At the time I used to listen to metal bands such as korn and slipknot and around tgat same time I cut myself on my arms, when my dad seen these cuts on my arms he said it looked like markings of the devil or something like that, I said don’t be silly it was just me cutting my arm nothing to do with the devil, although now in my adult years I have read online that these bands probably are in fact involved in satanic illuminati stuff! And over time it mainly has become more of a psychological thing. Even understanding the psychological basis for it, I think it would be frightening. I put a whimsical memory of my childhood in my mind and bang! I wasn’t trying to do this either. Nine fathers or mothers. That is just amazing. Probably tell me where I can stick it with that “brooja shet”. And yes, I think the heightened perception is more likely found in those who are more open to preternatural phenomenon. My friends and I used to do this all the time as children. It seemed to look like little vines coming out of my face, brown vines, I was a man, smiling, It was so powerful, so evil. I tried it in my bathroom, as that mirror is the largest, turned on a night-light behind me and watched the reflection of my right eye. Laughing and jamming and hallucinating mildly. I have tried this manny times I even learned to controle it!….I realised its called the third eye! I will try it with a friend and with a mirror. faces of women,men,old young also faces of beings that did not look human. Giovanni Caputo led a study in which 50 people tried the trick and reported their reactions. Strange-face illusions during inter-subjective gazing. I can see “the whole body” and the interactions that affect me, and the love that surrounds me, and like the poem above, I can see God and the Devil, and the twin souls, and myself as I really am, all complicated and simple as one, not moving against “my thoughts” but moving with them in perfect harmony with the Creation, and sometimes there are little hitches, but, that’s life in a nutshell… hahahaha… Anyway, it’s very amazing and wonderful and totally breathtaking to be able to SEE me as fully as that… and to feel comfortable and at ease and loved… it’s like being able to actually SEE LOVE. I swear on my life I’m telling the truth and it freaked me the fuck out. Ok so I was in my bathroom mid day, with the light turned off so it was dimly lit by the light from the window. I can actualy experience every thing you mentioned above and so many more..i learned so much i can control the illussion, i can also make my face to completly vanish and see whats behind me,the person in the mirror becomes an object you can remove,but becouse the visual will still be there you actualy become that visual and the real you vanish.and from there you will see nothing in the mirror…the other thing is you can take everthing out on your face like your eyes,nose etc and left you self will just a face with nothing. i experience the full range of emotions depending on the form gazing back at me. She got very scared just during the first minute, which was just whispering, she told me she was going to do it again. The weird thing is I dont remember anything else that happened that night. Patients with schizophrenia can sometimes report strange face illusions when staring at themselves in the mirror; such experiences have been conceptualized as anomalous self-experiences that can be experienced with a varying degree of depersonalization. the eyes changed it looked like a younger version of me. I used to do this regularly. I do not think my room was as dark as suggested above. Thanks again for sharing so much. if i stare for longer than that, my vision turns into what it looks like when you mess with the sharpness, vividness, and contrast on a photo to look really flat. Your shakras are you spiritual energy levels and the third eye is one of them, it makes you see past the fisical sins we are not fisical but spirits(emosions in motion). as soon as my eyes twitched to look into my other pupil the effect ended. don’t let yourself flow into insanity – rather, understand that The Whole is flowing around you and not always “personally” “at” you or “for” you, but in harmony, and to start to feel insane, you are losing control, so just step back a bit, think a thought for yourself and be cool. Caputo GB(1). Just pure nothing. Dessard watched the deck steward leave. Statistically significant differences on positive and disorganized schizotypy were found when comparing groups on the basis of degree of depersonalization-like phenomena (from slight color changes to non-human visions). The year was 1994. Well that’s how it felt when I did this mirror illusion. just post it her.. Dont now where i should write it. We fought with this stupid blanket for at least ten minutes, re-wadding and crumpling it in all manner of ways, trying to get rid of any semblance of a face, but they appeared no matter what we did so we finally folded it all nicely up in a rectangle and put it under the chair. I mean, this is probably gonna be insulting, but I am just gonna be honest here; if you don’t even have the common sense to at least ensure that what you post is written correctly, then it’s no wonder you believe optical illusions are actually paranormal activity of some sort. So Ill try to describe it more now. I turned into a cat once. At first the thought that had possessed me was “wow, I’ve never actually thoroughly examined at myself in the mirror, in fact, I can’t even remember how I look!” It was that very dangerous line of thinking that triggered what happened next. The Creator is in The Temple, which is between our ears, as we are part of the one BIG body, and somehow we all fit into it together to make a whole, and so, yeah, I could ramble on, but the main thing is for you to feel relaxed as you go about your life, once you realise that this goes on all day and every day in your life and just because you’ve only noticed it now, doesn’t mean that you have to be freaked out for the rest of your life… Carry on normally… It’s the best we all can do… Warmest wishes, Raine. But I do believe there is some sort of paranormal sense behind this; well in my case at least. Aged, 80 and over; Brain/physiopathology* Brain … BTW so far no luck with the mirror, though. To be loved is wonderful, and when one realises that you are loved by more than one person; in more than one way, it is quite overwhelming, but again, one must accept it graciously and understand that this is what keeps our souls healthy and happy and informed. I stumbled across this phenomenon a few years ago, looking at myself in a bathroom lit only by a candle. And then when i turned facing the open bedroom door, i saw a black shadowy figure moving across the room 3-4 times. It’s funny, I tried this years ago before ever reading this article. So I blinked and did it again, then my vision slowly turned black but only on my face. I have a sister who was perfectly “normal” until she took abnormal psychology, while attending a university and the teacher had them do this experiment. I used to do this meditative exercise but whats really weird is when you do it sitting accross from someone and stare in there eyes soo much that you see spirits through them. Looking forward hearing from you Kylie. We did the experiment too. Thanks for sharing. My bear start to grow but then I loss concentration and had to focus again, almost the sameting happend exept that this time it was my hear the one that grow b ut it look like some kind of mud or a bunch of bees all together. I had a quick go at this. Thank you. especially when one takes a relevant verse and meditates upon the meaning in the most fullness thereof that one can… and I’m sure that “in order to be loved, one must love one’s self” also pertains heavily with reference to “seeing” one’s self in the mirror in such an unusual way… thanks for putting in your comment… (just as a matter of interest: one cannot believe in the Bible until one ACTUALLY DOES, and that requires reading and understanding it…) – and that takes a verrrry long time… :-}. I had shut down the computer and for some reason I decided to stare at my reflection in the black screen. As soon as I read the words "advertising", "sponsored links" or "business partnership" in an email I delete it. Would you like email updates of new search results? If you stare at a brick wall in this way you can see all the gaps in the bricks disappear, creating a plain textured wall. Like a lion face man. It was that bad back then. I am of Caucasian ethnicity so when I read Stefano’s report I had to comment because I also saw such a face. I can’t stop thinking about it. Face-selective self-misidentification in a patient with right lateralized occipito-temporal hypo-metabolism . Some participants likely experienced more than one of the effects described. The odd thing is that during my last relationship around year and a half long, the faces that I could distinguish in my partner were many, varied but always the same variations. I’m sorry to comment again but, why did you stare at people all the time? hello Kaitlin. During adolescence, anomalous self-experiences … Fill in your details below or click an icon to log in: You are commenting using your WordPress.com account. Of course the goal of this present study is scientific explanation of why it happens rather than mysticism. A very well-known brazilian writer, João Guimarães Rosa, published in 1962 a short history named “The Mirror” (O Espelho) where the character does this experience. Face-selective self-misidentification in a patient with right lateralized occipito-temporal hypo-metabolism. Just me and myself in a dim dark or even totally opaque oom trying to see some visions. I believe you can enter into other realms of perception using this method and I have gained a great deal of insight from it as well. A stranger in the mirror is the weakest offering from Sheldon's opus that I've read thus far. The creepy “Bloody Mary in the mirror” game has been explained! Those are not illusions thats the spirits side coming through. You might think of this as cool, or interesting. I could believe the whole story about how YOU saw it in the mirror. I’m depressed. Any other details that would assist in my attempts would be much appreciated. A nymph approaached and tried to console her about missing Narcissus and his beauty to which the lake replied, “Was he really that beautiful? I slowly looked up my body to my legs, then to the waist area on to the chest, all rather quickly, for the record and when I got to my face, it was not a face at all, it was a skull. But the rest is complete bull shit “i turened from the mirror and would gaze in to there eyes they would still be the same with the cat eye or the solid black”. Thanks so much for sharing… I am finding it more and more relaxing to understand that I’m part of a whole which has free will to be here, there or everywhere… Hard to explain, but it does help, even when I’m not looking in the mirror. The ‘strange-face’ phenomenon is an optical illusion. link ''To trigger the illusion toi need to stare at your own reflection in a dimly lit room. I did it again but instead of what I got the first time I looked and saw a face that looked like it was decomposing…almost skeletal. thanks for sharing (all of you), but to refer to your friend’s “don’t look me in the eye when you’re talking to me” = I find it often nowadays when I am with my hubby and we’re close: there’s a total array of different faces. i’ve wondered if they were past/alternate lives?? Never told anyone really…, That’s my “ChangingFaces”, true story. Also, communication being the key to success: having us all open our hearts and minds and sharing, I am not alone, trapped in fear, but knowing and being free. *From Caputo et al, permission granted…, NLM And no, I was not on any drugs, I dont ever drink. remember – what you see is all in your head as recored from outside stimulous or created fusion of such in your head? Published Apr 21, 2020. I truid to go further but i didnt made it yet. It’s easier now for us to communicate on all levels using the internet and not being confined by space and time. I can never hold this for long however due to my eyes straying but whenever my face does go black it doesn’t remain that way, slowly little things change such as my face shape, background or other subtle things like that. Now, i never look into the mirror at night. (I have never had problems with lazy eyes or any other uncontrolled eye movements) then my eyes rolled back into my head and I could only see the white in my eyes. My face would blur and the blurriness would pass over my face and my facial features were completely different. 28% saw an archetypal face such as that of an old woman, a child, or a portrait of an ancestor. I guess our eyes begin to tire about the same time. It doesn’t last for long but i think thats due to the anxiety snapping reality back into shape. Things like celebrities, musicians etc. 2 once you are getting the effect – you can do several things with your thinking – try to not think about what you are seeing/doing is one – but let it remain occuring almost as ‘peripheral’ vision aka known as trance – other meditations are aplicable – what you do or dont think of – try telling your brain it isnt a face – try empty head meditations [many well known methods] Kinda funky, since I am alone! haha I was SO freaked out when it happened to me (by mistake!). I did it in pure daylight. You’re Freaking Me Out at dissociatedpress.com, PsychNews: Sep. 19 - 25 | The Emotion Machine, Best of informal learning since September 1, 2010…, The face in the mirror ‹ Phire Walk With Me, 6 Scary Tricks That Amazed Us as Kids (Explained by Science) | Chib, http://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S1053810012001924, http://paranormal.about.com/od/ghostphotos/ig/Paranormal-Photo-Gallery/Mirror-Ghoul.htm. it was as if they didn’t recognise my eyes, it was as if i had something with me. If you can hold the gaze past all of the faces, eventually you can end up at a place where you are just a shimmering silhouette of energy, and if you can get past this state, you will see an entirely new world. Telekinesis, super strength, angry hulkish rages of which he has no memory. They're a staple of the horror genre for a reason; mirrors are … I’m guessing it works by the same mechanism of over analyzing facial features. Aged, 80 and over; Brain/physiopathology* Brain … The room was dim as well which didn’t help the fact that I hadn’t heard of this. Such apparitional experiences were described as “strange-face in the mirror” illusions. Awesome and creepy. fear is the initial experience, but acceptance settles in and a really peaceful experience can take place. I had to close my eyes each time it got to that point in the cycle. What’s up with that? This time it was much easier, I only needed to hold my gaze for perhaps 15-20 minutes before I felt myself reaching the ‘other side’ and ‘zzzggssshhhhwwhhiiiip’, suddenly everything was MUCH different. The only difference I can think of is that a photo isn’t 3D, like the mirror or having a person right in front of you; I’m not sure if that would make any difference. I sat in my room for five minutes staring only into my reflections eyes, and then googled what I experienced and found this article. I had just finished watching Stigmata on DVD around one in the morning. The mind does play some interesting tricks on us. It seemed to be three different “illlusions” that of an older version of myself, a scarred/deformed version of myself, and something more monterous, almost like what you would percieve to be an inner demon. Mind Hacks is a book by Tom Stafford and Matt Webb. Make YOURSELF happy, because other people can’t do that for you! Big mirror, dim lights, silence, etc. Superstitous tales and folklore were not made up based on nothing! doi: 10.1093/schbul/sby031. Yes, co-incidences happen and sometimes the curtains between worlds are opened, but it’s not a hard and fast thing. I don’t know why my reaction was so emotional because I was holding in tears, it felt as if every instinct in my body was saying to run. That was enough for my hyperventilation to kick in, I was losing it. I smoked weed every day for years and worked shit jobs and did literally nothing else. This feels very spritual but I was wondering if anyone else can do this. I saw different faces everywhere for example in the toilet marble,in the kitchen granites,on trees and other stuff but the problem is that the faces are always the horror one…ths is getting me very upset and i’m sure its not my imagination,the faces are always scary,i can see the eyes,nose etc…please help me out!! Follow and tweet START @ChoiceEngine to explore this interactive essay about the neuroscience, psychology and philosophy of free will. anything in any kind of light in any place… at any time…, Hi, my name is Kylie. (Same way some one did 2000 years ago – removing the veil so we can see beyond what he physicaly had to go and do in Abrahams bosom with all his believers stuck there) Greater things than these will you do he said. I went back to the house a few times since. I couldn’t see my eyes due to the light, but the shadows in my eye sockets created the illusion of huge black abyssal eyes. If you have the appropriate software installed, you can download article citation data to the citation manager of your choice. So, there we have it… we now know that staring into the mirror can open the mind into believing in the other side… as well as other things… maybe I’m not being too clear, but what I really want to write is that I’ve discovered a portal… It’s really “in my world” and it’s amazing. When that was over, I broke out of the trance and wrote it down. I have seen a demon, men that I never met, and one had a resemblence to Jesus. I kept zooming in on various features of my face that didn’t seem that familiar to me… a blemish here, my eyebrows, the shape of my nose, etc. Similarly to experimentally induced self-face illusions in patients with schizophrenia, such illusions in a group of nonclinical adolescents present significant associations to schizotypy dimensions. I only just remembered, but something similar happened to me as with your mom. At that moment the husband sees the face of the creepy old man on her face. The Italian psychologist Giovanni Caputo published (2010) an article in the journal Perception about a visual illusion where your own reflection in the mirror seems to become distorted and shifts identity. And this isn’t really a ‘body’ image thing – it has a spiritual element. I didn’t experience what those test people experienced though, I only saw my own face not monsters or other things but I started hallucinating in another way kind of. Never heard about mirror illusions. François-Laurent De Winter. There are songs which reference women “running to the mirror” to assert or assure themselves of love, or “pick me ups” advised to people to go to the mirror each morning and tell yourself you’re a good guy, etc. I’m thinking about trying this out. I can replicate it at any time, and I came to the conclusion that the low light was just confusing the brain about recognizing which face it was looking at. Professor of neurophysiology Maarten Kamermans – Nederlands Herseninstituut: As I stare at my reflection in the mirror, nothing has changes. This experience is usually accompanied by a profound sens of otherworldly presence. So, currently I am 16 and have always remembered being able to black out people faces around me from since when I was young, which was great fun whenever I was stuck in a boring assembly. It’s incredible. Maybe it would be better to warn the people, not more than 20 minutes to look in the mirror and after this no more times to do so. So when I looked in the mirror, I saw my right eye drifting to the left. it isnt new. it was quite uncanny, but not frightening. This phenomenon would show that individuals share strange-face illusions within a pair, hence it would shed light on the process of ‘projection’ of unconscious mental contents between individuals, as found in dynamic psychology ( Jung, 1977 ). 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