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Remember the shots from horror films: the hero looks in the mirror, and suddenly a completely unfamiliar face begins to emerge from there. Or he discovers in the mirror a reflection of some entity in his with your back. Where does all this come from? Some explain this phenomenon. optical illusion, others – deviations in the psyche, others – supernatural reasons. Italian psychologist Giovanni Caputo describes this phenomenon in detail in an article published in the journal “Perception”. In order to see someone else’s face in the mirror, for a long time to look at your reflection when dim lighting, the researcher claims. Optimal conditions for the experiment – a dim bulb, say, a power of 25 watt, which is located behind the back. The person must be from mirrors at a distance of about 40 meters. In a minute you find the “stranger” through the looking glass. Caputo invited 50 volunteers to participate in the experiment. After The scientist asked for a 10-minute session of playing “peepers” with a mirror subjects to describe what exactly they saw. 66 percent participants answered that they saw their own face, but at the same time highly distorted. 18 percent “appeared” the face of one of them parents with distorted features. Moreover, in most cases it was about already dead parents. 28 percent reported image of an unknown person. 18 percent observed images various animals such as cat, pig or lion. And finally 48 percent admitted that they saw in the mirror some fantastic creatures and monsters. According to Caputo, such effects may be a combination of visual distortion when the visual system is again and again it is necessary to recognize the same images, which leads to changes in their interpretation. Emotional is also curious. reaction of the participants in the experiment. About half of them told that they had a surreal feeling, as if from the other side someone else was really looking at the mirrors. Some described the look of “strangers” as frightening and hostile, to others it seemed mysteriously, the third seemed that the “strangers” cheered them up. If images of deceased relatives appeared in the mirror, then people often imagined that they wanted to ask them some kind of question. Fantastic monsters in most cases were alarming and even horror. If the faces “in the process” were deformed, pulsed, changed size or smirk appeared on them, subjects felt helplessness in the face of unknown forces. And the practice of divination on in the mirrors, when the “face of the narrowed one” is supposedly guessing? Biologist, popularizer of science V. Mezentsev in “Encyclopedia miracles “unequivocally states: all” mirror visions “are nothing other than ordinary hallucinations! “How did fortune telling usually go? – he writes. – The girl, waiting late at night, remains alone in dark room. He lights a small candle and sits at the table. Trying not to move, she gazes steadily at the dull shiny surface of the mirror. Minutes go by and she gradually falls into a drowsy state. And then in her “twilight” consciousness equally twilight fleeting visions-images arise. But check what exactly is a guessing, there is no opportunities. Maybe there was nothing, but it seems to her that it was, especially if she sat opposite, with the fear of “seeing” who is not nice to her. In short, the nature of such illusions, “visions” is easy explained by the properties of our psyche. “It’s more difficult to explain cases when the reflection in the mirror behaves as an independent entity. For Svetlana N. from St. Petersburg, the spiritualistic session was only only entertainment on a boring Saturday night. It was happening in her the apartment where she invited her friends. Summoned the spirit of Pushkin, then Vysotsky – a saucer, moving in a circle with the letters of the alphabet, regularly answered the questions. And then Svetlana suddenly came to summon … your own spirit! When pronounced a spell, severe pain pierced her body for a moment. Saucer on the table started to move. But the spirit answered only with general phrases. Soon everyone bored it, the session was interrupted, the guests began to disperse home, leaving the mistress alone. While washing dishes, Svetlana heard for someone’s backs. She looked around and saw a blurry silhouette in the corridor. The figure slipped into the bathroom, a light came on, water gushed out. Daring to glance there, the landlady found that a crane wrapped, but in the sink – spray of water. She looked in the mirror and speechless when she saw herself in a bathrobe, although in fact I haven’t managed to change clothes after the guests left. It seemed that the reflection reaches for her as if she wants to grab. Svetlana stepped back back – and then someone’s invisible hand began to throw objects at it, standing on a shelf by the mirror … More than a woman never in her life engaged in spiritualism … Margarita Troitsyna
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