No, it’s nothing to do with fat or wrinkles.
When I was a little kid, making scary faces in the mirror was part of my morning routine. The opposite of an early riser, I needed a jolt to wake me up, and I was, you see, too young to start a caffeine addiction. So halfway through my tooth-brushing session I’d open my foaming mouth, make my fingers into claws, and would start approaching the bathroom mirror while staring intently at my reflection and producing a soft but menacing howl. About a quarter of an inch away from the mirror my nerves would give out, and I would run screaming from the bathroom to finish my tooth-brushing in the kitchen (no mirrors there). Then I would be awake enough to face the day.
Somewhere around my early teenage years the mirrors lost their mysterious terror and turned into mostly benign objects (with the exception of making my nose look decidedly too big). Lately, though, the suspense has been making a comeback. There is something very spooky about those smooth reflective glassy planes.
Check it out for yourself today, or better yet tonight. Go to your bathroom and start looking into the mirror. At first your thoughts might run along the lines of “I need to go to the gym more often” or “Shit, did I really walk around all day with lipstick smeared all over my cheek and not a single freaking bastard had the decency to point it out to me?” Shhh… Relax. Just look. Just keep looking.
It will start as a mild unease. You’ll brush it off with a little, not-even-nervous-yet smile that your mirror twin will flash right back at you. But as you keep looking, the sense of unease will become more pronounced. You know it’s only your own reflection. But the way it’s staring at you starts sending shivers down your spine. And as if that wasn’t spooky enough, as you keep staring into those unblinking eyes in the mirror, you notice something in the depth of the reflected room… some almost imperceptible movement… light and darkness playing tricks with your mind… You shift your gaze to look just over and past your twin’s shoulder… and you notice that your twin is nervously peering over yours as if something was creeping up behind you..
And then you say “Enough of this nonsense!” (you’re too grown up and not scared enough to scream), slam the bathroom’s door, march into the kitchen, splash two fingers’ worth of scotch into a glass and flip the TV on. And when it’s time to go to bed you convince yourself that you’re too tired to brush your teeth tonight. And the next day you wake up, smile at yourself in the mirror, and post on your blog that mirrors actually aren’t scary at all and some people let their imaginations run way too wild over nothing.
Good night. :-)
27 July, 2008 at 4:41 pm
hmm yes it does seem that there is something quite spookey about the mirrors.
13 March, 2009 at 1:26 am
can u like make mirror tricks like bloody mary and shit
8 September, 2009 at 2:26 pm
TRUE STORY when i was around 14 i had a dresser with a mirror in front of my bed on the other side of the room. and my dog brandy was sleeping at the foot of my bed she sat up and was looking into the mirror and started growling at the mirror and cocking her head as if she heard a high pitch sound . when i looked up i saw a black shadow figure glide from one end of the mirror to the other in a smooth motion and my dog saw it i was frozen with fear. i was not asleep are dreaming this. i do not know what it was but i do know that it was not some one walking by my bed room because when some one walked by a shadow would go all the way around my room this was only in the mirror and it never happen”d again. but i do not like mirrors to this day as a adult because of what i saw. brad finger
28 September, 2009 at 10:19 am
Sometimes, especialy in childhood we confuse the dreaming state with actual events. I have a vivid picture of a scarry clown moking me in front of my bed, doesn’t mean it happened.
19 October, 2009 at 9:05 pm
well the problem with that is i was not asleep and my dog was seeing something also…I have done some research and there is a thing called shadow people..I don’t know for sure what it was i just know i was not seeing things and i was fully awake…not every thing can be easily explained away sometimes strange things happen that are just strange..I know of other people that have seen very strange unexplainable things as a child and a adult…. so there is no confusion on what i saw…..Brad f