MissReneeMichelle]

The "emotional damage" took me out

[@edcross447]

mirrors don't flip images, your'e just viewing them from behind. Walk around in front of a sign you're holding in front of mirror that appears flipped and you have to turn around backboards to see it... t doesn't look flipped now, because you turned around to view it.

[@DjHazardous]

*Me : Fascinating* *1 second later: EMOTIONAL DAMAGE!*

[@oliverhooper435]

So I'm just getting my head around this.... Am i right in saying how we style ourselves in the mirror is actually just how we think we look because that's how we sew ourselves in the mirror whereas people looking at us see a a different image? Wow. Mindblown 🤯

[@nonaeroterraqueous]

I'm already quite conscious of my flaws.

[@geemy9675]

what about a mirror that changes the focal distance? portraits are taken with certain focal length (ex 135mm) for a reason. BTW its actually not focal length that matters, but distance. if gou stand far from a short focal camera but in the center you wont look distorted....just small. It would be way more complicated (and big) to build.

[@user-xq5hs4wx1q]

I dont have that problem, I'm bald.

[@I_collect_Barbies]

Sooo what is the mirror called?

[@revenevan11]

It gives me such an odd feeling to see my non-mirrored self lol. So I always make sure my webcam preview on video calls and stuff doesn't flip it for me lol. Same with selfies.

[@jahshjahsh2002]

Let's all show the respect a guy deserves when he has so much patience and self control that stopped himself from looking at a screen his entire life. You too should stop watching that (yourself in monitors).

[@duckgirl242]

You can also take a selfie and then go into the editing and flip the photo to get the same effect

[@SixteenTonesStudio]

my grandmother's bathroom had 2 mirrors that met at a corner. It wasn't totally seamless, but definitely interesting to look at

[@DK-ox7ze]

Ever since I discovered this, I have been wishing that my face was inverted. I look way better in mirror than in pics, and I hate it.

[@MatrixEvolution17]

I found out that I can create a True Mirror with my bathroom cabinet because it's all mirror, so if I angle it at 90 degrees I can get a true reflection

[@geemy9675]

similar (actually worse) emotional damage happens when you hear your voice recorder without internal resonance etc.although not because of asymmetries but because of different frequencies spectrum

[@GriffinForte]

Btw i think my mirror is broken because it doesn't reverse

[@themarlboromandalorian]

The first time in his life huh? Acts like he's never seen a photograph of himself.

[@MarkWilliams-cn4lm]

So you've never seen a picture of yourself? Wild

[@marthastrayton]

Me too: “Emotional damage”!!😂😂

[@milly7843]

I have a very asymmetrical face due to tons of reconstructive surgery over the past 5ish years because of radiation treatment. I have long grown used to what my mirror image looks like, like everyone else, but I am always horrified by my "true" appearance. I've straight up apologized to my friends (jokingly of course 😂) for having to look at such a weird person 😂

[@klutterkicker]

Cool optical device but you could just look at yourself in a photo. Or uncheck the setting in Teams / Zoom that flips your face.

[@JasonBunce-du8nf]

First thing I would've noticed would be that mustachio.😂

[@ninalessandri]

OP: "our son's gf is trans" OP's husband: "hmm" 💭(this is a perfect excuse to get ice cream)

[@davewilson13]

I built one of these for my students and they didn’t notice until I said stick out your tongue and move it left to right. It moved opposite to their expectations and many put their hands near their mouth to confirm. Great fun.