When we look at our selves using the mirror ......

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Are we looking at the reflection of the light of our bodies? or the shadow of our bodies ?
and why do we see ourselves on the mirror completely opposite?
why not upside down , back or very far away ? and is it fake or imagination ?

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@permoda12345,

Is this a serious question? The answer for the few couple of conglomerate questions very basic high school science. As for it being fake or imagination - it's not fake, but you could call it imagination if you wanted to stretch the definition of what constitutes imagination.

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@permoda12345,

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Are we looking at the reflection of the light of our bodies? or the shadow of our bodies ?
and why do we see ourselves on the mirror completely opposite?
why not upside down , back or very far away ? and is it fake or imagination ?

The relection of light off our bodies, and as it is, with the right on the right, and the top on the top....If it were some one else we were seeing, their right would be on our left if they were facing us, but we are seeing our world reflected, and not as it would appear to another.... Hope that helps..

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@permoda12345,

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Are we looking at the reflection

The "reflection" isn't like thrown balls "bouncing" back from off a wall, though. Photons are absorbed by atoms and then photons are re-emitted. Plenty of free electrons on the metal coating behind the glass, so the range of visible frequencies is "reflected" with the full details (of "you") surviving the process.

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of the light of our bodies?

Your body at least radiates heat. Not a good thing if it also produced light that somebody else could see by, as if it were a torch.

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I wear sunglasses when I look at myself in the mirror, therefore I look at
the shadow of myself. I am practically a shadow of myself...

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@CalamityJane,

Don't feed the philosophy students. They will only keep coming back for more and they multiply like pet rocks which as far as I can tell are philosophers' favorite pet ... hence the existence of philosopher stones. Wink

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When we look at our selves using the mirror ......

i cock one eyebrow and say (in a slight scottish accent, ala Sean Connery), "the names Bond, James Bond"

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No matter what we see when we see ourselves in the mirror, it's probably not a reflection of how others see us.

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@permoda12345,

So far as the image being opposite, that's easy. Turn the mirror around.

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@roger,

would be the same I mean opposite .

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@Fido,

Ok Fido , so your saying that we are seeing the world completely opposite because the world is reflected .....
Are we shadows ?
so what or where is the source of the light of our bodies ?
I think our shadows are not imagination.

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@CalamityJane,

your a shadow ! where is your light ....can you catch it ?

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If you are hit by a 67 pontiac bonneville do you become one with your reflection in the bumper?

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@permoda12345,

How about this, then? You hold two mirrors close together and get two images. Keep moving them closer together and when they finally fit together perfectly, suddenly there is only one image. Where did the other one go?

There is something screwy about the whole thing.

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@roger,

It would be the angle of the mirrors that created two images. If they were both on the same plane, there's only one image.

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@wayne,

Oh. I guess that thought wasn't as deep as I hoped it would be.

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@roger,

It sounded cool Smile

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