why are you always upside down when you look in a spoon?

Answer 1

a spoon is convex, like our eye, and when we see it, the light reflects, so on our retina, the image is the right way up. Of course, it gets changed around, as normally the image on the retina is upside down, so we see ourselves upside down in a spoon...

Answer 2

You know those fun mirrors at carnivals and fairs that make you look really short and fat? It's because they're curved a little bit. And if you take a step back from them, you get more distorted. Well, if you make a mirror that's more curved, it will distort your reflection even more, make you look even shorter. Well, keep bending the mirror, and eventually your reflection will get so small that it flips over backward and starts growing again, but this time upside down. A spoon is just such a curved mirror. It is so curved that your eye would have to be like 1 cm away from the spoon for your reflection to look right side up.

Answer 3

It's because of the curvature of the spoon as light is reflected off the bottom it crosses over light reflected from the top and enters your eye upside down.

If the spoon were flat you'd see your reflection normal way up.

Answer 4

All to do with the way the light reflects off the shape of the spoon.

Answer 5

I always stand upright when I look into a spoon.

Answer 6

its called concave and convexed, the image will always show as being upside down on the concave side.

Answer 7

Your standing on your head. Its a reverse image like looking in a mirror.

Answer 8

Because its concave