Why You See Monsters in the Mirror

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Staring into the mirror in a dark room can play some nasty tricks on your brain. Like many illusions, this can tell us about how your brain processes images.
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@Master_Therion 6 лет назад

The "monster in the mirror" for me is always a vampire. I know it's there because I can't see its reflection.

@PaleGhost69 6 лет назад

Master Therion you're late ;)

@BreakingYTown 6 лет назад

Message me on g+

@kittybeans8192 6 лет назад

A human in my house stared into a mirror earlier, he still doesn't realize he saw me, thinks it's just an illusion... what a fool.

@ExtremeTawe 6 лет назад

Master Therion tq

@andy56duky 6 лет назад

Master Therion mines a kinky vampire.

@seasong7655 6 лет назад

If you stare long enough into the mirror the mirror will stare back into you.

@Master_Therion 6 лет назад

seasong Nietzsche comment... sorry, I mean... Nice comment ;)

@BragoTHEgraviyKING 6 лет назад

If you stare long enough into my neighbors window.... Brb police at my door

@thomasthetankengine2653 6 лет назад

Cid Lmao

@Coldness.1308 5 лет назад

"If you stare long enough into an abyss, the abyss will stare back into you" the original quote.

@ndriiggts5108 4 года назад

seasong I didn’t know that!

@katylyn1644 6 лет назад

Great, I was about to go to bed. Who needs sleep anyway?

@microbuilder 6 лет назад

Freddy Krueger would like you to go to sleep....

@BedardJ 6 лет назад

It’s something weird and creepy about this video that he talks to smoothly about something really creepy for me. O get the sleep thing. But every time o get scared I just say “wow that’s inconvenient” it lightens the mood. You don’t want to turn off the light to go to sleep. Well, that’s inconvenient and the monsters better bee bop outta here

@wayofren6463 6 лет назад

You tapped on the video

@devisankhla4788 4 года назад

Bee bop balooya !!

@justmia704 4 года назад

Not me heh...

@SlyPearTree 6 лет назад

That is one experiment I am not going to do, I do not need a new way to trigger an anxiety attack.

@DemiDragonQueen 6 лет назад

I actually accidentally did this to trigger panic attacks a lot in HS

@alexmaria5944 5 лет назад

Its super cool though... I do it almost nightly

@frankieisinsane 4 года назад

SlyPearTree i have bad anxiety, it’s really fun do it with a buddy

@rio6985 4 года назад

SlyPearTree cranberry juice OoF I have Nyctophobia I’m scared of the dark or what’s in the dark so I can panic sometimes but thank god it doesn’t happen a lot so I decided to look in the mirror to see the effect I was really excited and really scared lol but I only left little light bec I don’t like the dark at all then it wasn’t even a whole min and I was looking with a normal face then I saw my reflection in the mirror giving me a little smile I WENT CRAZY I was like ok no and that was my longest time looking in the mirror I couldn’t take it and decided to do it in the morning to at least not have to think about it right before sleep so as I was saying when I was looking at myself in the mirror and it didn’t even pass a min it was like 30 secs looking at myself and a small creepy smile from my reflection and that was already enough imagine having to do that for 15 or 10 mins

@Discover73533 3 года назад

@@alexmaria5944 are u afraid?

@GradyPhilpott 6 лет назад

I'm happy to report that in all my 68 years, I have never stood in a dimly lit room and stared at a mirror long enough to see anything unusual.

@MrWarthog 5 лет назад

When u gonna turn 69

@nevernoxis1645 5 лет назад

Volvo VNR 640 this is a very important question

@valgb77 4 года назад

Nice

@MrGold-lo6vc 4 года назад

Have you tried it yet?

@thickpurrrito325 4 года назад

Nice

@christey123 6 лет назад

All i see is a man in the mirror, he is asking me to change my ways..

@lightsidemaster 6 лет назад

If you wanna make the world a better place take a look at yourself then make a change!

@jc2579 6 лет назад

well played

@menacemaguire335 5 лет назад

Wait, this may be not a coincident. Someone else had the exact same thing happen to him as this happened to you

@k5zd887 5 лет назад

christina what do you mean by change your ways?

@Firoux23 5 лет назад

Micheal Jackson

@theprofessor3339 6 лет назад

Tired as hell the other night with a couple of friends over, so I started to zone out absentmindedly staring at a mirror. 5 minutes in and my face has become a work of Picasso, there are dark figures fading in and out of the corners of the mirror, and my friends have started to become quite concerned about me

@Literallyryangosling777 2 года назад

Listen to the voices

@Breauner 6 лет назад

So what if a monster looks in the mirror, does it see humans? Does it freak him out? If not, what would? Other monsters? Is there a version of monsters monsters call monsters? Or are those humans? Whats the distinction? I just have questions.

@hazelstritt7848 6 лет назад

Breauner Omg you made my day xDD this made me laugh so much :)

@sirdeadlock 6 лет назад

Made me think of this: ru-vid.com/video/%D0%B2%D0%B8%D0%B4%D0%B5%D0%BE-b0FViwZmsGQ.html

@Benjamin72297 6 лет назад

Too drunk can’t process

@jo-zt7mo 5 лет назад

lmaoo

@karolinedemon 4 года назад

Humans are monsters

@marer1000 6 лет назад

Thanks for being classy and not using jumpscare.

@AndromedaIX 4 года назад

I still got spooked when the sasquatch popped up behind him

@AnthonyBlamthony 4 месяца назад

Yeah because the people who were unaware of this and are going to try it are already going to be scared enough lol

@SebastianTheGreat 6 лет назад

I thought my reflection was horrifying with dim lights... but then I turned the lights on... I don't want to talk about it.

@ogbtom 5 лет назад

I know im 8 months late but lets talk about what you have seen

@sophonprak1065 5 лет назад

Pri Barros no you played roblox

@kngtutt723 5 лет назад

@@pribarros1681 Yeah you played "The mirror" and you searched the description of the game and came to this video most of us here from "2 days" came and searched it from ROBLOX.

@Rui88900 5 лет назад

@@kngtutt723 thats literally what i did

@kngtutt723 5 лет назад

@@Rui88900 Then get no scoped kid

@PaleGhost69 6 лет назад

The only monster I see in the mirror is myself... :'(

@PaleGhost69 6 лет назад

Justin O'Brien ;P

@gonzotown9438 6 лет назад

Why so sad about being a monster?

@Iruka1991 6 лет назад

cuz monsters don't get to live happily ever after

@gonzotown9438 6 лет назад

It depends on the monster. The hairier you are, the more likely you get a happy ending.

@tonyblackops 6 лет назад

Sooo edgy

@sylviaodhner 6 лет назад

Okay, until I saw the title of this video, I had no idea this was a thing. But now I know that my irrational fear of mirrors in the dark is NOT IRRATIONAL AT ALL!

@lIlIllIlIllIlllIllIIIIIIIIIlII 6 лет назад

Sylvia Odhner I remember reading about weird stuff like 'out of body experience' techniques, one of them was staring in a mirror until you supposedly switch places with the mirrored image. Sounds like fantasy I know! Still doesn't make it less creepy though, the thought of that haunts me I won't stare too long in a mirror hahaha

@SaintParallax 6 лет назад

Sylvia Odhner Well now you know that it’s all in your head, wouldn’t it be irrational?

@sylviaodhner 6 лет назад

I don't think so, because what scares me is the idea of having scary delusions, not the idea that something is going to physically harm me.

@YingofDarkness 6 лет назад

Glad to know I'm not the only one. If I have to go to the bathroom at night, I either turn on the lights or wash my hands to the side of the sink to avoid looking at the mirror XD

@shaun_rambaran 5 лет назад

I'd stopped listening to 'creepy pasta' stories on RU-vid after listening to one about a monster which always lurked just at the edge of the protagonist's peripheral vision. Never in direct sight, just always at the edge. A bit of motion. A bit of a shadow, just barely disappearing around the edge of the wall as soon as he looked up. He sometimes just barely caught a glimpse of it. Maybe. I hear you on the mirror thing. I feel like it's similar. If I think about it too long, I'm scared of what I might see in the reflection of the mirror, hidden in the background, down in the corner somewhere. Something I might just get a glimpse of before it vanishes off.

@995cool 6 лет назад

this does not explain the tall smiling guy i can see behind me though

@araknidude 6 лет назад

Crap, you could see me the whole time?

@dereklouden7415 6 лет назад

Get out of your house. Now.

@emmethefangirl8785 6 лет назад

It is slender man. Get out now.

@995cool 6 лет назад

slenderman has a face?

@995cool 6 лет назад

he just wanted a hug and my soul. and i'm ginger so...

@thelastroman7791 3 года назад

This makes me think about how many hidden monsters we must have hidden in the depths of our subconscious.

@mememanfresh 7 месяцев назад

probably see them during sleep paralysis

@vickymc9695 6 лет назад

Poor Narcissus. Gods know what he sees.

@Vgamer311 6 лет назад

I get it.

@ono_o_o 4 года назад

To be fair, wasn't the pond he looked at outside? Or did he still look at his reflection at night? I don't remember ;-;

@kaitlyn666 2 года назад

I’m pretty sure he never left the pond. Meaning he would have stared at his reflection at night as well.

@sogerc1 6 лет назад

Okay, I'm not looking in the mirror tonight. Not even tomorrow morning.

@alexmaria5944 5 лет назад

you should really do it... It's freaking cool

@babyj3sus562 3 года назад

@@alexmaria5944 YeAh It Is

@Sparrow420 6 лет назад

Oh that's why! and here I am foolishly thinking it's all the shrooms i've been eating.

@DrumWild 2 года назад

Creepy mirror story time! It's 1976 and I'm in grade school. One night at 2:00am, I got up to use the restroom. Afterward, I stopped and looked into the mirror. The look turned into a stare. I felt a sensation that my body was floating, but also felt like I didn't really exist. My eyes moved upward, and I saw a foggy mist. Out of the foggy mist, a net was falling over me, and the net was followed by a sharp dagger being brought down on me. It appeared to have been held by a hand. That next morning, I didn't tell anyone. Then we got a call that my grandfather had died in his sleep over the course of the night, at around 2:10am. Now it's late 2021, and I'm just learning about the Troxler Effect. What I think happened was that I stared into the mirror for too long and fell half-asleep. When I shifted my vision slightly, that's when I saw those things. It wasn't a demon or anything. As for my grandfather's death, I write it off as coincidence.

@thechaoticphoenixx8963 6 лет назад

It's reasons like this that whenever i got to the bathroom at night, I always stare at the floor until i exit. If you think im going to look at whatever want to take my soul,you are mistaken

@KekoMilky 5 лет назад

haha... I always stare at the floor in bathroom all the time when I enter the bathroom

@nevernoxis1645 5 лет назад

The Chaotic Phoenixx I swear I didn’t do this until one time I was peeing while looking myself directly in they eye from a mirror (which is not directly I front of the toilet but very close) like litteraly having a staring contest and I swear to god my reflection litteraly looked all the way left while I directly was staring at it. Suffice to say the remaining pee did not land in the toilet. Been looking down ever sense that day ( Ik Ik sense)

@afridmohammad9229 4 года назад

I just run away as soon as I pee

@Thomas48484 4 года назад

Your reflection is gonna start looking at you and you don't know. So minimal eye contact with my reflection

@woahman1720 4 года назад

Never Noxis That’s like really unsettling for some reason and if I saw that in the mirror I would vomit because of fear

@The1Overmind 6 лет назад

Sounds like a good plot for a carefully crafted movie.

@meganl2952 6 лет назад

The1Overmind start a kickstarter

@sooooooooDark 6 лет назад

its actually more scary if u do the mirror viewing thingy (in the dark) but instead of looking straight at ur reflection u look slightly to the side - like for example over ur shoulder or sideways over ur head

@Bombay1618 6 лет назад

could be because rods are concentrated at the periphery of the fovea and not the center -- you're getting a brighter image of your own face.

@kingkiller1451 6 лет назад

I'm not sure I can look at the mirror in a dim room long enough for that, my own reflection creeps me out too quickly by convincing me it wants to kill me.

@Discover73533 3 года назад

yes

@Draco-xz4yo 2 года назад

Bro same

@emilytheweirdo4752 6 лет назад

When I was little grown ups used to say “don’t look into a mirror at night or you will see a ghost”. I was really scared and have never looked into a mirror at night until this day just because what they said to me. Now I see perhaps they weren’t trying to scare me but telling the truth.

@AnthonyBlamthony 4 месяца назад

100% I don’t think it even goes away or subsides after a while either

@HexIsme 6 лет назад

I have a thing where every time after a shower when I look in the mirror, I see myself, but less saturated, very tired, and overall dead-looking. Needless to say I don't check the mirror after a shower often.

@Garentei 6 лет назад

Hex Isme That might have to do with dry skin due to the steam and hot water. Also, wet hair and greasy hair kind of look the same.

@jennavarley6446 6 лет назад

How many ppl went to stare into a mirror right after watching this?

@vivanlosgatoslomejor 6 лет назад

Jenna Varley not me

@balfourwheatley6644 5 лет назад

I came here after..to be honest

@neet-noot573 5 лет назад

SBEVE

@javiermercado8718 5 лет назад

Me. Nothing happen.

@bonesreds3062 5 лет назад

I did that on acid and first it was interesting and all of a sudden my heart dropped and i was scared of the person in my mirror. I feel like its the kind of surprise fear that these women feel when they put on lipsticks or sth in a car window reflection and then realise that there is someone in the car

@screeno42 6 лет назад

I actually get a weird version of this. I still recognize the image in the mirror as my face but it's like, not me? Like someone or something is pretending to be me, and looking my reflection in the eyes gives a bit of an uncanny valley feeling. Edit because my response to all of these replies is relatively the same: turns out I had some really bad mental issues when I wrote this. I'm better now, and I only get this feeling either on Bad Days or when I should have gone to bed hours ago. So yeah, get ya'll to a good therapist and/or bed, it'll do wonders.

@Aralent 3 года назад

And the eye contact that it gives,jesuschrist it look's like it also observe you (i know im too late lmao)

@Discover73533 3 года назад

feels like person in mirror is also staring me very scary

@treanishajackson2295 3 года назад

@@Aralent do u think it's curious or evil

@CrowderHatingConservative 3 года назад

@@treanishajackson2295 That's what makes it scary. There is no way to tell a look of hatred from a look of concentration in the eyes of a stranger.

@piotrpytlinski8446 2 года назад

I've literally had the same thing, it gave me an aggressive look

@Kilanna 6 лет назад

90s: Bloody Mary, Bloody Mary, Bloody Mary 2017: Just Monika, Just Monika, Just Monika

@lobster123burger 6 лет назад

Kilanna Eeeeeyyyyyy a Doki Doki Player!!!!!!

@user-qx1om2wj1h 5 лет назад

What about "Justin Bieber, Justin Bieber , Justin Bieber"

@KekoMilky 5 лет назад

@@user-qx1om2wj1h Then werid song will turn on

@sethtucker3714 4 года назад

伏見猿比古 lol

@Saplingbat 6 лет назад

Both my best friend and I both hate mirrors but for different reasons. I can really heavily disassociate when I look at my reflection for even small amounts of time. (Side effect of a bad salvia trip that I wish I had never taken. ALWAYS RESEARCH WHAT YOU'RE GETTING INTO KIDS) and he on the other hand has really great spacial awareness. But Mirrors in his peripheral throw that off and make him feel like there's space that isn't there and it's apparently unpleasant for him. Just figured I'd share!

@magmagon5572 6 лет назад

Easy, because mirrors reflect ... wait.

@thomasthetankengine2653 6 лет назад

C2Lception Lol

@onlyhuman5669 4 года назад

And I oop-

@salhb737tm2 3 года назад

Oh Oh Oh no

@Thatspunkymonkey 3 года назад

Garbage? Thats what i see

@thstroyur 6 лет назад

0:15 And that's how you make a Netflix series, kids

@NewMessage 6 лет назад

Um.. I've never seen 'things in the mirror'. I guess I'm lookin' scary enough already.

@111Cmonster 6 лет назад

dont mess with the mirror dimension

@HAngeli 6 лет назад

I did this once when I was 15-16 y. O. and I saw a lizard person. I'm so happy to better understand this phenomena.

@chancevail8868 Год назад

Happened to me when I was 17 and staring In a mirror. My right eye turned into a slit and it freaked me out because I saw it fo from round to slit.

@fanaticalpotato 6 лет назад

NEVER TRYING THAT THANKS

@walido07370 4 года назад

wait, what if the monsters we are seeing are trying this in the same time as we do it?

@jessicaonymous4352 6 лет назад

When I was a teenager I couldn't look at the mirror when going to the bathroom at night because after a few seconds I would start looking like a monster, it really freaked me out and I always assumed it was because I read too many horror stories.

@Discover73533 3 года назад

I am a teenager and I couldn't look at the mirror when going to the bathroom at night

@fosterrico5546 3 года назад

@@Discover73533 I usually don't see anything in the mirror, but still afraid to look in it 😅

@Discover73533 3 года назад

@@fosterrico5546 me too

@lucifeers3219 3 года назад

Dont know why but whenever i go to the bathroom, i always look at the mirror. Either i was trying to see if i was looking fresh, or check if there was something else in the room

@pfeifenheini 6 лет назад

Wow I just tried it. I'm very tired and that probably helped. It started almost right away that I looked like a very old man (I am not btw). Then it was like my eyes moved further apart and it looked somewhat alien like. It also looked a little like a skull with only the eyes staring at me. And then my face basically completely disappeared. All in all quite creepy. I will definitely let my friends try it. ^^

@noahwilliams8996 6 лет назад

I saw myself turning into Dr. Kleiner from half life the first time. The second time I saw my face being stretched and pulled towards me.

@E-Kat 5 лет назад

How could you see anything without any light?

@yvesv7098 4 года назад

Me too omg!The outline of my head turned black and then i saw an old ass angry dude looking at me

@frankieisinsane 4 года назад

i saw MULTIPLE me s around me and they all had black eyes

@rokenglass5015 3 года назад

Lol I had a dream once that I was in the bathroom and I looked into the mirror. I was looking at my hair cause I have like eczema on my scalp- ;-; Aight and I lifted some of my hair up and I had grey hair strands and I was like so freaked out- Oof

@AtrumNuntius 6 лет назад

Wonder why this didn't come out as an October episode.

@XXX3RX0 6 лет назад

It is a form of sensory deprivation called the Ganzfeld effect or perceptual deprivation. "The effect is the result of the brain amplifying neural noise in order to look for the missing visual signals. The noise is interpreted in the higher visual cortex, and gives rise to hallucinations."

@XXX3RX0 2 года назад

@notYourRU-vid Not maybe, the Ganzfeld effect is a real thing that happens. I'm not entirely sure what you're trying to ask. If it didn't happen to you then you're not experiencing this effect. And that's probably the case because your brain is getting enough information and doesn't have to amplify the neural noise that occurs during deprivation. But that happens all the time. If you want to experience the effect, try looking at the photo in darker lighting.

@viennajordan9279 6 лет назад

The monster in the mirror was me all along...

@gentleman_oni 6 лет назад

The monster was all of us...

@closier2 4 года назад

We aren't humans..

@poopoopeepee2400 4 года назад

Vienna Jordan BUT IT WAS I, DIO

@candyshop6634 4 года назад

I tried this in my room at 1am with dim light and soon my face started to melt... It Turned black..and my eyes got at the place of my nose and literally it felt like another person was staring at me from the mirror... This actually horrified me... I won't be doing it again..:(

@Discover73533 3 года назад

me too

@Meganopteryx 5 лет назад

I remember freaking myself out looking in a mirror in the dark when I was like 5. I decided to never look in a mirror in the dark again. This has served me well.

@rokenglass5015 3 года назад

Same

@fasiuddiin 6 лет назад

the best channel on RU-vid so far

@Muerrzy 4 года назад

No cap I stared into the mirror and the distorted face that I saw after a few minutes turned completely dark. Litteraly every thing went dark, the shirt, hair, eyes. It was like I looked at a shadow. Then i began to freak out and then there was two big eyes on the shadows face bro wtffff I immediately stopped and switched the light on omg I'm so scared

@Whisprify 6 лет назад

Going through comments thinking most of these people shouldn't be watching this, realizing I'm on that list...

@Rujewitblood 2 года назад

I often start seeing creepy faces as I'm falling asleep. It's like half imagination, but half as though I'm seeing a picture on the inside of my eyelids, like looking through a camera viewfinder. It's bizarre, because it's always specifically disturbing distorted faces, never just normal ones. I also noticed that every time I wake up in the morning and fall back asleep, I will always have a very disturbing nightmare. There is something going on in the brain around sleep

@redskies4530 2 года назад

Hi I recommend checking out a Brand New Indie Pop/Rock Song Called 'Looking Into The Mirror' By Robert Nix

@WaldoBagelTopper 3 года назад

I believe this. Although I haven't tried it with the lights off (except maybe as a kid playing with my siblings), there have been times in my life where I stare into the mirror too long and the longer I look, the more odd I look to myself. Like I have these moments where I think "have I always looked this way??" or "There is no way my nose was ALWAYS shaped this way". It DOES give you a weird feeling to try to "acquaint" with yourself.

@GroundZero000 6 лет назад

This vid was uploaded on my birthday. AWESOME!!!!

@f.b.i9468 4 года назад

I have a similar situation where when I see my reflection I see a blood dripping character of myself...

@joyfreg2337 2 года назад

as an artist spending hours on making a face you tend to shift percpectives on the face giving them and entirely different look or feeling when you've been looking at the same face.

@redskies4530 2 года назад

Hi Joy,I recommend a Brand New Indie Pop/Rock Song Called 'Looking Into The Mirror' By Robert Nix

@alexboltz3081 6 лет назад

Great videos as always

@judederango4622 6 лет назад

Half the time I don't recognize myself in the mirror with the lights on.

@BananaJoe42 6 лет назад

"Lets me do some experiments on myself"! Kinky

@error_d2c 6 лет назад

....I want that sweater.

@emmethefangirl8785 6 лет назад

I'm terrified of mirrors at night that's why I hardly ever go to the bathroom at night

@Discover73533 3 года назад

me too I try my best to hardly go to bathroom at night

@aether9061 4 года назад

I have this mirror in my room that sits in front of me across the wall from my bed. My dad put it there and idk why but I havent moved it away. I get freaked out looking at it because I get the feeling that my own reflection will freeze and stare at me. Or when I stare at myself, the things around me feel full of shadows standing nearby or coming towards me. Such an unnerving feeling...

@johnathanwhite4878 6 лет назад

The only monster I see is me lol

@johnathanwhite4878 6 лет назад

When literally everyone made the same exact joke 😭

@RBLXProd 4 года назад

@asch304 6 лет назад

Hank you can't tell me that you have a reason for why we see monsters in the mirror and then tell me we don't actually know why why see monsters in the mirror

@noahwilliams8996 6 лет назад

The reason is whatever horrifying explanation you're thinking of right now.

@islanderrose723 3 года назад

Your eyes are windows to the soul.

@MrMonkeyhead555 6 лет назад

You see monsters in the mirror because you are the monster. The reflection of your true self.

@VenVen_tm 6 лет назад

Berserker stop

@BenieTheDragon 6 лет назад

2:13: You actually got her face correct. The other way was wrong.

@jeralyncabaluna5819 6 лет назад

Can you make a video about the feeling in your stomach when you are in high places?

@mimi-bq8ir 4 года назад

Jeralyn Cabaluna its fear

@MurdocsMinion 6 лет назад

Haven't watched it, but I wanted to say, I'm excited to see that a phobia I've always had is being covered!

@BedardJ 6 лет назад

That’s so cool. I love these videos.

@GlitchedBlox 5 лет назад

I'll never want to see my reflection on a mirror alone again.

@brookeconsole5719 6 лет назад

I don't see any reflection when I walk past a mirror, is that bad?

@DemiDragonQueen 6 лет назад

that means you're a vampire

@ChioLee954 4 года назад

You might be a Bat

@rubexcub3759 5 лет назад

I never knew this was real. Except if you were doing the Bloody Mary Challenge!

@billrex722 3 года назад

Pleasant surprise to see Hank Green host the show

@lukehanson7554 6 лет назад

I never turn lights on, so when I look in the mirror at night it's dark, and I've never noticed anything before.

@rukayatohoku1944 4 года назад

I always thought it was an enemy stand.

@Sanngot 6 лет назад

Woah! I never heard of this! I need to try it. Maybe it can get inspired for art.

@adforknowledge6582 4 года назад

U made this video so terrific I got scared when i saw Thatcher's photo and when that creepy monster popped out from behind. 😨😓😭😭😭

@simongreve 6 лет назад

Its because Dr Who locked "Daughter of mine" in there.

@dereklouden7415 6 лет назад

simongreve YES!

@carolineh.1925 6 лет назад

*awkward finger guns* YEAH DUDE

@leafychild5179 5 лет назад

YASSS!!

@ninaboudreaux7471 4 года назад

Ha!

@constanzagonzalezcarrasco8851 5 лет назад

me:*sees thumbnail picture* me again: oh no i dont want sans to appear in my bathroom

@ssroudyss9432 2 года назад

I don't have to stare too long to see a monster, i just have to stare

@fumfering 10 месяцев назад

I've never had the monster-in-the-mirror thing happen, but I wonder if my tendency to hear spooky vocal sounds after a certain amount of time listening to white noise is caused by a similar process. I've always wondered if my brain is just trying to find order amid the blankness.

@obrkenobi1170 6 лет назад

*Implying Margaret Thatcher wasn't already a monster*

@ostrakos4785 6 лет назад

/our guy/

@talentlesshack1242 6 лет назад

Obr Kenobi good praxis conrad

@obrkenobi1170 6 лет назад

Thanks comrade.

@tarkadhal8344 5 лет назад

If it wasn't for her my home would be a part of argentina

@tarkadhal8344 2 года назад

@Comrade Dmitri good one

@byrellebrass7387 6 лет назад

I can always trust Scishow to EsPlAiN!! Because in all honesty this has plagued me for many years, I have an intense fear of mirrors

@Discover73533 3 года назад

me too

@Ava-up5ci 6 лет назад

You should make some of the scishow finds things Project for awesome perks!

@Glockenspheal 6 лет назад

The monster is actually you...

@ruddthree8105 6 лет назад

I've had enough introspection for one day...

@J23486 3 года назад

I dont like looking the mirror, I always see something evil in the mirror, and this isn't just when I've looked while on shrooms.

@maximkhan-magomedov431 6 лет назад

Things get much worse when one looks at self in the mirror in their dreams. I still cannot figure out why it happens: some massive glitch in perception, "monsters from the id", something else?

@Vgamer311 6 лет назад

I can vouch for that. I’d really like to know why that happens.

@rokenglass5015 3 года назад

Dude I had a dream like that- I swear I looked so creepy.

@childishbambino2024 3 года назад

I did this when lucid dream it looked like a glitch

@lhpaoletti 6 лет назад

Thanks SciShow, now I won't be able to brush my teeth before sleeping today, as I saw this video right after eating dinner

@blackshadow7520 4 года назад

Unpopular opinion: No matter how far Science goes, it will always have a limit and Science will fail to answer it.

@megashley1963 6 лет назад

I've never heard of this, this is a thing??? I always assumed the whole Bloody Mary myth was 100% fake, not some sort of actual distorted mirror sight. I'm going to go right now and... never ever try this, it seems horrifying.

@rokenglass5015 3 года назад

Welp- I don't think it's real but the myth was You have to turn off the lights, be alone, stare at the mirror, and say bloody Mary three times. That's how you do it. But the myth actually was that if you do that, bloody Mary comes out of the mirror and scratches your eyes out. Dude I tried it when I was little lol. I was so scared. ;-;

@rokenglass5015 3 года назад

Also if you really don't wanna do it you prob shouldn't I was scared after I did lol.

@rokenglass5015 3 года назад

Yep it is horrifying.

@uselessperson2253 3 года назад

It is scary and I just did it on accident without even knowing about it

@imakememes3885 4 года назад

I won’t stare into a mirror since I’ve known of Bloody Mary

@xeric1953 2 года назад

Anytime someone asks me what I want for Christmas or my birthday I find that no matter how inexpensive the item, they always get me something different. Now I just default to “anything is nice”

@AnthonyBlamthony 4 месяца назад

And the worst part is it doesn’t even feel like it’s subsides or goes away over time, it just keeps getting worse and worse the more you look. And it gets to the point with your brain feels like it’s trying to trigger a fight or flight reaction. I’ve tried to see how long I can look before, but I always end up walking away very fast after a couple minutes lol

@DemiDragonQueen 6 лет назад

When I was in high school, I had an intensely fractured sense of self (like bordering D.I.D.), and whenever I had an emotional breakdown, I was unable to recognize myself in mirrors.

@ilyasssaadi9594 6 лет назад

DemiDragonQueen wow, hope u'r better now

@DemiDragonQueen 6 лет назад

Awe, thank you! I am much better. It was majorly due to an intense, prolonged conflict between my sexual identity and my religious identity (i.e. I was a fundamentalist christian but also trans)

@Tiparium_NMF 6 лет назад

The mirror is one step closer to the Eldritch dimension, so you're seeing the world one step closer to how it really is. If you saw the truth your silly little mind would break.

@Elijah42069 5 лет назад

uh, no. is that some sort of religion?

@Kaseus-lq7cj 4 года назад

@@Elijah42069 loloolololllll duuuudeee

@Kaseus-lq7cj 4 года назад

@@Elijah42069 loooool I'm dying

@jacobandrews2696 6 лет назад

Could it be that the disassociation we experience when looking in the mirror too long creates the same "Horrific" effect that we see in monsters and create our monster designs from and that is what causes us the think we see monsters in the mirror? Would be interesting to see if the parts of the brain that are stimulated when seeing a "monster" in the mirror and an actual picture or video of a monster where the same, I'm guessing it would be.

@JustFlynn 6 лет назад

YOU SAID IT THREE TIMES HANK ARE YOU INSANE?!?!?!

@Titanic-wo6bq 6 лет назад

0:41 I find that funny.

@d.kincaid3595 6 лет назад

So, if recognizing yourself in the mirror is an important part of the development of a sense of self, was there a difference in self-awareness before mirrors became widely, or at all, available? Many ancient mirrors were just polished metal, typically only available to the rich, and full of imperfections and distortions, and our hunter-gatherer ancestors would only have seen their reflections rarely, e.g. in a stiil pond or puddle. Has anyone wondered about this?

@altrag 6 лет назад

Hah. I just asked the same question! Seems like you beat me by like 48 seconds!

@samhansen9771 6 лет назад

Water is probably right, and plus, they might not be inextricably linked, perhaps they just use similar brain processes

@d.kincaid3595 6 лет назад

altrag great minds think alike, greater minds think faster. Lol

@d.kincaid3595 6 лет назад

Sam Hansen I mentioned "pond or puddle", which would imply water...

@d.kincaid3595 6 лет назад

Sam Hansen please elaborate

@Mxrk_Hxshim 3 года назад

It's not scary but funny.Your face shape changes from time to time and some moment I see myself headless.Great experience none the less,I recommended it

@iamgabrielhutchinson 3 года назад

How many minutes did you stare? And did you blink?

@Mxrk_Hxshim 3 года назад

@@iamgabrielhutchinson about 10 minutes,but you can see the effect less than that.I don't remember either I blink or not during that time...

@alessia2046 4 года назад

Sometimes when i stare at like a wall with something infront of it the object infront just fades and i can see through it

@Samzillah 6 лет назад

Whenever i look in the mirror in the dark i freak myself out cause I have long dark hair and really pale skin so i look like bloody mary or the ring girl.

@Perun42 6 лет назад

I'm discovered this effect by myself when i've be a child. It was relay creepy :)

@zeeotter100 6 лет назад

Perun42 ygs

@eenymeeny6755 2 года назад

Do u recommend to try this... Am curious

@Vgamer311 6 лет назад

This explains what happens when you stare intently at your reflection for prolonged periods of time, but how come even quick glimpses at a mirror can sometimes seem creepy or unsettling, sometimes to the point that some people are uncomfortable even knowing that they’re in the same room as a mirror even if they’re not looking at it? I even know a few people who admitted that they have a semi-persistent fear that their reflection is actually another entity that just mimics your movements, and may even continue looking at you when you look away. In fact a general fear of mirrors has led to a pretty common trope among horror movies and ghost stories of monsters and demons living inside them. Is this a result of the phenomenon you described leading to people fearing mirrors even when it’s not being actively experienced and in turn passing that fear to others through stories and games like Bloody Mary? Or is there something else altogether which leads people to not necessarily “see” monsters but instead have a general uneasiness relating to mirrors and their reflections in general?