mirrors

I have a habit of seeing things out of the corner of my eye when I'm near a mirror...gets quite unnerving at times.

iHauntTheSepulchre wrote:

I have a habit of seeing things out of the corner of my eye when I'm near a mirror...gets quite unnerving at times.

Argh I'm the same. I refuse to look at mirrors at night, just because I know I'm tired and I guess I don't want to scare myself into thinking there's someone behind me etc.

My house supposedly has a 'ghost' or some kind of being around, seeing as the previous owner died here and we often get patches of cig-smoke in the living room (none of us smoke, nor do our neighbours) and I often get random chills brushing against me or we find chilly patches in the middle of the room.

I don't believe in ghosts, but I do find the smoke-patches and cold-patches a tad odd.

A friend of mine has a whole mirrored wall on her staircase and it scares the hell out of me when I'm walking past. She grew up with it there, so she's used to seeing mirrors everywhere. I just hate movement when I don't expect it.

Envy wrote:

A friend of mine has a whole mirrored wall on her staircase and it scares the hell out of me when I'm walking past. She grew up with it there, so she's used to seeing mirrors everywhere. I just hate movement when I don't expect it.

I also couldn't live in such a house. I only like mirrors when I have to see myself to apply make-up or just check that I'm presentable. I hate when there are tons of mirrors around and I just try to avoid them in general.

I hate it when the power is off after dark, and I have to take a candle into the bathroom. I'm always scared to look in the mirror then, in case there's something looking back at me.

Morgana wrote:

I hate it when the power is off after dark, and I have to take a candle into the bathroom. I'm always scared to look in the mirror then, in case there's something looking back at me.

I have the same fear. I don't believe in ghosts and the like, but still. I guess I do get a little spooked by stories like that. A friend of mine had her grandfather die, and the day after he died, her mother was applying make-up to her face in her bedroom - She looked in the mirror and screamed, because she saw her father sitting on her bed in the mirror.

They moved house after that.

When I was really little, one whole wall of our dining room was mirror. I used to like to make faces in it, and also move the table and chairs away and pretend it was a dance studio. My mom didn't like that much, wearing tap shoes on the wood floor and playing dance studio!

I don't have a lot of mirrors. I don't like having them around. Just the ones in the bathrooms. But our guest room closet doors are mirrors. The same doors used to be in my daughter's room, but I took them out. I didn't like the idea of giant sliding panes of glass in the room of a 5-year-old with hyperkinetic tendencies.

And I see things out of the corner of my eye even without mirrors.