John Walter talks about the magic and promise from True Mirrors reflecting the real you! John Walter www.truemirror.com/ Musicbed SyncID: MB0150PFK9NSYFT
its all about the nature of personal communication - its a trick of the optics that it can do this, but beyond that, its a total appeal, and connection to actual emotions/thoughts/personality/state of being/clarity of self-awareness that one has. If that is no value to you, I understand, but in theory, the opposite version, the doppelganger in the mirror has been filtering much of it from all of us, and so we are operating out of sync with our inner and outer personas. Its both subtle and profound if you consider the impact its had over entire lifetimes
@@TrueMirrorJWalter I swear ever since I started looking at my non-mirrored self I've gained a true feeling of who I am as a person and my inner state seems to match watch I'm seeing, it's changed my life
@@nx2120 that's great to hear. for me, it reflects my current state of being in the moment, and it changes day to day. the big think is to be able to work with myself and my issues in a way that stays authentic and continuous.
I'm gonna just say this for people who are just seeing this for the first time: If you just take a picture of yourself on a modern phone, you can see your real self.
ah yes, except for the fact that you cant interact with yourself with a picture or video. You can see what you look like, but that's not your real self. Its the direct, real-time eye contact that enables interactivity, and with your eyes not reversed, that's when natural communication with natural expression is enabled. its much different and more involved than just a flat and static image of yourself.
John, have you tried a True Mirror with Cats or Dogs, who seem indifferent to their reflection after an initial experience with a "Normal Mirror" they would encounter in our homes every day? The Mirror Test has been the gold standard to determine whether an animal is self aware. Elephants who have never experienced a Mirror will immediately investigate a mark on it's own body they could not otherwise see. Using the Mirror as a visual tool to probe the mark with their trunk. If only we could have an Elephant sized True Mirror!
@carbon Hi, it's a good question that needs more research, especially to see if those that pass the mirror test (like chimpanzees) react differently to the True Mirror. Regarding cats and dogs, I have tried only with my own cats, where i put the True Mirror up when they were just kittens, and tried to see if they would respond to themselves at all. The results were mostly negative, but i was able to catch a few times where they would interact. One cat would kind of check herself out when something just happened, like a scary loud sound or being stuck in a box. She literally would run over to the true mirror for some kind of reassurance - it happened about 4 times. The other would look at himself a couple of times (see this picture: drive.google.com/file/d/1Yl7a1NsMuQ7Nx84kWbgFssr7IPi258R1 ), but for the most part they didn't interact, and now they kind of ignore it. One problem is that the backwards mirror is always present (each side panel), so the uniqueness of the non-reversed image gets muddied for them. A different arrangement would be needed so they only see the one mirror. But to me, the real question is whether the ones that pass the mirror test interact differently in the True Mirror. I asked one of the researchers about it a while ago, specifically if the primates actually talked to themselves in mirrors (like we do, vs. just examining themselves) and he said no. Like the concept of self-introspection is missing. My question is whether having their expressions intact would enable them to make that leap to really recognizing themselves and going to some of the places that we as humans go with ourselves. Then, if so, would that be a good or bad thing? :). Self-awareness is definitely a double edged sword!
@ carbon 14: I am John's True Mirror Representative, as you can see my profile pic here is my cat Josefina looking with me fascinated into the True Mirror but she would attack her 'normal' mirror image. My late cat Bubba stared for over 5 minutes ! at his True Mirror image which I had set up on a table. We had to drag her away from it :-) I don't think though that animals can 'contemplate' consciously that they are Consciousness expressed in form not having a 'thinking mind' that thinks in words so fortunately they don't have a personal ego, meaning they are not identified with their bodies as self as seen in a mirror and don't need to attach a name to anything but knowing intuitively, naturally that they are the Infinite Self disguised as an animal ;-) just Being themselves.
the fact that an elephant immediatly investigates a spot they normally couldn't see, show the fact that this jwalter is full of dogshit. that it doesn't matter that it's a "mirror image" because guess what. IT'S BEEN THAT WAY FOR MILLIONS OF YEARS WHEN WE USED WATER AS MIRRORS it's how ALL life on earth knows a mirror image. and IT is the most natural way. not this "true mirror" quack bullshit
Turn on Zoom, and change the settings to mirrored image (it reverses the default mirrored effect). See yourself as the real you with the same live interaction that a mirror has.
Yes, that's a good idea so you can see your natural expressions when you glance at yourself. However, there is a big difference between that and looking in the True Mirror - its the direct eye contact with yourself that is so much more dynamic and even powerful. a camera can't do this - you are always looking at the screen or the lens, never directly into your eyes. Its also flat and tiny - the True Mirror reflects in full size, full spectrum, 3D and non-reversed. Its subtle yet profound if you are into really figuring yourself out. THen when you are interacting with the world (IRL or Zoom), you have a clue as to what they are really seeing when they look into your eyes and talk with you. Your expressive nature
I'm not quite grasping the concept. I want a non réversible true mirror for my yoga/meditation studio to face a conventional mirror. I feel this would create some sort of energy vortex as we practice Yoga & we get to see both sides. Can this be made into a huge top to bottom long full room Wall Mirror?
John I watched your videos speculating as to what markets would find True Mirrors to be desirable. Have you ever considered talking to Tattoo Artists? People spend lots of money to acquire Tattoos and never really are able to see what they look like to other people. I could see Tattoo shops making use of a full length mirror to help show results and advise their clients. I myself have never been interested in Tattoos, but so many of my younger co-workers / Guests at the Hotel I interact with invest a lot of their money in art that is ordinarily unreadable to to themselves. I'll bet that if you were able to sell your full length mirror to these Tattoo parlors at a discount, this would introduce their clients to the True Mirror for the first time (potentially leading to full price sales of your mirrors to their clients.)
Hi, yes, I did exhibit at a Tattoo convention once, which was a lot of fun. Best part was seeing huge guys with major tattoos get all gushy cause they could see and read their tattoo for the first time. In one way its a perfect illustration of how mirroring takes away information...when it is backwards, the mind does not read the letters (left brain activity) and only sees the graphic design. When it is forwards, both the left and right brains are activated, and the whole message of the tattoo can be experienced - design and lettering combined. In terms of marketing though, it's always a tougher sell to businesses who are interacting with the general public...everyone is so different when they experience the True Mirror, and unless you get the right orientation for what to look for, the experience can be unsettling. There is a concept called the "uncanny valley" that needs to be crossed, and most retail clerks (or tattoo artists) are not up for helping people across that valley with their own experience. At the end of the day though, once you get used to your new image and experience, the backwards mirror pales in comparison in so many ways. Once there's some more familiarity, some of these markets will open up (like beauty salons and clothing stores as well)
How can I make or find a true mirror? You have been my inspiration to introduce the true mirror into my work as a hospice nurse and with .y volunteer advocacy work I do in nursing homes. I think this would be a powerful tool and an opportunity for me to grow and evolve my own perceptions of myself and the world around me in the process. Id love to document the project
Hi John, this idea is patented? I want to make and sell a similar product in my country (Chile - Latinoamerica) but it could be a problem? Thanks for answer!
hi, no its an old idea, first patented in 1887, so its in the public domain now. However, it's very tricky to make the seam to be invisible, which is critical for using it as a looking glass, since your eyes are always right in the seam. I hope to someday license the trade secrets and also the trademark name "True Mirror", but don't have a program setup yet.
they do, and sometimes they work, but often not. Making the seam invisible requires a lot of precision and those often have a visible gap or are misaligned so there's a split or bunching up in the seam. The seam matters, it goes right through your eyes. It's also small, so I feel kind of cramped in it. However, if they get the optics right, great! The point is we all should know our true image reflection, there is a lot of being normal with yourself that can result.
Hi Johan, the biggest that I can make is only 48" (actual mirror size is 46.5" x 18"), or 1.2m x 0.46m. The size of the biggest panel I can acquire is only 50", and its also a very difficult thing to achieve optically. the only way I could make it larger is by combining two panels, and then by the time it was all finished, it would be a real heavy unit to move around (the current 48" is about 70lbs). As far as I know, there isn't anyone else making these in the world at this size...the only other one is a tiny 5" knockoff from China that doesnt even get the seam right. If you want to look at the 48", here is the link: store.truemirror.com/products/48x18-full-length-true-mirror
@@TrueMirrorJWalter It's a really cool product, but why is it so expensive? I mean it's just two mirrors, right? Is the seam very hard to get invisible?
@@Cruelcoil there's a few reasons...1) it's still handmade in low quantities by only me, so there's no economies of scale. 2) Its really, really difficult to get it right, so there's a lot of build time, esp for the big ones, and finally, the mirrors themselves are front surface, which is much more expensive than regular mirrors. The big ones are like trying to make an instrument as accurate as a telescope out of wood, screws, tape and mirrors! The small 12x12 plastic ones are a lot easier, but it's still not at scale,. One day the world will catch on to this being an amazing idea and then they will be able to be less expensive. For sure the seam is crazy difficult to get right. Turns out the more accurate you get, the more accurate you still need to be. The glass is only able to be cut once, and needs a perfectly straight edge to line up to a perfectly flat surface. If it's not right, there will be a gap in the seam, and even a tenth of the thickness of a hair is noticeable - and because it goes through both your eyes, it's hard to use it as a mirror. Do that perfect cut top to bottom over 48" and its really crazy to get it right. Even the 12" ones...they are so much better when the two mirrors touch perfectly. But then, like i said, the more you get the seam invisible, the more you have to get the angle to be exactly 90.0 degrees. If it's not perfect, your eye can tell, and it gets worse the farther back you go...there is a dramatic parallax increase. So the entire two panels have to be on a perfectly warp free surface, with the ability to account for slight differences in the geometry, and even the way the mirrors hang. For example, with the 12" model, i have to build in a slight shim of .005" tape on the bottom of one panel compared to the top, because when you turn the mirror vertical, gravity actually pulls it back. Without it, you can be about 15 feet away and the parallax of that smallest shim actually translates to a 0.5" warp from top to bottom, which makes the mirror really wonky. I know that I have succeeded if it looks perfectly good up close (seamless) and perfectly good from 15 feet away (the angle). You would not believe how many times i tried to get that right. And with the full length mirror, there literally is 4 fine tune knobs to adjust from top to bottom, because even temperature will be different over 4 feet and you have to adjust them differently! So long answer, it's expensive because its hard and I only can make a few of them right now. But the net effect is so incredible...it literally is the only way you can make direct eye contact with yourself with your face actually functioning properly...the first time you can actually see and talk to yourself as you really are. Every other mirror simply can not compare, they create a literal doppelganger that looks and acts differently than whoever you really are, causing you to believe in yourself differently than you probably could and should. The full length one engages you with your body, so you can see how you actually animate yourself, and it's really so much more natural and uplifting to see yourself as more of a being, then just a body.
True Mirror is a misnomer, since a mirror image is a reverse image. True reflection might be more accurate. Either way, I don't see the benfit of this device. The only difference is one is reversed and the other is not. Otherwise, what is being reflected is the same as what other people see. Your attempts at making this product seem as earth shattering as color blindness correcting glasses falls flat in spite of your emotional video. One image is reversed, the other is not. Its really no big deal unless you are trying to read reflected writing.
Hi Buzz, the issue is not about what we look like, but how we communicate. We are really good at reading faces when talking with others, even the tiniest microexpression can signify important meaning in terms of both thought and emotion. But those expressions get altered by being backwards, which then causes us to respond to ourselves differently backwards, which then gets reversed again, and then interpreted differently again, and so on. Over a lifetime it makes us shift rapidly to a different version of us, a literal doppelganger, that communicates, thinks and feels in an altered way than what is real. The degree to which this impacts a person is highly variable, depending on how much they actually do communicate how they are doing to themselves in mirrors...some do a lot, some do a little, some not at all, some never even look. Regardless, the effect is still there, along with some deeply fundamental beliefs about ourselves, even if not conscious, because it is a not quite real version of us that has been with us since childhood, when almost all of us did use the mirror to figure ourselves out. The purpose of the True Mirror is to get your face right to yourself, in real time, and over time. Your ability to communicate with yourself, to see who and how you are in the moment is greatly enhanced. Again, how you use this new information is highly dependent on you and how much you actually do communicate (a lot of people still stare at themselves in the True Mirror instead of engaging, which means that not that much is happening). The message of True Mirror is that we are have this somewhat inauthentic being within our self-awareness that influences everything from self-understanding to self-confidence and self-esteem. Its a feedback loop with distortion, and like all such loops, where it goes is very unpredictable. It is now possible to generate a feedback loop to yourself without that distortion, so you can begin to relate to yourself in a much more authentic, natural, and generally normal way. The fact that everyone is used to the way mirrors have worked on them their whole lives, and often will prefer it, doesn't mean that it is right, nor should it be this way. We are much more than the highly reduced expressive personality that we see in ourselves within mirrors...the True Mirror can show you that, if you look and if you engage. See this explanation (www.truemirror.com/bruce-willis-smirk-test/) of how Bruce Willis' smirk goes from fun and light, to sarcastic and mean, simply by your interpretation of the left side appearing on the right and vice versa. Your face in a mirror is similarly modifying your expressions, and unlike the static Bruce image, you change immediately from what you see and interpret in your face. It appears that most of the expressions that we have that have a lot of light and life in them, such as when we are smiling or laughing, really stop within seconds in mirrors, whereas those that are more down and low energy still look down and low...so that's why the overall version of us in mirrors is really not the right one we should be knowing ourselves in.
@@TrueMirrorJWalter The concept is interesting on a technical level but I agree you are marketing it way too emotionally and life-changing. A simple camera can do it if people really need their "true self". You are also putting way to much importance on shallow image by conveying we should correct our expressions. It might be useful for performances based on the body, but common people should overcome their and others' physical barriers to reach the personality - and people do this all the time.
@@pedroedsos a good analogy is trying to know someone without making eye contact, sure you can communicate words, but emotional content, depth, intensity, authenticity all require eye contact. In mirrors, the eyes and messages are altered in real time to lose a lot of that, esp authenticity, and in cameras you cant make eye contact. There is definitely a different and wholesome connection u can have with yourself this way, unlike anything else
I feel like you have changed my life for the better. Thank you.
Heck yeah!
After looking at my reflection through the true mirror, I can now say I understand the universe and have maybe come up for the cure for cancer.
I haven't even seen it yet and I cry ❤️🙏
His sincerity is why I will buy
thanks William!
Let's show people's reactions instead of how they look in the mirror! That will proove what I'm trying to get across!
I’m buying this next week so stoked!
Such an appeal to emotion over a simple mirror trick. I made one of these around 9 years ago.
its all about the nature of personal communication - its a trick of the optics that it can do this, but beyond that, its a total appeal, and connection to actual emotions/thoughts/personality/state of being/clarity of self-awareness that one has. If that is no value to you, I understand, but in theory, the opposite version, the doppelganger in the mirror has been filtering much of it from all of us, and so we are operating out of sync with our inner and outer personas. Its both subtle and profound if you consider the impact its had over entire lifetimes
@@TrueMirrorJWalter I swear ever since I started looking at my non-mirrored self I've gained a true feeling of who I am as a person and my inner state seems to match watch I'm seeing, it's changed my life
@@nx2120 that's great to hear. for me, it reflects my current state of being in the moment, and it changes day to day. the big think is to be able to work with myself and my issues in a way that stays authentic and continuous.
Awsome, do you join them edge to edge or one edge past the other ?
I'm gonna just say this for people who are just seeing this for the first time: If you just take a picture of yourself on a modern phone, you can see your real self.
ah yes, except for the fact that you cant interact with yourself with a picture or video. You can see what you look like, but that's not your real self. Its the direct, real-time eye contact that enables interactivity, and with your eyes not reversed, that's when natural communication with natural expression is enabled. its much different and more involved than just a flat and static image of yourself.
John, have you tried a True Mirror with Cats or Dogs, who seem indifferent to their reflection after an initial experience with a "Normal Mirror" they would encounter in our homes every day? The Mirror Test has been the gold standard to determine whether an animal is self aware. Elephants who have never experienced a Mirror will immediately investigate a mark on it's own body they could not otherwise see. Using the Mirror as a visual tool to probe the mark with their trunk. If only we could have an Elephant sized True Mirror!
@carbon Hi, it's a good question that needs more research, especially to see if those that pass the mirror test (like chimpanzees) react differently to the True Mirror. Regarding cats and dogs, I have tried only with my own cats, where i put the True Mirror up when they were just kittens, and tried to see if they would respond to themselves at all. The results were mostly negative, but i was able to catch a few times where they would interact. One cat would kind of check herself out when something just happened, like a scary loud sound or being stuck in a box. She literally would run over to the true mirror for some kind of reassurance - it happened about 4 times. The other would look at himself a couple of times (see this picture: drive.google.com/file/d/1Yl7a1NsMuQ7Nx84kWbgFssr7IPi258R1 ), but for the most part they didn't interact, and now they kind of ignore it. One problem is that the backwards mirror is always present (each side panel), so the uniqueness of the non-reversed image gets muddied for them. A different arrangement would be needed so they only see the one mirror.
But to me, the real question is whether the ones that pass the mirror test interact differently in the True Mirror. I asked one of the researchers about it a while ago, specifically if the primates actually talked to themselves in mirrors (like we do, vs. just examining themselves) and he said no. Like the concept of self-introspection is missing. My question is whether having their expressions intact would enable them to make that leap to really recognizing themselves and going to some of the places that we as humans go with ourselves. Then, if so, would that be a good or bad thing? :). Self-awareness is definitely a double edged sword!
@ carbon 14: I am John's True Mirror Representative, as you can see my profile pic here is my cat Josefina looking with me fascinated into the True Mirror but she would attack her 'normal' mirror image. My late cat Bubba stared for over 5 minutes ! at his True Mirror image which I had set up on a table. We had to drag her away from it :-) I don't think though that animals can 'contemplate' consciously that they are Consciousness expressed in form not having a 'thinking mind' that thinks in words so fortunately they don't have a personal ego, meaning they are not identified with their bodies as self as seen in a mirror and don't need to attach a name to anything but knowing intuitively, naturally that they are the Infinite Self disguised as an animal ;-) just Being themselves.
the fact that an elephant immediatly investigates a spot they normally couldn't see, show the fact that this jwalter is full of dogshit.
that it doesn't matter that it's a "mirror image" because guess what. IT'S BEEN THAT WAY FOR MILLIONS OF YEARS WHEN WE USED WATER AS MIRRORS
it's how ALL life on earth knows a mirror image. and IT is the most natural way.
not this "true mirror" quack bullshit
Turn on Zoom, and change the settings to mirrored image (it reverses the default mirrored effect). See yourself as the real you with the same live interaction that a mirror has.
Yes, that's a good idea so you can see your natural expressions when you glance at yourself. However, there is a big difference between that and looking in the True Mirror - its the direct eye contact with yourself that is so much more dynamic and even powerful. a camera can't do this - you are always looking at the screen or the lens, never directly into your eyes. Its also flat and tiny - the True Mirror reflects in full size, full spectrum, 3D and non-reversed. Its subtle yet profound if you are into really figuring yourself out. THen when you are interacting with the world (IRL or Zoom), you have a clue as to what they are really seeing when they look into your eyes and talk with you. Your expressive nature
I'm not quite grasping the concept. I want a non réversible true mirror for my yoga/meditation studio to face a conventional mirror. I feel this would create some sort of energy vortex as we practice Yoga & we get to see both sides. Can this be made into a huge top to bottom long full room Wall Mirror?
John I watched your videos speculating as to what markets would find True Mirrors to be desirable. Have you ever considered talking to Tattoo Artists? People spend lots of money to acquire Tattoos and never really are able to see what they look like to other people. I could see Tattoo shops making use of a full length mirror to help show results and advise their clients.
I myself have never been interested in Tattoos, but so many of my younger co-workers / Guests at the Hotel I interact with invest a lot of their money in art that is ordinarily unreadable to to themselves. I'll bet that if you were able to sell your full length mirror to these Tattoo parlors at a discount, this would introduce their clients to the True Mirror for the first time (potentially leading to full price sales of your mirrors to their clients.)
Hi, yes, I did exhibit at a Tattoo convention once, which was a lot of fun. Best part was seeing huge guys with major tattoos get all gushy cause they could see and read their tattoo for the first time. In one way its a perfect illustration of how mirroring takes away information...when it is backwards, the mind does not read the letters (left brain activity) and only sees the graphic design. When it is forwards, both the left and right brains are activated, and the whole message of the tattoo can be experienced - design and lettering combined.
In terms of marketing though, it's always a tougher sell to businesses who are interacting with the general public...everyone is so different when they experience the True Mirror, and unless you get the right orientation for what to look for, the experience can be unsettling. There is a concept called the "uncanny valley" that needs to be crossed, and most retail clerks (or tattoo artists) are not up for helping people across that valley with their own experience.
At the end of the day though, once you get used to your new image and experience, the backwards mirror pales in comparison in so many ways. Once there's some more familiarity, some of these markets will open up (like beauty salons and clothing stores as well)
@@TrueMirrorJWalter
train your brain better then.
my mind has NO problem what so ever to read in the mirror. ffs dude. quack
How can I make or find a true mirror? You have been my inspiration to introduce the true mirror into my work as a hospice nurse and with .y volunteer advocacy work I do in nursing homes. I think this would be a powerful tool and an opportunity for me to grow and evolve my own perceptions of myself and the world around me in the process. Id love to document the project
He has a website and you can also buy one on Amazon for $66
Yes, hospice would be amazing, esp if someone can come home to themselves, finally
Hi John, this idea is patented? I want to make and sell a similar product in my country (Chile - Latinoamerica) but it could be a problem? Thanks for answer!
hi, no its an old idea, first patented in 1887, so its in the public domain now. However, it's very tricky to make the seam to be invisible, which is critical for using it as a looking glass, since your eyes are always right in the seam. I hope to someday license the trade secrets and also the trademark name "True Mirror", but don't have a program setup yet.
Ugh I wish you could make me one
How can we purchase it..
Store.truemirror.com or Amazon sells a less expensive RealMe erosion that still works
Well they sell non reversing mirrors on Amazon for 30 bucks..
they do, and sometimes they work, but often not. Making the seam invisible requires a lot of precision and those often have a visible gap or are misaligned so there's a split or bunching up in the seam. The seam matters, it goes right through your eyes. It's also small, so I feel kind of cramped in it.
However, if they get the optics right, great! The point is we all should know our true image reflection, there is a lot of being normal with yourself that can result.
I want a tall one, 2 meters high. where can i buy one?
Hi Johan, the biggest that I can make is only 48" (actual mirror size is 46.5" x 18"), or 1.2m x 0.46m. The size of the biggest panel I can acquire is only 50", and its also a very difficult thing to achieve optically. the only way I could make it larger is by combining two panels, and then by the time it was all finished, it would be a real heavy unit to move around (the current 48" is about 70lbs). As far as I know, there isn't anyone else making these in the world at this size...the only other one is a tiny 5" knockoff from China that doesnt even get the seam right. If you want to look at the 48", here is the link: store.truemirror.com/products/48x18-full-length-true-mirror
@@TrueMirrorJWalter It's a really cool product, but why is it so expensive? I mean it's just two mirrors, right? Is the seam very hard to get invisible?
@@Cruelcoil there's a few reasons...1) it's still handmade in low quantities by only me, so there's no economies of scale. 2) Its really, really difficult to get it right, so there's a lot of build time, esp for the big ones, and finally, the mirrors themselves are front surface, which is much more expensive than regular mirrors. The big ones are like trying to make an instrument as accurate as a telescope out of wood, screws, tape and mirrors! The small 12x12 plastic ones are a lot easier, but it's still not at scale,. One day the world will catch on to this being an amazing idea and then they will be able to be less expensive.
For sure the seam is crazy difficult to get right. Turns out the more accurate you get, the more accurate you still need to be. The glass is only able to be cut once, and needs a perfectly straight edge to line up to a perfectly flat surface. If it's not right, there will be a gap in the seam, and even a tenth of the thickness of a hair is noticeable - and because it goes through both your eyes, it's hard to use it as a mirror. Do that perfect cut top to bottom over 48" and its really crazy to get it right. Even the 12" ones...they are so much better when the two mirrors touch perfectly. But then, like i said, the more you get the seam invisible, the more you have to get the angle to be exactly 90.0 degrees. If it's not perfect, your eye can tell, and it gets worse the farther back you go...there is a dramatic parallax increase. So the entire two panels have to be on a perfectly warp free surface, with the ability to account for slight differences in the geometry, and even the way the mirrors hang. For example, with the 12" model, i have to build in a slight shim of .005" tape on the bottom of one panel compared to the top, because when you turn the mirror vertical, gravity actually pulls it back. Without it, you can be about 15 feet away and the parallax of that smallest shim actually translates to a 0.5" warp from top to bottom, which makes the mirror really wonky. I know that I have succeeded if it looks perfectly good up close (seamless) and perfectly good from 15 feet away (the angle). You would not believe how many times i tried to get that right. And with the full length mirror, there literally is 4 fine tune knobs to adjust from top to bottom, because even temperature will be different over 4 feet and you have to adjust them differently!
So long answer, it's expensive because its hard and I only can make a few of them right now. But the net effect is so incredible...it literally is the only way you can make direct eye contact with yourself with your face actually functioning properly...the first time you can actually see and talk to yourself as you really are. Every other mirror simply can not compare, they create a literal doppelganger that looks and acts differently than whoever you really are, causing you to believe in yourself differently than you probably could and should. The full length one engages you with your body, so you can see how you actually animate yourself, and it's really so much more natural and uplifting to see yourself as more of a being, then just a body.
@@TrueMirrorJWalter I Ordered a small one for now. I hope you'll consider accepting bitcoin payment in the future :)
@@Cruelcoil thanks! I got your order, it should ship out within 1-2 weeks. re bitcoin? Hmmm...maybe :)
True Mirror is a misnomer, since a mirror image is a reverse image. True reflection might be more accurate.
Either way, I don't see the benfit of this device. The only difference is one is reversed and the other is not. Otherwise, what is being reflected is the same as what other people see.
Your attempts at making this product seem as earth shattering as color blindness correcting glasses falls flat in spite of your emotional video.
One image is reversed, the other is not. Its really no big deal unless you are trying to read reflected writing.
Hi Buzz, the issue is not about what we look like, but how we communicate. We are really good at reading faces when talking with others, even the tiniest microexpression can signify important meaning in terms of both thought and emotion. But those expressions get altered by being backwards, which then causes us to respond to ourselves differently backwards, which then gets reversed again, and then interpreted differently again, and so on. Over a lifetime it makes us shift rapidly to a different version of us, a literal doppelganger, that communicates, thinks and feels in an altered way than what is real.
The degree to which this impacts a person is highly variable, depending on how much they actually do communicate how they are doing to themselves in mirrors...some do a lot, some do a little, some not at all, some never even look. Regardless, the effect is still there, along with some deeply fundamental beliefs about ourselves, even if not conscious, because it is a not quite real version of us that has been with us since childhood, when almost all of us did use the mirror to figure ourselves out.
The purpose of the True Mirror is to get your face right to yourself, in real time, and over time. Your ability to communicate with yourself, to see who and how you are in the moment is greatly enhanced. Again, how you use this new information is highly dependent on you and how much you actually do communicate (a lot of people still stare at themselves in the True Mirror instead of engaging, which means that not that much is happening).
The message of True Mirror is that we are have this somewhat inauthentic being within our self-awareness that influences everything from self-understanding to self-confidence and self-esteem. Its a feedback loop with distortion, and like all such loops, where it goes is very unpredictable. It is now possible to generate a feedback loop to yourself without that distortion, so you can begin to relate to yourself in a much more authentic, natural, and generally normal way.
The fact that everyone is used to the way mirrors have worked on them their whole lives, and often will prefer it, doesn't mean that it is right, nor should it be this way. We are much more than the highly reduced expressive personality that we see in ourselves within mirrors...the True Mirror can show you that, if you look and if you engage.
See this explanation (www.truemirror.com/bruce-willis-smirk-test/) of how Bruce Willis' smirk goes from fun and light, to sarcastic and mean, simply by your interpretation of the left side appearing on the right and vice versa. Your face in a mirror is similarly modifying your expressions, and unlike the static Bruce image, you change immediately from what you see and interpret in your face.
It appears that most of the expressions that we have that have a lot of light and life in them, such as when we are smiling or laughing, really stop within seconds in mirrors, whereas those that are more down and low energy still look down and low...so that's why the overall version of us in mirrors is really not the right one we should be knowing ourselves in.
@@TrueMirrorJWalter The concept is interesting on a technical level but I agree you are marketing it way too emotionally and life-changing. A simple camera can do it if people really need their "true self". You are also putting way to much importance on shallow image by conveying we should correct our expressions. It might be useful for performances based on the body, but common people should overcome their and others' physical barriers to reach the personality - and people do this all the time.
@@pedroedsos a good analogy is trying to know someone without making eye contact, sure you can communicate words, but emotional content, depth, intensity, authenticity all require eye contact. In mirrors, the eyes and messages are altered in real time to lose a lot of that, esp authenticity, and in cameras you cant make eye contact. There is definitely a different and wholesome connection u can have with yourself this way, unlike anything else
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this guy needs to be locked up
@James O i'm not the quack that's scamming people