#TRUE MIRROR HOW TO#
#TRUE MIRROR MOVIE#

You are engaging another layer of your brain, a layer that is 100 times slower than the automatic layer engaged in movement of the mouse along its normal axis. Notice how clumsy it is? It is because the motion does not at all correspond to what is happening in the real world. As an experiment, try to use the mouse sideways. The motion of the mouse in the real world corresponds to the motion of the cursor on the screen. I am struggling to recall the scientific term for what you are describing, but it is a simple cognitive phenomenon that guides and informs the design of physical, real-world interfaces. Here is an article from the German Wikipedia describing the glasses and showing an image of a current (self-built) model: I don't know what this 'Umkehrbrille' ('turn around glasses') are called in English.

#TRUE MIRROR MOVIE#

Here is the original documentary movie created by the two researchers (in German) on the website of the Center for the History of Psychology at the University of Würzburg, Germany: The image below shows Kohler wearing the glasses: After about 8 days his perception had adapted and he was able to ride a bike or paint just like before. Kohler wore a pair of glasses that turned his view of the world upside down continually for 124 days (sic).

In 1950, Theodor Erismann and Ivo Kohler performed a famous self-experiment in Innsbruck, Austria. This answer supports the comment by Krysta that we are simply used to the mirrors we have and could just as easily learn to use a 'true mirror'. Is this just the result of practice and experience? I'm curious if a true mirror will become as natural as a mirror if one uses it for long enough. Think about this: suppose a person grows up never seeing a mirror reflection, will he be able to use a mirror for the first time? will he not be better off with a 'true mirror' than with a mirror? If he grows up using true mirrors, will he be as clumsy with mirrors as we are with true mirrors? We feel natural and at ease dealing with mirror images.

#TRUE MIRROR HOW TO#

Any other thoughts on how to explain this difficulty? So it seems to me some part of my brain in some sense recognizes my true image as a mirror image, and summons whatever pertinent mirror image circuits to automatically take on from there. From my own experience, I find myself constantly confuse both left-right and front-back in such a case, which is interesting because a true image is just a mirror image that reverses left-right and front-back. That is what looking at real time video recording feels like.īut as anyone ever tried shaving or doing their makeup using a live video can tell, a true mirror makes you clumsy, to say the least. In short, when you look into a true mirror you look at yourself (among other things) as you really are, instead of as a mirror image. This Youtube video shows what a 'true mirror' is:

True mirror