I always have to put my hand inside and turn on the light before I enter the bathroom, mirrors in general just freak me out, Im like half expecting to see someone or something behind me.... And yes, I know there can be a lot of wisecracking jokes about this, but I am seriously nervous about mirrors!
2006-10-13 08:46:35 · 25 answers · asked by Anonymous in Society & Culture ➔ Mythology & Folklore
Haha, too many scary movies, Im sure, but Ive had this fear since I was little girl and had seen very few horror movies! I most def think there are forces at work out there we can not explain...
2006-10-13 08:53:48 · update #1
Some people believe that when you sleep your spirit rises up from your body to go to the "causal plane" if you have a mirror in your room or where you sleep, if you spirit sees it'self whenever it is leaving or entering back into your body it gets freaked out or has trouble getting back into your physical body!
But otherwise when it's dark the shadows don't allow your eyes to focus, so your eyes are continually focusing and tries to compete the shadowy parts of the missing picture, or your face it also is scarey when you have a sleepover and you are tyring to look at your friend while they talk, their face can look werid!
just be happy and think good thoughts! Think on what you WANT not what scares you!
good luck!
2006-10-13 19:26:54 · answer #1 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋
Yes. Sometimes I try to make sure the mirror is not the last thing I look at before I leave a room. I am always expecting something wrong to be in the mirror, too. I wonder if it is a different place in the mirror, and if things could be there that aren't in the real place.
It's not just you!
I like to make sure that the last things I put in a mirror are happy things. I guess we're both a bit odd. Perhaps you could put a little curtain over your mirrors when you aren't using them, or get a tiny one and carry it around with you to get sort of used to them and make friends with the spirit of mirrors.
Good luck!
2006-10-14 01:12:30 · answer #2 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋
I totally understand how you feel. I had a nervous break down about 2years ago and when I looked at the mirror I didn't see myself normal I looked like a monster and that maked me freak out even more. Only in the day time can I look at a mirror and not be a little nervous.
2006-10-13 15:57:31 · answer #3 · answered by Babs B 2 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Im usually not too freaked out by them but at my old house I had to lock the door when I brushed my teeth. One time I thought I saw something or someone pass by the door when I was looking in my mirror. It kind of looked like the girl from the Ring but I never saw it again.
2006-10-14 09:07:07 · answer #4 · answered by Taylor V 3 · 0⤊ 0⤋
If you also have other phobia's and panic attacks you might have some repressed earlier childhood memories that at the time were traumatic for you. Mine used to leave me gifts that I would wake up with. Like books that wouldn't be written fo another 25 to 30 years. Someone might have scared you when you were looking in a mirror once. Ask your parents. Maybe it was the babysitter? I used to walk up behind my ex-wife while she was picking her face in the mirror and pretend to be my brother who had died. It was pretty funny to watch her jump and change colors. One time she even fainted. She eventually learned to keep the bathroom door closed. Thanks for the memory. Focus on the memory of you sitting on the sink playing? Just a thought.
2006-10-13 16:31:23 · answer #5 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋
I recently bought a new full length mirror and put it in my bedroom,id only had the mirror 3days when i went to go into my bedroom and id forgotten it was there,,as i opened the door the first thing i seen was my reflection and let me tell you i screamed so much that my husband ran up the stairs thinking that id hurt myself,,i was so embarrassed that i pretended i had hit my toe on the door..I laugh now but it wasn't funny at the time.
2006-10-13 16:28:40 · answer #6 · answered by misty 3 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Yes, ever since that "bloody mary" story in elementary school I can't be in a room w/ a mirror in the dark. I have a night light in our bathroom and that still doesn't help all the time. It just distorts the images. I feel pretty silly sometimes, especially as I tell my children not to be afraid of the dark :).
2006-10-13 16:01:34 · answer #7 · answered by melonamc 3 · 0⤊ 0⤋
I don't like mirrors very much either. I don't like to look behind me while looking at a mirror.
I used to do it a lot when I was a kid. I'd stare into a mirror and look at the room as though it was another dimension. I don't do that now.
I have bad dreams about mirrors and I never look like myself when I look into one in a dream. Mirrors are always rather spooky in my dreams.
2006-10-14 12:49:36 · answer #8 · answered by sister_godzilla 6 · 0⤊ 0⤋
YES sometimes i am. And well its not just mirrors. Like b 4 i enter i room i need lights cuz i feel as if someone is behind me and i wont b able to see them without the lights... Lol....
2006-10-13 15:53:31 · answer #9 · answered by BoxOfAshes 1 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Everyone has a phobia about something...yours happens to be mirrors. I'm sure you're not the only one "out there" with this fear
2006-10-13 15:48:58 · answer #10 · answered by Anonymous · 1⤊ 0⤋