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The real reason we don't like how we look in pictures is because camera lenses cause distortion and don't actually take 100% accurate pictures of what we really look like in real life. Focal length and the distance between the subject and the camera will warp a person's face. Camera photos are 2d, while our eyes are 3d. What you see the mirror is more accurate than what you look like in photos by far.
@@barium_67 Not at all most definitely, one should never use, for instance a face cam on your phone as "1/1" reference on what you'd look like in real life because these cameras cannot perceive depth like human eyes do, so most of the depth gets turned into width which makes your head look wider and more slanted. This also happens on proper cameras as well because it all comes down to the focal length of the lens. I do modelling on instagram and generally speaking people often say that a 50mm lens is kind of the standard for good portraits because it "resembles the human eye most" but in all honesty I also find them not be truly 1/1 either, but this is just my personal opinion though.
Seeing myself unmirrored always reduces my self-confidence by a lot. Everybody says I look okay and I'm not the most attractive guy in the world but it just looks really off when I see myself unmirrored. Mostly because I have asymmetrical eyes that it almost looks derpy if the one eye that's bigger is in the wrong side of my face. Maybe if I have a true mirror and get used to how I look that way I can finally get some self confidence back.
We only have one life, and this body we are stuck in is our vessel. Try not to be too hard on yourself. Relax, be kind to yourself, and let that confidence flow.
I feel like a 3d view of yourself is even more accurate. Have you ever looked at your side profile with another mirror and think wtf, that's how I look from the side???
Would be a stupid idea because unlike you other people are used to see you that way so it would have the effect that your perception would be even worse than simply looking into a normal mirror.
@@DJRonnieG On my older phone I could choose that in the settings, some phones mirror it as you take the photo and save it the correct way. Since I don't take that much selfies I don't know how it is on my actual one.
@@jondo7680 yeah, it's basically hit or miss. Some phones that I've owned have allowed me to un-reverse the image but not all. I know of a workaround or two now but in some cases it's so convoluted and easier for me to just do it in post-processing for the very rare occasion that I use the selfy cam. Most of the time tho, I need it I real-time... so yeah... hit or miss.
Actually, I used to have a similar experience every morning. I'd get up, go to the bathroom and it seems like I smell bad, but I know it's because the mirror is reflecting my scent upside down. This came as a great relief, knowing I never have to wash before going out of the house... or ever again, really.
I feel like this would've been far easier to showcase and for viewers to comprehend if it was shot horizontally and with a wider framing to show the entire rig setup, with the view that we see in the current video inlaid on top of the camera filming the set.
in my house the bathroom wall is a big giant mirror, and when the mirrors meet in the corners, it creates this thing you're calling "True mirror". my entire life i'd get my hair one way, then i'd look at myself in the inverted mirror to see what it truly looks like and be like "dude i can't wear my hair like this, its uneven"
I remember playing around with the "true mirror" in the clothing shops back in the 80's. You could angel them to the point you could make copies of yourself into eternity. Always lots of fun as kids playing around with those moving mirrors that allowed you to view your true self, plus more options with playing with infinity!
@@anphoneron omg same! I once even grabbed my own neck through the mirror, me and my mirror image were strangling each other and I eventually blacked out and found myself in my friends apartment, they told me I got drunk, can't believe my mirror self took me out to dinner and left me at my friend's apartment!
Have u ever noticed how u touch ur mirror self hair, skin clothes all have same touch feel too...i can't really tell if my body is made of actual skin, cotton or glass.!!!
I'm no rocket surgeon but I'm not sure you understand scientific mirror science from a scientifically mirrored perspective on mirrors of the scientific variety; the scientific name for the subject, of course, being rorrim. Keep in mind this is coming from me, a simple rocket surgeon. I'm not saying I'm right but I am.
Once when I was visiting my aunt, I managed to arrange the mirror doors on her medicine cabinet in such a way that one of them became a true mirror. I didn't notice any major differences, but it still felt really weird to know that in a way I was seeing my "real face" in real time for the first time.
I first saw this effect in a pub and I wasn’t drunk. Along the panelled wall behind the bar, there was a row of small mirrors zig-zagging along at 45° to each other. I happened to notice that my reflection wasn’t reversed. I've often thought that bedrooms, which often have a wardrobe door mirror should have an extra, hinged mirror which could be set at 45° to give a true image albeit not seamless. For the best, seamless true mirror it must be front silvered.
This one is more accurate. Mirrors flip front-to-back, which flips chirality ("handedness."). So this second mirror flips it back again. The previous video was very inaccurate in its wording. This one is better.
Growing up, my bathroom had a big flat mirror, with two angled mirrors at the side that had hidden cabinets behind them. They operated off a hinge, and I remember the time around age 12 that I noticed after opening them to a right angle, I would look different. I distinctly remember liking what I saw better than my normal mirror image, so I would fix my hair using the true mirror. It was a pleasant surprise that I was more handsome to myself than I had previously thought.
I've been thinking about this semi recently.. How i don't really know what i look like to other people, and the reason you usually look "bad" in other peoples photos is because you're just used to seeing the mirrored version of yourself in mirrors aswell as selfie cameras.. So i took a photo of myself with my back camera on my phone and instantly became 10 times more insecure lmao
Keep taking pictures with ur back camera and eventually you'll get used to it , I take selfies with my back camera now when I first took a pic I thought I looked like Shrek but now I'm used to it
I took the first ever picture of myself in 4K and it was absolutely fucking disgusting. Far worse than any mirror, I look 40 years older than I am and I have a pineapple face. Wtf
@@Journey_Awaits I burst out laughing when I read your comment because I've done the same thing. I reckon I can probably get senior citizens discount everywhere now so at least there's an upside 😄
A photo taken from a camera on your phone is not always accurate either, it distorts your face and turns you into a 2d image when you’re actually a 3d moving human with changing facial expressions
Despite knowing you probably had safety goggles on, seeing a 1w laser being shot into a mirror filled me with a level of fear I didnt know a video could put in me
You always show something interesting that isn't something I have heard someone else discuss before!!! This is definitely one of my favorite RUclips channels!!
This reminds of a weird thing that would happen with mirrors when I was younger- my friends eye would look lazy and half closed in the mirror but looked normal in plain view. I remember it happening with a couple other people as well.
Ah that's really interesting. Thought that disparity was something we just made up from looking at ourselves for too long so to hear it be noticeable for someone else like that is interesting, especially if you didn't pick up om any lazy eye when you initially met them
@@pitaandhummus7643 its because were used to how we look in a normal mirror and we dont notice our asymmetry. When i see my Dad in the mirror his head looks foot shaped to me, something i dont notice normally.
I like that he showed us how to see what it would look like to meet ourselves. But not actually what we look like to other people. Y'know, since the things people take notice of come from experience and what they were raised to notice. Example: People who can visually tell Identical Twins Apart, vs people who can't.
@@TehUltimateSnake Exactly that, my friend. That isn't the case. We all as human beings register the information our eyes give to our brains differently.
I read somewhere, that a person would not recognize their own clone. The reason being we had always seen ourselves in a mirror and wouldn't recognize ourselves straight on.
@@Frankjc3rd Interesting, but I don't believe that's true. The difference between the mirrored version of ourselves and us is rather small, because every aspect about our face remains the same. When I first looked into a true mirror which I created myself at 10 years old I was fascinated, but I still recognized myself very well. The only difference is that my moles are on the other side of the face and the right side is puffier than the left one and I was used to the other way around, but that's pretty much it. When I see my mom and my boyfriend looking into the mirror they almost look the same, too, so I don't think that mirrored versions are anywhere near "unrecognizable". But if you mirror only one side of your face, that's different, because it would change your unique facial composition.
Looking in one of these is extremely eerie, it's a vision of yourself you've never had, and have never seen in a mirror. Your brain interprets it as "wrong" somehow at a primal level
@@whats0my0agenda of course, that always works in post-processing. It's not always possible to do it live especially with with the stock camera app. Gold star for the thought 🌟
@@whats0my0agenda Cameras on phones don't really have the same depth perception like our eyes do (I forget what its called), so even in cameras you don't see your true self.
@@DJRonnieG The stock camera app almost always has the function to flip an image horizontally. I know on an iPhone you just click edit, crop, and there’s a little logo on the top left hand corner. On a Samsung or other Android phone, it’s probably very similar action. It just takes a few seconds.
Don't be discouraged if you think you look ugly in a true mirror. People are used to seeing you that way just like you're used to seeing yourself in a normal mirror, and you're probably gonna be more aware and attentive of imperfections or abnormal things, especially in contrast to how you normally see yourself all the time ;) as someone said, most people aren't symmetrical. very cool trick tho
I always horizontally mirror the image when taking a picture with my front facing camera. Because that's how people would see my face everyday from their perspective. But I wish my face look like the one I see everyday in a normal mirror. Because that's the only perspective where I actually look pretty decent..
Now I totally want one of these.....and I have never thought of myself as narcissistic before. But really, what else could I do with this 'True Mirror' aside from gaze upon my own perfect visage?
When I was younger I always remember imagining a very large true mirror. Two people would be placed at both ends of this mirror and they would see a light reflection of each other but never hear them since they are so far away. I am not sure this is possible but I’ve always been astounded by it for some reason.
Basically zoom camera without "mirror your video" turned on because others' POV are seeing us off automatically while for our POV its optional, got this question in my head a year ago
What I've always wondered is how other people hear you and themselves because you sound different to yourself compared how everyone hears you if I'm not mistaken. Especially considering that you think you sound weird in recordings but other people think you sound fine.
Here's one for the action lab to consider . I am dyslexic , and I have discovered in life that I do have some difficulty working with mirrors (combing hair , removing eyelashes from inside of eyes etc .) and have found that working with a double mirror makes my arms feel like they are locking up , I can not function at all trying to do my usual backwards things backwards ....... for real I do not like double mirrors for that reason , I used to play with two mirrors all the time as I always tried to create the furthest Doppler effect (tunnel) effect I could and then try to see what lied at the very singularity of those mirrors . (No I never discovered the answer , so there is still something at the very center of the continuous mirror , it may be closer than it appears in the mirror ) .
That’s super interesting. Also just curious what does the Doppler effect have to do with infinite mirror reflections? Are you referring to the decrease energy with every reflection that makes it darker? Or are you also talking about the green tint from mirrors with impurities that reflect green light? I always think of the Doppler effect in terms of frequency changes due to some relative acceleration or deceleration (change in position). I think the tunnel you see is more just reflections that happen at a constant frequency no matter of position. But if you get you position lined up just right, you can see the that frequency and decaying feedback for the greatest length of frames - from brightest and largest to darkest and smallest.
this is why people usually like their face more while they’re taking a selfie than when they look at the picture taken; it actually gets flipped the way other people see us, but since we’re used to seeing our face in the mirror, our “real” face seems off. other people don’t usually find a big difference tbh, it’s just that we’re obsessed with the little details and “imperfections” of our own face lol
@@ddsjgvk the image of yourself you see when you look at your front camera is flipped, but most phones will flip the photo after you have taken the selfie, so the pic in your gallery is your “true” self
If I’m not mistaken, this is also the case when you’re in a Zoom meeting (on a desktop computer). I believe Zoom flips the image of yourself so you’re seeing what you actually look like as well. I could be wrong.
He is not saying that mate. He is saying that the standard camera video of yourself on a zoom netting is a double mirror too. Therefore it is a real picture of what you look alike to other people. Ofc you can use filters
A simple reflection via a mirror or camera is not a “double-mirror”. You’re better off just video recording yourself, for a real view of yourself, as viewed by others. Gives you a 3D perspective, which is what a “double-mirror” does.
When you take a selfie and flip the image, many or most people look a lot different than their unflipped image. I guess regular mirror isn't truthful enough.
Well technically that IS how other people see you, but if we count the factor of how familiar you are with that perspective in, the regular mirror shows it better (because if you look in a flipped one like this, you'll feel that it's weird because you're not used to it, but obviously people meeting you won't have that affecting them).
My asymmetrical face kept bothering me when I take selfies when I was younger. After I realized this, I always flip my selfie pictures so I can adjust seeing myself how others would.
Lol it's been a good while now since I've started flipping all my selfies (easy little trick, it can be enabled in the settings) or taking pictures from the primary camera, so I could get used to how I actually look and not be surprised when I see myself in others' pictures.
My technique last week was a bit more intense, I used a mirror and roughly 20mg of DMT (and iMAO). Damn. Felt like it was another person just in front of me. I mean, it is, right? The reflection is just an illusion tricking us.. But it does look a lot like me, so I gazed into “my” eyes for the first time.. What a night. I tried to give me a kiss but it didn’t work kkkkk I felt the cold mirror in my lips and it wasn’t like lips feel. Well, that is my story for you all, using this stuff I’ve been solving debilitating autoimmune symptoms 30 doctors couldn’t solve, this medicine is gonna save the world ❤️ peace!
Ohhh, thank you so much for clarifying this. My whole life I was under the impression that I, myself, would be capable of holding a phone and recording myself in order to successfully carry out this experiment. I never knew that a third party human being was required to preform the "selfie", or "tiktok" as they call it nowadays. This is very innovative information and I will be making use of it post-haste!
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this is the reason (coupled with the fact most of us aren't symmetrical) why so many of us don't like how we look in pictures
I was gonna mention that.
Pictures are supposed to show the true 'you' right?
The real reason we don't like how we look in pictures is because camera lenses cause distortion and don't actually take 100% accurate pictures of what we really look like in real life. Focal length and the distance between the subject and the camera will warp a person's face. Camera photos are 2d, while our eyes are 3d. What you see the mirror is more accurate than what you look like in photos by far.
@@yooly7woo a lot of the time people don't like how they look because they're too close to the camera and it distorts how your face
@@barium_67 Not at all most definitely, one should never use, for instance a face cam on your phone as "1/1" reference on what you'd look like in real life because these cameras cannot perceive depth like human eyes do, so most of the depth gets turned into width which makes your head look wider and more slanted. This also happens on proper cameras as well because it all comes down to the focal length of the lens.
I do modelling on instagram and generally speaking people often say that a 50mm lens is kind of the standard for good portraits because it "resembles the human eye most" but in all honesty I also find them not be truly 1/1 either, but this is just my personal opinion though.
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Is a camera also true mirror?
@@albydamned technically
Yeah
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Seeing myself unmirrored always reduces my self-confidence by a lot. Everybody says I look okay and I'm not the most attractive guy in the world but it just looks really off when I see myself unmirrored. Mostly because I have asymmetrical eyes that it almost looks derpy if the one eye that's bigger is in the wrong side of my face. Maybe if I have a true mirror and get used to how I look that way I can finally get some self confidence back.
We only have one life, and this body we are stuck in is our vessel. Try not to be too hard on yourself. Relax, be kind to yourself, and let that confidence flow.
Stop smoking weed.
@@IFrequency.. ur a lame
@@IFrequency.. never smoke weed at the gas station
Lol how you look outwardly doesn't matter. How you look inwardly is what really matters. Stop focusing on the wrong Shi.
It would be amazing to be able to come out of our bodies even just to hear or see ourselves, just for a minute or two to explore.
Yeaaa it's called having a video being taken of you
@@SteveAustin00 bro how your gonna compare that lol
Shrooms
Its called astral projection
Having a twin.
I feel like a 3d view of yourself is even more accurate. Have you ever looked at your side profile with another mirror and think wtf, that's how I look from the side???
I was disgusted the first time I saw myself
@@thequietkid5212 That disgusted feeling never goes away for me.
I was like "damn are my eyes really that big?"
Arctus The Goddess it’s my nose and jawline for me 😭
it's just damaging😸🙈deeply disturbing every time
very cool! never heard of such a thing...they should have those at stores for when you're buying clothes.
Would be a stupid idea because unlike you other people are used to see you that way so it would have the effect that your perception would be even worse than simply looking into a normal mirror.
@@jondo7680 well I for one find it absolutely frustrating that my phone's selfie camera only works like a false mirror.
@@DJRonnieG if it’s iphone you can reverse image in the settings
@@DJRonnieG On my older phone I could choose that in the settings, some phones mirror it as you take the photo and save it the correct way. Since I don't take that much selfies I don't know how it is on my actual one.
@@jondo7680 yeah, it's basically hit or miss. Some phones that I've owned have allowed me to un-reverse the image but not all. I know of a workaround or two now but in some cases it's so convoluted and easier for me to just do it in post-processing for the very rare occasion that I use the selfy cam. Most of the time tho, I need it I real-time... so yeah... hit or miss.
Actually, I used to have a similar experience every morning. I'd get up, go to the bathroom and it seems like I smell bad, but I know it's because the mirror is reflecting my scent upside down. This came as a great relief, knowing I never have to wash before going out of the house... or ever again, really.
lol
You are unbelievable 😂
Bro 😭
😂😂
Big brain
I feel like this would've been far easier to showcase and for viewers to comprehend if it was shot horizontally and with a wider framing to show the entire rig setup, with the view that we see in the current video inlaid on top of the camera filming the set.
Not really it’s already easy you just like to complain don’t you
@Saitama link? This just popped up in my feed as a short, had no idea there was an original video.
@@theaveragemegaguy yeah you totally got me figured out by reading less than a paragraph, dang! Guess not even constructive criticism is acceptable :O
@@Kitteh.B I just gave you constructive criticism that’s all!
@@theaveragemegaguy sure buddy
in my house the bathroom wall is a big giant mirror, and when the mirrors meet in the corners, it creates this thing you're calling "True mirror". my entire life i'd get my hair one way, then i'd look at myself in the inverted mirror to see what it truly looks like and be like "dude i can't wear my hair like this, its uneven"
@sol coward
@sol troll beginner level
@@edu.33 beginner is too good for him. his iq be like that stupid mobile game ads players who failed at basic maths.
dude like omg 💁 my hair is like totally uneven omg i just can't
@sol omg look at me guys im so funny!!!
I like that he debunked the idea I had, which was that I looked to other people like a necrotic goblin.
The more you know..
Make sure the mirrors are perfectly aligned.
I mean now it's just a flipped necrotic goblin
@@Hemostat good point 🤣. Good thing I didn't throw away my paper bag, it's such a pain to cut the eye holes in a new one.
Necrotic Goblin sounds like a killer band name
It's not an idea you had, you do look like that.
I am very thankful for your videos. I’m a lover of all science and you’ve taught me more than any classroom ever has !!
I remember playing around with the "true mirror" in the clothing shops back in the 80's.
You could angel them to the point you could make copies of yourself into eternity.
Always lots of fun as kids playing around with those moving mirrors that allowed you to view your true self, plus more options with playing with infinity!
Oh man I forgot about that it was like stepping into another dimension
I used to do that all the time 😂😂
So *this* is why I sound so weird in like voicemail playback or I hear myself on speaker and stuff. It was fake mirrors the whole time!
There is no relation between sound and mirror.
@@pokechannel9758 are you sure because sometimes when I look in the mirror I can hear myself when I talk. Like at the same time. It's wild
@@pokechannel9758 wow you’re slow
@@anphoneron omg same! I once even grabbed my own neck through the mirror, me and my mirror image were strangling each other and I eventually blacked out and found myself in my friends apartment, they told me I got drunk, can't believe my mirror self took me out to dinner and left me at my friend's apartment!
Have u ever noticed how u touch ur mirror self hair, skin clothes all have same touch feel too...i can't really tell if my body is made of actual skin, cotton or glass.!!!
then the reflection moves on its own, and you realize that that is not a real mirror.
The reflection slightly winks at you but only enough so that you notice and sound crazy when you explain it to others
Casting mirror
Wait... that’s not normal?
You realize You were the Mirror this whole time.. 🤓
Your existence is a Lie..
Then the reflection pulls out tha stick and you end up getting robbed
I used to use true/double/triple mirrors to help me cut my own hair, back when i was a barber. Really helps.
Gives you more of a 3D perspective.
Thanks for your videos 🙏😊
"Rocket is so fascinating huh, how did they make it work in the first place?"
"Well, it's no mirror science"
I'm no rocket surgeon but I'm not sure you understand scientific mirror science from a scientifically mirrored perspective on mirrors of the scientific variety; the scientific name for the subject, of course, being rorrim. Keep in mind this is coming from me, a simple rocket surgeon. I'm not saying I'm right but I am.
Mirror science is easy if you know how to bottle up your emotions
Well it's not bicycle science atleast
Did you never study optics in physics?
@@uchihaitachi01117 a lot of highschools cut out the optics unit for some reason
I’ll just be telling myself that I look more attractive in a true mirror.
This is a great video! Kudos!
Step 3 is summoning your clone from a parallel dimension
Once when I was visiting my aunt, I managed to arrange the mirror doors on her medicine cabinet in such a way that one of them became a true mirror. I didn't notice any major differences, but it still felt really weird to know that in a way I was seeing my "real face" in real time for the first time.
so you had never looked at a photograph of yourself before that??
@@desktorp as if that's more accurate bozo
@@desktorp A photograph isn't a real time projection of a person. A mirror images moves as you move, a photograph doesn't.
@@lclMetal OP edited the comment to add 'real time' after my reply
@@desktorp ah, I see
I first saw this effect in a pub and I wasn’t drunk. Along the panelled wall behind the bar, there was a row of small mirrors zig-zagging along at 45° to each other. I happened to notice that my reflection wasn’t reversed. I've often thought that bedrooms, which often have a wardrobe door mirror should have an extra, hinged mirror which could be set at 45° to give a true image albeit not seamless. For the best, seamless true mirror it must be front silvered.
That’s awesome LMAO thank you!!
I was thinking about this literally just last night while brushing my teeth. Good timing.
After one of your newer videos on mirrors, I thought they made perfect sense! I'm rethinking that now! 😅
This one is more accurate. Mirrors flip front-to-back, which flips chirality ("handedness."). So this second mirror flips it back again. The previous video was very inaccurate in its wording. This one is better.
Someone needs to do a makeup video using this mirror!
Growing up, my bathroom had a big flat mirror, with two angled mirrors at the side that had hidden cabinets behind them. They operated off a hinge, and I remember the time around age 12 that I noticed after opening them to a right angle, I would look different.
I distinctly remember liking what I saw better than my normal mirror image, so I would fix my hair using the true mirror. It was a pleasant surprise that I was more handsome to myself than I had previously thought.
Always wanted one of these. You can also see this effect when looking at some parts of the Cloud Gate (AKA "The Bean") in Chicago.
I've been thinking about this semi recently.. How i don't really know what i look like to other people, and the reason you usually look "bad" in other peoples photos is because you're just used to seeing the mirrored version of yourself in mirrors aswell as selfie cameras.. So i took a photo of myself with my back camera on my phone and instantly became 10 times more insecure lmao
Keep taking pictures with ur back camera and eventually you'll get used to it , I take selfies with my back camera now when I first took a pic I thought I looked like Shrek but now I'm used to it
I took the first ever picture of myself in 4K and it was absolutely fucking disgusting. Far worse than any mirror, I look 40 years older than I am and I have a pineapple face. Wtf
@@Journey_Awaits I burst out laughing when I read your comment because I've done the same thing. I reckon I can probably get senior citizens discount everywhere now so at least there's an upside 😄
Don't trust a camera phone, it has a very short focal length
A photo taken from a camera on your phone is not always accurate either, it distorts your face and turns you into a 2d image when you’re actually a 3d moving human with changing facial expressions
Despite knowing you probably had safety goggles on, seeing a 1w laser being shot into a mirror filled me with a level of fear I didnt know a video could put in me
just the thought of a 1w laser pointer terrifies me enough
Then you'd be quite astounded by some of the directed energy stuff that's in the works
@@apIthletIcc I think he means he was scared that Mr action lab was going to blind himself on accident for science.
Why? It's his health, not yours.
@@terminat1 because we like the funny action lab dude
I know exactly what i look like to other people just based off the disgusted look i always get, people are so kind
We need this kind of mirror
You always show something interesting that isn't something I have heard someone else discuss before!!! This is definitely one of my favorite RUclips channels!!
This reminds of a weird thing that would happen with mirrors when I was younger- my friends eye would look lazy and half closed in the mirror but looked normal in plain view. I remember it happening with a couple other people as well.
Ah that's really interesting. Thought that disparity was something we just made up from looking at ourselves for too long so to hear it be noticeable for someone else like that is interesting, especially if you didn't pick up om any lazy eye when you initially met them
The mirror that's causing that visual has damage to it or bends...the mirror isn't perfectly straight/flat that's why
My nose looks crooked in a true mirror but when I look in a normal mirror it’s straight… I’m so confused 😭
@@pitaandhummus7643 its because were used to how we look in a normal mirror and we dont notice our asymmetry. When i see my Dad in the mirror his head looks foot shaped to me, something i dont notice normally.
That's what happens with me. I look like my left sides had a mild stroke, but not in person or photos.
normal mirror: im looking good today
real mirror: i should stay indoors
Ok wow, a mirror with this sort of internal reflection opens up some cool possibilities.
Okay, I get it! I'm ugly, no need to rub it in with your double mirror laser shenanigans 😂
I like that he showed us how to see what it would look like to meet ourselves. But not actually what we look like to other people. Y'know, since the things people take notice of come from experience and what they were raised to notice. Example: People who can visually tell Identical Twins Apart, vs people who can't.
You look like to other what you see in the true mirror. What’s there not to get.
@@TehUltimateSnake Exactly that, my friend. That isn't the case. We all as human beings register the information our eyes give to our brains differently.
I read somewhere, that a person would not recognize their own clone. The reason being we had always seen ourselves in a mirror and wouldn't recognize ourselves straight on.
@@Frankjc3rd Interesting, but I don't believe that's true. The difference between the mirrored version of ourselves and us is rather small, because every aspect about our face remains the same. When I first looked into a true mirror which I created myself at 10 years old I was fascinated, but I still recognized myself very well. The only difference is that my moles are on the other side of the face and the right side is puffier than the left one and I was used to the other way around, but that's pretty much it. When I see my mom and my boyfriend looking into the mirror they almost look the same, too, so I don't think that mirrored versions are anywhere near "unrecognizable". But if you mirror only one side of your face, that's different, because it would change your unique facial composition.
Honestly, everything flew above my head.
Wow this is pretty interesting! Also is that a G7 lumix or a different version of the lumix??
YES. THE THING I WANTED ANSWERED ON YOUR LAST MIRROR VIDEO AND YOU ANSWERED IT. I'm incredibly happy and satisfied with this answer. Thank you.
It's funny how many of the amazing things on this channel are in truth surprisingly simple. Truly an eye-opener
Nice pun ROFL
That mustache/haircut combination makes you look like one of the Super Troopers
Identical Twins: * laughs *
I've done this in the bathroom mirror ever since I was like 10 - but there was a big gap in the middle, which was always so frustrating 😅
A true mirror has to be front-silvered to not have a gap. Kinda hard to do in a bathroom (it would get damaged very quickly)
"Hmm I wonder what I look like to other people"
"Oh. Oh *no* "
Periscopes taught me this when I was a British soldier at the Battle of the Somme.
Ty so much 🔥
I have always wondered about this. Thank you action lab. Keep rocking. ❤️
This is so informative and it’s cool I love your vids
That is so trippy!
God Bless ! ❤️💕 Thank you for these :] You’re a very handsome man :D
Looking in one of these is extremely eerie, it's a vision of yourself you've never had, and have never seen in a mirror.
Your brain interprets it as "wrong" somehow at a primal level
It's why people feel uncomfortable when looking at pictures of themselves sometimes.
No, pictures have lens distortion, mirrors dont
Everyone gangsta till your reflection in the true mirror comments on how you look
Thank you ☺️☺️☺️
Hey its cool how can i get this mirror
By making two plain mirrors at right angle to each other
I love (hate) that many selfie cams on phones only allow you to see a false mirror represenation of yourself.
Flip the image horizontally.
@@whats0my0agenda of course, that always works in post-processing. It's not always possible to do it live especially with with the stock camera app. Gold star for the thought 🌟
Shid, the camera made my face look so retarded.
@@whats0my0agenda Cameras on phones don't really have the same depth perception like our eyes do (I forget what its called), so even in cameras you don't see your true self.
@@DJRonnieG The stock camera app almost always has the function to flip an image horizontally. I know on an iPhone you just click edit, crop, and there’s a little logo on the top left hand corner. On a Samsung or other Android phone, it’s probably very similar action. It just takes a few seconds.
I’ve always had this question, and tried experimenting with this
Wow. I even wondered what I really looked like. It is necessary to put up mirrors sometime, as you said, and check.
That's freaky, it's like the dude inside the mirror is firing his laser into our world
Don't be discouraged if you think you look ugly in a true mirror. People are used to seeing you that way just like you're used to seeing yourself in a normal mirror, and you're probably gonna be more aware and attentive of imperfections or abnormal things, especially in contrast to how you normally see yourself all the time ;) as someone said, most people aren't symmetrical. very cool trick tho
looks are everything in this society
Another effect of a corner mirror like this is you can see yourself no matter where you are in the room. I've always wanted one.
It was a weird experience when I saw my friends on a mirror once, it's like the reverse experience
I always horizontally mirror the image when taking a picture with my front facing camera. Because that's how people would see my face everyday from their perspective. But I wish my face look like the one I see everyday in a normal mirror. Because that's the only perspective where I actually look pretty decent..
This. This exactly.
@@kaeez unless you’re perfectly symmetrical, which no one is
@@kaeez I know, I was just adding to your comment…
@veloci righto, it would look like they’re manufactured
Now I totally want one of these.....and I have never thought of myself as narcissistic before.
But really, what else could I do with this 'True Mirror' aside from gaze upon my own perfect visage?
Your not a narc for liking to look at yourself in the mirror lol
@@idkwuzgoinon this is not what the term narc means
@@idkwuzgoinon last time I checked you're only a narc if you're involved in drug trafficking
Don’t you just need two mirrors to put beside each other lol
@@sehguhnai8223 lmaoo shit killed me
When I was younger I always remember imagining a very large true mirror. Two people would be placed at both ends of this mirror and they would see a light reflection of each other but never hear them since they are so far away. I am not sure this is possible but I’ve always been astounded by it for some reason.
Basically zoom camera without "mirror your video" turned on because others' POV are seeing us off automatically while for our POV its optional, got this question in my head a year ago
What I've always wondered is how other people hear you and themselves because you sound different to yourself compared how everyone hears you if I'm not mistaken. Especially considering that you think you sound weird in recordings but other people think you sound fine.
Here's one for the action lab to consider . I am dyslexic , and I have discovered in life that I do have some difficulty working with mirrors (combing hair , removing eyelashes from inside of eyes etc .) and have found that working with a double mirror makes my arms feel like they are locking up , I can not function at all trying to do my usual backwards things backwards ....... for real I do not like double mirrors for that reason , I used to play with two mirrors all the time as I always tried to create the furthest Doppler effect (tunnel) effect I could and then try to see what lied at the very singularity of those mirrors . (No I never discovered the answer , so there is still something at the very center of the continuous mirror , it may be closer than it appears in the mirror ) .
That’s super interesting. Also just curious what does the Doppler effect have to do with infinite mirror reflections? Are you referring to the decrease energy with every reflection that makes it darker? Or are you also talking about the green tint from mirrors with impurities that reflect green light? I always think of the Doppler effect in terms of frequency changes due to some relative acceleration or deceleration (change in position). I think the tunnel you see is more just reflections that happen at a constant frequency no matter of position. But if you get you position lined up just right, you can see the that frequency and decaying feedback for the greatest length of frames - from brightest and largest to darkest and smallest.
I need an upscaled version of this in my future house
this is why people usually like their face more while they’re taking a selfie than when they look at the picture taken; it actually gets flipped the way other people see us, but since we’re used to seeing our face in the mirror, our “real” face seems off. other people don’t usually find a big difference tbh, it’s just that we’re obsessed with the little details and “imperfections” of our own face lol
So is a selfie with the camera pointed at you not a mirror is your true self?
@@ddsjgvk the image of yourself you see when you look at your front camera is flipped, but most phones will flip the photo after you have taken the selfie, so the pic in your gallery is your “true” self
Imagine watching this guy while high
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Watch the massuo black vid, it looks like he cut a hole in reality. 🤯
If I’m not mistaken, this is also the case when you’re in a Zoom meeting (on a desktop computer). I believe Zoom flips the image of yourself so you’re seeing what you actually look like as well. I could be wrong.
You are wrong indeed. You can configure your camera however your want
He is not saying that mate. He is saying that the standard camera video of yourself on a zoom netting is a double mirror too. Therefore it is a real picture of what you look alike to other people. Ofc you can use filters
A simple reflection via a mirror or camera is not a “double-mirror”.
You’re better off just video recording yourself, for a real view of yourself, as viewed by others.
Gives you a 3D perspective, which is what a “double-mirror” does.
Diy version: two cupboard door mirrors
This explains why I’m ugly to everyone else. We just don’t need eyes. I now have hope
The easiest way to see this is by using the "flip option" in your selfie camera.
When you take a selfie and flip the image, many or most people look a lot different than their unflipped image. I guess regular mirror isn't truthful enough.
Every time I see a vid from here I always leave it going “I want one” or “I wanna do that”
This is really cool! I actually have a giant true mirror in my house’s bathroom! It’s cool to see how you ACTUALLY look like
Well technically that IS how other people see you, but if we count the factor of how familiar you are with that perspective in, the regular mirror shows it better (because if you look in a flipped one like this, you'll feel that it's weird because you're not used to it, but obviously people meeting you won't have that affecting them).
My asymmetrical face kept bothering me when I take selfies when I was younger. After I realized this, I always flip my selfie pictures so I can adjust seeing myself how others would.
Same with me , but it happens with me when using the rear(back) camera. 😩
Dude you are awesome
So cool!
O i thought everyone knew about the Lateral Inversion of plane mirror.
Mate i doubt half of people know what your sentence even means LMAO that's like saying oh I thought everyone knew of the atomic structure of lettuce
@@necesitoserotonin2274 haha fair enough.
But if you take a selfie and invert the image for the other side, this wouldn't be the same thing as see yourself?
In Zoom or probably other computer video apps, you can click a “mirror” button where it either mirrors or unmirrors your video
Lol it's been a good while now since I've started flipping all my selfies (easy little trick, it can be enabled in the settings) or taking pictures from the primary camera, so I could get used to how I actually look and not be surprised when I see myself in others' pictures.
My technique last week was a bit more intense, I used a mirror and roughly 20mg of DMT (and iMAO). Damn. Felt like it was another person just in front of me. I mean, it is, right? The reflection is just an illusion tricking us.. But it does look a lot like me, so I gazed into “my” eyes for the first time.. What a night. I tried to give me a kiss but it didn’t work kkkkk I felt the cold mirror in my lips and it wasn’t like lips feel. Well, that is my story for you all, using this stuff I’ve been solving debilitating autoimmune symptoms 30 doctors couldn’t solve, this medicine is gonna save the world ❤️ peace!
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I loved this story gave me a good laugh thank you
What
im too afraid to find out
Me too. I already think I look like a goblin, don't want to find out I look like an inbred goblin.
Phone cameras: am I a joke to you guys?
*Mirrors are overpowered*
Action lab’s ‘stache needs a youtube channel of its own
There’s something called have someone else record you. Pretty helpful to see what you look like to people.
Videos are 2d.
Our eyes see 3d.
Dont try to be a smartass.
What....does that statement even mean.
😂
Ohhh, thank you so much for clarifying this. My whole life I was under the impression that I, myself, would be capable of holding a phone and recording myself in order to successfully carry out this experiment. I never knew that a third party human being was required to preform the "selfie", or "tiktok" as they call it nowadays. This is very innovative information and I will be making use of it post-haste!
That almost broke my brain until you explained it at the end.
WOW That Is Amazing
Better solution:
Look at a video of yourself.
Can be distorted by the lens width
That's like the worst possible reference
I take a selfie and and invert it laterally to get an idea of how i look to others
Genius!
Yes I knew it I always wondered what I truly looked like