Why does what I see in the mirror look the same as what others see in real life? Isn’t the mirror image the opposite?

It’s the same. What you see in the mirror is exactly your own mirror image, left and right. He raised his left hand in front of the mirror, but in the mirror he raised his right hand. And the self in the photo is the self in the eyes of others.

Whether it is a plane mirror or a non-plane mirror (concave mirror or convex mirror), light will obey the law of reflection and be reflected by the mirror. After the reflected light enters the eye, vision can be formed in the retina. On a plane mirror, when a parallel beam of light hits the mirror, the entire beam will change its direction in a parallel pattern. The image at this time is the same as the image seen by the eye.

Light has a huge impact on a photo. Good light will make people look whiter and more three-dimensional. Good angles will also make people’s faces look smaller and more beautiful.

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The mirror is the left and right versions of oneself, so as long as the person is not completely symmetrical, the appearance in the mirror will definitely be different in the eyes of others. On the other hand, you probably look at yourself in the mirror more frequently than others look at you. Due to the exposure effect, your evaluation of your appearance in the mirror is higher than your evaluation of your appearance in the eyes of others.

It is easy to verify the difference between left and right reversal. Ask someone to take a video of you at eye level, and then look in the mirror while watching the video to see clearly. One more thing to add. When judging whether a person is good-looking or not, the brain tends to think that a face with strong symmetry is more beautiful.

For example, if we cut the left and right sides of the face along the midline and then mirror them separately, we can clearly see how asymmetric we are.