this is the reason (coupled with the fact most of us aren't symmetrical) why so many of us don't like how we look in pictures

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Seeing myself unmirrored always reduces my self-confidence by a lot. Everybody says I look okay and I'm not the most attractive guy in the world but it just looks really off when I see myself unmirrored. Mostly because I have asymmetrical eyes that it almost looks derpy if the one eye that's bigger is in the wrong side of my face. Maybe if I have a true mirror and get used to how I look that way I can finally get some self confidence back.

It would be amazing to be able to come out of our bodies even just to hear or see ourselves, just for a minute or two to explore.

I feel like a 3d view of yourself is even more accurate. Have you ever looked at your side profile with another mirror and think wtf, that's how I look from the side???

very cool! never heard of such a thing...they should have those at stores for when you're buying clothes.

Actually, I used to have a similar experience every morning. I'd get up, go to the bathroom and it seems like I smell bad, but I know it's because the mirror is reflecting my scent upside down. This came as a great relief, knowing I never have to wash before going out of the house... or ever again, really.

I feel like this would've been far easier to showcase and for viewers to comprehend if it was shot horizontally and with a wider framing to show the entire rig setup, with the view that we see in the current video inlaid on top of the camera filming the set.

in my house the bathroom wall is a big giant mirror, and when the mirrors meet in the corners, it creates this thing you're calling "True mirror". my entire life i'd get my hair one way, then i'd look at myself in the inverted mirror to see what it truly looks like and be like "dude i can't wear my hair like this, its uneven"

I like that he debunked the idea I had, which was that I looked to other people like a necrotic goblin. The more you know..

I remember playing around with the "true mirror" in the clothing shops back in the 80's. You could angel them to the point you could make copies of yourself into eternity. Always lots of fun as kids playing around with those moving mirrors that allowed you to view your true self, plus more options with playing with infinity!

I am very thankful for your videos. I’m a lover of all science and you’ve taught me more than any classroom ever has !!

So *this* is why I sound so weird in like voicemail playback or I hear myself on speaker and stuff. It was fake mirrors the whole time!

"Rocket is so fascinating huh, how did they make it work in the first place?" "Well, it's no mirror science"

I used to use true/double/triple mirrors to help me cut my own hair, back when i was a barber. Really helps. Gives you more of a 3D perspective.

Step 3 is summoning your clone from a parallel dimension

then the reflection moves on its own, and you realize that that is not a real mirror.

I’ll just be telling myself that I look more attractive in a true mirror.

Thanks for your videos 🙏😊

Growing up, my bathroom had a big flat mirror, with two angled mirrors at the side that had hidden cabinets behind them. They operated off a hinge, and I remember the time around age 12 that I noticed after opening them to a right angle, I would look different. I distinctly remember liking what I saw better than my normal mirror image, so I would fix my hair using the true mirror. It was a pleasant surprise that I was more handsome to myself than I had previously thought.

I first saw this effect in a pub and I wasn’t drunk. Along the panelled wall behind the bar, there was a row of small mirrors zig-zagging along at 45° to each other. I happened to notice that my reflection wasn’t reversed. I've often thought that bedrooms, which often have a wardrobe door mirror should have an extra, hinged mirror which could be set at 45° to give a true image albeit not seamless. For the best, seamless true mirror it must be front silvered.

Once when I was visiting my aunt, I managed to arrange the mirror doors on her medicine cabinet in such a way that one of them became a true mirror. I didn't notice any major differences, but it still felt really weird to know that in a way I was seeing my "real face" in real time for the first time.

This is a great video! Kudos!

We need this kind of mirror

After one of your newer videos on mirrors, I thought they made perfect sense! I'm rethinking that now! 😅

Someone needs to do a makeup video using this mirror!

Ok wow, a mirror with this sort of internal reflection opens up some cool possibilities.

Honestly, everything flew above my head.

I've been thinking about this semi recently.. How i don't really know what i look like to other people, and the reason you usually look "bad" in other peoples photos is because you're just used to seeing the mirrored version of yourself in mirrors aswell as selfie cameras.. So i took a photo of myself with my back camera on my phone and instantly became 10 times more insecure lmao

Despite knowing you probably had safety goggles on, seeing a 1w laser being shot into a mirror filled me with a level of fear I didnt know a video could put in me

I was thinking about this literally just last night while brushing my teeth. Good timing.

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You always show something interesting that isn't something I have heard someone else discuss before!!! This is definitely one of my favorite KZfaq channels!!

"Hmm I wonder what I look like to other people" "Oh. Oh *no* "

Everyone gangsta till your reflection in the true mirror comments on how you look

If I’m not mistaken, this is also the case when you’re in a Zoom meeting (on a desktop computer). I believe Zoom flips the image of yourself so you’re seeing what you actually look like as well. I could be wrong.

This reminds of a weird thing that would happen with mirrors when I was younger- my friends eye would look lazy and half closed in the mirror but looked normal in plain view. I remember it happening with a couple other people as well.

Okay, I get it! I'm ugly, no need to rub it in with your double mirror laser shenanigans 😂

That’s awesome LMAO thank you!!

normal mirror: im looking good today real mirror: i should stay indoors

I've done this in the bathroom mirror ever since I was like 10 - but there was a big gap in the middle, which was always so frustrating 😅

I like that he showed us how to see what it would look like to meet ourselves. But not actually what we look like to other people. Y'know, since the things people take notice of come from experience and what they were raised to notice. Example: People who can visually tell Identical Twins Apart, vs people who can't.

I know exactly what i look like to other people just based off the disgusted look i always get, people are so kind

That mustache/haircut combination makes you look like one of the Super Troopers

It's funny how many of the amazing things on this channel are in truth surprisingly simple. Truly an eye-opener

YES. THE THING I WANTED ANSWERED ON YOUR LAST MIRROR VIDEO AND YOU ANSWERED IT. I'm incredibly happy and satisfied with this answer. Thank you.

This explains why I’m ugly to everyone else. We just don’t need eyes. I now have hope

Always wanted one of these. You can also see this effect when looking at some parts of the Cloud Gate (AKA "The Bean") in Chicago.

Looking in one of these is extremely eerie, it's a vision of yourself you've never had, and have never seen in a mirror. Your brain interprets it as "wrong" somehow at a primal level

I have always wondered about this. Thank you action lab. Keep rocking. ❤️

Here's one for the action lab to consider . I am dyslexic , and I have discovered in life that I do have some difficulty working with mirrors (combing hair , removing eyelashes from inside of eyes etc .) and have found that working with a double mirror makes my arms feel like they are locking up , I can not function at all trying to do my usual backwards things backwards ....... for real I do not like double mirrors for that reason , I used to play with two mirrors all the time as I always tried to create the furthest Doppler effect (tunnel) effect I could and then try to see what lied at the very singularity of those mirrors . (No I never discovered the answer , so there is still something at the very center of the continuous mirror , it may be closer than it appears in the mirror ) .

Another effect of a corner mirror like this is you can see yourself no matter where you are in the room. I've always wanted one.

It's why people feel uncomfortable when looking at pictures of themselves sometimes.

This is so informative and it’s cool I love your vids

I’ve always said this. This is why people often do not like pictures of themselves. The image of ourselves we know personally is typical in our reflection. Left is right. We comb and style our hair, our faces are not perfectly symmetrical so when we see ourselves in pictures/video there is something foreign.

Identical Twins: * laughs *

I love (hate) that many selfie cams on phones only allow you to see a false mirror represenation of yourself.

I always horizontally mirror the image when taking a picture with my front facing camera. Because that's how people would see my face everyday from their perspective. But I wish my face look like the one I see everyday in a normal mirror. Because that's the only perspective where I actually look pretty decent..

What I've always wondered is how other people hear you and themselves because you sound different to yourself compared how everyone hears you if I'm not mistaken. Especially considering that you think you sound weird in recordings but other people think you sound fine.

Basically zoom camera without "mirror your video" turned on because others' POV are seeing us off automatically while for our POV its optional, got this question in my head a year ago

That's freaky, it's like the dude inside the mirror is firing his laser into our world

Hey its cool how can i get this mirror By making two plain mirrors at right angle to each other

Diy version: two cupboard door mirrors

*Mirrors are overpowered*

Imagine watching this guy while high

Don't be discouraged if you think you look ugly in a true mirror. People are used to seeing you that way just like you're used to seeing yourself in a normal mirror, and you're probably gonna be more aware and attentive of imperfections or abnormal things, especially in contrast to how you normally see yourself all the time ;) as someone said, most people aren't symmetrical. very cool trick tho

That is so trippy!

Phone cameras: am I a joke to you guys?

The easiest way to see this is by using the "flip option" in your selfie camera.

Now I totally want one of these.....and I have never thought of myself as narcissistic before. But really, what else could I do with this 'True Mirror' aside from gaze upon my own perfect visage?

When I was younger I always remember imagining a very large true mirror. Two people would be placed at both ends of this mirror and they would see a light reflection of each other but never hear them since they are so far away. I am not sure this is possible but I’ve always been astounded by it for some reason.

God Bless ! ❤️💕 Thank you for these :] You’re a very handsome man :D

When you take a selfie and flip the image, many or most people look a lot different than their unflipped image. I guess regular mirror isn't truthful enough.

Well technically that IS how other people see you, but if we count the factor of how familiar you are with that perspective in, the regular mirror shows it better (because if you look in a flipped one like this, you'll feel that it's weird because you're not used to it, but obviously people meeting you won't have that affecting them).

Wow this is pretty interesting! Also is that a G7 lumix or a different version of the lumix??

I take a selfie and and invert it laterally to get an idea of how i look to others

My asymmetrical face kept bothering me when I take selfies when I was younger. After I realized this, I always flip my selfie pictures so I can adjust seeing myself how others would.

My technique last week was a bit more intense, I used a mirror and roughly 20mg of DMT (and iMAO). Damn. Felt like it was another person just in front of me. I mean, it is, right? The reflection is just an illusion tricking us.. But it does look a lot like me, so I gazed into “my” eyes for the first time.. What a night. I tried to give me a kiss but it didn’t work kkkkk I felt the cold mirror in my lips and it wasn’t like lips feel. Well, that is my story for you all, using this stuff I’ve been solving debilitating autoimmune symptoms 30 doctors couldn’t solve, this medicine is gonna save the world ❤️ peace!

That mustache is most definitely AVN Award worthy.

It was a weird experience when I saw my friends on a mirror once, it's like the reverse experience

O i thought everyone knew about the Lateral Inversion of plane mirror.

But if you take a selfie and invert the image for the other side, this wouldn't be the same thing as see yourself?

Thank you ☺️☺️☺️

Wow. I even wondered what I really looked like. It is necessary to put up mirrors sometime, as you said, and check.

im too afraid to find out

Action lab’s ‘stache needs a youtube channel of its own

Periscopes taught me this when I was a British soldier at the Battle of the Somme.

Ty so much 🔥

There’s something called have someone else record you. Pretty helpful to see what you look like to people.

Better solution: Look at a video of yourself.

That almost broke my brain until you explained it at the end.

Every time I see a vid from here I always leave it going “I want one” or “I wanna do that”

I’ve always had this question, and tried experimenting with this

I thought it was just gonna say " ugly " then the video would end

this is why people usually like their face more while they’re taking a selfie than when they look at the picture taken; it actually gets flipped the way other people see us, but since we’re used to seeing our face in the mirror, our “real” face seems off. other people don’t usually find a big difference tbh, it’s just that we’re obsessed with the little details and “imperfections” of our own face lol

Fun fact most people do not like photos of themselves but prefer their image in the mirror.. But if you take a picture of yourself and reverse the image you will see that you actually like way more of your pictures than before. Basically your whole life you look at yourself backwards in the mirror all the time and when you see a picture it's the other way around so mentally it throws people off

"So do you understand now?" "Yesn't"

"what do you look like to other people ?" me : ugly

I need an upscaled version of this in my future house

Bro just rebooted my brain back to default settings, in less than 1 minute 38 seconds.