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In a brief comment in the Reply field below, describe our common misconception about mirrors and why it’s so hard to talk ourselves out of the illusion that they flip images.
Professor David Hodges
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Counterintuitive Fall 2022 
The mirror paradox – when we look at her or a camera takes a picture of her it is the same photo with the beauty mark on the left side of her face, but when she looks in the mirror it is on the right side of her face because the mirror flips her. A mirror flips things front to back not horizontally and not vertically. It is shown as if you are looking at her from the back. If mirrors flipped things left to right then your right hand would be your right hand and same for the other side in the mirror.
The mirror paradox can be seen when we look at Cindy Crawford, we see her mole on the right side. When she sees herself in a photograph the mole would also be on the right side. But, when she looks at herself in the mirror, the mole is flipped to the left side. A mirror flips things horizontally and not vertically because a mirror perceives an image as if you were looking at yourself from behind in the mirror. We commonly perceive mirrors as looking face to face with ourselves.
When we look in our mirror, we don’t realize that the mirror is not actually flipping us. Personally, I used to struggle with doing tasks in front of a mirror because my depth would be thrown off. I never understood the “flip” so this task helped me understand it better.
It is so hard to talk ourselves out of the illusion that mirrors flip images, because what we see appears as if it’s a flipped version of us in photographs. In reality, they are showing us what we would look like if we were viewing our faces from behind somehow, and everything is on the same side as it always was. It is difficult for us to put this together in our heads because we are not used to seeing ourselves in these ways.
When looking into a mirror, it turns out that the mirror itself doesn’t just flip horizontally, it actually flips you from front to back. This means that when looking into a mirror, your right hand is gonna seem like your left hand while your left hand is going to seem like your right hand. It’s hard to talk ourselves out of it because we are so used to it.
When we look in a mirror, it seems to be that the mirror flips us left to right. A mirror is the only way we can see our reflection so it’s difficult to imagine us looking any other way. We only see ourselves flipped so it’s so hard to see anything different. We also don’t think 3-dimensionally, which is how a mirror actually shows things.
People often believe that what they see in the mirror is how everyone else sees them. A mirror flips things front to back, not left to right. If you look at a mirror you basically see yourself as someone would if you were transparent from the back.
The common misconception about mirrors isn’t that we notice a change when using a mirror rather it’s the type of change that holds the misconception. See when we look at a mirror and the image is in reverse we automatically think that it is because it was flipped left to right when in reality it is actually being flipped front and back. We don’t visualize the mirror as three-dimensional we visual it as only two-dimensional which is why we automatically think it is left to right rather than front to back. If its hard to visualize front-to-back images looking at someone from behind them but being able to see the front of them.
The mirror paradox is interesting. The trick is that the perspective of a person flips the left and right of another person. A mirror reflects the image back. It’s not as though it is from the perspective of a person. Nothing flips when looking in a mirror. Words look like they flipped backward but they are spelled right to left on your clothes so that’s how it is in the mirror.
People believe mirrors are flipped images, but they are actually just reflecting what is directly in front of them. There is no warping of the image or distortion, the mirror shows what it “sees.”
A common misconception people have when processing mirrors is that we believe that a mirror flips something from left to right. However, after this post, you can see that mirrors do not flip anything at all actually. It more so reflects what se see back to us. A way of seeing it would be imagining you are looking at yourself from the back as if you were transparent. Your right side is still viewed as your right side. The beauty mark on the left corner of your mouth stays on the left side, because it’s reflecting. It’s only when you have someone else look at you does the perspective shift.
Why do mirrors flip things horizontally? They don’t they flip things front to back. It seems like they flip horizontally because when we view them a mole or a freckle on your face is on the opposite side when looking in a mirror. Looking through a mirror is like seeing through the back of yourself and looking at yourself.
When looking in a mirror, it would almost be like if we looked at ourselves from behind. The letters on a shirt would be in the same spots they are when in a mirror as if you were to look at a translucent version of yourself. a common misconception about mirrors is they flip images horizontally but instead they flip front to back.
a lot of people often see a mirror how everyone one else does. If you dont talk about it then you will never really understand how it works. If you look at mirror you look at a mirror you basically see you as someone would see u if you transparent.
I remember always being taught that mirror flipped what we saw because everything that we see is upside down and a mirror flips that image rightside-up. I think that its so hard to to talk to ourselves about the illusion of mirrors because we know that they flip things, but we never paid attention to which way they flipped things.
Mirrors don’t flip. It’s an illusion. Mirrors just portray the image and show it back to us
Mirrors don’t flip vertically or horizontally, they flip from front-to-back. Thinking about mirrors can be really confusing, but visualizing them makes it a lot easier. We know that mirrors do flip things in some way, but we never really paid any attention to how they flip things.
Mirrors don’t flip images horizontally or vertically, in fact they don’t flip at all. A mirror shows an image “flipped” front to back, or as if the image was looking at itself.
I always thought mirrors flipped things, since thats what everyone always says. I hadn’t ever thought about it, but now that I have it makes a lot more sense that it flips front-to-back instead of right-to-left. A mirror shows you what you look like to other people.
What the hell are we looking at in mirrors? in all seriousness it can be a little confusing trying to understand how mirrors reflect an image on first use. In fact mirrors do not flip images at all, although it may look like right is left and left is right in a mirror the truth lies within the reflection that gives this appearance.
When we think of mirrors it’s understood that it’s a flipped image reflecting back at us. though most would think it’s left to right when it is actually front to back. Even though this is true, it is much easier to understand and say the former explanation which is why most believe it.
We looking into a mirror it just like looking at our self from behind.Everything is basically the same.Mirrors dont flip because we are not upside or flipping nothing, it just a reflection of your self that you see and that why when you look in a mirror everything looks the same all difference is if make a change or something.
The mirror paradox can be confusing. I understood today that mirrors don’t flip anything because it if did it would look much different than what it actually does. a mirror just gives back the reflection of what is sees, the difference is that it’s like you’re looking at another you which switches things from your point of view since you’re standing from a different angle than your reflection.
I learned about mirror flipping due to my active childhood shows that would deal with going to “Mirror realms” which flipped the world. This was an interesting refresher to how mirrors flip.
When we look into a mirror, we believe that the image of ourselves or the item being reflected is being flipped. But after discussing it in class, the image is brought from front to back. For example, in the picture of Cindy Crawford, the letters on her shirt would still be in the same spot if you looked at a different version of yourself.
Mirrors, from our perspective, look like they’re flipping right to left, but in reality it is not so simple. They appear this way because of the nature of reflections. It would almost be accurate to say that it flips twice: once from front to back and then one from left to right to realign the image.
Our misconception on mirrors is tricky because looking at yourself in the mirror presents yourself flip flopped. The idea of the entire “mirror concept” is sort of an illusion to our human eyes. A mirror doesn’t flip horizontally, it flips front to back.
mirrors do not flip they simply just send an imagine back and forth to one another so if you lift your left hadn’t up it will be lifted in the mirror as well. the misconception that mirrors flip left to right is wrong because if that were the case when you lift your left hand the right hand of the mirror would raise and that just doesn’t make any sense
Mirrors don’t really flip anything when we look at them. the nature of reflections and the way the light hits a mirror makes it flip front to back rather than left to right meaning it’s like we are looking at ourselves from the inside out. It’s hard for our brains to comprehend this because when someone looks at us face to face most of the features are flipped for the person looking at us that’s just how our eyes and angles work. This isn’t the case for mirrors when you look at yourself it’s not like the mole under your left eye switched to the right side it’s still on your left side a mirrored image of yourself.