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When you see your own reflection (in a mirror or a pond), you are instinctively aware of how your mind sees your own body --- you literally see an image of your own perception of the self.
That is the wonder of reflected images --- they are holograms of perception (sounds like an oxymoron!).
When we watch 'culture-reflective' Hollywood (USA) films such as The Wolf of Wall Street, we are viewing our own social sense of 'civilization awareness.'
When we watch stories in the media of culture-symbolic deterioration (e.g., the celebrity-hysteria O.J. Simpson race-controversial murder trial), we see images of our sense of species self-awareness (perhaps threatened or challenged ethically).
This explains why there are numerous folk stories and movies about people seeing ghosts or monsters in mirrors. For example, in the horror film Poltergeist II: The Other Side, a man looks inside a bathroom mirror and for some paranormal reason sees the flesh of his face falling off and then realizes the hallucination was some kind of unexplained manifestation of the fear he was feeling while monitoring a haunted house for the presence of supernatural spirits.
Perhaps this 'mirror consciousness' suggests that when we 'daydream' or 'imagine' terrible things happening to us --- e.g., the psychotic zombie Jason Voorhees (from the Friday the 13th horror film series) stalking our sense of 'wilderness safety' in a fictional haunted region of the forest known as Crystal Lake --- we literally speculate on our sense of body awareness (and hence body health/safety) falling apart.
A young woman infected with HIV knowingly engages in promiscuous sex with uninfected male partners to intentionally get them sick, and this impacts scientists' analysis of the randomness of the statistical spread of AIDS. This woman (perhaps a prostitute) has *intentionally* or *consciously* altered our species sense of body/vitality 'awareness' or measurement.
It would stand to reason, therefore, that we shouldn't tempt fate by making jokes or being arrogant/complacent about the perceptual intrigue associated with 'mirror parapsychology.'
So do people who claim to see ghosts in mirrors perhaps 'messengers of a deformed reality?'
The great philosopher-writer Lewis Carroll wrote of a zany and somewhat frightening creature named Jabberwocky who is seen by a precocious young girl named Alice when she finds she has the ability to go 'inside' a mirror and see a parallel universe on the other side of it.
Jabberwocky (Carroll Reference)
That is the wonder of reflected images --- they are holograms of perception (sounds like an oxymoron!).
When we watch 'culture-reflective' Hollywood (USA) films such as The Wolf of Wall Street, we are viewing our own social sense of 'civilization awareness.'
When we watch stories in the media of culture-symbolic deterioration (e.g., the celebrity-hysteria O.J. Simpson race-controversial murder trial), we see images of our sense of species self-awareness (perhaps threatened or challenged ethically).
This explains why there are numerous folk stories and movies about people seeing ghosts or monsters in mirrors. For example, in the horror film Poltergeist II: The Other Side, a man looks inside a bathroom mirror and for some paranormal reason sees the flesh of his face falling off and then realizes the hallucination was some kind of unexplained manifestation of the fear he was feeling while monitoring a haunted house for the presence of supernatural spirits.
Perhaps this 'mirror consciousness' suggests that when we 'daydream' or 'imagine' terrible things happening to us --- e.g., the psychotic zombie Jason Voorhees (from the Friday the 13th horror film series) stalking our sense of 'wilderness safety' in a fictional haunted region of the forest known as Crystal Lake --- we literally speculate on our sense of body awareness (and hence body health/safety) falling apart.
A young woman infected with HIV knowingly engages in promiscuous sex with uninfected male partners to intentionally get them sick, and this impacts scientists' analysis of the randomness of the statistical spread of AIDS. This woman (perhaps a prostitute) has *intentionally* or *consciously* altered our species sense of body/vitality 'awareness' or measurement.
It would stand to reason, therefore, that we shouldn't tempt fate by making jokes or being arrogant/complacent about the perceptual intrigue associated with 'mirror parapsychology.'
So do people who claim to see ghosts in mirrors perhaps 'messengers of a deformed reality?'
The great philosopher-writer Lewis Carroll wrote of a zany and somewhat frightening creature named Jabberwocky who is seen by a precocious young girl named Alice when she finds she has the ability to go 'inside' a mirror and see a parallel universe on the other side of it.
Jabberwocky (Carroll Reference)
