How Does a Non-Reversing Mirror Work?

In this video I show you how a true mirror works. I talk about how mirrors flip the image into a mirror image and how we can get used to this. Then I show you what a true mirror looks like and how it works.

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[TheActionLab]

“I’ll never see myself in the mirror with my eyes closed...”

[HandledToaster]

"Mirror, why are you flipping all the words?"

Mirror: no u

[radicalxedward]

Really genius way to explain why mirrors “reverse” things.

[cia]

Dude I'm baked out of my mind right now and everything he is saying makes 100% perfect sense to me

[achimlichtenhagen]

"The mirror did not flip anything, it´s YOU that turned the image"

Maaan, I´m a 45 year old, well educated men who is not fallen on his head very often, but you just blow my mind.
Holy crap.

[lalo]

I already find myself unattractive but seeing myself in the way everyone sees me really hurt my self esteem

[ValentinDinca]

So that means the ”true” mirror is actually a fake mirror.

[galactose_fructosemonosacc]

When I saw how people saw me. I died inside a little, my eyes aren't the same alignment, my lips are going to one side more than the other, my face looks more lobsided then one side.

[AirBornMedia]

"The mirror did not flip anything, it´s YOU that turned the image"

A moment of teaching genius. I used to find the concept of mirrors 'reversing' a little perplexing but those words, and that beautiful demonstration, brought instant realization of exactly what was happening.

[oberstkarl]

while he is getting used to seeing himself with a non-reversing mirror, i'm getting used to seeing his face in the mirror.

[mr_boo.]

James during normal days : a few videos a month
James during confinement : *I DON’T NEED SLEEP, I NEED ANSWERS*

[ZacharyVogt]

I wish you would've turned the apparatus on its side, so we could see it flip the image top-to-bottom.

[BillyViBritannia]

Dude has a million videos of himself; still makes pikachu face when he sees himself in a "true" mirror.

[user]

Digital artists often flip their canvas every once in a while. It really helps you spot errors, especially in faces.

[maxwellclark]

You should also consider that seeing your own appearance from the perspective of others truly doubles the effects of your asymmetry (to you). If you have become accustomed to the 5° clockwise rotation of your nose, and see a 5° counterclockwise rotation of your nose, you perceive yourself to have 10° of crookedness in your nose! In a sense you have zeroed out your mental measurement to set 0° at the nose you’re used to seeing, shocking you when you see the reverse.

[crripper]

It's 2 funny when he starts going: "It's not the mirrors fault it's yours" 😂😂😂

[robotplays]

“Some people don’t like to see themselves in photos”
I don’t like seeing myself at all

[crripper]

I've always done this at my grandmas' house where there are two shelf doors that are mirrors and when you open one of them the mirrors are at an angle to eachother and so you will see a mirrored image of a mirrored image of yourself 😜

[a.i.l]

Obsessed with the way Americans say mirror
"meer"

[donkamala]

I really enjoy your videos. Your demonstrations remind me of the ones my father used to perform to teach me Science and show me how things worked. He passed away on January 2021 from Covid and now I am glad to somehow find him in your videos. Keep it going.